Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📄 Also check out our 2023 paper: suppression of positive, but not negative, emotions consistently predicts lower well-being across two culturally distinct regions. Affective Science, 4(4), 684–701. 000
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📄 Check out the paper here: Yu, C.-W., Chang, J.-H., Mikels, J. A., & Haase, C. M. (2026). Emotion regulation is associated with trait-like and future well-being across 8 years. Emotion. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’m very very grateful to my collaborators, Claudia, Joe, and Jen-Ho, for their immense support! I’m also grateful to Society for Affective Science for recognizing this work with a best post award last year. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026While observational, these results suggest that the ways we habitually manage our emotions may be connected to well-being across a surprisingly long period of our lives. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🔍3. These patterns emerged across cognitive, affective, and physical well-being and largely generalized across gender, age, and social class. And there’s some suggestive evidence that the predictive power of emotion regulation might last longer than the span of our study. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026These findings extend our 2023 Affective Science paper and highlight why it is important to distinguish what kind of emotions people are suppressing. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🎭 2. Valence matters for suppression! Here’s the interesting part. Suppressing positive emotions is linked to lower well-being, both generally and years into the future. Suppressing negative emotions, however, showed no association with well-being. 110
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Three findings stood out: 🧠 1. Reappraisal is good: changing how we think about a situation was consistently associated with higher well-being, including well-being measured up to 8 years later. This is probably not surprising to many of us. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We asked whether widely studied emotion regulation strategies (i.e., cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) not only were associated with people’s stable, trait-like well-being, but could also predict their well-being years later. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We analyze longitudinal data spanning 8 years (2012–2020) from a nationally representative sample of over 4,000 participants. 100
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Emotions are fleeting. But could the way we regulate them today predict our well-being years into the future? Our new paper out in Emotion answers this question. #EmotionRegulation #WellBeing #Psychology #AffectiveScience #LongitudinalResearch #MentalHealth 111
Reposted by Felix YuWilliam J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 29/06/2026In this new paper w/ @joshcjackson.bsky.social , @nickornstein.bsky.social , @felix-chenwei.bsky.social , & Bolun Sun, we argue generative AI also distorts social learning, but because it optimizes for something different, it distorts in a different direction. 171
Reposted by Felix YuWilliam J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇 513762
Felix Yu @felix-chenwei.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Super excited to share this work! Shoutout to @williambrady.bsky.social for being such an amazing mentor and to SLAB lab for all the constructive feedback! So grateful 🥹 040
