About the Lab

About the Lab

People’s lives are saturated with emotions (feelings, emotional behaviors, and associated bodily reactions), yet emotions usually don’t just happen to us. Most of the time, we attempt to regulate our emotions in some way, by denying, intensifying, weakening, curtailing, masking, or completely transforming them.

The Emotion & Emotion Regulation Laboratory at Berkeley seeks to understand emotion and emotion regulation through (a) Laboratory studies; (b) Diary assessments; (b) Questionnaires; (c) Implicit assessment methods; (d) Behavior assessments (e.g., coding of facial expressions); (e) Measurement of physiological responses (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate). We are especially interested in how emotions and emotion regulation relate to social processes, well-being, and health.

Meet the Lab

Joint lab meeting with John Lab in Fall 2021