Laura Sels

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 762 citations indexed

About

Laura Sels is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Sels has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 762 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Social Psychology, 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laura Sels's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (16 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (14 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers). Laura Sels is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (16 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (14 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers). Laura Sels collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Switzerland. Laura Sels's co-authors include Peter Kuppens, Eva Ceulemans, Egon Dejonckheere, Marlies Houben, Merijn Mestdagh, Isa Rutten, Francis Tuerlinckx, Yasemin Erbaş, Dries Faems and Sophie De Winne and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Laura Sels

29 papers receiving 727 citations

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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.

Complex affect dynamics add limited information to the prediction of psychological well-being

2019 279 citations Egon Dejonckheere, Merijn Mestdagh et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Sels Belgium	12	382	267	233	142	104	33	762
Anja Strobel Germany	15	367 1.0×	274 1.0×	208 0.9×	133 0.9×	195 1.9×	60	893
Marina Fiori Switzerland	15	199 0.5×	577 2.2×	321 1.4×	68 0.5×	68 0.7×	34	915
Pascale L. Denis Canada	6	90 0.2×	314 1.2×	109 0.5×	109 0.8×	43 0.4×	16	566
Jacob J. Levy United States	13	115 0.3×	344 1.3×	251 1.1×	71 0.5×	44 0.4×	39	790
Vicki Culpin United Kingdom	9	171 0.4×	100 0.4×	90 0.4×	103 0.7×	213 2.0×	12	542
John Crump United Kingdom	13	305 0.8×	324 1.2×	421 1.8×	60 0.4×	69 0.7×	25	736
Neerja Pande India	9	100 0.3×	257 1.0×	418 1.8×	86 0.6×	25 0.2×	22	700
Chungil Chae United States	11	95 0.2×	89 0.3×	131 0.6×	51 0.4×	52 0.5×	29	622
Constance J. Jones United States	17	307 0.8×	290 1.1×	398 1.7×	88 0.6×	40 0.4×	34	926
Petri Kajonius Sweden	16	270 0.7×	337 1.3×	574 2.5×	53 0.4×	78 0.8×	64	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Sels

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Ceulemans, Eva, et al.. (2025). It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 42(6). 1315–1338.

Lafit, Ginette, et al.. (2024). Preprocessing Experience-Sampling-Method Data: A Step-by-Step Framework, Tutorial Website, R Package, and Reporting Templates. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 7(4). 2 indexed citations

Martens, David, et al.. (2024). The initial resource-performance relationship in new ventures: towards a configurational approach. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 147–161.

Sels, Laura, Stephanie Homan, Harry T. Reis, et al.. (2024). Perceived responsiveness in suicidal ideation: An experience sampling study in psychiatric patients. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 54(6). 925–933. 1 indexed citations

Sauter, Disa, et al.. (2024). The dynamics of interpersonal emotion regulation: How sharers elicit desired (but not necessarily helpful) support.. Emotion. 25(2). 287–299. 2 indexed citations

Sels, Laura, et al.. (2024). The role of emotion regulation in perinatal depression and anxiety: a systematic review. BMC Psychology. 12(1). 529–529. 4 indexed citations

Sels, Laura, et al.. (2024). The Double-Edged Sword of Social Sharing: Social Sharing Predicts Increased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is Low but Decreased Emotion Differentiation When Rumination Is High. Psychological Science. 35(10). 1079–1093. 2 indexed citations

Hilpert, Peter, Matthew J. Vowels, Merijn Mestdagh, & Laura Sels. (2023). Emotion dynamic patterns between intimate relationship partners predict their separation two years later: A machine learning approach. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0288048–e0288048. 1 indexed citations

Lafit, Ginette, Laura Sels, Janne Adolf, Tom Loeys, & Eva Ceulemans. (2022). PowerLAPIM: An application to conduct power analysis for linear and quadratic longitudinal actor–partner interdependence models in intensive longitudinal dyadic designs. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 39(10). 3085–3115. 13 indexed citations

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Sels, Laura, et al.. (2022). Intimate Relationships in Times of COVID-19: A Descriptive Study of Belgian Partners and their Perceived Well-Being. Psychologica Belgica. 62(1). 1–16. 3 indexed citations

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Hodges, Sara D., et al.. (2022). Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!. Motivation and Emotion. 47(2). 208–228. 4 indexed citations

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Galatzer‐Levy, Isaac R., Anzar Abbas, Stephanie Homan, et al.. (2021). Validation of Visual and Auditory Digital Markers of Suicidality in Acutely Suicidal Psychiatric Inpatients: Proof-of-Concept Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(6). e25199–e25199. 14 indexed citations

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Sels, Laura, Stephanie Homan, Michael Colla, et al.. (2021). SIMON: A Digital Protocol to Monitor and Predict Suicidal Ideation. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 554811–554811. 20 indexed citations

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Sels, Laura, et al.. (2021). Expressing thoughts and feelings leads to greater empathic accuracy during relationship conflict.. Journal of Family Psychology. 35(8). 1199–1205. 4 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Peter, Timothy R. Brick, Christoph Flückiger, et al.. (2020). What can be learned from couple research: Examining emotional co-regulation processes in face-to-face interactions.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 67(4). 475–487. 10 indexed citations

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Dejonckheere, Egon, Merijn Mestdagh, Marlies Houben, et al.. (2019). Complex affect dynamics add limited information to the prediction of psychological well-being. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(5). 478–491. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sels, Laura, et al.. (2019). Actual and Perceived Emotional Similarity in Couples’ Daily Lives. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11(2). 266–275. 17 indexed citations

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Sels, Laura, Eva Ceulemans, & Peter Kuppens. (2017). Partner-expected affect: How you feel now is predicted by how your partner thought you felt before.. Emotion. 17(7). 1066–1077. 10 indexed citations

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Sels, Laura, et al.. (2016). Emotional Interdependence and Well-Being in Close Relationships. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 283–283. 34 indexed citations

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Erbaş, Yasemin, Laura Sels, Eva Ceulemans, & Peter Kuppens. (2016). Feeling Me, Feeling You. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 7(3). 240–247. 47 indexed citations

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