About us

Our research group focuses on social psychological research on emotions, adult functioning, and psychological well-being. Our primary area of expertise specifically involves scientific inquiry into mixed emotions – if you’ve ever found yourself feeling bittersweet, or both happy and sad, or both grateful and guilty towards someone, that’s exactly the type of emotional experience we study: ones in which people don’t just feel positive or negative, but both positive and negative. In addition, we are also invested in examining practical questions concerning the factors that enable (or hinder) individuals from living healthy, fulfilling, and functional lives.

Our work in these areas has been published in various peer-reviewed academic journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Emotion, Cognition and Emotion, and Journal of Happiness Studies, and we are currently also working towards future empirical and theoretical works addressing other important scientific questions in these areas.