Projects
Interpersonal emotion regulation in couples: Cultural differences and similarities KU Leuven
Disentangling incidental from integral effects of negative emotion during conflict-driven adaptive control: a systematic exploration Ghent University
In this project, we seek to better understand modulatory effects exerted by negative emotion on cognitive control. To this aim, we propose to compare two classes of emotional effects (integral vs. incidental) on cognitive control using a standard methodology in cognitive psychology and psychophysiology. This research program could potentially elucidate under which conditions negative emotion impinges on cognitive control.
Emotion Regulation in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Young Adolescents Ghent University
This multidisciplinary project aims to prove that studying emotion regulation for restoring the psychological and physiological homeostasis is a promising progress for a profound understanding of the obesity problem. We aim to exceed current expertise on obesity with various complementary study designs: longitudinal, case-control and a randomized-clinical-trial using emotion regulation training. Evidence will come from psychological and ...
Emotion Regulation in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Young Adolescents Ghent University
This multidisciplinary project aims to prove that studying emotion regulation for restoring the psychological and physiological homeostasis is a promising progress for a profound understanding of the obesity problem. We aim to exceed current expertise on obesity with various complementary study designs: longitudinal, case-control and a randomized-clinical-trial using emotion regulation training. Evidence will come from psychological and ...
It’s not fair: emotion dynamics and impact of parental appraisals of injustice in the context of pediatric pain Ghent University
The objectives of this research proposal are to examine (1) the phenomenology of parental injustice appraisals in response to child pain (including conditions under which such appraisals arise), (2) their impact upon child pain outcomes, and (3) the explanatory role of anger as a key emotional process indexed by attentional processing and associated caregiving behaviour, in addition to traditional self-report.
Understanding Obesity in Young Adolescents : the Role of Emotion Regulation Ghent University
This multidisciplinary project aims to prove that studying emotion regulation for restoring the psychological and physiological homeostasis is a promising progress for a profound understanding of the obesity problem. We aim to exceed current expertise on obesity with various complementary study designs: casecontrol, lab-study and a randomized-clinical-trial. Evidence will come from psychological and physiological outcome measures.
Depression in early adolescence: the relationship between emotion and cognitive control processes Ghent University
In this study we suggest that executive control deficits could be an important underlying mechanism of the difficulties in information processing and the perturbed emotion regulation that characterizes MDD. Therefore it is the central goal of the current project to investigate cognitive processing of emotional material in depressed adolescents using different experimental paradigms targeting inhibition, updating, attentional control and ...
Adolescents’ coping with parental pressure: The role of parenting history and emotion regulation Ghent University
In the present project, we aim to investigate whether youngsters may cope differently with pressuring parenting strategies. Specifically, we will test whether these coping reactions are determined by the general parenting history and the adolescents’ emotion regulation style. Moreover, we will investigate whether we can affect youngsters’ emotion regulation style through an intervention.
Emotion regulation in couples: a relational needs approach Ghent University
In the current project we will examine the validity of the assumptions underlying emotion-focused approaches to couples therapy. We will use a variety of methods -global self-reports, diaries, scenarios, behavioral observation in the lab- to gain a better insight into partners' specific needs and primary/secondary emotions that power relationship conflict and lead to distress. These insights will be particularly useful for therapists trying ...