We have a new paper published in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that these ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.

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

We are very proud to announce that Dr. Erik Nook is the recipient of the Society for Research in Psychopathology’s 2025 Early Career Award! Congratulations @eriknook.bsky.social 🎉

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!

Cheering on a baseball game, @trentonthunder.com, with an amazing summer lab team!

What a year it's been for the lab - so many incredible accomplishments! A special shoutout to Angie on her graduation and all of her outstanding work. Our junior students also wrapped up strong projects and are heading into senior year, ready for discoveries.

Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan @danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at SAS 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments. @raziasahi.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social @hennavartiainen.bsky.social @smesquiti.bsky.social @milkawaniak.bsky.social Angie Challman

We’re thrilled to celebrate Erik for co-authoring the Best Paper at SAS (Nencheva et al., 2024) and Dan for winning the Diversity Award! Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social

Last but not least, we have a great lineup of fantastic presentations on the final day. Hope to see you at SAS!

On Friday, we are continuing our SAS presentations with three amazing lab members - don't miss it!

We are thrilled about SAS 2025! Mark your calendars to see our lab's latest work! Check out the schedule for Thursday - Emotion Regulation Pre-conference:

New Paper! Adults differ in their ability to generate emotion and non-emotion words, but how these develop is unclear. We found both increases with age, plateau in adolescence, and are correlated. Negative words were the most common. Emotion fluency may be a subtype of verbal fluency. osf.io/h3gtp/

So grateful for Princeton's Spring Into Science! At our outreach booth, youth raced to name emotion words in our emotion fluency task, generating a community histogram. We also introduced concepts such as valence and arousal using a circumplex model. We love community outreach!

And we are extra-super pumped for our STELLAR undergraduate thesis students who are also presenting @affectscience.bsky.social . Many of them are on the post-bacc market, so be sure to check out their truly innovative scholarship!!!

We are sp pumped for @affectscience.bsky.social!!! Learn more more about our work on emotion naming, emotion essentialism, emotion differentiation, and treatment outcomes! @raziasahi.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social @clairewhiting @hennavartiainen

New Study! Looking for participants aged 18-25 who are fluent in English and able to make in-person visits to our campus in Central New Jersey. Earn up to $120 if eligible! Email us at [email protected] to learn more.

Congratulations to our fearless leader and lab director @eriknook.bsky.social for being named an APS Rising Star @psychscience.bsky.social and receiving the Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) Award from @ADAA_Anxiety. We are in awe!

After a fantastic semester, a cupcake party with the LEmo-rs really is the icing on the cake! All the best with finals and enjoy the holidays!

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Griffiths from UCL as a Visiting Research Fellow! Her research examines the relationship between communication skills and mental health. She was recently awarded a grant to examine linguistic complexity in adolescent therapy conversations while here!