Logic of Emotion Lab

New paper! We found that social media reactions influence how we perceive the world. Peer responses impacted participants' distress and their labeling of images as threatening or safe, showing the powerful role of social norms in shaping our perception. researchsquare.com/article/rs-387…

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!

Annual @LogicEmotionLab outing to @TrentonThunder!!! Excited for a great summer of science with this crew

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 for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to @DanMirea4 for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

We’re thrilled to celebrate @ErikNook for co-authoring the Best Paper at @affectScience (Nencheva et al., 2024) and @DanMirea4 for winning the Diversity Award! Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @ErikNook @RaziaSahi @DanMirea4 @claire_whiting

Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at @affectScience 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments. @RaziaSahi @claire_whiting @HennaVartiainen Steven Mesquiti @milka_waniak @A_R_Challmam

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:

🧁Midyear Celebration🧁 Marking the halfway point of the academic year with the lab by baking some delicious cupcakes. Grateful for this amazing team and all the work we’ve done so far!

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @LogicEmotionLab! Please submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/res…

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. To read more, see: x.com/talvaldivia/st…

Excited to share my (first!) first-author preprint with @sastronautt @HilaryKLambert @KatieAMcLaughlin @leahsom @ErikNook : Emotion word production develops in tandem with general verbal fluency and reveals key dimensions organizing emotion concepts osf.io/urf2w

Today’s victims are nine innocent pumpkins that have landed in our hands! As the spooky season is almost at an end (at least for pumpkins), we’re ready to shift gears and dive back into the research of less frightful emotions.

Our lab and the Baby Lab recently participated in an awesome Community Fest, where we got to share our science with the local community and spark some curiosity. It was a great chance to connect with people, and celebrate science in a fun and engaging way!

Back-to-school celebration! LEmo joined forces with ARC and CoLab to crack a thrilling murder mystery, all while savoring delicious food and great company. What a great start to the Fall semester!

Our lab has a new graduate student! @StevenMesquiti is interested in how the language people use to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs grants insights into shifts in their emotions, unique life experiences, and well-being. We're excited to have him on board!

New paper! Linguistic measures of psychological distance and abstraction are strongly related during emotion regulation, specifically in reappraisal success. Results extend the Construal Level Theory and highlight the role of abstraction in regulation. doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…

I'll be reviewing PhD apps for admission for Fall 2025 (apply through Developmental)! The fun, hardworking and diverse crew in @sandlabucla is doing all kinds of fMRI and behav work on early adversity, inflammation, emotion, adolescence and emerging adulthood. Join us!