Welcome to the Emotional Adaptation and Psychophysiology Lab (Emolab) at Wake Forest University!
Under the direction of Dr. Christian Waugh, this lab explores the neural and psychophysiological underpinnings of emotion and stress regulation.
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Recent publications
Recent publications
Please visit my ResearchGate profile for full texts of these papers where available.
Kardosh, N., Waugh, C.E., Mikels, J.A., & Mor, N. (in press). Simultaneous Maintenance of Emotions in Affective Working Memory. Cognition & Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2310160
Vlasenko, V.V.*, Tucker, W.K.^, & Waugh, C.E. (in press). Temporal orientation of positive reappraisal. Emotion. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/emo0001331
Vlasenko, V.V., Hayutin, I., Pan, C., Michael-Varakis, J., Waugh, C.E., Admon, R., & McRae, K. (in press). How do people use reappraisal? An investigation of selection frequency and affective outcomes of reappraisal tactics. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001259
Waugh, C.E. & Sali, A.W. (2023). Resilience as the ability to maintain well-being: An allostatic active inference model. Journal of Intelligence, 11(8), 158. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11080158
Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, Cole, V.T., & Waugh, C.E., (in press). Positive distraction in daily activities as a predictor of good coping: A ‘day in the life’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology: Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2023.1142665
Waugh, C.E., Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, & Cole, V.T. (in press). Coping with COVID-19: The efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2081841
Faunce, J.A.*, Blumenthal, T.D., & Waugh, C.E. (2022) Anxiety and Initial Value Dependence in Startle Habituation. Psychophysiology, 59(10), 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14071.
Waugh, C.E., Vlasenko, V.V.*, & McRae, K. (2022). What parts of reappraisal make us feel better? Dissociating the generation of reappraisals from their implementation. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00129-2
Zhao, Y.*, Waugh, C.E., Kammrath, L., & Wang, Q. (2021). Comparing the affective and social effects of positive reappraisal and minimizing reappraisal. Cognition and Emotion, 36(3), 433-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2014787
Vlasenko, V.V.*, Rogers, E.G.^ & Waugh, C.E. (2021). Affect labeling increases the intensity of positive emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 35(7), 1350-1364. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1959302
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Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Albarracín, D. (2021). A multi-site preregistered paradigmatic test of the ego depletion effect. Psychological Science, 32(10), 1566-1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621989733
Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, Waugh, C.E., & Cole, V.T. (2021). Coping with COVID-19: The benefits of anticipating future positive events and maintaining optimism. Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, 12 (646047), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646047
Waugh, C.E., Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, Shing, E.Z.*, Furr, R.M., Nightingale, C.L., & McLean, T.W. (2021). Adaptive and maladaptive forms of disengagement coping in caregivers of children with chronic illnesses. Stress and Health, 37, 213-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2985
Speaking engagements
Dr. Waugh is available for speaking engagements on stress, resilience, coping, positive emotions, well-being and the brain/body bases of these. Please contact him if interested.
Here are some examples of recent/upcoming speaking engagements:
How positive emotions can improve stress resilience. Institute for Brain Potential
Stress resilience. Union Pacific.
Emotion-focused coping. Traumatic Brain Injury group
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