Broadly speaking, our research explores interactions between self-regulation, emotion, and visual attention.
We study questions such as: What does attract people’s attention? Do people see what they want to see (or fear)? How do people know about and identify objects and people that are instrumental in reaching their goals? How can they learn better strategies to achieve their goals and regulate emotions? How do people identify and solve conflicts between their many goals, motives, and desires? What are precursors and consequences of experiencing, identifying, and solving goal and self-control conflicts? What do emotions motivate people to do? Can pursuing valued goals help people to cope with negative emotions? What is the role of attention in emotion regulation?
Our research applies these questions to self-control conflicts, emotional eating, food labelling, emotion regulation, intergroup conflict, and prosocial behaviour.