Projects
The SBS@school+training: Stimulating secure middle childhood attachment development in children with emotion and behavior problems taking into account their well-being at school KU Leuven
The last decennia, there has been a significant increase in the number of youngsters that develop mental health problems. Once children develop a disorder in middle childhood, they are at elevated risk for mental health problems throughout further childhood and adolescence. The best strategy to reduce children’s vulnerability to develop mental health problems is stimulating their resilience by targeting mechanisms that stimulate healthy ...
Emotional Intelligence of Leaders, Conflict Management and Harmony in Filipino Business Families KU Leuven
In the Philippines, almost all businesses are owned and controlled by Filipino business families (BFs) (Cruz, 2019), who jointly manage and control the business (Carney & Dieleman, 2023). Given that working in the business interweaves with family life (Combs et al., 2020; Von Schlippe et al., 2021) and the strong interdependence among family members on private (family) life, ownership and business, these families have a high conflict ...
Emotional Interactions in Couples: A Comparison Between Belgium and Japan. KU Leuven
Do couples’ emotional interactions vary across cultures? In this dissertation, I address this question in a focus group and couple-conflict study across two cultures: Belgium and Japan. Couples in Belgian and Japanese cultural contexts emphasize different relationship goals: independence and autonomy are valued in Belgium, while interdependence and harmony are emphasized in Japan. To the extent that emotions are shaped by cultural ...
RECONNECT: Researching Emotional CONNECTedness across domains of life Ghent University
The emotional connections that exist between people are central to human nature, and several challenges our society is facing, can be brought back to disruptions of this emotional connectedness. However, the current practice in behavioral science is not fully adept to address these challenges, as most research focuses on intra-personal processes, is static in nature, and/or does not take into account the broader social context or culture in ...
RECONNECT: Rethinking Emotional CONNECTedness across domains of life. KU Leuven
RECONNECT: Rethinking Emotional CONNECTedness across domains of life. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The power of goal-directed processes in the causation of emotional and other actions KU Leuven
People often engage in behavior that is not in their best interest. For instance, they engage in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, commit action slips such as taking a wrong habitual route, or they become aggressive even when they risk a high cost (e.g., retaliation or ruining a relationship). To make sense of these so-called suboptimal actions, theorists have come up with dual process models that distinguish between (a) a stimulus-driven ...
Emotional attention flexibility Ghent University
We explore the ability of human subjects to switch between different negative states (fear vs. worry), and we focus on how attention control may change accordingly. This flexibility is assessed at the behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) levels, while participants perform a simple visual task and switch between different affective conditions.
Switching component models for capturing emotional response patterning and synchronization processes. KU Leuven
Functionalist definitions of emotions state that they consist of synchronized or patterned changes in multiple experiential, physiological, and behavioral response channels which enable the organism to quickly and efficiently cope with environmental threats or opportunities. Yet, detecting response patterning and synchronicity in empirical data represents a formidable challenge (Gross, 2010). Indeed, while technological advances have enabled ...