A few projects of interest.
Emotional Awareness & Emotion Regulation
How do individual differences in facets of emotional awareness (i.e., attention towards emotions and clarity of emotions) relate to people’s ability to manage their emotions? What factors play a role in how these constructs relate to one another?
Affective Synchrony
How might synchrony in people’s experienced and displayed affect relate to interpersonal outcomes and health? What cultural differences, if any, are there in how people experience affect together?
Daily emotions & app-based Assessments to predict affective experiences
How might we be able to leverage advancements in non-invasive wearable technology to predict and understand affect in daily life?
Emotion beliefs and values
How do people’s values and beliefs around emotions relate to their daily experiences of emotions? Furthermore, how do these values relate to the management of emotions and relate to both well-being and interpersonal relationships?
Google Scholar Profile
Thompson, R. J., Liu, D. Y., & Lai, J. (2024). What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?. Motivation and Emotion, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10089-8
Jafarlou, S., Azimi, I., Lai, J., Wang, Y., Labbaf, S., Nguyen, B.*, Qureshi, H.*, Marcotullio, C.*, Borelli, J. L., Dutt, N., & Rahmani, A. M. (2024). Objective monitoring of loneliness levels using smart devices: A multi-device approach for mental health applications. PloS one, 19(6), e0298949. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298949
Watanabe, D. K., Pourmand, V., Lai, J., Park, G., Koenig, J., Wiley, C. R., Thayer, J. F., & Williams, D. P. (2023). Resting heart rate variability and emotion regulation difficulties: Comparing Asian Americans and European Americans. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 194, 112258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.112258
Jafarlou, S., Lai, J., Azimi, I., Mousavi, Z., Labbaf, S., Jain, R. C., Nutt, D., Borelli, J. L., & Rahmani, A. (2023). Objective prediction of next-day’s affect using multimodal physiological and behavioral data: Algorithm development and validation study. JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), e39425. doi: 10.2196/39425 [PDF]
Rahmani, A. M., Lai, J., Jafarlou, S., Azimi, I., Yunusova, A.*, Rivera, A. P.*, Labbaf, S., Hu, S., Anzanpour, A., Dutt, N., Jain, R., Borelli, J. L. (2022). Personal mental health navigator: harnessing the power of data, personal models, and health cybernetics to promote psychological well-being. Frontiers in Digital Health, 4, 933587. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.933587
Mousavi, Z. A., Lai, J., Simon, K., Rivera, A. P.*, Yunusova, A.*, Hu, S., Labbaf, S., Jafarlou, S., Dutt, N., Jain, R., Rahmani, A. M., & Borelli, J. L. (2022). Sleep Patterns and Affect Dynamics Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Intensive Longitudinal Study. JMIR formative research, 6(8), e33964. doi: 10.2196/33964 [PDF]
Lai, J., Pham, P. T., Bate, J., Prout, T. A., Carollo, A., Setoh, P., Esposito, G., & Borelli, J. L. (2022). Being a Parent during COVID-19: Risk for Psychological Distress in the United States and Italy. Social Sciences, 11(4), 173. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11040173 [PDF]
Wells, J. L., Haase, C. M., Rothwell, E. S., Naugle, K. G., Otero, M. C., Brown, C. L., Lai, J., Chen K-H, Connelly, D. E., Grimm, K. J., Levenson, R. W., Fredrickson, B. L. (2022). Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000385
Lai, J., Snyder, M. E, M. Vijayakumar, K. S., Bailey, D. H., Martin, E. A. (2022). Shared and unique affective abnormalities in schizotypy dimensions. PsyCh Journal, Journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, 11, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.506 [PDF]
Schueller, S. M., Neary, M., Lai, J., Epstein, D. A. (2021) Understanding people’s use of and perspective of mood tracking apps: An interview study. JMIR Mental Health, 8(8), e29368. doi: 10.2196/29368. [PDF]
Lai. J., Rahmani, A. M., Yunusova, A.*, Rivera, A. P.*, Labbaf, S., Hu, S., Dutt, N. D, Jain, R. C, Borelli, J. L. (2021). Using multi-modal assessments to capture personalized contexts of college student well-being in 2020: A case study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(5), e26186. doi: 10.2196/26186. [PDF]
Yunusova, A.*, Lai. J., Rivera, A. P.*, Hu, S., Labbaf, S., Rahmani, A. M., Dutt, N. D., Jain, R. C., Borelli, J. L. (2021). Assessing the mental health of emerging adults through a mental health app: Protocol for a prospective pilot study. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(3), e25775. doi: 10.2196/25775. [PDF]
Borelli, J. L., Lai, J., Smiley, P. A., Kerr, M. L., Buttitta, K., Hecht, H. K., & Rasmussen, H. F., (2021). Higher maternal reflective functioning is associated with toddlers’ adaptive emotion regulation. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42(4), 473-487. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21904. [PDF]
*denotes a mentored post-bac or undergraduate student