{description}When watching shock drama television shows such as Nip/Tuck and Law & Order: SVU, people often turn away in disgust at the excessive blood, open flesh, and story lines that sometimes hit too close to home. For surgeons and profilers, however, who are used to staying composed in highly stressful situations, watching these shows can be easy. Recent research by Philippe Goldin, Ph.D., Kateri McRae, Ph.D., Wiveka Ramel, Ph.D., and James Gross, Ph.D. of the Psychology Department at Stanford University explores how two different emotion regulation strategies influence a network of brain areas, which subsequently control emotional responses to stimuli that would typically turn stomachs.{/description}