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Peter Kuppens

Peter Kuppens

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Psychology

D-Index
80
Citations
24488
World Ranking
1448
National Ranking
16

Overview

Peter Kuppens is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and focuses primarily on psychological research. Their work spans multiple subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. The overarching discipline is Psychology, with a concentration on topics related to mental health and behavioral interventions.

The scientist's main topics of research cover:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Recent publications by Peter Kuppens include:

  • The Effects of Sampling Frequency and Questionnaire Length on Perceived Burden, Compliance, and Careless Responding in Experience Sampling Data in a Student Population (2020, Assessment)
  • Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice (2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • Dimensions over categories: a meta-analysis of taxometric research (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology (2020, Journal of Psychosomatic Research)
  • m-Path: an easy-to-use and highly tailorable platform for ecological momentary assessment and intervention in behavioral research and clinical practice (2023, Frontiers in Digital Health)

Peter Kuppens frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Eva Ceulemans
  • Egon Dejonckheere
  • Merijn Mestdagh
  • Peter Koval
  • Laura Sels

The scientist's research has appeared consistently in notable publication venues such as:

  • Emotion
  • Assessment
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Psychologica Belgica

This profile reflects Peter Kuppens' extensive work in psychological sciences with a particular emphasis on experimental approaches and applications in mental health and behavioral interventions.

Best Publications

  • The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis

    Marlies Houben;Wim Van Den Noortgate;Peter Kuppens

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression.

    Ingrid A. van de Leemput;Marieke Wichers;Angélique O. J. Cramer;Denny Borsboom

  • Emotional Inertia and Psychological Maladjustment

    Peter Kuppens;Nicholas B. Allen;Lisa B. Sheeber

  • The Role of Positive and Negative Emotions in Life Satisfaction Judgment Across Nations

    Peter Kuppens;Anu Realo;Ed Diener

  • A network approach to psychopathology: New insights into clinical longitudinal data

    Laura F. Bringmann;Nathalie Vissers;Marieke Wichers;Nicole Geschwind

  • Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: a quantitative review of taxometric research

    N. Haslam;E. Holland;Peter Kuppens

  • The regulation of negative and positive affect in daily life.

    Karen Brans;Peter Koval;Philippe Verduyn;Yan Lin Lim

  • Feelings change: accounting for individual differences in the temporal dynamics of affect.

    Peter Kuppens;Zita Oravecz;Francis Tuerlinckx

  • The relation between valence and arousal in subjective experience.

    Peter Kuppens;Francis Tuerlinckx;James A. Russell;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Regulating positive and negative emotions in daily life.

    John B. Nezlek;Peter Kuppens

  • Complex affect dynamics add limited information to the prediction of psychological well-being

    Egon Dejonckheere;Merijn Mestdagh;Marlies Houben;Isa Rutten

  • The appraisal basis of anger : Specificity, necessity, and sufficiency of components

    Peter Kuppens;Iven Van Mechelen;Dirk J. M. Smits;Paul De Boeck

  • The Effects of Sampling Frequency and Questionnaire Length on Perceived Burden, Compliance, and Careless Responding in Experience Sampling Data in a Student Population.

    Gudrun Eisele;Hugo Vachon;Ginette Lafit;Peter Kuppens

  • Individual differences in core affect variability and their relationship to personality and psychological adjustment

    Peter Kuppens;Iven Van Mechelen;John B. Nezlek;Dorien Dossche

  • Emotional inertia prospectively predicts the onset of depressive disorder in adolescence

    Peter Kuppens;Lisa B Sheeber;Marie Bee Hui Yap;Sarah Whittle

  • Affect dynamics in relation to depressive symptoms: Variable, unstable or inert?

    Peter Koval;Madeline Lee Pe;Kristof Meers;Peter Kuppens

  • A nonlinear mixed model framework for item response theory.

    Frank Rijmen;Francis Tuerlinckx;Paul De Boeck;Peter Kuppens

  • Getting stuck in depression: The roles of rumination and emotional inertia

    Peter Koval;Peter Kuppens;Nicholas B. Allen;Lisa Sheeber

  • Emotion dynamics

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  • Emotion-Network Density in Major Depressive Disorder

    Madeline Lee Pe;Katharina Kircanski;Renee J. Thompson;Laura F. Bringmann

  • Assessing Temporal Emotion Dynamics Using Networks

    Laura Bringmann;Madeline L Pe;Nathalie Vissers;Eva Ceulemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Koval
Peter Koval University of Melbourne
Lisa Sheeber
Lisa Sheeber Oregon Research Institute
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Philippe Verduyn
Philippe Verduyn Maastricht University
Filip Raes
Filip Raes KU Leuven
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
Jüri Allik
Jüri Allik University of Tartu
Agnes Moors
Agnes Moors KU Leuven

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