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Christian Waugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology
at Wake Forest University, NC, is an expert in the study
of stress resilience, emotions, and effective coping
habits. His research features resilience as the result of
stress, trauma, and the ability to experience positive
emotions in times of stress. Dr. Waugh has been twice
honored for teaching excellence at Wake Forest, is a
professional speaker, and has published several dozen
scientific articles.
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Dr. Christian Waugh, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology with expertise in resilience, positive emotions, stress
Research Expertise
Emotion
stress
fMRI
psychophysiology
Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurology
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Endocrinology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Neurology (clinical)
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Anatomy
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Gerontology
Aging
Physiology
Pharmacology (medical)
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Applied Psychology
Education
Cultural Studies
Developmental Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Health Policy
Epidemiology
Cancer Research
Oncology
About
Christian Waugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Psychology at Wake Forest University, NC, is
an expert in the study of stress resilience,
emotions, and effective coping habits. His
research features resilience as the result of
stress, trauma, and the ability to experience
positive emotions in times of stress. Dr.
Waugh has been twice honored for teaching
excellence at Wake Forest, is a professional
speaker, and has published several dozen
scientific articles.
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What good are positive emotions in crisis?
A prospective study of resilience and
emotions following the terrorist attacks
on the United States on September 11th,
2001.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2003
Nice to know you: Positive emotions,
self–other overlap, and complex
understanding in the formation of a new
relationship
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2006
Brain mediators of cardiovascular
responses to social threat
NeuroImage
2009
The functional domain specificity of
self-esteem and the differential
prediction of aggression.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2002
Adapting to life’s slings and arrows:
Individual differences in resilience when
recovering from an anticipated threat
Journal of Research in
Personality
2008
Anticipatory pleasure predicts motivation
for reward in major depression.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2012
Flexible emotional responsiveness in trait
resilience.
Emotion
2011
A Multi-Site Preregistered Paradigmatic
Test of the Ego Depletion Effect
Unknown Venue
2021
Part B: Resilience as Intrapersonal
Process
The Resilience Handbook
2013
Psychophysiology of Resilience to Stress
Biobehavioral Resilience to
Stress
2008
An Affective Neuroscience Perspective on
Psychological Flourishing: How the Brain
Believes that Things Are Going Well
Human Flourishing
2022
Positive distraction in daily activities
as a predictor of good coping: A “day in
the life” during the COVID-19 pandemic
Frontiers in Psychology
2023
Falling hard, but recovering resoundingly:
Age differences in stressor reactivity and
recovery.
Psychology and Aging
2023
Social genomics, cognition, and well-being
during the COVID-19 pandemic
Unknown Venue
2023
Understanding the Role of Positive
Emotions in Wellbeing Through
Psychological, Biological, Sociocultural,
and Environmental Lenses
Toward an Integrated Science of
Wellbeing
2023
Investigation of the effects of corona
virus pandemic and social isolation on
psychological symptoms in terms of
psychological resilience and coping styles
(tur)
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
2020
Positive Emotions in Education
Beyond Coping
2002
Do savoring beliefs predict posttraumatic
stress symptoms following stressful life
events?
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
2023
Retrain Your Brain
Brain & Life
2020
Abstract A156: Traditional
chemotherapeutic agents as selective
inhibitors of glutaminase isozymes
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
2018
Functions of the ventromedial prefrontal
cortex in emotion regulation under stress
Scientific Reports
2021
The relation between event processing and
the duration of emotional experience.
Emotion
2011
Distraction Scale
PsycTESTS Dataset
2020
The Future of Immersive Mood Induction in
Affective Science: Using Virtual Reality
to Test Effects of Mood Context on Task
Performance
Affective Science
2023
Resilience as the Ability to Maintain
Well-Being: An Allostatic Active Inference
Model
Journal of Intelligence
2023
Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of
disengagement for coping with the chronic
stress of a pandemic
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
2022
What Parts of Reappraisal Make Us Feel
Better? Dissociating the Generation of
Reappraisals from Their Implementation
Affective Science
2022
Comparing the affective and social effects
of positive reappraisal and minimising
reappraisal
Cognition and Emotion
2021
Anxiety and initial value dependence in
startle habituation
Psychophysiology
2022
Perceived Stress and Loneliness During the
COVID‐19 Pandemic in a Cognitive Aging
Cohort
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2022
Affect labelling increases the intensity
of positive emotions
Cognition and Emotion
2021
Adaptive and maladaptive forms of
disengagement coping in caregivers of
children with chronic illnesses
Stress and Health
2020
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic
Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect
Psychological Science
2021
Affect Dynamics
Unknown Venue
2021
Coping With COVID-19: The Benefits of
Anticipating Future Positive Events and
Maintaining Optimism
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Erratum to: Reactive, Agentic, Apathetic,
or Challenged? Aging, Emotion, and Coping
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Gerontologist
2021
Reactive, Agentic, Apathetic, or
Challenged? Aging, Emotion, and Coping
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Gerontologist
2020
The roles of positive emotion in the
regulation of emotional responses to
negative events.
Emotion
2020
Effects of script-based communicative
intervention on psychological and cultural
adaptation in students abroad in
second-language contexts
Intercultural Education
2020
Not all disengagement coping strategies
are created equal: positive distraction,
but not avoidance, can be an adaptive
coping strategy for chronic life stressors
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
2020
The Role of Heart Rate Variability in
Mindfulness-Based Pain Relief
The Journal of Pain
2020
People are better at maintaining positive
than negative emotional states.
Emotion
2019
Effects of incidental positive emotion and
cognitive reappraisal on affective
responses to negative stimuli
Cognition and Emotion
2018
vmPFC activation during a stressor
predicts positive emotions during stress
recovery
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2018
Dynamic functional connectivity and
individual differences in emotions during
social stress
Human Brain Mapping
2017
Neural predictors of emotional inertia in
daily life
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2017
Aberrant Parasympathetic Stress
Responsivity in Pure and Co-Occurring
Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized
Anxiety Disorder
Journal of Psychopathology and
Behavioral Assessment
2016
Contextual Positive Coping as a Factor
Contributing to Resilience After Disasters
Journal of Clinical Psychology
2016
Emotion regulation changes the duration of
the BOLD response to emotional stimuli
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2016
Messages that matter: Age differences in
affective responses to framed health
messages.
Psychology and Aging
2016
A resilience framework for promoting
stable remission from depression
Clinical Psychology Review
2015
Cognitive Bias Modification for
Interpretation in Major Depression
Clinical Psychological Science
2015
Distinctive and common neural
underpinnings of major depression, social
anxiety, and their comorbidity
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2014
Temporal Dynamics of Emotional Processing
in the Brain
Emotion Review
2015
The impact of anticipating positive events
on responses to stress
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2015
DeCon: A tool to detect emotional
concordance in multivariate time series
data of emotional responding
Biological Psychology
2014
The role of the medial frontal cortex in
the maintenance of emotional states
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2014
Acute exercise attenuates negative affect
following repeated sad mood inductions in
persons who have recovered from
depression.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2013
Interoceptive awareness, positive affect,
and decision making in Major Depressive
Disorder
Journal of Affective Disorders
2013
Meditation and Health: The Search for
Mechanisms of Action
Social and Personality Psychology
Compass
2013
Affective and physiological responses to
stress in girls at elevated risk for
depression
Development and Psychopathology
2012
Neural temporal dynamics of stress in
comorbid major depressive disorder and
social anxiety disorder
Biology of Mood & Anxiety
Disorders
2012
Timing: A missing key ingredient in
typical fMRI studies of emotion
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2012
Neural and behavioral effects of
interference resolution in depression and
rumination
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral
Neuroscience
2010
Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism
(rs2254298) interacts with familial risk
for psychopathology to predict symptoms of
depression and anxiety in adolescent girls
Psychoneuroendocrinology
2011
COMT genotype affects prefrontal white
matter pathways in children and
adolescents
NeuroImage
2010
Cardiovascular and affective recovery from
anticipatory threat
Biological Psychology
2010
Smile to see the forest: Facially
expressed positive emotions broaden
cognition
Cognition & Emotion
2010
The neural temporal dynamics of the
intensity of emotional experience
NeuroImage
2010
Association Between the
Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met
Polymorphism and Self-Perceived Social
Acceptance in Adolescent Girls
Journal of Child and Adolescent
Psychopharmacology
2009
COMT genotype and resting brain perfusion
in children
NeuroImage
2009
Endogenous testosterone levels are
associated with amygdala and ventromedial
prefrontal cortex responses to anger faces
in men but not women
Biological Psychology
2009
Exploring the motivational brain: effects
of implicit power motivation on brain
activation in response to facial
expressions of emotion
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2008
Motivation for reward as a function of
required effort: Dissociating the ‘liking’
from the ‘wanting’ system in humans
Motivation and Emotion
2008
The neural correlates of trait resilience
when anticipating and recovering from
threat
Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2008
Modeling state-related fMRI activity using
change-point theory
NeuroImage
2007
Education
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Psychology / 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
of America
Experience
Wake Forest University
2010 — Present
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