Emotion
A third interest in lab is emotion. In the past we have examined the
psychometric properties of emotion measures, as well as the application of
self-report,
psychophysiological, and
diary
measures of emotion to the study of clinical disorders and behaviours. More recently we developed a self-report
measure of emotional experience that
distinguishes emotional components (e.g., reactivity vs. regulation; sensitivity vs. intensity vs. persistence).
A long-term interest is the development of an evolutionarily grounded theory of basic emotions.