Ozlem Ayduk

Biographic Data

ID139555
NAMEOzlem Ayduk
GIVEN NAMESOzlem
FAMILY NAMEAyduk
SIGNATUREAYDUK O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0003-4779-2909
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS311
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Conceal and Don’t Feel as Much? Experiential Effects of Expressive Suppression

    Open AccessJ Jones, Jessica L Jones et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    Emotion regulation research has routinely pitted the antecedent-focused strategy of cognitive reappraisal against the response-focused strategy of expressive suppression. This research has largely yielded that reappraisal is an effective strategy by which to change emotional experience, but implications of expressive suppression are not as clear. This may be due to variations in experimental methodologies, which have not consistently evaluated su…

  • Painful politics

    Tyrone J Sgambati, Conrado Eiroa‐solan et al.ARTICLEEmotion2026

    Presidential elections are a period of heightened negative affect for many Americans. Emotion regulation strategies are known to alleviate single-shot experiences of negative affect, but it is unclear how some of these strategies work in the context of recurring negative affect, like the days surrounding a presidential election. The present research examined these issues in the context of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by collecting data fro…

  • Letting Go of the Negative, Holding on to the Positive? Within-Person Trajectories of Affective Habituation to Negative and Positive Stimuli

    Open AccessElizabeth Yartsev, Oliver P John et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2025

    The differential affective habituation hypothesis argues that affective reactions decrease faster for positive than for negative information due to the greater evolutionary importance of threat over reward. However, limited evidence and low-powered studies hinder strong conclusions about this hypothesis from the extant literature, a gap the present research aimed to address. Because anxiety entails heightened threat anticipation, a second aim was…

  • Managing emotions in everyday life

    Chayce R Baldwin, Kathryn E Schertz et al.ARTICLEEmotion2025

    Emerging research indicates that people use multiple strategies to manage their emotions in everyday life. Yet, we know little about what these strategy combinations look like, how they function, or how individual differences influence these phenomena. We addressed these issues in two, 2-week daily diary studies performed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ( N = 422; data collected April and September 2020). Each evening, participants rat…

  • Developmental trajectories and socioemotional correlates of emotion recognition in vocal bursts in early childhood

    Open AccessÖzge Ugurlu, Anna Luerssen et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    Emotion recognition, one key aspect of emotion reasoning, is crucial to socioemotional development in childhood. While much developmental research has focused on facial emotion recognition, studies on the recognition of emotions conveyed through vocal bursts remain relatively scarce, despite the voice being one of the primary channels for conveying emotion. To address this gap, we investigated (a) how recognition accuracy across six well-studied …

  • Self-Reflection at Work

    Open AccessEthan Kross, Madeline Ong et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Organizational…2023

    It is difficult to fathom how an organization could be successful without its employees engaging in self-reflection. Gone would be its personnel's capacity to problem-solve, learn from past experiences, and engage in countless other introspective activities that are vital to success. Indeed, a large body of research highlights the positive value of reflection. Yet, as both common experience and a wealth of findings demonstrate, engaging in this i…

  • Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization

    Open AccessTyrone J Sgambati, Ozlem Ayduk et al.ARTICLEPolitical Psychology2023Cited by: 2References: 54

    Political polarization is increasing in the United States, threatening social harmony. As this threat grows, it is important to identify factors that engender polarization and ways to disrupt them. To this end, we examined the buffering role of intellectual humility against political polarization and the potential mediating role of political heterophily (i.e., affiliation and communication with political outgroup members). Data were collected in …

  • Short-term implications of long-term thinking

    Open AccessDylan Benkley, Emily C Willroth et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    Temporal distancing (TD) is a promising yet understudied emotion regulation strategy that involves reflecting on how one will feel much later in the future. Although limited, the available evidence suggests that TD is a beneficial way to appraise negative events. Experimental studies have demonstrated causality: Situational use of TD (e.g., when thinking about a negative event) confers short-term emotional benefits in the laboratory. In addition,…

  • Asymmetries in Mutual Understanding

    Open AccessSanaz Talaifar, Michael D Buhrmester et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2021

    All too often, people who develop exceptionally astute insights into others remain mysterious to these others. Evidence for such asymmetric understanding comes from several independent domains. Striking asymmetries occur among those who differ in status and power, such that individuals with low status and power understand more than they are understood. We show that this effect extends to people who merely perceive that they have low status: indiv…

  • When does changing emotions harm authenticity? Distinct reappraisal strategies differentially impact subjective and observer-rated authenticity

    C Leroy Anderson, Serena Chen et al.ARTICLESelf and Identity2019

    Craig L. Anderson , Serena Chen & Özlem Ayduk*Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  • When chatting about negative experiences helps—and when it hurts

    D S Lee, Ariana Orvell et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    Does talking to others about negative experiences improve the way people feel? Although some work suggests that the answer to this question is "yes," other work reveals the opposite. Here we attempt to shed light on this puzzle by examining how people can talk to others about their negative experiences constructively via computer-mediated communication, a platform that people increasingly use to provide and receive social support. Drawing from pr…

  • Self‐esteem and anxious responses to partner feedback

    Open AccessAnna Luerssen, Ozlem AydukARTICLEPersonal Relationships2019References: 8

    We hypothesized that people with lower self‐esteem (SE) may perceive feedback from romantic partners in threatening ways and display maladaptive reactions during these events. Although prior research suggests that SE is mostly unrelated to emotional reactions to partner feedback, we predicted that differences in anxious emotion exist, but emerge before the feedback is delivered, at anticipation. We evaluated these predictions through a series of …

  • Walter Mischel (1930–2018)

    Ozlem Ayduk, Rodolfo Mendoza-DentonARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2019Cited by: 1

    This article memorializes Walter Mischel (1930 -2018). Mischel was a professor at the University of Colorado (1956 -1958), Harvard University (1958 -1962), Stanford University (1962-1983), and Columbia University (1983-2018). During this time, Mischel was recognized as a transformative figure in the field: he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1982, was elected a member of the A…

  • Focusing on the future from afar

    Rachel E White, Maya M Kuehn et al.ARTICLEEmotion2018

    Prior research indicates that visual self-distancing enhances adaptive self-reflection about negative past events (Kross & Ayduk, 2011). However, whether this process is similarly useful when people reflect on anxiety-provoking future negative experiences, and if so, whether a similar set of mechanisms underlie its benefits in this context, is unknown. Here we addressed these questions using a combination of experimental and individual difference…

  • Cohort effects in children’s delay of gratification

    Stephanie M Carlson, Yuichi Shoda et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2018Cited by: 2References: 6

    In the 1960s at Stanford University's Bing Preschool, children were given the option of taking an immediate, smaller reward or receiving a delayed, larger reward by waiting until the experimenter returned. Since then, the "Marshmallow Test" has been used in numerous studies to assess delay of gratification. Yet, no prior study has compared the performance of children across the decades. Common wisdom suggests children today would wait less long, …

  • Being present

    Peter Felsman, Philippe Verduyn et al.ARTICLEEmotion2017

    Mindfulness theorists suggest that people spend most of their time focusing on the past or future rather than the present. Despite the prevalence of this assumption, no research that we are aware of has evaluated whether it is true or what the implications of focusing on the present are for subjective well-being. We addressed this issue by using experience sampling to examine how frequently people focus on the present throughout the day over the …

  • Taking the long view

    Emma Bruehlman-Senecal, Ozlem Ayduk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2016Cited by: 1References: 3

    Recent experimental work demonstrates that temporal distancing from negative experiences reduces distress. Yet two central questions remain: (a) do people differ in the habitual tendency to temporally distance from negative experiences, and if so (b) what implications does this tendency have for well-being? Seven studies explored these questions. Study 1 describes the construction and reliability of the Temporal Distancing Questionnaire, a new me…

  • Blacks’ Death Rate Due to Circulatory Diseases Is Positively Related to Whites’ Explicit Racial Bias

    Open AccessL R Snowden, Jordan B Leitner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2016Cited by: 39References: 7

    Perceptions of racial bias have been linked to poorer circulatory health among Blacks compared with Whites. However, little is known about whether Whites' actual racial bias contributes to this racial disparity in health. We compiled racial-bias data from 1,391,632 Whites and examined whether racial bias in a given county predicted Black-White disparities in circulatory-disease risk (access to health care, diagnosis of a circulatory disease; Stud…

  • Racial bias is associated with ingroup death rate for Blacks and Whites

    Open AccessL R Snowden, Jordan B Leitner et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 23References: 42

  • Rejection Sensitivity and Vulnerability to Self‐Directed Hostile Cognitions Following Rejection

    Open AccessJuliana G Breines, Ozlem AydukARTICLEJournal of Personality2015

    We examined the hypothesis that rejection increases self‐directed hostile cognitions in individuals who are high in rejection sensitivity ( RS ). In four studies employing primarily undergraduate samples ( N s = 83–121), rejection was primed subliminally or through a recall task, and self‐directed hostile cognitions were assessed using explicit or implicit measures. Negative or neutral control conditions were used in three of the studies. Measure…

  • Stepping back to move forward

    Jiyoung Park, Ozlem Ayduk et al.ARTICLEEmotion2015

    Prior research indicates that expressive writing enhances well-being by leading people to construct meaningful narratives that explain distressing life experiences. But how does expressive writing facilitate meaning-making? We addressed this issue in 2 longitudinal studies by examining whether and how expressive writing promotes self-distancing, a process that facilitates meaning-making. At baseline in both studies, participants reflected on a di…

  • This too shall pass

    Emma Bruehlman-Senecal, Ozlem AydukARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2015Cited by: 4

    Does the temporal perspective people adopt when reflecting on negative events influence how they respond emotionally to these events? If so, through what cognitive pathway(s) does it have this effect? Seven studies explored these questions. Studies 1a, 1b, and 2 tested our basic hypothesis that adopting a distant-future perspective on recent stressors (relative to a near-future or control perspective) reduces emotional distress, examining 4 poten…

  • Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism

    Ethan Kro, Ethan Kross et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2014Cited by: 12

    Does the language people use to refer to the self during introspection influence how they think, feel, and behave under social stress? If so, do these effects extend to socially anxious people who are particularly vulnerable to such stress? Seven studies explored these questions (total N = 585). Studies 1a and 1b were proof-of-principle studies. They demonstrated that using non-first-person pronouns and one's own name (rather than first-person pr…

  • Consistency Over Flattery

    Open AccessOzlem Ayduk, Anett Gyurak et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2013

    Negative social feedback is often a source of distress. However, self-verification theory provides the counterintuitive explanation that negative feedback leads to less distress when it is consistent with chronic self-views. Drawing from this work, the present study examined the impact of receiving self-verifying feedback on outcomes largely neglected in prior research: implicit responses (i.e., physiological reactivity, facial expressions) that …

  • Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing

    Open AccessEthan Kross, Ozlem AydukARTICLECurrent Directions in Psychological…2011

    Both common wisdom and findings from multiple areas of research suggest that it is helpful to understand and make meaning out of negative experiences. However, people’s attempts to do so often backfire, leading them to ruminate and feel worse. Here we attempt to shed light on these seemingly contradictory sets of findings by examining the role that self-distancing plays in facilitating adaptive self-reflection. We begin by briefly describing the …