Peter Kuppens

Contact information

Peter Kuppens
Tiensestraat 102
3000 Leuven


Phone: (+32) 16 326108
Fax: (+32) 16 325993

 

Research interests

• Componential (e.g., appraisal) theories of emotions
• Individual differences in emotional appraisal, experience, and dynamics and their relationships with personality and well-being
• Formal models for contextualised personality and emotion research

Publications

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International journal articles

• Allik, J., Realo, A., Mõttus, R., Borkenau, P., Kuppens, P., & Hřebíčková, M. (2010). How people see others is different from how people see themselves: A replicable pattern across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 870-882. doi:10.1037/a0020963
• Allik, J., Realo, A., Mõttus, R., & Kuppens, P. (2010). Generalizability of self-other agreement from one personality trait to another. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 128-132. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.09.008
• Bastian, B., Kuppens, P., Park, J., Koval, P., & Uchida, Y. (in press). Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative emotions. Emotion.
• Ceulemans, E., Kuppens, P., & Van Mechelen, I. (in press). Capturing the structure of distinct types of individual differences in the situation-specific experience of emotions: The case of anger. European Journal of Personality.
• Ceulemans, E., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2004). Adapting the formal to the substantive: Constrained Tucker3-HICLAS. Journal of Classification, 21, 19-50. doi:10.1007/s00357-004-0004-1
• Claes, L., Klonsky, D., Muehlenkamp, J., Kuppens, P., & Vandereycken, W. (2010). The affect-regulation function of non-suicidal self-injury in eating disordered patients: which affect-states are regulated? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 51, 386-392. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.09.001
• Frederickx, S., Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., & Van Mechelen, I. (2009). Desequens: An R-package for the variance decomposition of sequential processes. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 524-530. doi:10.3758/BRM.41.2.524
• Haslam, N., Holland, E., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: A quantitative review of taxometric research. Psychological Medicine.
• Hofmans, J., Kuppens, P., & Allik, J. (2008). Is short in length short in content? An examination of the domain representation of the Ten Item Personality Inventory scales in Dutch Language. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 750-755. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.004
• Jackson, J., Kuppens, P., Sheeber, L. B., & Allen, N. B. (2011). Expression of anger in depressed adolescents: The role of the family environment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 463-474. doi:10.1007/s10802-010-9473-3
• Koval, P., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Changing emotion dynamics: Individual differences in the effect of anticipatory social stress on emotional inertia. Emotion.
• Kuppens, P. (2005). Interpersonal determinants of trait anger: Low agreeableness, perceived low social esteem, and the amplifying role of the importance attached to social relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 13-23. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.03.006
• Kuppens, P. (2008). Individual differences in the relationship between pleasure and arousal. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1053-1059. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2007.10.007
• Kuppens, P. (2009). The legacy of the person-situation debate for understanding variability in emotional experience. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 255-256. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.027
• Kuppens, P. (2010). From appraisal to emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 157-158. doi:10.1177/1754073909355010
• Kuppens, P., Allen, N. B., & Sheeber, L. (2010). Emotional inertia and psychological maladjustment. Psychological Science, 21, 984-991. doi:10.1177/0956797610372634
• Kuppens, P., Ceulemans, E., Timmerman, M. E., Diener, E., & Kim-Prieto, C. (2006). Universal intracultural and intercultural dimensions of the recalled frequency of emotional experience. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 491-515. doi:10.1177/0022022106290474
• Kuppens, P., Oravecz, Z., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2010). Feelings change: Accounting for individual differences in the temporal dynamics of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 1042-1060. doi:10.1037/a0020962
• 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. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.66
• Kuppens, P., Sheeber, L. B., Yap, M. B. H., Whittle, S., Simmons, J. G., & Allen, N. B. (in press). Emotional inertia prospectively predicts the onset of depressive disorder in adolescence. Emotion.
• Kuppens, P., Stouten, J., & Mesquita, B. (2009). Individual differences in emotion components and dynamics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1249-1258. doi:10.1080/02699930902985605
• Kuppens, P., & Tong, E. M. W. (2010). An appraisal account of individual differences in emotional experiences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 1138-1150. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00324.x
• Kuppens, P., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2007). Personality traits predicting anger in self-, ambiguous-, and other-caused unpleasant situations. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1105-1115. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.011
• Kuppens, P., & Van Mechelen, I. (2007). Interactional appraisal models for the anger appraisals of threatened self-esteem, other-blame, and frustration. Cognition & Emotion, 21, 56-77. doi:10.1080/02699930600562193
• Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Meulders, M. (2004). Every cloud has a silver lining: Interpersonal and individual differences determinants of anger-related behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1550-1564. doi:10.1177/0146167204271176
• 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. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.262
• Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Rijmen, F. (2008). Towards disentangling sources of individual differences in appraisal and anger. Journal of Personality, 76, 969-1000. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00511.x
• 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. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.3.3.254
• Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Smits, D. J. M., & De Boeck, P. (2004). Associations between emotions: Correspondence across different data types and componential basis. European Journal of Personality, 18, 159-176. doi:10.1002/per.507
• 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 & Emotion, 21, 689-713. doi:10.1080/02699930600859219
• Lodewyckx, T., Kim, W., Lee, M. D., Tuerlinckx, F., Kuppens, P., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2011). A tutorial on Bayes factor estimation with the product space method. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 331-347. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2011.06.001
• Lodewyckx, T., Tuerlinckx, F., Kuppens, P., Allen, N. B., & Sheeber, L. (2011). A hierarchical state space approach to affective dynamics. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 55, 68-83. doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2010.08.004
• Loughnan, S., Kuppens, P., Allik, J., Balázs, K., De Lemus, S., Dumont, K., Gargurevich, R., Hidegkuti, I., Leidner, B., Matos, L., Park, J., Realo, A., Shi, J., Sojo, V. E., Tong, Y., Vaes, J., Verduyn, P., Yeung, V., & Haslam, N. (2011). Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science, 22, 1254-1258. doi:10.1177/0956797611417003
• Meeus, J., Duriez, B., Vanbeselaere, N., Phalet, K., & Kuppens, P. (2009). Examining dispositional and situational effects on outgroup attitudes. European Journal of Personality, 23, 307-328. doi:10.1002/per.710
• Meulders, M., De Boeck, P., Kuppens, P., & Van Mechelen, I. (2002). Constrained latent class analysis of three-way three-mode data. Journal of Classification, 19, 277-302. doi:10.1007/s00357-001-0046-6
• Moors, A., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Distinguishing between two types of musical emotions and reconsidering the role of appraisal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 588-589. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08005438
• Mõttus, R., Allik, J., Realo, A., Pullmann, H., Rossier, J., Zecca, G., Ah-Kion, J., Amoussou-Yéyé, D., Bäckström, M., Barkauskiene, R., Barry, O., Bhowon, U., Björklund, F., Bochaver, A., Bochaver, K., de Bruin, D., Cabrera, H. F., Chen, S. X., Church, A. T., Cissé, D., Donatien Dahourou, D., Feng, X, Guan, Y., Hwang, H.-S., Idris, F., Katigbak, M. S., Kuppens, P., Kwiatkowska, A., Laurinavicius, A., Mastor, K. A., Matsumoto, D., Riemann, R., Schug, J., Simpson, B., & Tseung, C. N. (in press). Comparability of self-reported conscientiousness across 21 countries. European Journal of Personality. doi:10.1002/per.840
• Nezlek, J. B., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Regulating positive and negative emotions in daily life. Journal of Personality, 76, 561-579. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00496.x
• Nezlek, J. B., Vansteelandt, K., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Appraisal-emotion relationships in daily life. Emotion, 8, 145-150. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.145
• Rijmen, F., Tuerlinckx, F., De Boeck, P., & Kuppens, P. (2003). A nonlinear mixed model framework for item response theory. Psychological Methods, 8, 185-205. doi:10.1037/1082-989X.8.2.185
• Sheeber, L. B., Kuppens, P., Shortt, J. W., Fainsilber Katz, L., Davis, B., & Allen, N. B. (in press). Depression is associated with the escalation of adolescents' dysphoric behavior during interactions with parents. Emotion.
• Smits, D. J. M., De Boeck, P., Kuppens, P., & Van Mechelen, I. (2002). The structure of negative emotion scales: Generalization over contexts and comprehensiveness. European Journal of Personality, 16, 127-141. doi:10.1002/per.436
• Smits, D. J. M., & Kuppens, P. (2005). The relations between anger, coping with anger, and aggression, and the BIS/BAS system. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 783-793. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.02.023
• Stouten, J., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Being angry for different reasons: The role of personality in distributive justice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
• Timmermans, T., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2010). The relationship between individual differences in intraindividual variability in core affect and interpersonal behaviour. European Journal of Personality, 24, 623-638. doi:10.1002/per.756
• Vanbrabant, K., Kuppens, P., Braeken, J., Demaerschalk, E., Boeren, A., & Tuerlinckx, F. (in press). A relationship between verbal aggression and personal network size. Social Networks.
• Vande Gaer, E., Ceulemans, E., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2012). The CLASSI-N method for the study of sequential processes. Psychometrika, 77, 85-105. doi:10.1007/S11336-011-9235-3
• Wilderjans, T. F., Ceulemans, E., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Clusterwise HICLAS: A generic modeling strategy to trace similarities and differences in multi-block binary data. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0166-9

Special issues

• Kuppens, P., Stouten, J., & Mesquita, B. (Eds.). (2009). Individual differences in emotion components and dynamics. [Special issue]. Cognition & Emotion, 23(7).

Chapters in books

• Kuppens, P. (2009). Towards understanding individual differences in emotional experience. In A. Przepiórka (Ed.), Closer to emotions III (pp. 73-88). Lublin: KUL.
• Kuppens, P. (2009). Blame. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 226-227). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kuppens, P. (2009). Irritation. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 77-78). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kuppens, P. (2009). Anger. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 32-33). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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