Paula Niedenthal

Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social

And we tell people how much we enjoyed your visit here!

Speaking of Mafison, we need to have you down for a talk....

I grew up in NYC and, mostly, Chicago (on the South Side, not the burbs) .. but Madison is just right!

Just FYI: The population of the Madison, WI metropolitan area is approximately 683,967 as of 2023. So not terribly little! 😀

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We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8

I was incredibly honored to give the inaugural Abraham and Carmen Tesser Social Psychology Lecture at Purdue. Seeing Abraham again was such a pleasure. @spspnews.bsky.social

Our latest work on ancestral diversity and cultural evolution is out. Co-authored with Sophie Wohltjen. For a special issue of CRESP on Historical Psychology edited by Josh Jackson and @mohammadatari.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So much fun to have Maital Neta’s whole family here in Madison and at our farm. Come back soon!! ❤️

Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-3 on Wednesday that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictio...

Thank you Wisconsin Attorney General, Josh Kaul, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court!

So exciting to see the new Handbook of Social Psychology in open-access format! Enjoy our chapter on emotion and all the other amazing chapters here: the-hsp.com @affectscience.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social

Martin E. Marty, ‘most influential interpreter of religion’ in U.S., 1928-2025 UChicago theologian and historian helped shape the field—and public understanding of religion

Heard so much about Martin Marty when I was growing up. My father was also a Lutheran theologian in Hyde Park and talked about Marty often. RIP.
news.uchicago.edu/story/martin...

Māori stone carvings (from the 1970s) and a lovely Māori moko (with permission to share)

Couldn't be more thrilled for Sophie Wohltjen, my post-doc and PhD student of @ThaliaWheatley, for accepting a TT position in social psych @UTKnoxville. Great dept, close to family ... Vols, Y'all! Congrats, Sophie!

Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression People routinely use facial expressions to communicate successfully and to regulate other’s behaviour, yet modelling the form and meaning of these facial behaviours has proven surprisingly complex....

New paper alert: "Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression." From our great team modeling naturally occurring facial expressions. Stay tuned to read about the results of our model!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

So, so cool to spend time with one of my very first grad students, Jamin Halberstadt and his spouse. Remembering our 1000s of research meetings discussing really great ideas!

The Pacific Way: Lessons and inspirations from 'remote islands' I live in a nation that has elected a woman president twice, provides universal health care, where owning a gun has always been illegal

Love this! 👀

Opinion | For the new year, parsing different strains of Trump voters Paul Fanlund: UW-Madison psychology professor Paula Niedenthal has good advice for progressives talking to Trump voters: Don’t assume you know their needs.

I spoke to the Cap Times

On this day, remembering me and my youngest son asleep on a train from Paris.

Our dept's summer PREP program-an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates-is an immersive mentored research experience and prof. development for undergrads w an interest in a career in research in Psych. Send your students our way! psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site...

(Most of) my wonderful lab group. The future is bright!

I’m curious what the media means by the Midwest and the Great Lakes states getting a ton of snow. We have none and there is none in the forecast. So I take the news as ill defined? I think just focusing on the states of PA, OH, and NY is more precise.

I know the media (esp @nytimes.com) is always in Oshkosh or Reedsburg (Wisconsin) finding that crazy person who says stupid pos things about Trump … someone they represents all Wisconsinites (but doesn’t)

A 50-Mile Art Road Trip Celebrates the Culture in Agriculture In Wisconsin, the Farm/Art DTour brings artists and farmers together and each get a fresh perspective.

Nice that the Times covered the Farm/Art DTour in Southern Wisconsin

Watched the Donna Summer doc and am remembering how amazing it was to dance to Dim All the Lights .... So many memories. 😀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=If13...

Amazing December day for a long bike ride apparently wearing my bike helmet backwards…

OOPs, no got in..

Too bad there is a fire wall! Can't access it...

😂 true. But when he sleeps he does occasionally farts, so there’s that! 🐷

Rudi lay down on my feet in a group meeting that wasn’t with close others. Not gross but distracting! 🐷🐽🤣