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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations on your new lab!!

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 20d

We‘re hiring! 🏫⛰️☀️

Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 20d

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver

jobs.du.edu

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 22d

Excited for the fall lineup of Motivated Cognition Meeting talks!

Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 23d

Announcing our FALL Schedule! Please like and share!
@kendraseaman.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @srndna.bsky.social

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations to Rachel and Chase for their hard work on this project!! We welcome thoughts & feedback on these findings. ⚡🎉 n/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

These results suggest primary punishments ⚡ can have similar effects as reward on cog control (at least in some contexts) but may interact with individual differences in anxiety & arousal in important and potentially variable ways. 5/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

Interestingly, punishment-related improvements in performance were lower in high-anxiety indls & those with higher arousal responses to threat. In contrast, Experiment 2 examined effects of uncertain, unavoidable punishment & showed that higher arousal predicted BETTER performance under threat. 4/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

Given prior work, we were somewhat surprised that threat of punishment increased proactive control + improved performance, for both contingent (avoidable) and noncontingent (unavoidable) threat vs. baseline and neg affect conditions. Increases in proactive cntl were greater for avoidable threat. 3/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

Punishment influences on cognitive control have been less-characterized than reward influences and may vary in the extent they enhance/impair performance. Across two experiments, we examined effects of primary punishments (electric shock ⚡) and negative affect on proactive & reactive control 2/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29d

✨New preprint!✨ Excited to share this work by grad student Rachel Brough & honours student Chase Spurbeck @uofdenver.bsky.social: "Diverging influences of punishment motivation and negative affect on cognitive control" osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations Simon!!

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Aug 13

Treatment resistant depression is incredibly cruel. This is beautiful

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jul 1

#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚‍♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...

The 2025 WomWoM research fairy award

Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congratulations!!!

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Jun 1

Congratulations to my grad student Alyssa Asmar for receiving this year’s Harry Gollob award for best student publication at DU Psychology! Congrats to all of the other award winners as well. 🤗

Two people standing with an award plaque

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · May 30

Proud of you Bailey! And looking forward to reading this 🤩

Bailey Harris @baileybh.bsky.social · May 29

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 👇

David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · May 29

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.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · May 28

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Lee et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Precise individual measures of inhibitory control - Nature Human Behaviour

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce within-participant variabil...

www.nature.com

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · May 19

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.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · May 17

Congratulations Allie!!

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Apr 29

🇨🇦❤️😮‍💨

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Peter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · Apr 24

Von's work is super cool - uses a novel task we've built, the Denver Bespoke Gambling Paradigm (DBGP) to quantify and manipulate decision difficulty on a per-person basis, giving us unique opportunities to control and study how folks respond to variations in decision difficulty!

Stop by!

The Sokol-Hessner Lab @shlab.bsky.social · Apr 24

We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠

Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!

Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!

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The Sokol-Hessner Lab @shlab.bsky.social · Apr 24

We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠

Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!

Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Apr 24

At #SANS25? 🤗 Von Monteza, advised by @p1sh.bsky.social & myself, is presenting "Temporal contexts of effort and arousal: decision speed and pupillometry illuminate the experience of choice difficulty during a novel risky decision-making paradigm" 👁️ Poster P3A6, Sat 12-3 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · Apr 22

POSTPONED to May 14: Matthias Gruber - How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation

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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · Apr 21

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