Rate My Professor Peter Koval

Professor Peter Koval is a Professor in Psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a Masters (Research) from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelors degree. As co-director of the Functions of Emotion in Everyday Life (FEEL) Lab, Koval's research lies at the intersection of social, personality, and clinical psychology, focusing on the dynamics of emotional processes in daily life. He investigates how people experience and regulate emotions in response to everyday events, and how these processes relate to well-being and psychological functioning. Employing ecological momentary assessment methods, such as smartphone-based experience sampling, his work bridges laboratory findings with real-world emotional experiences, addressing topics like emotion regulation strategies, emotional inertia, affect dynamics in relation to depressive symptoms, and the role of emotions in contexts such as digital technology interactions, COVID-19 resilience, and encounters with art.