ProfessorCarolyn MacCann
ARC Future Fellow
Faculty of Science
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Identifying the goals and strategies people use to make others feel worse
Summary of opportunity:
This project aims to identify the goals and strategies people use to make others feel worse, the situation factors affecting goal formation, and the relative impact of different strategies. The project will develop a novel theoretical framework by applying emotion regulation theory a new area (worsening others' emotions). Research methods could include intensive longitudinal designs such as experience sampling, experimental studies and a cross-cultural comparisons.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- PROJECTRedefining Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Traits: Protective Factors and New Scale Development1 Jan 2026Project leaders:
- Gray E,
- Boag S
Collaborators:- MacCann C,
- Sweller N
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAbility Emotional Intelligence and Working Memory Updating
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAuthenticity and the Non-Defensive, Growth-Oriented Processing of Death Awareness
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCommon Hope: A New Integrated Hope Conceptualisation Informed by Interdisciplinary and Historical Perspectives with Initial Scale Validation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEmotion Regulation Flexibility across academic contexts and time
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExtrinsic Emotion Regulation at Work
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFaking on Self- and Informant-reports of the Dark Triad of Personality
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIndividual Differences in Deception: Propensity Performance Facial Expression and Strategy
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInterpersonal Emotion Regulation and Relationship Wellbeing in Romantic Couples
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInterpersonal Emotion Regulation at Home at Work and Across Contexts
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONJudging Whether We Help: Affect Trajectories Causal Inference and Perceived Efficacy in Emotional Support
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMaking Others Feel Worse – A Study of Negative Extrinsic Emotion Regulation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPsychological Safety and Emotion Regulation in Healthcare Teams
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRedefining Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Traits: Protective Factors and New Scale Development
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSocial Situations That Lead to Making Others Feel Worse
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Emotion Regulation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUnpacking Emotional Self-Awareness: Computational, Contextual, and Experimental Approaches to Affective Metacognition
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWhen you say nothing at all: Empirical investigations into the reasons for, and consequences of, interpersonal ostracism
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWhere do girls who aspired to mathematical careers in secondary school end up 20 years later? A longitudinal examination of women's and men's motivations, choices and pathways from adolescence to adulthood.
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONYou, Me, and Us. An examination of self- and informant-reported extrinsic emotion regulation processes in romantic couples