Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences School of Behavioural Science

Dr Peter Kuppens

PhD (University of Leuven)
Honorary Fellow

Contact details:

email: pkuppens@unimelb.edu.au  
telephone: +61 3 8344 5634  

Peter Kuppens is an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a postdoctoral research fellow with the Fund for Scietific Research – Flanders at the Research Group for Quantitave Psychology and Individual Differences, University of Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on understanding the multicomponential and dynamic nature of emotions and its relationship to personality processess and well-being.

Selected Publications:

Kuppens, P., Stouten, J., & Mesquita, B. (under contract). Special Issue: Individual differences in emotion components and dynamics. Cognition and Emotion.

Kuppens, P., Realo, A., & Diener, E. (2008). The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 66-75.

Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Rijmen, F. (2008). Towards disentangling sources of individual differences in appraisal and anger. Journal of Personality, 76, 969-1000.

Kuppens, P. (2008). Individual differences in the relationship between pleasure and arousal. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1053-1059.

Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Nezlek, J. B., Dossche, D., & Timmermans, T. (2007). Individual differences in core affect variability and their relationship to personality and adjustment. Emotion, 7, 262-274.

Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Smits, D. J. M., De Boeck, P., & Ceulemans, E. (2007). Individual differences in patterns of appraisal and anger experience. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 689-713.

Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Smits, D. J. M., & De Boeck, P. (2003). The appraisal basis of anger: Specificity, necessity and sufficiency of components. Emotion, 3, 254-269.

For a complete list of publications, see http://ppw.kuleuven.be/okp/people/Peter_Kuppens/

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