It is unclear how people with schizophrenia develop poor emotion regulation capacities. The cognition-emotion interaction literature suggests that individuals deploy several regulatory strategies that rely on higher-order cognitive processes to regulate emotion [96]. These regulatory strategies include antecedent-focused strategies that are applied before the provocation produces behavioral and physiological changes such as situation selection; situation modification; attentional deployment; and cognitive change or reappraisal. They also include response-focused strategies that are applied after provocation has elicited an emotion and its behavioral and physiological response such as suppression or the inhibition of an outward expression of emotion. Antecedent-focused strategies—particularly the use of reappraisal—have been shown to be more effective than suppression in studies of anger management in health samples [94]. Studies have shown that not only is the use of suppression (a less effective strategy) more prevalent in people with schizophrenia [97] and associated with poor functional outcomes [98], schizophrenia patients are unable to successfully implement reappraisal strategies to regulate emotion [97]. Reappraisal involves updating information in working memory or changing contents to accommodate new information since old ideas about the stimulus (e.g., a hostile situation) have to be replaced with new information. Therefore, the effectiveness of reappraisal for decreasing negative emotions is predicated on intact working memory capacity [98].