Research
I study transitions between emotions in daily life (e.g., from anger to sadness). Furthermore, I explore how short-term emotion dynamics shape individuals' long-term changes in well-being.
Keywords: Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity, Emotion, Flexibility, Interdependent Time Scales
Tutorials
Core Research
- Lo, T. T., Maciejewski, D. F., Vervoort, L., Vink, J. M., Cheng, T. N., Pouwels, J. L., & Verhagen, M. (Preprint). Negative Emotion Transitions May Have Immediate Benefits in Decreasing Negative Emotions in Daily Life. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7yqkw
- Lo, T. T., Verhagen, M., Pouwels, J. L., van Roekel, E., O’Brien, S. T., Debra, G., Braet, J., Vink, J. M., & Maciejewski, D. F. (2025). Emotion Differentiation in Adolescents: Short-term Trade-offs with Regulation Variability and Emotion Intensity. Affective Science, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4
- Lo, T. T., Van Lissa, C. J., Verhagen, M., Hoemann, K., Erbaş, Y., & Maciejewski, D. F. (2024). A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray–Curtis dissimilarity. Emotion, 24(5), 1273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001344 (Download from Radboud Repository)
Other Collaborative Work
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Invited Talks
- Department of Developmental Psychology Colloquium, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, September 2025.
- Clinical Psychology Service, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong, October 2023.
Conference Contributions
- International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy Conference 2025, Bucharest, Romania
- Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2025, Leuven, Belgium
- Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention 2023, Washington D.C., USA
- International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy Conference 2023, Porto, Portugal
- Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2022, Online
- European Conference on Positive Psychology 2012, Moscow, Russia
Projects
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