Peter Koval

"Instant Happiness": Smartphones as tools for everyday emotion regulation

Yaoxi Shi, Peter Koval, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves, Greg Wadley

Journal article  |  2023  |  International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Smartphone use has become an indispensable aspect of daily life for billions of people. Increasingly, researchers are examining th..

Blinded by and Stuck in Negative Emotions: Is Psychological Inflexibility Across Different Domains Related?

Ella K Moeck, Jessica Mortlock, Sandersan Onie, Steven B Most, Peter Koval

Journal article  |  2022  |  Affect Sci

UNLABELLED: Psychological inflexibility is theorized to underlie difficulties adjusting mental processes in response to changing c..

Does prediction error during exposure relate to clinical outcomes in cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder? A study protocol

CD Winkler, P Koval, LJ Phillips, KL Felmingham

Journal article  |  2022  |  Frontiers in Psychiatry

Facing your fears, or exposure therapy, is an effective psychological intervention for anxiety disorders that is often thought to ..

Concordance in salivary cortisol and subjective anxiety to the trier social stress test in social anxiety disorder.

Caitlin Grace, Markus Heinrichs, Peter Koval, Alexandra Gorelik, Bernadette von Dawans, Gill Terrett, Peter Rendell, Izelle Labuschagne

Journal article  |  2022  |  Biol Psychol

BACKGROUND: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterised by an excessive fear of negative social evaluation. There is a limited ..

Social Support Predicts Differential Use, but not Differential Effectiveness, of Expressive Suppression and Social Sharing in Daily Life.

Lisanne S Pauw, Hayley Medland, Sarah J Paling, Ella K Moeck, Katharine H Greenaway, Elise K Kalokerinos, Jordan DX Hinton, Tom Hollenstein, Peter Koval

Journal article  |  2022  |  Affect Sci

UNLABELLED: While emotion regulation often happens in the presence of others, little is known about how social context shapes regu..

Negative Emotion and Nonacceptance of Emotion in Daily Life

Natasha H Bailen, Peter Koval, Michael Strube, Nick Haslam, Renee J Thompson

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMOTION

Nonacceptance of emotion is consistently linked with increased levels of psychopathology and diminished well-being. Research has f..

Some Recommendations on the Use of Daily Life Methods in Affective Science.

Peter Kuppens, Egon Dejonckheere, Elise K Kalokerinos, Peter Koval

Journal article  |  2022  |  Affect Sci

Real-world emotions are often more vivid, personally meaningful, and consequential than those evoked in the lab. Therefore, studyi..

Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life: Mapping Global Self-Reports to Daily Processes

Peter Koval, Elise K Kalokerinos, Katharine H Greenaway, Hayley Medland, Peter Kuppens, John B Nezlek, Jordan DX Hinton, James J Gross

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMOTION

Recent theory conceptualizes emotion regulation as occurring across three stages: (a) identifying the need to regulate, (b) select..

A Multiple Needs Framework for Climate Change Anxiety Interventions

William J Bingley, Anh Tran, Candice P Boyd, Kari Gibson, Elise K Kalokerinos, Peter Koval, Yoshihisa Kashima, Dianna McDonald, Katharine H Greenaway

Journal article  |  2022  |  AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

Climate change anxiety is a growing problem for individual well-being the world over. However, psychological interventions to addr..

Impact of the global pandemic upon young people's use of technology for emotion regulation

B Tag, N van Berkel, AW Vargo, Z Sarsenbayeva, T Colasante, G Wadley, S Webber, W Smith, P Koval, T Hollenstein, J Goncalves, V Kostakos

Journal article  |  2022  |  Computers in Human Behavior Reports

Technology plays an increasingly prominent role in emotional lives. Researchers have begun to study how people use devices to cope..