@affectscience.bsky.social notices are out! 🎉 If you’re going to #SAS2026, consider attending its very first Developmental Affective Science pre-conference too! @eriknook.bsky.social and I hope to see you there. 🤞🏻 Spread the word!

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

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

Delighted to share our latest article on brain mechanisms of pain, appetitive & aversive learning, led by @yilizhao.bsky.social & In-seon Lee, out now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We show that brain mechanisms of expectancy are domain general, not unique to pain! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

New preprint alert🚨 We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question: What do these numbers mean? In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them. More info ⬇️

The Stanford Psychophysiology Lab (PI: James Gross) is hiring a new lab manager! If you have a superstar student interested in emotion, please share this ad with them! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Job ad: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-... #psychjobs

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026

New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...

In what one student described as "a sublime experience," the Princeton University Art Museum opened its doors to the public on Friday for a 24-hour open house, bringing over 21,000 visitors to explore the new space.

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

By applying cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets, scientists and engineers in the Princeton Precision Health initiative are developing a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.

New job opening for a teaching professor* at Cornell! I'm on the committee so please let me know if you have any questions! (*that's not the title in the ad, but it's in the process of being changed)

how cooooooool! seems to intersect nicely with @ashenhav.bsky.social 's affective gradient framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (which I see is cited! amazing)

It has been an absolute joy to learn from and engage with the brilliant @lilweb.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social @danasmall.bsky.social. I am so proud of our collaboration on the future of #interoception and #RL. May you find as much inspiration in reading this paper as we did in writing it.

Check out Steven’s excellent review of an extremely important topic: Views from lots of perspectives are going to be crucial in how we handle this moment in history!

Apply apply apply!!

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Dan did a marvelous job integrating ideas in this paper - check it out!!

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!

#NSFGRFP, just signed, recommend to other u.s. academics (easy to do and can’t hurt, even if it doesn’t help?) #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

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...

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

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

📚 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/...

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...

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

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

Paper accepted today in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, "Establishing minimally sufficient conditions reduces the complexity of symptom presentations in DSM internalizing disorders." A quick thread, below. (link is to a PDF on the paper's OSF page) 1/15 osf.io/fxdm6

BCFG is co-hosting a conversation between & @katymilkman.bsky.social and Team Scientist Emily Falk on her new book, What We Value. 📅 Wed, Sept 10 | 4–5:30PM 📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center Co-hosted with @appc.upenn.edu, @asc.upenn.edu, and @pennmindcore.bsky.social

‼️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...

We're hiring!!! Princeton Psych has an Assistant Prof search in cog neuro (joint with @princetonneuro.bsky.social). Apply apply apply! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Issue 61, Volume 8 is out @ Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Topics Include -Multilevel Targets of Intervention -Cardiac Markers of Development -Well-Being Over Time -Maternal Depression -Early Object Play -Genetically Informed Approaches @apajournals.bsky.social 1/2

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Huge congrats to @bennydemayo04.bsky.social, Nat Gallagher, @rachelesh.bsky.social, & @olsonista.bsky.social on this monumental work!

Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.

Aug 3 I'll be at Caveat in NYC talking about research while COMEDIANS make jokes, rif, interrupt, engage the crowd, and cause havoc. Should be a great mix of learning and entertainment! Come if you're around!

Excited to share my new lab website! The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Welcome Emily! We’re so excited to have you join us!!

Exciting day — we have a new lab manager, joining us from Stanford! Emily is interested in studying how people process and communicate emotional experiences, especially in clinical settings. Let's give her a warm welcome!

read this paper!!!! so so good

yesssssss so happy for you, Emma!!!!!

Huge congrats to Razia on spearheading this excellent work! And thanks to Derrick Hull and @veravine.bsky.social for being such awesome collaborators!

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.