Emotion & Behaviour Lab, the Australian National University

14/04/2024

A new paper on Perfectionism and Social Anxiety from our lab

This meta-analysis examined the relationships between dimensions of perfectionism and social anxiety. A literature search using the databases PsychINFO, Medline, and Embase yielded 40 studies. Our findings showed large to very-large-sized associations between social anxiety and dimensions of perfect...

23/06/2023

Congratulations to Dr Junwen Chen, who was awarded the 2023 ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Reconciliation.

24/03/2023

A tremendous contribution to the literature - a publication from our lab - Intolerance of uncertainty and emotion regulation: A meta-analytic and systematic review. Congratulations to our PhD candidate Aseel Sahib!!

Intolerance of uncertainty, a transdiagnostic factor manifested across emotional disorders, has been associated with difficulties in regulating emotio…

29/10/2022

This is the first paper from our collaboration with Southwest University in China

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24/10/2022

Visiting scholar from Japan, Professor Miki Matsunaga, is leaving this week after two months' visit to our laboratory. We have been working on a project that investigates the effects of emotion regulation on perinatal/postpartum women with anxiety and depression. The research team enjoyed the photo time with Miki and her two children.

08/09/2022

Emotion and Behaviour Laboratory will hold a research seminar with Professor Hiroaki Kumano’s Behaviour Medicine lab at Waseda University in Japan on Monday September 12th, 2022. We aim to exchange our research ideas and explore possibilities of potential collaborations. We did the seminar last year and had some really positive feedback from both sites.

Join Dr Junwen Chen from the Emotion and Behaviour Laboratory, ANU, and Professor Hiroaki Kumano from the Behaviour Medicine Laboratory, Waseda University in Japan,for a research seminar to exchange ideas and share findings on clinical and health psychology. You'll gain insights into the most up-to-...

26/08/2022

Hi friends,

I hope you are keeping well😀

One of my Honours students is looking for fully employed people to participate in his study. If you are eligible or you have friends who are eligible and are interested in participating in the research project, please see the details below. Please feel free to circulate this information. Many thanks in advance.

This project investigates the relationship between business networking and loneliness! A lot of research has looked at either business networking or loneliness, but none looking at them together. Participants must be:

- 18+ ⬆️
- fluent in English 🔤
- currently living in Australia 🇦🇺, the UK 🇬🇧, or the US 🇺🇸
- employed full-time 👩‍💼👨‍💼

There are 8 questionnaires, which are to be completed before and after 1 scenario-based interaction task. Depending on how fast you are, the survey should take on average 20 to 45 minutes.

Your participation in this project is 100% anonymous. Here is the link to the survey: https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eF1hny6D963t3bE

Thanks in advance! Loneliness has become such a big thing these days, where the workplace has been found to be a new risk factor for loneliness. Hopefully, this project can contribute to the understanding of it 🙂"

This project aims to investigate the relationship between different types of business networking, loneliness, basic psychological needs proposed by Self-Determination Theory (SDT), and mental health factors and processes related to loneliness including objectifying others, social anxiety, fear of ne...

02/11/2021

A new publication from our lab.

Childhood anxiety and depression lead to great distress and impairment. Preventing them simultaneously in early life is critically important. We evalu…