Dr. Veilleux's research interests lie at the intersection of social and clinical psychology, with an emphasis on self-and emotion-regulation. She considers herself a clinical psychologist who is strongly informed by topics and methods in social and personality psychology. Broadly, she is interested in what drives people to engage in risk behaviors (e.g., binge eating, smoking, drinking, and self-injury), and studies these questions at multiple levels. Currently, Dr. Veilleux and the Laboratory for Emotion and Addictive Processes (LEAP; see lab link to the right) members are developing a new laboratory-based measure of distress persistence, and she is also interested in the dynamics of emotions, including individual differences in emotional sensitivity, up- and down-regulation of emotions, and how positive and negative emotional processes influence each other.
