Publications

†Kross Wallace, L., Petrova, K., & Gross, J. J. (2026). “My Brain Doesn’t Speak That Language”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Alexithymia in Autistic Women. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1(3), 64–81. [paper]

Petrova, K., †Madibekov, N., Gerstenberg, T., & Gross, J. J. (2026). What You See Is What You Regret. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [paper]

Williams, A. J., Rhodes, C. A., Cleare, S., Borschmann, R., Gross, J. J., Petrova, K., Posada, L., Tench, C. R., Chapman-Nisar, A., Martin, L., Hollis, C., Townsend, E., & Slovak, P. (2026). A Socially Assistive Robot to Support Mental Wellbeing in LGBTQ+ Young People at Risk of Self-Harm: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Nature Medicine, 32(6), 2267–2276. [paper]

Behnke, M., Krzyżaniak, W., Nowak, J., Kupiński, S., Chwiłkowska, P., Jęśko Białek, S., Kłoskowski, M., Maciejewski, P., Szymański, K., Lakens, D., Petrova, K., Jamieson, J. P., & Gross, J. J. (2025). The Competitive Esports Physiological, Affective, and Video Dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 56. [paper]

Petrova, K., Gross, J. J., & Gerstenberg, T. (2025). Learning From “What Might Have Been”: A Bayesian Model of Learning From Regret. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 5845–5851. [paper]

Petter, J., Mehta, A., Petrova, K., Kindt, M., Sheppes, G., Haslbeck, J. M. B., & Gross, J. J. (2025). Emotion Regulation, Fast or Slow: A Computational Model of Strategy Choice. Emotion, 25(5), 1273–1292. [paper]

Salias, C., Gross, J. J., Petrova, K., Forbush, K. T., & Preece, D. A. (2025). Eating Disorder Symptoms and Profiles of Emotion Regulation Strategy Use. Journal of Affective Disorders, 380, 94–103. [paper]

Behnke, M., Lakens, D., Petrova, K., Chwiłkowska, P., Jęśko Białek, S., Kłoskowski, M., Krzyżaniak, W., Maciejewski, P., Kaczmarek, L. D., Szymański, K., Jamieson, J. P., & Gross, J. J. (2024). Applying a Synergistic Mindsets Intervention to an Esports Context. Royal Society Open Science, 11(6), 240691. [paper]

Johnston, T. E., Petrova, K., Mehta, A., Gross, J. J., McEvoy, P., & Preece, D. A. (2024). The Role of Emotion Beliefs in Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. Australian Psychologist, 59(4), 367–376. [paper]

Petrova, K., Nevarez, M. D., Waldinger, R. J., & Schulz, M. S. (2024). Emotional Support Across Adulthood: A 60-Year Study of Men’s Social Networks. Psychology and Aging, 39(8), 933–945. [paper]

Petrova, K., †Zielke, J. N., Mehta, A., & Gross, J. J. (2024). Occurrent Beliefs About Emotions Predict Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life. Emotion, 24(4), 992–1002. [paper]

Preece, D. A., Mehta, A., Petrova, K., Sikka, P., Pemberton, E., & Gross, J. J. (2024). Alexithymia Profiles and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. Journal of Affective Disorders, 357, 116–125. [paper]

Preece, D. A., Petrova, K., Mehta, A., Sikka, P., & Gross, J. J. (2024). Alexithymia or General Psychological Distress? Discriminant Validity of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire. Journal of Affective Disorders, 352, 140–145. [paper]

Petrova, K., & Gross, J. J. (2023). The Future of Emotion Regulation Research: Broadening Our Field of View. Affective Science, 4(4), 609–616. [paper]

Preece, D. A., Mehta, A., Petrova, K., Sikka, P., Bjureberg, J., Becerra, R., & Gross, J. J. (2023). Alexithymia and Emotion Regulation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 324, 232–238. [paper]

Preece, D. A., Mehta, A., Petrova, K., Sikka, P., Bjureberg, J., Chen, W., Becerra, R., Allan, A., Robinson, K., & Gross, J. J. (2023). The Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire-Short Form (PAQ-S): A 6-Item Measure of Alexithymia. Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, 493–501. [paper]

Preece, D. A., Petrova, K., Mehta, A., & Gross, J. J. (2023). The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (ERQ-S): A 6-Item Measure of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 340, 855–861. [paper]

Petrova, K., & Schulz, M. S. (2022). Emotional Experiences in Technology-Mediated and In-Person Interactions: An Experience-Sampling Study. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 750–757. [paper]

Petrova, K., Nevarez, M. D., Rice, J., Waldinger, R. J., Preacher, K. J., & Schulz, M. S. (2021). Coherence Between Feelings and Heart Rate: Links to Early Adversity and Responses to Stress. Affective Science, 2(1), 1–13. [paper]

Petrova, K., Nevarez, M. D., Waldinger, R. J., Preacher, K. J., & Schulz, M. S. (2021). Self-Distancing and Avoidance Mediate the Links Between Trait Mindfulness and Responses to Emotional Challenges. Mindfulness, 12(4), 947–958. [paper]

Petrova, K. (in preparation). Computational Affective Science.

Petrova, K., †Costa, A., †Dang, A., †Mallen, S., Yanowitch, N., Gerstenberg, T., & Gross, J. J. (in preparation). Counterfactual Construction in Regret.

Petrova, K., Saad, M., †Dang, A., Geng, G., Yaz, B., Gross, J. J., & Gerstenberg, T. (in preparation). Learning From Regret.

Petrova, K., & Gross, J. J. (2023). Emotion Regulation in Self and Others. In I. Roskam, J. J. Gross, & M. Mikolajczak (Eds.), Emotion Regulation and Parenting (pp. 35–54). Cambridge University Press. [chapter]

Zaki, J. (2024). Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness (pp. 213–224). Grand Central Publishing. Scientific auditor and co-author of Appendix B (“Evaluating the Evidence”).

Petrova, K. (October 2023). Mastering the Art of Emotion Regulation: Three Steps to Make You Feel Better. Psychology Today. [link]

Co-host, Stanford Psychology Podcast (5 episodes), 2021. [link]