Research Team

Current Members

2020 Honours Students

  • Annabelle Patten
  • Emma McIntosh
  • Lachlan Anthony
  • Melissa Petrolo
  • Rachel Sobel
  • Tammy Lim

Research Interns / visiting students

  • Nicholas Cheng
  • Dominik Kristen-Parsch
  • Harry Speagle
  • Anh Trang
  • Sophie Yeung

Past Members

2019

  • Amani Nasarudin (Honours student)
  • Jardine Louise Mitchell (Honours student)
  • Jessica Mortlock (Honours student)
  • Sylvia Chu Lin (Honours student)
  • Bruce McIntyre (Research intern)
  • Steven Leu (Research intern)
  • Julia Schreiber (Visiting Master's student)
  • Yaoxi Shi (Visiting Master's student)

2018

  • Jordan Hinton (Research Assistant and Lab Manager). Now at the Australian Catholic University
  • Ami Mane (Honours student)
  • Aamna Shah (Honours student)
  • Khai Shin Lee (Honours student)
  • Ann Ee Ching (Honours student)
  • Sarah Paling (Visiting Master’s student)
  • Orsi Benke (Visiting Master’s student)
  • David Mussoff (Research intern)
  • Stephanie Au Yeung (Research intern)

2017

  • Hon Chung (Tommy) Choi (Honours student)
  • Tim Reynolds (Honours student)

2016

  • Keana Loschiavo (Honours student)
  • Freya Hanly (Honours student)
  • Jennifer Makovec Knight (Honours student)

2015

  • Fiona Thomson (Honour student)
  • Simon Haines (Honours student)

External Collaborators

  • Professor James Gross

    Stanford University

    Professor James Gross

    James J. Gross received his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor of Psychology at Stanford and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. His research focuses on emotion and emotion regulation, and this research employs both experimental and individual-difference methods. His teaching includes introductory psychology as well as advanced seminars on emotion and emotion regulation.

  • Professor Peter Kuppens

    KU Leuven

    University of Leuven

    Professor Peter Kuppens

    Peter Kuppens is Professor in the Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences at KU Leuven, Belgium. Peter's research focuses on componential (e.g., appraisal) theories of emotions, individual differences in emotional appraisal, experience, and dynamics and their relationships with personality and well-being, and formal models for contextualised personality and emotion research.

  • Associate Professor Tom Hollenstein

    Queen's University, Canada

    Associate Professor Tom Hollenstein

    Tom Hollenstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada. Tom's research examines socioemotional development, particularly in adolescence. Specifically, Tom's research focuses on the regulation of emotion as evidenced by changes in self-reported feelings, autonomic psychophysiology, and behavioural expressions. Tom is also active in developing and applying methods for the analysis of change, including state space grids (www.statespacegrids.org).

  • Professor Maya Tamir

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Professor Maya Tamir

    Professor Maya Tamir is the Chair of the Psychology Department and the director of the Emotion and Self-Regulation Laboratory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an expert in emotion and emotion regulation. Her research examines motivational factors in emotion regulation and their implications for social and psychological functioning.

  • Professor John Gleeson

    Australian Catholic University

    Professor John Gleeson

    John Gleeson is Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University. John is a clinical psychologist with 20 years experience in severe mental health problems. His research interests include psychological treatments in youth with psychosis, the use of moderated on-line social interventions for youth with mental health problems, and experience sampling methods in the understanding of anxiety and mood problems.

  • Associate Professor Renee Thompson

    Washington University

    Associate Professor Renee Thompson

    Renee Thompson’s research centers on understanding the everyday emotional experience in individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. She is principal investigator of the Emotion and Mental Health Lab. Thompson uses multi-method approaches, including ecological momentary assessment, to examine affective instability and other temporal dynamics of emotional experience. She is also interested in how components of emotion regulation (e.g., emotional awareness) and interpersonal factors (e.g., perceived rejection) affect the emotional experience of depressed, anxious, and healthy samples.

  • Associate Professor Michael Slepian

    Columbia Business School

    Associate Professor Michael Slepian

    Michael studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affect variables that govern social and organizational life, particularly trust and motivation. He has studied the consequences of keeping secrets, including how they change our behavior, judgments and actions. He studies the effects of both personal and professional secrets for the individual secret keeper as well as whether we can tell when others are concealing information from us.