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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 16h

*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 8d

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

UCSB Campus. Meadow in the foreground with Storke Tower and mountains in the distance

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · 2d

A lab (and PI) to watch out for 🤩 Share with your trainees! This is *the* lab for affective scientists-in-training who want to do thoughtful (and awesome) work with thoughtful (and awesome) people. Simple as that.

Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 2d

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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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 9d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 4d

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

WANT TO WORK WITH ME? | Mysite

www.ashleyjthomas.com

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 4d

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

www.vislearnlab.org

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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 4d

Honored to contribute a Journal Club piece to @natrevpsychol.nature.com!

I explore Robert White's seminal "competence motivation" framework (1959) and why it remains relevant over 60 years later—from why toddlers insist on doing things themselves to designing intrinsically motivated AI. 🤖

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 4d

‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered

Journal Club by Bella Fascendini

go.nature.com/3IwYftH

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · 13d

@smesquiti.bsky.social would you know the answer to this?

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 14d

Three cheers to @raziasahi.bsky.social for a *fantastic* talk on her work with @veravine.bsky.social investigating emotion vocabulary in therapy! And keep an eye out for opportunities to join her in her new lab at Rutgers!

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Natalie Markowitz Wittlin 🏳️‍🌈 @nataliemwittlin.bsky.social · 17d

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1.
www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17d

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 17d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 17d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 21d

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 29d

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows

We encourage early career scholars to pursue a career in academia by supporting their postdoctoral work at Princeton

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together! 😄

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Contact 3 — Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab

www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wait -- last thing! emotions might be an extra weird abstract category because they are more easily embodied (in my opinion) than something like a philosophical category/rules/morals...

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Sep 2

Though, I'm not sure that the same *couldn't* be said for lots of other abstract concepts. As abstractness pertains to fluency tasks, # of valid words produced are def lower compared to concrete categories, and coding the words produced is extremely difficult given the abstract-ness of it all...

Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Sep 2

I brainstormed this question with my lab and we came to the conclusion that emotion words are a particularly difficult/abstract concept because i) affective scientists haven't come to consensus on what is/isn't an emotion word, and ii) the line between what is/isn't an emotion varies across culture

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Sep 2

Does anyone know of any studies/experiments using abstract words as cues in verbal fluency? e.g., name as many 'scientific principles' as you can in 60s? (e.g., emotions, philosophical concepts, rules, conventions, etc)

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Sep 2

There's this one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37023271/
And this other one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms - PubMed

How do you feel? To answer this question, one must first think of potential emotion words before choosing the best fit. However, we have little insight into how the ability to rapidly bring to mind em...

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · Sep 2

We did!! For the emotion fluency paper. There are at least 3 papers that I know used emotion fluency (the way we defined it, I can include below in threads). There's mine: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

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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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