Christian E. Waugh

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Christian E. Waugh is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian E. Waugh has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 26 papers in Clinical Psychology and 22 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christian E. Waugh's work include Mental Health Research Topics (26 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (16 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (12 papers). Christian E. Waugh is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (26 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (16 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (12 papers). Christian E. Waugh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Israel. Christian E. Waugh's co-authors include Barbara L. Fredrickson, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, Michele M. Tugade, Ian H. Gotlib, Renee J. Thompson, Stephan F. Taylor, Tor D. Wager, Lindsey Sherdell, Martin A. Lindquist and Douglas C. Noll and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, NeuroImage and Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Christian E. Waugh

65 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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.

2003 1.6k citations Barbara L. Fredrickson, Michele M. Tugade et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
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.

2003 1.5k citations Barbara L. Fredrickson, Michele M. Tugade et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian E. Waugh United States	32	3.0k	2.5k	1.8k	1.2k	1.0k	70	6.7k
David Rosenfield United States	51	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	841 0.8×	222	8.1k
Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin United States	39	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	2.8k 2.3×	1.2k 1.2×	88	8.7k
Timothy J. Strauman United States	44	2.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	140	7.8k
Wendy Berry Mendes United States	53	2.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	142	8.8k
Eshkol Rafaeli Israel	31	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	485 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	97	6.2k
Michele M. Tugade United States	13	4.8k 1.6×	3.9k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	727 0.6×	1.7k 1.7×	16	9.0k
Liisa Keltikangas‐Järvinen Finland	49	3.2k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	623 0.5×	765 0.8×	366	10.0k
Özlem Ayduk United States	43	3.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	2.0k 2.0×	80	8.3k
Emily A. Butler United States	30	2.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	505 0.4×	616 0.6×	80	4.9k
Susanne Scheibe Netherlands	31	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	926 0.8×	564 0.6×	79	5.1k

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Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2025). Feeling good about the bad: Making positive appraisals of predominantly negative stressors.. Emotion. 25(6). 1381–1399.

Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2024). Simultaneous maintenance of emotions in affective working memory. Cognition & Emotion. 38(4). 624–634.

McRae, Kateri, et al.. (2024). Committing to emotion regulation: Factors impacting the choice to implement a reappraisal after its generation.. Emotion. 25(4). 787–801.

Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2023). How do people use reappraisal? An investigation of selection frequency and affective outcomes of reappraisal tactics.. Emotion. 24(3). 676–686. 3 indexed citations

Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2022). What Parts of Reappraisal Make Us Feel Better? Dissociating the Generation of Reappraisals from Their Implementation. Affective Science. 3(3). 653–661. 1 indexed citations

Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2021). Comparing the affective and social effects of positive reappraisal and minimising reappraisal. Cognition & Emotion. 36(3). 433–451. 6 indexed citations

Waugh, Christian E., et al.. (2021). Coping With COVID-19: The Benefits of Anticipating Future Positive Events and Maintaining Optimism. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 646047–646047. 27 indexed citations

Waugh, Christian E.. (2020). The roles of positive emotion in the regulation of emotional responses to negative events.. Emotion. 20(1). 54–58. 40 indexed citations

Adler-Neal, Adrienne L., Christian E. Waugh, Eric L. Garland, et al.. (2019). The Role of Heart Rate Variability in Mindfulness-Based Pain Relief. Journal of Pain. 21(3-4). 306–323. 48 indexed citations

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Kircanski, Katharina, Christian E. Waugh, M. Catalina Camacho, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2016). Aberrant Parasympathetic Stress Responsivity in Pure and Co-Occurring Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 38(1). 5–19. 20 indexed citations

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Ceulemans, Eva, Renee J. Thompson, Christian E. Waugh, et al.. (2013). DeCon: A tool to detect emotional concordance in multivariate time series data of emotional responding. Biological Psychology. 98. 29–42. 27 indexed citations

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Mata, Jutta, Candice Hogan, Jutta Joormann, Christian E. Waugh, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2012). Acute exercise attenuates negative affect following repeated sad mood inductions in persons who have recovered from depression.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 122(1). 45–50. 49 indexed citations

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Waugh, Christian E., J. Paul Hamilton, Michael C. Chen, Jutta Joormann, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2012). Neural temporal dynamics of stress in comorbid major depressive disorder and social anxiety disorder. PubMed. 2(1). 11–11. 38 indexed citations

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Thompson, Renee J., Karen J. Parker, Joachim Hallmayer, Christian E. Waugh, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2010). Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism (rs2254298) interacts with familial risk for psychopathology to predict symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent girls. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 36(1). 144–147. 174 indexed citations

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Johnson, Kareem, Christian E. Waugh, & Barbara L. Fredrickson. (2010). Smile to see the forest: Facially expressed positive emotions broaden cognition. Cognition & Emotion. 24(2). 299–321. 140 indexed citations

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Waugh, Christian E., Karen F. Dearing, Jutta Joormann, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2009). Association Between the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met Polymorphism and Self-Perceived Social Acceptance in Adolescent Girls. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 19(4). 395–401. 11 indexed citations

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Thomason, Moriah E., Christian E. Waugh, Gary H. Glover, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2009). COMT genotype and resting brain perfusion in children. NeuroImage. 48(1). 217–222. 11 indexed citations

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Waugh, Christian E.. (2006). Adapting to life's slings and arrows: Individual difference in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 2 indexed citations

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Waugh, Christian E. & Barbara L. Fredrickson. (2006). Nice to know you: Positive emotions, self–other overlap, and complex understanding in the formation of a new relationship. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 1(2). 93–106. 379 indexed citations

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Fredrickson, Barbara L., Michele M. Tugade, Christian E. Waugh, & Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin. (2003). 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. 84(2). 365–376. 1456 indexed citations breakdown →

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