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Peter Kuppens

Contact information

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Tiensestraat 102
3000 Leuven


Phone: (+32) 16 325896
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

International journal articles

  • Allik, J., Realo, A., Mőttus, R., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Generalizability of self-other agreement from one personality trait to another. Personality and Individual Differences. PDF
  • Ceulemans, E., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2004). Adapting the formal to the substantive: Constrained Tucker3-HICLAS. Journal of Classification, 21, 19-50. PDF
  • Claes, L., Klonsky, D., Muehlenkamp, J., Kuppens, P., & Vandereycken, W. (in press). Affect-regulation function of non-suicidal self-injury in eating disordered patients: which affect-states are regulated? Comprehensive Psychiatry.
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Kuppens, P. (2008). Individual differences in the relationship between pleasure and arousal. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1053-1059. PDF
  • Kuppens, P. (2009). The legacy of the person-situation debate for understanding variability in emotional experience. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 255-256. PDF
  • Kuppens, P. (in press). From apraisal to emotion. Emotion Review. PDF
  • Kuppens, P., Allen, N.B., & Sheeber, L. (in press). Emotional inertia and psychological maladjustment. Psychological Science. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Kuppens, P., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2007). Personality traits predicting anger in self-, ambiguous-, and other-caused unpleasant situations. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1105-1115. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Rijmen, F. (2008). Towards disentangling sources of individual differences in appraisal and anger. Journal of Personality, 76, 969-1000. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Nezlek, J. B., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Regulating positive and negative emotions in daily life. Journal of Personality, 76, 561-579. PDF
  • Nezlek, J. B., Vansteelandt, K., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Appraisal-emotion relationships in daily life. Emotion, 8, 145-150. PDF
  • Rijmen, F., Tuerlinckx, F., De Boeck, P., & Kuppens, P. (2003). A nonlinear mixed model framework for item response theory. Psychological Methods, 8, 185-205. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • 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. PDF
  • Timmermans, T., Van Mechelen, I., & Kuppens, P. (in press). The relationship between individual differences in intraindividual variability in core affect and interpersonal behavior. European Journal of Personality.

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). 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.
  • Kuppens, P. (in press). Towards understanding individual differences in emotional experience. In A. Przepiórka (Ed.), Closer to emotions III. Lublin: KUL.

Software

NameShort description
DesequensDesequens: an R-package for the variance decomposition of sequential processes.