📢 New Publication Alert at JoPaCS! Many studies use variability as a proxy for flexibility across domains. Using emotion regulation as an example, we show that variability decoupled from context can be harmful volatility. Variability ≠ Flexibility. 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

When you're at a gathering of affective scientists...you just HAVE to ask their favorite emotion! We asked, and the answers at poster session 1 didn't disappoint--tons of variety (even multiple languages!). What's YOUR favorite emotion? #SAS2026

I will be sharing some exciting findings on how behavioral emotion regulation strategies are related to regulation motives and motive satisfaction at the symposium “To Strategies and Beyond!” on Friday morning. If you’re at SAS, I hope to see you there! (2/2)

I am so excited to be at the Society for Affective Science this year with the Emotional Lives Lab! (1/2)

New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

I’m so excited to take this incredible crew to Pittsburgh for #SAS2026 next week! I couldn’t be prouder of the thoughtful, innovative presentations they all put together. @affectscience.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity with a fantastic mentor!!

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

New paper on cross-race contact from my lab, forthcoming in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: “Around but not close? Mapping normative trends in cross-race contact during adulthood”. Read the postprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Are you using experience sampling/ mobile sensing or are interested in incorporating these naturalistic methods? Are you going to SPSP? Are you 0-6 years post PhD? Sign up to join the early career mentoring session at 4:30 PM on Friday 02/27! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...

Our partnership with the @inclivio.com continues as we get closer to #SAS2026. Inclivio provides EMA researchers with tools that make data collection easier and more participant friendly. Like (1 pt) and repost (3 pts) to enter a drawing for free access to Inclivio! inclivio.com

JOB ALERT 🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join our NIA-funded collaboration with Northwestern (@ekgraham22.bsky.social) studying social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive aging. Come work with us in beautiful Ithaca! Review of applications begins immediately: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31543

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026. We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts. Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)! #SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics

Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?

Explore new ideas in emotion regulation—featuring talks on social and group processes, panels on emerging science, and opportunities to connect across career stages at the Emotion Regulation Pre-conference at SAS 2026! bit.ly/3Mx0778

Come discuss new insights into emotion development at this year's Developmental Affective Science preconference at SAS!

Only ONE WEEK remains to apply for our 2025 Collaboration Awards! Don't miss this unique opportunity to work with a senior mentor at another university!🏆 🗓️ Submit your proposal by Dec. 15th 🗓️ Apply HERE: utdallas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.

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

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

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...

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/

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

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☺️

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-...

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

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/...

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

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 🧪

🤔 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...

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!)

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/

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!

✨✨ 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!

🔍📱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...

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

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."

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

‼️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...

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. 1/ tinyurl.com/2pmdwty2