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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 13h

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

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Dr. S. Duke Han @sdukehan.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Springstein did qualitative focus groups to discover potential issues and incentives for older adults to do daily life sampling research — nice idea! @srndna.bsky.social

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 20d

Postdoc with us in Columbus! 🌰

I'm pumped to recruit a 1-2 year postdoc working on:
- mechanisms of change in treatment
- treatment personalization
- emotion reg

With a breakdown of:
50% research
30% treatment
20% mentorship/collaboration/conferences

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Post Doctoral Scholar

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact [email protected]. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

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Rebecca Cox @rebecca-cox.bsky.social · 27d

I will be recruiting at least 1 PhD student for the Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Psychopathology (SCRAP) Lab at WashU in STL this application cycle! ☀️⏰😴 Read more about our current projects here: sites.wustl.edu/scraplab/

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 27d

Really pleased with how this turned out, giving new insight into the linguistics of therapy: Found that LLMs estimate psychological distance better than dictionary-based methods used in prior work (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), also finding that therapists who *encourage* distance fare better

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 27d

The call for abstracts for the 2026 SAS Annual Conference is now open!! If you haven't already, start thinking about what you'll submit--we're so excited to see what everyone has to share this year👀

Repost & share with you colleagues--the most affect science, the merrier☺️

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 29d

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · Sep 5

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!

We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our new paper in JG:PS is out!

In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Anabel Büchner @anabelbuechner.bsky.social · Sep 4

The same pattern also shows up for personality traits 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Men suppress emotions more than women?

New preprint by @elisekalo.bsky.social and colleagues reports 11 experience sampling studies which suggest that gender differences in the suppression of emotional expression may reflect internalized stereotypes rather than behavioral reality.

#PsycSci 🧪

(PDF) Men Do Not Suppress Emotions More than Women in Everyday Life: Evidence from Large Scale Experience-Sampling Data

PDF | Expressive suppression—hiding the outward expression of emotions—has been linked to negative mental health outcomes in Western samples. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

www.researchgate.net

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Sep 3

🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone?

🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)!

Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...
(PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

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Katie Hoemann @katiehoemann.bsky.social · Aug 31

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Join – EMIC

www.emotionsincontextlab.com

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Isabella Avalos @isabellafavalos.bsky.social · Aug 31

Check out the first publication out of the Emotional Lives Lab at UCR! Congratulations Macey on your first first-authored paper 👏

Click through this thread to learn more about the benefits of combining idiographic and nomothetic approaches to studying emotions in daily life!

Macey @maceygrisso.bsky.social · Aug 27

post print can be found here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · Aug 29

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall!

Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab

Please spread the word!

Join the Lab | Ringwald Lab

ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

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ramonaschoedel.bsky.social @ramonaschoedel.bsky.social · Aug 30

🔍📱How does your ESM design-fixed vs. random beeps, proactive vs. triggered by smartphone usage-shape your data quality, quantity, and findings? Our latest paper dives into these crucial questions! If you are working with ESM or mobile sensing data, this is a must-read 😉:
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social · Aug 27

So proud of Macey for publishing her first first-authored paper 😍 🎉—also the Emotional Lives Lab‘s first publication!

Macey @maceygrisso.bsky.social · Aug 27

I am so excited to share my first first-author publication “Generalizing Across People or Capturing Unique Personal Experiences? Nomothetic to Idiographic Ways of Assessing Self-Reported Emotions in Daily Life”

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · Aug 27

New preprint alert! 🧵

In this commentary, we discuss why and how the study of affective experience and affect regulation would benefit from greater integration of diversity science--or, "the study of the interpretation and construction of human differences."

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Importance of Embedding Diversity Science Frameworks in Affective Science: https://osf.io/hrnyj

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · Aug 27

Submit your panel proposal for the #AffectScience2026 Emotion Regulation Preconference! We’re looking for discussions that spark progress in methods, theory, or big questions in the field

The 2026 SAS Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is calling for submissions in a ‘panel discussion’ format. This format is designed to feature discussions that push the emotion regulation field forward by engaging with methodological advancements and/or theoretical debates or developments. Potential topics could focus on current issues relevant to emotion regulation or society at large in technological, political, or clinical domains (e.g., emotion regulation in the online age). Successful submissions will feature a panel of 2-3 experts, along with a discussion moderator, who will discuss a current issue in affective science. The panel format will be allocated 50 minutes. Panel experts are encouraged to give short presentations (e.g., 5 minutes), with at least 30 minutes reserved for group discussion led by the moderator. Submissions must include: 1. A title 2. Moderator name and affiliation 3. Panelist names and affiliations 4. Maximum 300 word summary outlining: Description of the topic of discussion Description of the relevance of the discussion to the Emotion Regulation Pre-conference audience Key questions to be addressed during the discussion Panelists’ and moderator’s qualifications to speak on the topic We particularly encourage representative panel submissions that feature presenters at different career stages, institutions, academic perspectives, or other forms of diversity. Submissions should be sent to Katie Greenaway at katharine.greenaway@unimelb.edu.au by October 1, 2025. Applicants will be notified of an outcome by October 31, 2025.

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Vera Vine @veravine.bsky.social · Aug 15

‼️Academic job alert‼️ Our dept at Queen's University (Canada!) is looking to hire a TT assistant prof in clinical psychology... Applications due end of Sept! Re-posts very much appreciated www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

Employment Opportunities | Department of Psychology

Available Positions Position Title Position Details Posting Date Closing Date Assistant Professor - Tenure-Track Appointment in Psychology

www.queensu.ca

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Phil Deming @phildeming.bsky.social · Aug 13

Some scientists think emotions are sharply-defined types - each moment of joy is similar to the next, but different from moments of anger.

We found evidence for a different view: the lines between emotions are more blurry.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Aug 8

Shout-out to everyone starting PhD programs soon

It can be a truly amazing time for personal and educational growth

But please hold space for figuring out a new pace of life and work and give yourself grace for bumps along the way

Programs are long, you have time if you take care of yourself 1st

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Aug 7

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Accuracy and Consistency of Visual Analog Scales in Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital Studies

The ubiquity of digital technologies has increased assessments of thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via electronic devices. Surveys on smartphones or laptops often implement Visual Analogue Scales ...

online.ucpress.edu

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · Aug 6

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle!

There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally.

u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...

Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️

https://u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025/08/06/accepting-1-2-new-students-this-cycle-☝%EF%B8%8F-✌%EF%B8%8F/

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