Kristen Lindquist spoke to National Geographic about how words for emotion help categorize our emotional states
Congrats to Joseph Leshin!
Joseph Leshin defended his Masters thesis entitled “Social and cultural context modulate the brain representations of emotion: An fMRI study.”
Dr. Cameron Doyle starts a position at Facebook
Dr. Doyle will begin a position as a User Experience (UX) Researcher at Facebook on June 1, 2020.
Dr. Jennifer MacCormack starts a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
Dr. MacCormack will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh on June 1, 2020. Dr. MacCormack will be supported by a NIH T32 fellowship in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine.
Dr. Holly Shablack accepts a Visiting Professorship
Dr. Shablack will start a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Oberlin College in Fall 2020!
Former PhD student Kent Lee receives NRSA postdoctoral fellowship!
Former CASL PhD student Dr. Kent Lee received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to fund his postdoctoral training at Northeastern University. Dr. Lee works under the advisement of Dr. Ajay Satpute and will be examining a novel predictive framework of the neural representation of threat perception.
Congrats Dr. Shablack!
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.