Kent Lee, PhD, defended his dissertation entitled The Emergence and Consequences of Self-Focused vs. World-Focused Experiences of Affect. Kent will join the Affective and Brain Sciences Lab directed by Ajay Satpute at Northeastern University as a post doc in January.
Do Kids Feel Stronger Emotions than Adults?
Kristen Lindquist weighs in on Gizmodo on why questions about how emotions differ between kids and adults are both deeply interesting and difficult to address, scientifically.
Paper on "Hanger" covered in multiple media outlets
See coverage of our research on the role of the body in emotion—and why hungry people get irritable—in Time, Newsweek, NPR, The Conversation, The Washington Post, Discovery and NBCnews
Cameron Doyle received the UNC Social Psychology Chet Insko Best Paper award
The award was given for her 2018 paper in JEP:G entitled “When a word is worth a thousand pictures: Language shapes perceptual memory for emotion.”
Holly Shablack named a Dean’s Graduate Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences!
Holly was recognized for her exceptional teaching, research, and mentorship
Adrienne Bonar defends her Senior Honors thesis
Congrats to Adrienne Bonar who defended her senior honors thesis entitled “Misleading sensations: How negative body signal beliefs interact with sympathetic reactivity and interoceptive ability to amplify affective stress“ with Highest Honors!
Joseph Leshin receives National Science Foundation Fellowship
Congrats to Joseph Leshin who is the recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation!
Jennifer MacCormack received a NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship
Jennifer MacCormack receives a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (NRSA) from the National Institute on Aging to study how changes to the nervous system with age impact emotions. The purpose of the Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research. Congrats, Jenn!
Kent Lee receives a dissertation completion fellowship
Congrats to Kent Lee, who received a dissertation completion fellowship from the Graduate School to pursue his dissertation research on how emotions shape perceptions!
Kristen Lindquist named Associate Editor
Kristen Lindquist is named an Associate Editor at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.