Publications

Kandala, R. & Hoemann, K. (2026). Modeling the semantics of emotion: A culturally grounded approach to Flemish narratives. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 11(1), 6113. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v11i1.6113 PDF

Hoemann*, K., Şencan*, R. S., Cochez, A., Beckers, C., & Mesquita, B. (2026). Cultural models of emotion manifest in descriptions of everyday experiences: A case study of the United States and Belgium. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001695 PDF Data

Bringmann, L. F., Gudmundsdottir, G. R., Schorlepp, L., Vogelsmeier, L. V. D. E., De Smet, M. M., Vrijen, C., van Roekel, E., Fritz, J., Chen, J. X., Kirtley, O., Eronen, M. I., Chung, J. M., Stadel, M., & Hoemann, K. (2026). Experience sampling methods require more than numbers. Communications Psychology, 4, 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00416-9 PDF

Lee, Y., Hoemann, K., & Mesquita, B. (2026). Context matters: Emotional fit of immigrant-origin adolescents and its implications for their well-being. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 110, 102319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102319 PDF

Hoemann, K., Lee, Y., Dussault, È., Devylder, S., Ungar, L. H., Geeraerts, D., & Mesquita, B. (2025). The construction of emotional meaning in language. Communications Psychology, 3, 99 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00255-0 PDF

Entwistle, C., Hoemann, K., Nightingale, S. J., & Boyd, R. L. (2025). Psychosocial dynamics of suicidality and deliberate self-harm: A digital linguistic perspective. npj Mental Health Research, 4, 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-025-00142-w PDF

Barrett, L. F., Atzil, S., Bliss-Moreau, E., Chanes, L., Gendron, M., Hoemann, K., Katsumi, Y., Kleckner, I. R., Lindquist, K. A., Quigley, K. S., Satpute, A. B., Sennesh, E., Shaffer, C., Theriault, J. E., Tugade, M., & Westlin, C. (2025). The theory of constructed emotion: More than a feeling. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20(3), 392-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916251319045 PDF

Stadel, M., Langener, A. M., Hoemann, K., & Bringmann, L. F. (2025). Assessing daily life activities with experience sampling methodology (ESM): Scoring predefined categories or qualitative analysis of open-ended responses? Methods in Psychology, 12, 100177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2025.100177 PDF Data

Şencan, R. S., Mesquita*, B., & Hoemann*, K. (2025). Cultural fit in emotion versus language: A study of Dutch-speaking Belgians and Turkish migrants in Belgium. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1488779. PDF

Fugate, J. M. B., Gendron, M., & Hoemann, K. (2024). Links between emotion word usage, understanding, accuracy, and emotional dysregulation: An integrative analysis. Affective Science. https://https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00284-8 PDF

Hoemann, K., Warfel, E., Mills, C., Allen, L., Kuppens, P., & Wormwood, J. B. (2024). Using freely generated labels rather than rating scales to assess emotion in everyday life. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241283623 PDF Data

Hoemann, K. (2024). What’s in an emotion word? The multiple roles of labeling in emotional functioning and well-being. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 80, 33-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2024.03.001 PDF

Lee, Y., Jasini, A., Hoemann, K., & Mesquita, B. (2024). The composition of friendship networks predicts emotional fit among Turkish Belgian adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000662 PDF
Lo, T. T., van Lissa, C. J., Verhagen, M., Hoemann, K., Erbas, Y., & Maciejewski, D. (2024). A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001344 PDF Data
Entwistle, C., Horn, A. B., Meier, T., Hoemann, K., Miano, A., & Boyd, R. L. (2023). Natural emotion vocabularies and borderline personality disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 14, 100647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100647 PDF Data
Hoemann, K., Wormwood, J. B., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2023). Multimodal, idiographic ambulatory sensing will transform our understanding of emotion. Affective Science, 4(3), 480-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00206-0 PDF
Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Endeko, E. S., Dussault, È., Barrett, L. F., & Mesquita, B. (2023). What we can learn about emotion by talking with the Hadza. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231178555 PDF
Ogren, M., Barrett, L. F., Hoemann, K., & LoBue, V. (2023). Heightened fearfulness in infants is not adaptive. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e73. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2200187X PDF
Hoemann, K. (2023). Beyond linguistic relativity, emotion concepts illustrate how meaning is contextually and individually variable. Topics in Cognitive Science, 15(4), 668-675. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12659 PDF
Hoemann, K., Lee, Y., Kuppens, P., Gendron, M., & Boyd, R. L. (2023). Emotional granularity is associated with daily experiential diversity. Affective Science, 4(2), 291-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00185-2 PDF Data
Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). Assessing the power of words to facilitate emotion category learning. Affective Science, 3(1), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00084-4 PDF Data
Hoemann, K., Nielson, C., Yuen, A., Gurera, J. W., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience. Psychological Bulletin, 147(11), 1159-1183. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000327 PDF Data
Le Mau*, T., Hoemann*, K., Lyons, S., Fugate, J. M. B., Brown, E. N., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs. Nature Communications, 12(1), 5037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25352-6 PDF Data
Hoemann, K., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2021). Emotional granularity increases with intensive ambulatory assessment: Methodological and individual factors influence how much. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 714125. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704125 PDF Data
Hoemann*, K., Khan*, Z., Kamona, N., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. (2021). Investigating the relationship between emotional granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in daily life. Psychophysiology, 58(6), e13818. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13818 PDF Data
Hoemann, K., Hartley, L., Watanabe, A., Solana Leon, E., Katsumi, Y., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S., (2021). The N400 indexes acquisition of novel emotion concepts via conceptual combination. Psychophysiology, 58(2), e13727. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13727 PDF
Hoemann, K., Vicaria, I. M., Gendron, M., & Stanley, J. T. (2021). Introducing a face sort paradigm to evaluate age differences in emotion perception. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76(7), 1272-1281. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa038 PDF Data
Azari, B., Westlin, C., Satpute, A. B., Hutchinson, J. B., Kragel, P. A., Hoemann, K., Khan, Z., Wormwood, J. B., Quigley, K. S., Erdogmus, D., Dy, J., Brooks, D. H., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Finding what you are looking for: Comparing supervised and unsupervised approaches to emotion categorization. Scientific Reports, 10, 20284. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77117-8 PDF
Hoemann*, K., Khan*, Z., Feldman, M. J., Nielson, C., Devlin, M., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2020). Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience. Scientific Reports, 10, 12459. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69180-y PDF Data
Gendron, M., Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Ruark, G. A., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Emotion perception in Hadza hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports, 10, 3867. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60257-2 PDF
Hoemann, K., Devlin, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). Emotions are abstract, conceptual categories that are learned by a predicting brain. Emotion Review, 12(4), 253-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919897296 PDF
Hoemann*, K., Wu*, R., LoBue*, V., Oakes*, L. M., Xu*, F. & Barrett*, L. F. (2020). Developing an understanding of emotion categories: Lessons from objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.10.010 PDF
Betz, N., Hoemann, K., & Barrett, L.F. (2019). Words are a context for mental inference. Emotion, 19(8), 1463-1477. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000510 PDF
Hoemann, K., Crittenden, A. N., Msafiri, S., Liu, Q., Li, C., Roberson, D., Ruark, G. A., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2019). Context facilitates performance on a classic cross-cultural emotion perception task. Emotion, 19(7), 1292-1313. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000501 PDF
Hoemann, K., Xu, F., & Barrett, L. F. (2019). Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis. Developmental Psychology, 55(9), 1830-1849. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000686 PDF
Hoemann, K. & Barrett, L. F. (2019). Concepts dissolve artificial boundaries in the study of emotion and cognition, uniting body, brain, and mind. Cognition and Emotion, 33(1), 67-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1535428 PDF
Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2017). Mixed emotions in the predictive brain. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 15, 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.05.013 PDF
Jończyk, R., Boutonnet, B., Musiał, K., Hoemann, K., & Thierry, G. (2016). The bilingual brain turns a blind eye to negative statements in the second language. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(3), 527-540. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-016-0411-x PDF