APS
2026 APS Annual Convention
Cognitive and Emotion Regulation Flexibility across Contexts: Implications for Well-Being and Psychopathology
Drawing on evidence from laboratory experiments, daily diaries, and ecological momentary assessments, this symposium examines cognitive and emotion regulation flexibility. Across methods, strategy–context alignment, interpretation updating, and context sensitivity emerge as core flexibility processes shaping well-being and showing differential associations with depression, anxiety, and psychosis-proneness in daily life.
Chairs & Discussants
- Mark ChenChair
Yale University
Presentations
- Bridging Lab and Everyday Life: Emotion Regulation Flexibility and Mental HealthLuise Pruessner, Katrin Schulze, Sven Barnow
- Negative Interpretation Inflexibility and Interpersonal Pathways to DepressionJonas Everaert, Jutta Joormann
- Emotion Regulation Flexibility and Paranoia In Daily Life: A General-Population Diary StudyCatherine Bortolon, Emma Carlichi, Clément Dondé, Céline Baeyens
- Variability Is Not Flexibility: Emotion Regulation Switching Predicts Increased Momentary Distress When the Context Is StableMark Chen, Jutta Joormann