Projects
Understanding Dynamic Interpersonal Emotional Processes in Romantic Relationships KU Leuven
The quality of romantic relationships predicts a variety of health outcomes, ranging from mortality over psychopathology to the speed of wound healing (see e.g., Robles, Slatcher, Trombello, & McGinn, 2014). One key mechanism underlying these associations is the emotions that are experienced in the relationship (Sbarra & Coan, 2018). Romantic partners are thought to influence each other’s emotions often, intensely, and in many ...
Emotional instability in borderline personality disorder: Specificity, determinants, and dynamic interplay with other symptoms. KU Leuven
Emotion dysregulation is considered a core problem of borderline personality disorder (BPD), which is a severe and pervasive mental disorder. Therefore, studies are investigating how emotions unfold in the daily lives of persons with BPD to better understand the dysfunction underlying BPD. Daily life studies found that persons with BPD typically show large changes in the intensity of their emotions and large changes between positive and ...
Water Matters: An Exegetical Study of the Johannine Presentation of Water Concerns and its Dynamics in Relation to the Notion of ‘Living Water’ (ὕδωρ ζῶν) in John 4:1-15. KU Leuven
Water motif is dominant in the Johannine presentation of the dialogue between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well in John 4:1-42. In the first section of this dialogue in Jn 4:1-15, which focuses on the notion of ‘living water’ (ὕδωρ ζῶν), the evangelist also presents some of the concrete concerns related to the accessibility of water. A closer examination of this text-unit will enable us to trace certain socio-cultural, ...
Dynamic modelling of soil erosion and sediment delivery in Europe KU Leuven
Soil erosion and sediment export from agricultural lands has profound on and off-site consequences that threaten both the natural environment and effective sustainable resource management in Europe. Currently, modelled approaches using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to predict the spatial distribution of soil erosion produce annual average values of soil erosion with minor consideration of sub-annual variation within its ...
Deep learning for sound source localisation and speech emotion recognition: A perspective on representation learning and sequence modelling KU Leuven
Speech contains a large amount of useful information, as not only it constitutes one of the main mechanisms of human-to-human communication, but it also provides one of the indispensable modalities in human-computer interaction. In order to accommodate processing and information retrieval from speech, computational speech processing systems convert speech sound waves into one-dimensional discrete time series, i.e., the digital speech ...
The relation between positive and negative emotion in clinical depression KU Leuven
Emotion language in context: A longitudinal, multi-modal investigation of meaning-making in everyday life and its association with expertise and well-being KU Leuven
Some people are more skilled than others in how they understand and experience emotion: they have greater expertise in emotion. These individuals have better mental, physical, and relational well-being because they make emotional meaning that is context-specific and tailored to the situation at hand, helping them to regulate and cope in healthier ways. Language is a key means of gaining insight into emotional meaning-making. However, research ...
METRICS: Modelling Emotion TRajectories In Customer Service dialogues Ghent University
Although conversational agents are highly popular and profitable systems in a number of diverse settings, research on the human-like capabilities of these agents is still in its infancy. Another issue that impedes progress on these systems is the tangible discrepancy between output of the scientific community and its implementations in industry. Our project aims to tackle the lack of connotative common-sense knowledge (viz. emotions) in ...
Emotion in context: Constructions of anger and shame in four cultures KU Leuven
Theories of emotion have typically focused on nonsocial and short-lived situations such as physical threats. Yet most of our emotions occur in the context of ongoing interactions with others. The proposed research takes a social approach to emotion, by studying emotions as dynamic processes between people. Our central aim is to show that cultural differences in emotional interactions are not random, but can be understood from the way they ...