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Congrats to MJ Carter, who successfully defended her senior honors thesis entitled “The Impact of Language on Cross-cultural Emotion Perception: An fMRI Study".” MJ will be a post-bacc researcher at NIH next year!
MJ Carter with mentors Kristen Lindquist and Joseph Leshin.
We are so pleased to welcome Michelle Chernikova to the lab! Michelle will start as a graduate student in Developmental Psychology in the fall!
Dr. Joshua Jackson will begin as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in July, 2023 after finishing his postdoc at Northwestern University. Dr. Jackson graduated from the lab in 2021. Read more about his work here.
Dr. Kristen Lindquist spoke to Dr. Alka Patel about how your body contributes to your emotions. Listen here.
Congrats to lab graduate, Dr. Holly Shablack, who accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Washington and Lee University! Dr. Shablack is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and will start at Washington and Lee in summer, 2022.
Dr. Shablack and Dr. Lindquist, Spring 2020
Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application. Read more here.
Kristen Lindquist spoke about changing theories of emotion in an article out in Aeon magazine that asked “What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?”
Congrats to graduate student Mallory Feldman, who successfully defended her M.A. thesis entitled Interoceptive ability moderates the effect of physiological reactivity on social judgment!
Mallory Feldman and Kristen Lindquist after Mallory defends her MA thesis
Summer intern, Oscar Lassera, presented his research at the Summer Undergraduate Pipeline (SUP) Research Symposium. Oscar was supported by the SMART program, which provides STEM research opportunities to students from underrepresented backgrounds and/or to UNC transfer students. Oscar worked with graduate student Joseph Leshin to analyze fMRI data from our NSF-Funded Advancing a Situated Neuroscience of Emotion project. He found that across both sadness and fear, amygdala activity was best predicted by dimensions of threat acuteness and ambiguity. We’ll be sharing the preprint on our Publications page!
Oscar Lassera presents his analyses on the role of appraisals on amygdala activation
Congrats to Dr. Joshua Jackson, who is leaving the lab to join the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management as a postdoctoral fellow. The CASL and the Deepest Beliefs Lab will miss you, Dr. Jackson!
Kristen Lindquist, Joshua Jackson, Nava Caluori, and Kurt Gray celebrate Josh’s graduation from UNC
