Reg Adams is interested in the influence of social cues (e.g., eye gaze and facial appearance) on how we process and perceive emotion in others. Contemporary face processing models contend that functionally distinct sources of information are independently processed. Yet, Reg's work demonstrates low- level interactions among such social and emotional information, which has implications for our understanding of basic person and affect perception. Reg is further interested in examining these questions at both the behavioral and neural levels, and his interests extend to outcomes on mental state attributions (i.e., Theory of Mind).

My past research in the emotions area has dealt with such question as how the retrieval of emotionally charged autobiographical memories impacts consumer product judgments; how consumers integrate moment-to-moment affective reactions to ads into overall judgments; and how consumers cope with negative emotions in purchase-related situations. Some of my current projects related to emotions deal with the role of extraneous affect in persuasion as a function of consumers' salient goals and the motivational effects of two kinds of future- oriented emotions, anticipatory and anticipated. We are also starting to analyze a data set in which we collected measures of subjective well-being (life satisfaction, positive and negative affect) and related constructs in 28 different countries across the world.

Divorce, changes in marital quality, and alterations in parent-child relations, hormones and family processes.

The first way an infant communicates is through emoting. Over the course of the first five years of life, children acquire a broad repertoire of emotional experiences, including the development of skill at emotional self-regulation. In our lab, our work focuses on (a) the early development of effective emotional self-regulation, examining both child and family influences, (b) the role of culture in the development of emotional behavior and regulation, and (c) the relations between emotional regulation, early aspects of competence, and risk for the development of psychopathology. New directions for collaboration are: 1) determinants of parental affective dysregulation and its influence on the young child's development, 2) relations between minority status and cultural group on rules of emotional behavior, and 3) relations between emotional development and other areas of development that are relevant to self-regulation.

To date, my research has focused on interpersonal processes associated with achievement motivation with a particular emphasis on avoidance achievement motivation. Fear of failure, a disposition to become anxious because one anticipates shame for failing, has been at the center of much of my work the past 6 years or so. I am interested in collaborating with others who share an interest in (a) the affective side of achievement motivation, (b) interpersonal processes (and interventions) that socialize affective dispositions, (c) the role of interpersonal processes in stimulating affect, (d) the consequences of shame, or (e) links between attention and anxiety.

I am currently examining (1) how young children develop the ability to regulate their emotions, and (2) associations with early mental health. Toward that end, I am particularly interested in investigating the underlying mechanisms associated with effective and flexible emotion regulation (e.g., executive attention) and how environment factors may promote or inhibit optimal development of these abilities.

Therefore, I am interested in collaborating with others on projects related to (1) the role of environmental influences on emotional development, (2) positive emotional experiences (and resilience), (3) intersections between emotion and cognition, and (4) affective neuroscience.

My research aims to enhance our understanding of the role of emotion in persuasion and interpersonal influence. I am especially interested in questions regarding (a) the structure of emotion in the domain of persuasion, (b) message features that generate emotions, (c) the conditions under which emotions have suasory impact, and (d) the application of emotional appeals to public health campaigns.

Previous research showed that simulating the emotional process is necessary for building believable characters. My research aimed to investigate the role of the learning process on believability. I designed a model called FLAME (Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Model of Emotions) (El-Nasr et al. 2000, see publications' page ). Emotional states have no definite boundaries. Therefore, one possible method for representing these states is to use fuzzy linguistic variables and fuzzy sets. The model used Fuzzy Logic inference rules and OCC (Ortony's work on Emotions, see Resources' page) to derive an emotional state based on the character's goals and expectations.

My research investigates the role that affective states play in the processing of information. In addition, I examine how individual differences, such as differences in trait anxiety, defensive pessimism, and emotional understanding, shape the way in which affect alters motivation and information processing.

I would be interested in collaborating on research examining a) how affect alters motivation, in particular preparing and practicing for an upcoming performance situation b) how trait differences in affect, especially neuroticism, depression, and anxiety influence the way in which state affect shapes information processing and c) projects which investigate the psychological consequences of being attuned to one’s feelings.

Emotional displays and emotion regulation (suppression, faking) as part of work life; their association with stress and job performance and moderators of these relationships. For collaboration, interested in 1) examining the relation of emotion regulation at work to alcohol abuse and other counterproductive behaviors; 2) role of power, race and culture in understanding emotions and emotion regulation at work; 3) physiological and neuropsych measures of arousal and stress during emotion regulation in work simulations.

I am currently interested in emotion from the perspective of: predicting who in organisations helps others who are in emotional trouble, using social network analysis and the self-monitoring personality variable (together with positive affectivity). More generally, I'm interested in friendship networks in organizational settings, and these have a strong affective component.

I am interested in the links between mood, the goal of mood management, and the impact on information processing and decision making. I am also interested in exploring the links between neuroscience and emotion, with a special emphasis on the role of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex in decision making.

Ginger Moore is a child clinical psychologist with research interests in infant emotion development in high-risk contexts, including parental psychopathology, family conflict and violence, and maternal incarceration. Her recent research examines the development of normal and abnormal patterns of physiological and behavioral regulation of emotion in response to high-conflict and violent environments, mechanisms that explain risk and resilience in the face of these environments, and emotion-focused interventions to promote optimal emotion development and regulation within families.

My research interests pertain to individuals' emotional responses to media. In particular, I am interested in the various emotional reactions that viewers have that may seem paradoxical to enjoyment (e.g., enjoying a sad film; liking to be frightened in response to a horror film). I am also interested in viewers' evaluations of and responses to media characters. I am currently working with several grad students on a project pertaining to evaluations of media characters on dimensions of warmth and competence, and how these evaluations, in turn, are associated with affective reactions to the characters.

I focus on the social meaning of emotion (e.g., defining “appropriate” emotion; emotion stereotypes; bodily signs and symptoms in understanding own emotion experience), especially connections to gender and the micro-politics of emotion. Current emphases: (1) Biased Emotion Evaluation (BEE), evaluation of a target’s legitimacy using the target’s emotion as evidence. BEE, a product of biased perception, is hypothesized to influence the observer’s opinions of and behavior toward the target, especially behavior that confirms or challenges the target’s claims or position; (2) women/work/emotion, especially gendered politics of emotion in the workplace and work/home “emotion juggling.”

My research interests focus on the influence of ethnic and cultural background on emotional functioning. I take a multi-method approach towards the study of emotion, looking at various aspects of the emotional response including subjective report, verbal and facial behavior and concomitant physiological activity. I also study various aspects of emotion including emotional reactivity, emotional understanding and emotion regulation. Recent projects have focused on how the interaction of culture and emotion can affect mental and physical health. Future interests and possible areas of collaboration include the interaction of culture and gender in emotional functioning, early development of culturally consistent/inconsistent attitudes regarding emotions and consequences of ethnic/cultural variations in emotional functioning.

My research is focused on understanding the development, correlates and consequences of emotion regulation. I am particularly interested the contribution of temperament and physiology (autonomic reactivity) and parental regulatory support to the emergence and change in this construct.

Psychology of human-website interaction, particularly the role played by interactivity, navigability, multimodality and agency in influencing emotional responses to mass-communicated content on the internet (such as online news and web advertising). Recent studies have investigated the effects of download speed, animation, pop-ups, and interactive features upon physiological arousal.

Would be interested in collaborating about (1) exploring emotional reactions during reception of Web content (e.g., psychology of anticipation); (2) understanding how those reactions guide processing and perceptions of mediated content; and (3) investigating the degree to which content variations on a Website (e.g., health vs. political information) can alter emotional responses to formal and structural features of the media technology.