Holly Shablack defended her dissertation, entitled “Concept accessibility and the experience of stress.”
Congrats Dr. MacCormack!
Jennifer MacCormack defended her dissertation, entitled “Minding the body: The role of interoception in linking physiology and emotion during stress.” Dr. MacCormack will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh this summer!
Congrats to Dr. Doyle!
Cameron Doyle defended her dissertation, entitled “Unsupervised classification reveals degenerate neural representations for emotion.” Dr. Doyle will begin a position at Facebook in the summer!
Our recent Science paper is covered in media outlets around the world
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.”