Research

I study transitions between emotions in daily life (e.g., from anger to sadness). Furthermore, I explore how short-term emotion dynamics shape individuals' long-term changes in well-being.

Keywords: Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity, Emotion, Flexibility, Interdependent Time Scales

Tutorials

Core Research

  • Lo, T. T., Pouwels, J. L., Vink, J. M., van den Broek, N., Eltanamly, H., Maciejewski, D. F., & Verhagen, M. (Preregistered; Preprint available upon request). Negative Emotion Transitions May Have Immediate Benefits in Decreasing Negative Emotions in Daily Life. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RJAQ4
  • Lo, T. T., Maciejewski, D. F., Vervoort, L., Vink, J. M., Cheng, T. N., Pouwels, J. L., & Verhagen, M. (Preprint). Negative Emotion Transitions May Have Immediate Benefits in Decreasing Negative Emotions in Daily Life. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7yqkw
  • Lo, T. T., Verhagen, M., Pouwels, J. L., van Roekel, E., O’Brien, S. T., Debra, G., Braet, J., Vink, J. M., & Maciejewski, D. F. (2025). Emotion Differentiation in Adolescents: Short-term Trade-offs with Regulation Variability and Emotion Intensity. Affective Science, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-025-00301-4
  • Lo, T. T., Van Lissa, C. J., Verhagen, M., Hoemann, K., Erbaş, Y., & Maciejewski, D. F. (2024). A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray–Curtis dissimilarity. Emotion, 24(5), 1273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001344 (Download from Radboud Repository)

Other Collaborative Work

  • Lo, E. T. T., van Weerdenburg, M., Williams, J. M., Jen, E., Hoogeveen, L., Chan, S. W., Sin, K. F., & Cheung, H. N. (2025). Underachievement risks and profiles of psychological variables among high-ability adolescents from Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 15(9), 178. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe15090178

Invited Talks

  • Department of Developmental Psychology Colloquium, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, September 2025.
  • Clinical Psychology Service, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong, October 2023.

Conference Contributions

Projects

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