Philippe Verduyn

Digital wellbeing research

This section highlights Philippe Verduyn’s work on how digital life shapes emotions, coping, and social connection, with implications for wellbeing in an increasingly connected world.

Publications

In press…

  • Becker, K., Alleva, J.M., Fleuren, B., & Verduyn, P. (in press). Does every body matter? The relationship between engagement with body-positive and appearance-ideal content on Instagram and aspects of positive and negative body image. Body Image.
  • Gugushvili, N., Masciantonio, A., Nitschinsk, L., Rozgonjuk, D., Täht, K., Kross, E., Ruiter, R., & Verduyn, P. (in press). A scoping review of user characteristics moderating the relationship between use of social networking sites and mental health. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
  • Gugushvili, N., Täht, K., Ruiter, R., & Verduyn, P. (in press). Individual differences in the prediction of mental health by smartphone and Instagram use: The moderating role of extraversion and neuroticism. Behaviour & Information Technology.
  • Nitschinsk, L., Tobin, S.J., Gugushvili, N., McComb, C., & Verduyn, P. (in press). The relationship between usage of social networking sites and meaning in life: Anonymous versus identifiable contexts. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace.
  • Niu, X., Verduyn, P., Gaskin, J., Scherr, S., McDonnell, D., & Wang, J.L. (in press). The development and validation of the extended active-passive social media use scale. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace.
  • Riyanti Purboningsih, E., Massar, K., Hinduan, Z.R., Agustiani, H., Ruiter, R.A.C., & Verduyn, P. (in press). Parental mediation strategies to regulate social media use from the perspective of Indonesian parents and adolescents: A thematic analysis. Behaviour & Information Technology.

2025

  • Verduyn, P. (2025). Introduction to the policy brief collection on digitalisation. In P. Verduyn (Ed.), Studio Europa Maastricht Policy Brief Collection (pp. 3-5). Maastricht, The Netherlands: Maastricht University Press.
  • Verduyn, P. (editor) (2025). SEM Policy Brief Collection: Digitalisation: EU Digital Services Act. Maastricht University Press.

2024

  • Gugushvili, N., Taht, K., Schruff-Lim, E.M., Ruiter, R.A.C., & Verduyn, P. (2024). The association between neuroticism and problematic social networking sites use: The role of fear of missing out and self-control. Psychological Reports, 127, 1727-1750.
  • Masciantonio, A., Spanakis, J. & Verduyn, P. (2024). Examining social media usage characteristics among European citizens and its influence on civic life: A scoping review. Review of Communication Research, 12, 134-151.

2023

  • Alabak, M., Hülsheger, U., Schepers, J., Kalokerinos, E., & Verduyn, P. (2023). Going beyond deep and surface acting: A bottom-up taxonomy of strategies used in response to emotional display rules. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32, 617-631.
  • Brandtner, A., Verduyn, P., Behrens, S., Spada, M.M., & Antons, S. (2023). License to look? The role of permissive beliefs, desire thinking, and self-control in predicting the use of social networking sites. Addictive Behaviors, 139, 1-8.
  • Fleuren, B., Nübold, A., Uitdewilligen, S., Verduyn, P., & Hülsheger, U. (2023). Troubles on troubled minds: An intensive longitudinal diary study on the role of burnout in the resilience process following acute stressor exposure, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32, 373-388.
  • Riyanti Purboningsih, E., Massar, K., Hinduan, Z.R., Agustiani, H., Ruiter, R.A.C., & Verduyn, P. (2023). Perception and use of social media by Indonesian adolescents and parents: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-18.

2022

  • Gugushvili, N., Taht, K., Ruiter R.A.C., & Verduyn, P. (2022). Facebook use intensity and depressive symptoms: a moderated mediation model of problematic Facebook use, age, neuroticism, and extraversion. BMC Psychology, 1-16.
  • Verduyn, P., Gugushvili, N., & Kross, E. (2022). Do social networking sites influence well-being? The extended active-passive model. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 62-68.

2021

  • Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Sheppes, G., Costello, C., Jonides, J., & Ybarra, O. (2021). Social media and well-being: Pitfalls, progress, and next steps. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 55-66.
  • Orvell, A., Vickers, B., Drake, B., Verduyn, P., Ayduk, O., Moser, J., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2021). Does distanced self-talk facilitate emotion regulation across a range of emotionally intense experiences? Clinical Psychological Science, 9, 68-78.
  • Provenzano, J., Fossati, P., Dejonkheere, E., Verduyn, P. & Kuppens, P. (2021). Inflexibly sustained negative affect and rumination independently link default mode network efficiency to subclinical depressive symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 293, 347-354.
  • Verduyn, P. (2021). Emotion duration. In C. Waugh, & P. Kuppens (Eds.), Affective Dynamics (pp. 3-18). Cham: Springer.
  • Verduyn, P., Gugushvili, N., & Kross, E. (2021). The impact of social network sites on mental health: Distinguishing active from passive use. World Psychiatry, 20, 133-134.
  • Verduyn, P., Schulte-Strathaus, J.C.C, Kross, E., & Hülsheger, U.R. (2021). When do smartphones displace face-to-face interactions and what to do about it? Computers in Human Behavior, 14, 106550.

2020

  • Alabak, M., Hülsheger, U.R., Zijlstra, F.R.H., & Verduyn, P. (2020). More than one strategy: A closer examination of the relationship between deep acting and key employee outcomes. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 25, 32-45.
  • Gugushvili, N., Täht, K., Rozgonjuk, D., Raudlam, M., Ruiter, R., & Verduyn, P. (2020). Two dimensions of problematic smartphone use mediate the relationship between fear of missing out and emotional well-being. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 14, article 3.
  • Koval, P., Kalokerinos, E., Verduyn, P., & Greiff, S. (2020). Introduction to the special issue: Capturing the dynamics of emotion and emotion regulation in daily life with ambulatory assessment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36, 433-436.
  • Nübold, A., Kuppens, P., & Verduyn, P. (2020). A temporal perspective on emotions. In Y. Griep, & S.D. Hansen (Eds.), Handbook on the Temporal Dynamics of Organizational Behavior (pp. 221-236). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Verduyn, P., Gugushvili, N., Massar, K., Täht, K. & Kross, E. (2020). Social comparison on social networking sites. Current Opinion in Psychology, 36, 32-37.

2019

  • Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Boyer, M., Drake, B., Gainsburg, I., Vickers, B., Ybarra, O., & Jonides, J. (2019). Does counting emotion words on online social networks provide a window into people’s subjective experience of emotion? A case study on Facebook. Emotion, 19, 97-107.
  • Provenzano, J., Verduyn, P., Daniels, N., Fossati, P., & Kuppens, P. (2019). Mood congruency effects are mediated by shifts in salience and central executive network efficiency. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 987-995.

2018

  • Janssen E., Verduyn P., & Waters E. A. (2018). Don’t know responses to cognitive and affective risk perception measures: Exploring prevalence and socio-demographic moderators. British Journal of Health Psychology, 23, 407-419.
  • Kirchner, A., Boiger, M., Uchida, Y., Norasakkunkit, V., Verduyn, P., &, Mesquita, B. (2018). Humiliated fury is not universal: The co-occurrence of anger and shame in the United States and Japan. Cognition & Emotion, 6, 1317-1328.
  • O’Donnell, M., Nelson, L.D., Ackermann, E., …, Verduyn, P., …, Zrubka, M. (2018). Registered replication report: Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg – 1998. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 268-294.
  • Provenzano, J., Bastiaansen, J.A., Verduyn, P., Oldehinkel, A.J., Fossati, P., & Kuppens, P. (2018). Different aspects of the neural response to socio-emotional events are related to instability and inertia of emotional experience in daily life: An fMRI-ESM Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 1-10.
  • Résibois, M., Kalokerinos, E., Verleysen, G., Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Fossati, P. & Verduyn, P. (2018). The relation between rumination and temporal features of emotion intensity. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 259-274.
  • Résibois, M., Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Fossati, P., & Verduyn, P. (2018). Depression severity moderates the relation between self-distancing and features of emotion unfolding. Personality & Individual Differences, 123,119-124.
  • Résibois, M., Rotgé, J. Y., Delaveau, P., Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., Fossati, P., & Verduyn, P. (2018). The impact of self-distancing on emotion explosiveness and accumulation: An fMRI study. PLoS ONE, 13, e0206889, 1-19.

2017

  • Felsman, P., Verduyn, P., Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2017). Being Present: Focusing on the present predicts life satisfaction but not happiness. Emotion, 17, 1047-1051.
  • Kalokerinos, E. K., Résibois, M., Verduyn, P., & Kuppens, P. (2017). The temporal deployment of emotion regulation strategies during negative emotional episodes. Emotion, 17, 450-458.
  • Kuppens, P., & Verduyn, P. (2017). Emotion dynamics. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 22-26.
  • Résibois, M.*, Verduyn, P.*, Delaveau, P., Rotgé, J.-Y., Kuppens, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Fossati, P. (2017). The neural basis of emotions varies over time: Different regions go with onset- and offset-bound processes underlying emotion intensity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1261-1271.
  • Verduyn, P., Ybarra, O., Résibois, M., Jonides, J., & Kross, E.(2017). Les médias sociaux et le bonheur: Le cas de Facebook. Revue québécoise de psychologie, 38, 167-182.
  • Verduyn, P., Ybarra, O., Résibois, M., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2017). Do social network sites enhance or undermine subjective well-being: A critical review. Social Issues and Policy Review11, 274-302.

2016

  • Heylen, J., Van Mechelen, I., Verduyn, P., & Ceulemans, E. (2016). KSC-N: Clustering of hierarchical time profile data. Psychometrika81, 411-433.
  • Park, J., Lee, D. S., Shablack, H., Verduyn, P., Deldin, P., Ybarra, O., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2016). When perceptions defy reality: The relationships between depression and actual and perceived Facebook social support. Journal of Affective Disorders200, 37-44.
  • Verduyn, P., Résibois, M., & Massar, K. (2016). Sadness. In V. Zeigler-Hill, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Cham: Springer.

2015

  • Heylen, J., Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Ceulemans, E. (2015). Variability in anger intensity profiles: Structure and predictive basis. Cognition and Emotion29, 168-177.
  • Kuppens, P., & Verduyn, P. (2015). Looking at emotion regulation through the window of emotion dynamics. Psychological Inquiry26, 72-79.
  • Vanbrabant, K., Boddez, Y., Verduyn, P., Mestdagh, M., Hermans, D., & Raes, F. (2015). A new approach for modeling generalization gradients: A case for hierarchical models. Frontiers in Psychology6, 1-10.
  • Verduyn, P., Delaveau, P., Rotgé, J. Y., Fossati, P., & Van Mechelen, I. (2015). Determinants of emotion duration and underlying psychological and neural mechanisms. Emotion Review7, 330-335.
  • Verduyn, P., & Lavrijsen, S. (2015). Which emotions last longest and why: The role of event importance and rumination. Motivation & Emotion39, 119-127.
  • Verduyn, P., Lee, D., Park, J., Shablack, H., Orvell, A., Bayer, J., Ybarra, O., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2015). Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General144, 480-488.

2014

  • Brans, K., Van Mechelen, I., Rimé, B., & Verduyn, P. (2014). To share, or not to share? Examining the emotional consequences of social sharing in the case of anger and sadness. Emotion14, 1062-1071.
  • Brans, K., & Verduyn, P. (2014). Intensity and duration of negative emotions: Comparing the role of appraisals and regulation strategies. PLoS ONE9, e92410, 1-13.

2013

  • Brans, K., Koval, P., Verduyn, P., Lim, Y. L., & Kuppens, P. (2013). The regulation of negative and positive affect in daily life. Emotion13, 926-939.
  • Brans, K., Van Mechelen, I., Rimé, B., & Verduyn, P. (2013). The relation between social sharing and the duration of emotional experience. Cognition and Emotion27, 1023-1041.
  • Frederickx, S.*, Verduyn, P.*, Koval, P., Brans, K., Brunner, B., De Laet, I., Ogrinz, B., Pe, M. L., & Hofmans, J. (2013). The relationship between arousal and the remembered duration of positive events. Applied Cognitive Psychology27, 493-496.
  • Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Demiralp, E., Park, J., Lee, D., Lin, N., Shablack, H., Jonides, J., & Ybarra, O. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. PLoS ONE8, e69841, 1-6.
  • Pe, M. L., Raes, F., Koval, P., Brans, K., Verduyn, P., & Kuppens, P. (2013). Interference resolution moderates the impact of rumination and reappraisal on affective experiences in daily life. Cognition and Emotion27, 492-501.
  • Van Mechelen, I., Verduyn, P., & Brans, K. (2013). The duration of emotional episodes. In D. Hermans, B. Rimé, & B. Mesquita (Eds.), Changing emotions (pp. 174-180). London: Psychology Press.
  • Verduyn, P., Tuerlinckx, F., & Van Gorp, K. (2013). Measuring the duration of emotional experience: The influence of actual duration and response format. Quality & Quantity47, 2557-2567.
  • Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., Tuerlinckx, F., & Scherer, K. (2013). The relation between appraised mismatch and the duration of negative emotions: Evidence for universality. European Journal of Personality27, 481-494.

2012

  • Verduyn, P., & Brans, K. (2012). The relationship between extraversion, neuroticism and aspects of trait affect. Personality and Individual Differences52, 664-669.
  • Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Frederix, E. (2012). Determinants of the shape of emotion intensity profiles. Cognition & Emotion26, 1486-1495.
  • Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., Kross, E., Chezzi, C., & Van Bever, F. (2012). The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life. Emotion12, 1248-1263.

2011

  • Loughnan, S., Kuppens, P., Allik, J., Balázs, K., De Lemus, S., Dumont, K., Gargurevich, R., Hidegkuti, I., Leidner, B., Matos, L., Park, J., Realo, A., Shi, J., Sojo, V. E., Tong, Y., Vaes, J., Verduyn, P., Yeung, V., & Haslam, N. (2011). Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science22, 1254-1258.
  • Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2011). The relation between event processing and the duration of emotional experience. Emotion11, 20-28.

2009

  • Verduyn, P., Delvaux, E., Van Coillie, H., Tuerlinckx, F., & Van Mechelen, I. (2009). Predicting the duration of emotional experience: Two experience sampling studies. Emotion9, 83-91.
  • Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., Tuerlinckx, F., Meers, K., & Van Coillie, H. (2009). Intensity profiles of emotional experience over time. Cognition & Emotion23, 1427-1443.

2008

Arsovska, J., & Verduyn, P. (2008). Globalization, conduct norms and ‘culture conflict’: Perceptions of violence and crime in an ethnic Albanian context. British Journal of Criminology48, 226-246.