# overview
The underlying premise of my research is that emotional processes are the foundation of behavior and thought. In my laboratory, we examine the role of affective reactions and emotions in how people think about the future and what they think will happen to them in the future. We are also investigating when and why particular emotions might improve functioning and decision making. This work falls broadly within the emerging interdisciplinary field of affective science, which focuses on understanding emotional and affective processes. This field involves research on emotion, emotion regulation, mood disorders, and affective neuroscience, using a variety of methods and approaches.

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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1.2 Psychological And Socioeconomic Processes

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1.2 Psychological And Socioeconomic Processes

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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University of California, Irvine - (Irvine, California, United States)

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California State University, Fresno - (Fresno, California, United States)

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Experimental Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy

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Florida State University - (Tallahassee, Florida, United States)

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Predicted and remembered emotion: tomorrow's vividness trumps yesterday's accuracy.

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The Struggle to Entertain Yourself: Consequences of the Internal Stimulation Factor of Boredom Proneness during Pandemic Lockdown.

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Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck.

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Perceived Event Frequency and the Optimistic Bias: Evidence for a Two-Process Model of Personal Risk Judgments

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Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion

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Like Schrdinger's cat, the impact bias is both dead and alive: reply to Wilson and Gilbert (2013).

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When do feelings help us? The interpersonal functions of emotions

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The Emotional Toolkit: Lessons from the Science of Emotion

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Automatic optimism: Biased use of base rate information for positive and negative events

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Focalism and the underestimation of future emotion: when it's worse than imagined.

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Searching for evidence, not a war: reply to Lindquist, Siegel, Quigley, and Barrett (2013).

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My child is better than average: The extension and restriction of unrealistic optimism

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AUTOMATIC OPTIMISM: THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN JUDGMENTS ABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE EVENTS

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Trait anxiety and achievement goals as predictors of self-reported health in dancers.

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AUTOMATIC OPTIMISM THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN JUDGMENTS ABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE EVENTS

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Distraction from emotional information reduces biased judgements.

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Incremental validity of new clinical assessment measures.

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A Functionalist Manifesto: Goal-Related Emotions From an Evolutionary Perspective

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Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the reproducibility project: Psychology

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You Shall Go Forth With Joy: Religion and Aspirational Judgments About Emotion

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Correction: Do People Eat the Pain Away? The Effects of Acute Physical Pain on Subsequent Consumption of Sweet-Tasting Food.

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Boredom as a seeking state: Boredom prompts the pursuit of novel (even negative) experiences.

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Do People Eat the Pain Away? The Effects of Acute Physical Pain on Subsequent Consumption of Sweet-Tasting Food.

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The Relation of Approach and Avoidance Goals to Persistence, Affective Judgments, and Health

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Gender Gaps in Overestimation of Math Performance

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Strength of affective reaction as a signal to think carefully.

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Motivational biases in memory for emotions

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Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis.

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Discrete emotions predict changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and physiology: a meta-analysis of experimental emotion elicitations.

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Arousal at encoding, arousal at retrieval, interviewer support, and children's memory for a mild stressor

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When and why people misestimate future feelings: Identifying strengths and weaknesses in affective forecasting.

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Metacognitive emotion regulation: children's awareness that changing thoughts and goals can alleviate negative emotions.

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Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them

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Accuracy and artifact: reexamining the intensity bias in affective forecasting.

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Moving Toward a Brighter Future: The Effects of Desire on Judgments About the Likelihood of Future Events

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The effect of target group size on risk judgments and comparative optimism: the more, the riskier.

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Leading a mentoring culture at a research-intensive university: The pilot program report

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Experiencing versus contemplating: Language use during descriptions of awe and wonder.

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Emotion regulation deficits in persons with body-focused repetitive behavior disorders.

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Forgetting feelings: Opposite biases in reports of the intensity of past emotion and mood.

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Medical residency match applicants undervalue factors that predict stress and burnout.

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Building a house of sentiment on sand: Epistemological issues with contempt.

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Guide to Elementary Statistics for Psychology

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Prompts to regulate emotions improve the impact of health messages on eating intentions and behavior

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Method of induction could affect emotional outcomes: comment on markey, chin, vanepps, and loewenstein (2014 ).

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Regulating the impact of emotions to improve decisions

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An Empirical Study of the Impact of Task Expectation Framing on Design Decision Delegation

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Effects of fear on risk and control judgements and memory: Implications for health promotion messages

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Exasperating or exceptional? Parents' interpretations of their child's ADHD behavior.

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Negative affective reactions reduce perceived likelihood of risk

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Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts.

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Personality and Health Outcomes: Making Positive Expectations a Reality

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Optimistic expectations have benefits for effort and emotion with little cost.

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Automatic optimism: the affective basis of judgments about the likelihood of future events.

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Suggestibility, social support, and memory for a novel experience in young children.

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An alternative approach to analysis of mental states in experimental social cognition research.

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Automatic Optimism: Why People Assume Their Futures will be Bright

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Bias in predicted and remembered emotion

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A meta-analysis of the facial feedback literature: Effects of facial feedback on emotional experience are small and variable.

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Avoidance temperament and social-evaluative threat in college students' math performance: a mediation model of math and test anxiety (vol 27, pg 650, 2014)

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Exploring the Toolkit of Emotion: What Do Sadness and Anger Do for Us?

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Changes in subjective well-being following the U.S. Presidential election of 2016.

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Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety  emotions that feel bad can be useful

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Remembering facts versus feelings in the wake of political events.

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Functions of Remembering and Misremembering Emotion

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Anger management: Diagnostic differences and treatment implications

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The fast and the dangerous: the speed of events influences risk judgements.

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Belief in an unjust world: when beliefs in a just world fail.

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UNDERSTANDING OPTIMISM AS AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO THE FUTURE

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Avoidance temperament and social-evaluative threat in college students' math performance: a mediation model of math and test anxiety.

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Can We Model What an Emotion Is? Comment on Suri & Gross (2022)

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Functional perspectives on emotion, behavior, and cognition.

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Economic indicators predict changes in college student optimism for life events

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A Meta-Analysis of the Facial Feedback Literature: Effects of Facial Feedback on Emotional Experience Are Small and Variable

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Principal-Agent Models of Decision Delegation During Systems Design:  Integrating Modeling and Behavioral Approaches

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Understanding and Improving Predictions about Future Feelings

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Berg, Logan Alison (2015-05). Big Thoughts, Small Wants: The Impact of Mental Construal on Impulse Strength. Master's Thesis.

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Darbor, Kathleen Erin (2015-04). The Influence of Experienced Regret on Goal-Related Intentions and Motivations. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bench, Shane William (2011-08). The Effects of Automatic Emotion Regulation on the Desirability Bias. Master's Thesis.

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Bench, Shane  W (2014-04). The Role of Boredom in the Pursuit of Negative Experience. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Alexander, Jennifer Rose-Lee (2016-08). Using an Emotion Regulation Framework to Advance Conceptualization of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors. Master's Thesis.

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Benson, Kathryn Taylor (2017-08). Toward the Identification and Refinement of a Behavioral Indicator of Identity Coherence. Master's Thesis.

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Perez, Kenneth A (2020-07). Indicators of Self-Transformative Change After Experimental Elicitations of Awe: A Meta-Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tibbett, Thomas P (2017-05). The Personality Consistency Scale. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tirso, Robert Michael (2021-06). The Effects of Observability and Evaluativeness on Metacognitive Self- and Other-judgments. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Flores, Sarah A. (2012-07). The Cognitive Costs of Regulating Implicit Impulses. Master's Thesis.