Maya Tamir
I am interested in understanding emotion regulation as a motivated process. I explore why individuals regulate their emotions, what they want to feel, and how such motives and goals influence their subsequent feelings and behaviors. I am interested in how people think and in what they feel about their emotions that lead them to seek them out or try to avoid them. I am also interested in understanding how motivated aspects of emotion regulation shape how people try to change their emotions, how they ultimately feel, and how they behave, as a consequence. Our research explores the implications of motivated emotion regulation for emotional experiences and performance, for social functioning at the close and intergroup levels, for psychopathology and mental health, and for happiness and well-being.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Ethics and Morality
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Millgram, Y., Joormann, J., Huppert, J. D., & Tamir, M. (2015). A Matter of Choice? Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Goals in Depression. Psychological Science, 26, 1216-1228.
- Porat, R., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2016). What we want is what we get: Group-based emotional preferences and conflict resolution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 167-190.
- Tamir, M. (2016). Why do people regulate their emotions? A taxonomy of motives in emotion regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20, 199-222.
- Tamir, M. (2009). What do people want to feel and why? Pleasure and utility in emotion regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 101-105.
- Tamir, M., Chiu, C. Y., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulation. Emotion, 7, 546-554.
- Tamir, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2012). When feeling bad is expected to be good: Emotion regulation and outcome expectancies in social conflicts. Emotion, 12, 807-816.
- Tamir, M., Ford, B. Q., & Ryan, E. (2013). Nonconscious Goals Can Shape What People Want to Feel. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 292-297.
- Tamir, M., John, O. P., Srivastava, S., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 731-744.
- Tamir, M., Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Riediger, M., Torres, C., Scollon, C., Dzokoto, V., Zhou, X., Vishkin, A. (2016). Desired emotions across cultures: A value-based account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 67-82.
Other Publications:
- Mauss, I. B., & Tamir, M. (2014). Emotion goals: How their content, structure, and operation shape emotion regulation. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), The Handbook of Emotion Regulation, 2nd Ed (pp. 361-375). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Topics in Social Psychology
- Emotion
- Introduction to Personality Psychology
- Research Methods in Personality Psychology
- Research Methods in Social Psychology
- Social Cognition
- The Social Psychology of Emotion
- Phone: 972-2-5883025
Maya Tamir
Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus
91905 Jerusalem
Israel