Bailey Harris
@baileybh.bsky.social
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Psych PhD student @ UCLA. Studying emotion and memory. https://clewettlab.psych.ucla.edu/
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erinmorrow.bsky.social
So grateful to be one of the 500+ early-career scientists returning to their roots this month. The SNAP team behind this campaign has been such a blast to work with! @snapcoalition.bsky.social

Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
baileybh.bsky.social
Aww thank you, Kim!! ♥️
baileybh.bsky.social
No you 🥲♥️
baileybh.bsky.social
So excited to share our new preprint! We used behavior & pupillometry to examine how reinterpreting negative emotions shapes memory for emotionally charged events.

Huge thanks to my spectacular advisor, Dave, for all his help and support with my first project of grad school!

Check it out 👇
davidclewett.bsky.social
Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.

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Thanks for sharing, Berna!!! 🥰🥰🥰
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davidclewett.bsky.social
New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.

We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.

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Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory
Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...
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