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What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES) (2025)
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MacCann, C., Double, K. S., Olderbak, S., Austin, E. J., Pinkus, R. T., Walker, S. A., Kunst, H., & Niven, K. (2025). What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES). Emotion, 25(2), 410-429. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001459

Theoretical models of interpersonal extrinsic emotion regulation (the regulation of others' emotions) recognize many different regulation strategies, yet existing assessments do not assess a wide number of strategies at a granular level. In the prese... Read More about What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES).

The Need for a Unified Language Framework in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Research (2024)
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Walker, S., López-Pérez, B., Beckmann, J. F., Kunst, H., & Polias, S. (online). The Need for a Unified Language Framework in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Research. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001463

With increasing research interest in extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation, this article aims to address the critical need for a unified language framework to strengthen and support these research efforts. Despite increasing interest and researc... Read More about The Need for a Unified Language Framework in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Research.

It’s What I Think You Do That Matters: Comparing Self, Partner, and Shared Perspectives of What a Romantic Partner Does to Regulate Your Emotions (2024)
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Walker, S. A., Pinkus, R., Double, K. S., Xiao, H., & MacCann, C. (online). It’s What I Think You Do That Matters: Comparing Self, Partner, and Shared Perspectives of What a Romantic Partner Does to Regulate Your Emotions. European Journal of Personality, https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241272162

Romantic partners routinely regulate each other’s emotions; this phenomenon is known as extrinsic emotion regulation. Previous research investigating emotion regulation in couples has typically examined self-report of emotion regulation from only one... Read More about It’s What I Think You Do That Matters: Comparing Self, Partner, and Shared Perspectives of What a Romantic Partner Does to Regulate Your Emotions.

Faking good and bad on self‐reports versus informant‐reports of Dark Triad personality (2024)
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Walker, S., & MacCann, C. (2024). Faking good and bad on self‐reports versus informant‐reports of Dark Triad personality. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 32(3), 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsa.12465

Research consistently demonstrates that people can distort their responses on self‐report personality tests. Informant‐reports (where a knowledgeable informant rates a target's personality) can be used as an alternative to self‐ratings. However, ther... Read More about Faking good and bad on self‐reports versus informant‐reports of Dark Triad personality.

Faking Good on Self-Reports Versus Informant-Reports of Emotional Intelligence (2023)
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Walker, S. A., & MacCann, C. (2024). Faking Good on Self-Reports Versus Informant-Reports of Emotional Intelligence. Assessment, 31(5), 1011-1019. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911231203960

Research demonstrates that people can fake on self-rated emotional intelligence scales. As yet, no studies have investigated whether informants (where a knowledgeable informant rates a target’s emotional intelligence) can also fake on emotional intel... Read More about Faking Good on Self-Reports Versus Informant-Reports of Emotional Intelligence.

The Dark Informant-Rated Triad (DIRT): A Concise Informant-Rated Measure of the Dark Triad (2023)
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Walker, S. A., MacCann, C., & Jonason, P. K. (online). The Dark Informant-Rated Triad (DIRT): A Concise Informant-Rated Measure of the Dark Triad. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000796

The “Dirty Dozen” is a popular, brief, self-report scale to capture individual differences in the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). While the scale has good psychometric properties, there has not yet been an exa... Read More about The Dark Informant-Rated Triad (DIRT): A Concise Informant-Rated Measure of the Dark Triad.

What do we do to help others feel better? Eight extrinsic emotion regulation processes linked to affective and interpersonal outcomes (2023)
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MacCann, C., Double, K. S., Olderbak, S., Austin, E. J., Pinkus, R., Walker, S. A., …Niven, K. What do we do to help others feel better? Eight extrinsic emotion regulation processes linked to affective and interpersonal outcomes. [https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u3wx2]

Theoretical models of extrinsic emotion regulation (the regulation of others’ emotions) recognize many different regulation strategies, yet we know very little about who engages in which strategies, and the effects of different strategies on... Read More about What do we do to help others feel better? Eight extrinsic emotion regulation processes linked to affective and interpersonal outcomes.

People with higher relationship satisfaction use more humor, valuing, and receptive listening to regulate their partners’ emotions (2023)
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Walker, S. A., Pinkus, R. T., Olderbak, S., & MacCann, C. (2024). People with higher relationship satisfaction use more humor, valuing, and receptive listening to regulate their partners’ emotions. Current Psychology, 43(3), 2348-2356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04432-4

The emotional experiences you have with a romantic partner shape how satisfied you are in your relationship. Engaging in attempts to make a romantic partner feel better is linked with better relationship outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which s... Read More about People with higher relationship satisfaction use more humor, valuing, and receptive listening to regulate their partners’ emotions.

Emotionally Intelligent People Use More High-Engagement and Less Low-Engagement Processes to Regulate Others’ Emotions (2022)
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Xiao, H., Double, K. S., Walker, S. A., Kunst, H., & MacCann, C. (2022). Emotionally Intelligent People Use More High-Engagement and Less Low-Engagement Processes to Regulate Others’ Emotions. Journal of Intelligence, 10(4), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040076

Existing research has linked emotional intelligence (EI) with intrinsic emotion regulation (processes people use to regulate their own emotions). However, there has not yet been an empirical examination of whether EI abilities relate to extrinsic emo... Read More about Emotionally Intelligent People Use More High-Engagement and Less Low-Engagement Processes to Regulate Others’ Emotions.

How much can people fake on the dark triad? A meta-analysis and systematic review of instructed faking (2022)
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Walker, S. A., Double, K. S., Birney, D. P., & MacCann, C. (2022). How much can people fake on the dark triad? A meta-analysis and systematic review of instructed faking. Personality and Individual Differences, 193, Article 111622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111622

Prior meta-analyses demonstrate that people can intentionally distort Big Five personality scores when instructed. As yet, there is no equivalent meta-analysis addressing instructed faking on the dark triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopa... Read More about How much can people fake on the dark triad? A meta-analysis and systematic review of instructed faking.

Primary and secondary psychopathy relate to lower cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and emotion regulation processes (2021)
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Walker, S. A., Olderbak, S., Gorodezki, J., Zhang, M., Ho, C., & MacCann, C. (2022). Primary and secondary psychopathy relate to lower cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and emotion regulation processes. Personality and Individual Differences, 187, Article 111394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111394

The Dark Triad of socially aversive personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) may be linked with emotional deficits, including the use of less effective emotion regulation processes. In this meta-analysis, we identify 20 sour... Read More about Primary and secondary psychopathy relate to lower cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and emotion regulation processes.

Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors (2021)
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Webb, S. L., Birney, D. P., Loh, V., Walker, S., Lampit, A., & Bahar-Fuchs, A. (2022). Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32(6), 1193-1229. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2020.1869567

The increasing prevalence of cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia with the aging population has led to scrutiny of the efficacy of cognition-oriented treatments (COTs) aiming to maintain functioning, and delay or prevent f... Read More about Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors.

Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review (2020)
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Dilevski, N., Paterson, H. M., Walker, S. A., & van Golde, C. (2021). Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 28(5), 711-732. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1837031

In cases of repeated victimisation, a complainant’s statement of abuse, and therefore memory, is often critical evidence for forensic investigations and legal proceedings. It is therefore important to understand the functioning of adults’ memory for... Read More about Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review.

A meta-analysis and systematic review of reactivity to judgements of learning (2017)
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Double, K. S., Birney, D. P., & Walker, S. A. (2018). A meta-analysis and systematic review of reactivity to judgements of learning. Memory, 26(6), 741-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1404111

Judgements of learning (JoL) are often used in memory research as a means for assessing an individual’s metacognitive beliefs about their learning. JoL have been shown to reliably predict performance as well as learning behaviours and decisions . Par... Read More about A meta-analysis and systematic review of reactivity to judgements of learning.