Congrats to graduating senior, Jingyi Luo, who received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Reznick Award for Diversity Enhancement in Psychological Science from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. This award encourages and honors undergraduate students who make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge concerning issues that face diverse populations. Jingyi’s thesis work examined gender differences in the role of the body in emotion and its impact on health.
Gaby Alvarez defends her Masters thesis
Congrats to Gaby Alvarez, MA, who defended her thesis entitled “Previous exposure to racial discrimination and current affective context modulate black individuals’ neural reactivity to white faces.” Gaby is pictured with committee members Keely Muscatell, Kristen Lindquist, and Keith Payne.
Dr. Jennifer MacCormack receives Society for Affective Science Dissertation Award
CASL graduate, Dr. Jennifer MacCormack, received the inaugural Dissertation Award from the Society for Affective Science. Dr. MacCormack’s 2020 dissertation examined how beliefs about the body interact with physiological reactivity during stress to shape negative affective experience. Dr. MacCormack is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.
Senior Justin Wahlers defends his honors thesis
Congrats to Justin Wahlers, who defended his thesis entitled “A Situational Analysis of Emotion Regulation: Exploring the Role of Emotion-by-Strategy Associations in Regulating Negative Affect.” Justin will begin a PhD in Psychology in the lab of Katie Garrison at the University of Alabama in the fall.
Senior Jingyi Luo defends her Honors thesis
Congrats to Jingyi Luo, who successfully defended her Senior Honors thesis entitled “Investigating the Relationship Between Gender, Interoception, and Belief".”
The CASL welcomes postdocs Jessica Flannery and Junqiang (Jacob) Dai!
We are so pleased to welcome postdocs Jessica Flannery and Jacob Dai to our team. Drs. Flannery and Dai will join our team in August, 2021. They will be working on our study of social affective processing in adolescent peer relationships and risk behavior in collaboration members of the DSN Lab.
Congrats to Adrienne Bonar and Mallory Feldman for receiving a Graduate Research Fellowship and an Honorable Mention from the NSF
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines.
Joshua Jackson accepts a postdoc at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management!
Congrats to Josh, who will begin his postdoc in summer, 2021.
The CASL welcomes new graduate student Natalie Frye!
Natalie will join us in Fall 2021 from Wake Forest, where she is currently finishing a MA. She will join us on research using a network-based approach to examine shifts in emotion dynamics between individuals and across time. Welcome, Natalie!
Kristen Lindquist quoted in National Geographic
Kristen Lindquist spoke to National Geographic about how words for emotion help categorize our emotional states