Yurtiza Escalante received the Best New Idea Poster Award at the Society for Affective Science! This award recognizes an idea and presentation judged to be the most promising for the field of affective science by a panel of interviewers. Congrats, Yurtiza! This forthcoming work examines how having big swings in your emotions in daily life might be linked to having a brain that changes states more quickly.
The lab presents at SAS 2026
Members of The Affective Science Lab presented their newest work at the Society for Affective Science in Pittsburgh, PA March 12-14, 2026. See more in Photos!
Kristen Lindquist elected Fellow of the Social Affective Neuroscience Society
Lab Director, Dr. Kristen Lindquist, is amongst the inaugural Fellows of the Social Affective Neuroscience Society. This distinction recognizes members who have made exceptional and lasting contributions to the Society and the field of social and affective neuroscience. Read more here.
Congrats to Yuritza Escalante, MS!
Congrats to Yuritza Escalante, who officially defended her Master’s thesis entitled Affective Variability and Dynamic Brain Network Functional Connectivity Patterns During Induced Affect!
Dr. Mallory Feldman gets hooded!
Congrats to Dr. Mallory Feldman, who officially graduated from the University of North Carolina on December 14th, 2025!
Under Your Skull: Lab graduate Dr. Natalie Frye’s new Substack features our recent work!
Read about our latest work on brain development and depression in lab graduate, Dr. Natalie Frye’s, Substack.
Dr. Mallory Feldman successfully defends her dissertation!
Dr. Mallory Feldman successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Exploring neurophysiological contributions to emotion across the adult lifespan.” We are so proud of the TASL’s newly minted PhD! Dr. Feldman will start a postdoc at The Ohio State University in January! She’s pictured here with mentors Dr. Keely Muscatell and Dr. Kristen Lindquist and the newest honorary member of the lab, Rylan.
Dr. Lindquist installed as the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology
Dean David Horn, Dr. Gifford Weary, Dr. Kristen Lindquist and Provost Ravi Bellamkonda are pictured at the chair installation ceremony. The Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair was endowed by Dr. Weary to promote research and scholarship in social psychology.
The lab celebrates Dr. Lindquist's chair installation
Current trainees in The Affective Science Lab joined in Columbus to celebrate Dr. Lindquist’s installation as the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology at OSU. It was a great night!
Two postdoc opportunities at OSU
Interested in a postdoc in the lab? There are currently two postdoc opportunities available: 1) through the OSU Presidential Postdoctoral Scholars Program and through the Postdoctoral Scholar Program at the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Imaging in the Department of Psychology. Please reach out to Dr. Lindquist if you’re interest in applying!
