News
The lab shared our work with people from all over NC at the UNC Science Expo!
Lab alumna, Dr. Jennifer MacCormack, will give an award address at the Society for Affective Science annual convention detailing her dissertation research. Dr. MacCormack received the SAS Best Dissertation Award in 2021. Dr. MacCormack will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia this summer. Check out her lab website here.
Congrats to MJ Carter, who successfully defended her senior honors thesis entitled “The Impact of Language on Cross-cultural Emotion Perception: An fMRI Study".” MJ will be a post-bacc researcher at NIH next year!
MJ Carter with mentors Kristen Lindquist and Joseph Leshin.
We are so pleased to welcome Michelle Chernikova to the lab! Michelle will start as a graduate student in Developmental Psychology in the fall!
Dr. Joshua Jackson will begin as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in July, 2023 after finishing his postdoc at Northwestern University. Dr. Jackson graduated from the lab in 2021. Read more about his work here.
Dr. Kristen Lindquist spoke to Dr. Alka Patel about how your body contributes to your emotions. Listen here.
Congrats to lab graduate, Dr. Holly Shablack, who accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Washington and Lee University! Dr. Shablack is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and will start at Washington and Lee in summer, 2022.
Dr. Shablack and Dr. Lindquist, Spring 2020
Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application. Read more here.
Kristen Lindquist spoke about changing theories of emotion in an article out in Aeon magazine that asked “What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?”
Congrats to graduate student Mallory Feldman, who successfully defended her M.A. thesis entitled Interoceptive ability moderates the effect of physiological reactivity on social judgment!
Mallory Feldman and Kristen Lindquist after Mallory defends her MA thesis
