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Waugh, C.E., Schieber, M., Zhao, Y. (2025). Feeling good about the bad: Making positive appraisals of predominantly negative stressors. Emotion. Article Link 

Kardosh, N., Waugh, C.E., Mikels, J.A., & Mor, N. (2025). The Influence of Pre- and Intra-task Emotional Experiences on Affective Working Memory Maintenance. Emotion. Article Link

Luo, J., McRae, K., & Waugh, C.E. (2024). Committing to Emotion Regulation: Factors Impacting the Choice to Implement a Reappraisal after Its Generation. Emotion. Article Link

Kardosh, N., Waugh, C.E., Mikels, J.A., & Mor, N. (2024). Simultaneous Maintenance of Emotions in Affective Working Memory. Cognition & Emotion, 38(4), 624-634. Article Link

Vlasenko, V.V., Tucker, W.K., & Waugh, C.E. (2024). Temporal orientation of positive reappraisal. Emotion, 24(5), 1286-1298. Article Link 

Vlasenko, V.V., Hayutin, I., Pan, C., Michael-Varakis, J., Waugh, C.E., Admon, R., & McRae, K. (2024). How do people use reappraisal? An investigation of selection frequency and affective outcomes of reappraisal tactics. Emotion,24(3), 676-686. Article Link

Waugh, C.E. & Sali, A.W. (2023). Resilience as the ability to maintain well-being: An allostatic active inference model. Journal of Intelligence, 11(8), 158. Article Link

Kako, N., Waugh, C.E., & McRae, K. (2023). The Future of Immersive Mood Induction in Affective Science: Using Virtual Reality to Test Effects of Mood Context on Task Performance. Affective Science, 4(3), 570-579. Article Link 

Minton, A.R., Waugh, C.E., Snyder, J.S., Charles, S.T., Haase, C.M., & Mikels, J.A. (2023). Falling Hard, but Recovering Resoundingly: Age Differences in Stressor Reactivity and Recovery. Psychology & Aging, 38(6), 573-585. Article Link 

Leslie-Miller, C.J., Cole, V.T., & Waugh, C.E., (2023). Positive distraction in daily activities as a predictor of good coping: A ‘day in the life’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology: Positive Psychology, 14:1142665, Article Link

Waugh, C.E., Leslie-Miller, C.J., & Cole, V.T. (2023). Coping with COVID-19: The efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 36(1), 52-66. Article Link 

Waugh, C.E., Vlasenko, V.V.*, & McRae, K. (2022). What parts of reappraisal make us feel better? Dissociating the generation of reappraisals from their implementation. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00129-2

Vlasenko, V.V.*, Rogers, E.G.^ & Waugh, C.E. (2021). Affect labeling increases the intensity of positive emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 35(7), 1350-1364. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2021.1959302

Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, Waugh, C.E., & Cole, V.T. (2021). Coping with COVID-19: The benefits of anticipating future positive events and maintaining optimism. Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, 12 (646047), 1-9.

Waugh, C.E., Leslie-Miller, C.J.^, Shing, E.Z.*, Furr, R.M., Nightingale, C.L., & McLean, T.W. (2021). Adaptive and maladaptive forms of disengagement coping in caregivers of children with chronic illnesses. Stress and Health, 37, 213-222.

Waugh, C.E., Shing, E.Z.*, & Furr, R.M. (2020). Not all disengagement coping strategies are created equal: Positive distraction, but not avoidance, can be an adaptive coping strategy for chronic life stressors. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 33(5), 511-529.

Waugh, C.E. (2020). The roles of positive emotion in the regulation of emotional responses to negative events. Emotion, 20(1), 54-58.

Waugh, C.E., Running, K.E.^, Reynolds, O.C.*, & Gotlib, I.H. (2019). People are better at maintaining positive than negative emotional states. Emotion, 19(1), 132-145.

Song, Y.*, Jordan, J.I.^, Shaffer, K.A., Wing, E.K., McRae, K., & Waugh, C.E. (2019). Effects of incidental positive emotion and cognitive reappraisal on affective responses to negative stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 33(6), 1155-1168.

Yang, X.*, Garcia, K.^, Jung, Y., Whitlow, C.T., McRae, K., & Waugh, C.E. (2018). VMPFC activation during a stressor predicts positive emotions during stress recovery. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(3), 256-268.

Tobia, M.J., Hayashi, K*., Ballard, G., Gotlib, I.H., & Waugh, C.E. (2017). Dynamic functional connectivity and individual differences in emotions during social stress. Human Brain Mapping, 38 (12), 6185-6205.

Waugh, C.E., Shing, E.Z.*, Avery, B.M.*, Jung, Y., Whitlow, C.T., & Maldjian, J.A. (2017). Neural predictors of emotional inertia in daily life. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12 (9), 1448-1459.

Shing, E.Z.*, Jayawickreme, E., & Waugh, C.E. (2016). Contextual positive coping as a factor contributing to resilience after disasters. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72 (12), 1287-1306.

Waugh, C.E., Zarolia, P., Mauss, I.B., Luman, D., Ford, B., Davis, T., Ciesielski, B.G., Sams, K.V.^, & McRae, K. (2016). Emotion regulation changes the duration of the BOLD response to emotional stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(10), 1550-1559.

Waugh, C. E., & Koster, E. H. W. (2015). A resilience framework for promoting stable remission from depression. Clinical Psychology Review, 41, 49-60.

Waugh, C.E., Shing, E.Z.*, & Avery, B.M.* (2015). Temporal dynamics of emotional processing in the brain. Emotion Review, 7(4), 1-7.

Monfort, S.S.*, Stroup, H.E.*, & Waugh, C.E. (2015). The impact of anticipating positive events on responses to stress. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 11-22.

Waugh, C. E., Lemus, M. G.^, & Gotlib, I. H. (2014). The role of the medial frontal cortex in the maintenance of emotional states. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 2001-2009.

Sherdell, L. A.*, Waugh, C. E., & Gotlib, I. H. (2012). Anticipatory Pleasure Predicts Motivation for Reward in Major Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(1), 51-60.

Waugh, C. E., Chen, M. C., Hamilton, J. P., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2012). Neural Temporal Dynamics of Stress in Comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders 2 (11). doi:10.1186/2045-5380-2-11

Waugh, C. E., Thompson, R. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2011). Flexible emotional responsiveness in trait resilience. Emotion, 11(5), 1059-1067.

Johnson, K. J., Waugh, C. E., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2010). Smile to see the forest: Facially expressed positive emotions broaden cognition. Cognition & Emotion, 24(2), 299-321.

Waugh, C. E., Hamilton, J. P., & Gotlib, I. H. (2010). The neural temporal dynamics of the intensity of emotional experience. Neuroimage, 49, 1699-1707.

Waugh, C. E., Panage, S.^, Mendes, W., & Gotlib, I. H. (2010). Cardiovascular and affective recovery from anticipatory threat. Biological Psychology, 84, 169-175.

Wager, T. D., Waugh, C.E., Lindquist, M., Fredrickson, B.L., Taylor, S. F., & Noll, D. C. (2009). Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat, Part I: Reciprocal dorsal and ventral sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex and heart-rate reactivity. Neuroimage, 47, 821-835.

Waugh, C.E. & Gotlib, I.H. (2008). Motivation for reward as a function of required effort:

Dissociating the 'liking' from the 'wanting' system in humans. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 323-330.

Waugh, C. E., Taylor, S. F., & Fredrickson, B. L., (2008). Adapting to life’s slings and

arrows: Individual differences in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1031-1046.

Waugh, C. E., Wager, T. D., Fredrickson, B. L., Noll, D. N., & Taylor, S. F. (2008). The

neural correlates of trait resilience when anticipating and recovering from threat.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 322-332.

Waugh, C. E., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2006). Nice to know you: Positive emotions, self-other overlap, and complex understanding in the formation of a new relationship. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(2), 93-106.

Fredrickson, B. L., Tugade, M. M, Waugh, C. E., & Larkin, G. (2003). What Good Are Positive Emotions in Crises? A Prospective Study of Resilience and Emotions following the Terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(2), 365-376.