In a paper just out in Science, we show that there is wide variation in how languages around the world understand emotions. Nonetheless, speakers around the globe understand emotions as differing in pleasantness/unpleasantness and activation/deactivation. See articles in Scientific American, Science magazine, Newsweek, Science News, Science Alert, Smithsonian magazine, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, Inverse, Agence France-Presse, the London Times, Iran Daily, and the LA Times.
Holly Shablack receives a Diversity Travel award from the Cognitive Development Society
The award will support travel to present her on-going work on children’s acquisition of emotion words at CDS 2019 in Louisville, KY.
Kristen Lindquist speaks to Scientific American
Dr. Lindquist spoke to Scientific American about why some people are good at understanding others’ emotions and other people are less socially astute. Read more here.
Kristen Lindquist quoted in the Atlantic
Dr. Lindquist discusses the psychological and neural underpinnings of hunger in an article detailing the debilitating effects of hunger on American society. Read more here.
Joseph Leshin receives an Honorable Mention for the Ernest C. Davenport Award for Outstanding Research by a Student Who Enhances Diversity
The Ernest C. Davenport Award for Outstanding Research by a Student Who Enhances Diversity is given yearly to students who enhance diversity in Psychology and Neuroscience through their scholarship and engagement.
Holly Shablack receives a dissertation completion fellowship
Congrats to Holly Shablack, who received a dissertation completion fellowship from the Graduate School to complete her dissertation on the role of emotion concepts in emotional experience, physiology and interpersonal behavior.
Ashima Varma defends her senior honors thesis
Congrats to Ashima Varma, who defended her senior honors thesis entitled “Psychophysiological responses to emotion priming.”
Cameron Doyle wins Best Poster at the Social Affective Neuroscience Society
Cameron’s work identifying multiple neural pathways for the same emotion will be presented in May at the annual meeting of SANS.
Holly Shablack receives the Tanner Award for Teaching Excellence
Holly Shablack is a recipient of the 2019 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants.
The Tanner Award for Excellence by Graduate Teaching Assistants was created in 1990 by the University to expand the purview of the Tanner Awards to recognize excellence in the teaching of undergraduates by graduate teaching assistants. These awards recognized inspirational teaching by graduates students in the teaching of undergraduate students.
Congrats to Dillon Rubalcava!
Undergraduate research assistant and McNair Scholar Dillon Rubalcava is the recipient of a J. Steven Reznick Diversity and Psychological Research Grant for Spring 2019. The award will support Dillon’s independent research on emotional awareness.