The DSAN Lab will be at @affectscience.bsky.social with 1 flash talk, 1 poster spotlight, and 3 posters. Come find us if you’re interested in research on adolescence, self-esteem, self-disclosure, rumination, and close friendship. Looking forward to great conversations in Pittsburgh!
So excited for the Rutgers Child Study Center to roll deep at the 2026 @affectscience.bsky.social conference later this week! Here's a guide on where to find us and when! Hope to see you there! 🤩 #SAS2026
🎉🎉 Looking forward to speaking about language and emotions at the Society for Affective Science Conference on Mar 12 - 14, 2026.
#SAS2026
@affectscience.bsky.social
Continuing strong on Friday, come check out our three lab members giving talks and posters!
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Come check out the fun Friday morning AI empathy symposium led by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026. I'll be talking about empathy choice for AI empathy work with @jdweng.bsky.social @minzlicht.bsky.social, and why recipient experiences matter for this debate
So excited to have my whole lab at @affectscience.bsky.social this year! Come see what the IDEA Lab is up to!
If you are at #CNS2026, come check out Jingyi Wang's talk in the symposium "Neural Time Machine: Temporal Organization of Experience in the Brain" (starting now!), and tomorrow PM I will be sharing some of our new work at the symposium "Emotion and the organization of temporal context in memory".
New podcast episode! 📺🎙🖖
Hosts of the @dslovepod.bsky.social, @joepraska.bsky.social and Nicole Praska, beam aboard to talk about their "Antifascist Star Trek Watch List" published on @twincitiesgeek.com.
Must-see at CNS 2026:
Poster
Sunday pm C36
Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content, Jung Woo Hur & me
Tuesday am
Tuesday am F45
Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory
Jacqueline M. Fulvio & me
New this year at @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026: All abstracts will be published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026. Functionality includes ability to append a visual abstract, like this: doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
I'll be giving a talk in the #CNS2026 Rising Star session on Saturday. Come say hi if you're around!
attending @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026? Check out these posters from @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows:
Adithya Anil, Indian Institute of Technology
"Toward Translational Mechanisms of Learned Helplessness: Linking Behavior, Computation, and Neural Modulation"
D123 Mon am
New paper out in Child Development (@srcdorg.bsky.social) with Dave Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social)! ✨ We investigated how 5- to 7-year-old children decide to take on easy versus hard tasks while pursuing a goal. doi.org/10.1093/chid...
The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!
Baykal & Chiew - Poster B32 - Sunday March 8 8-10am Adjusting cognitive performance after an error might be a key facet of adaptive cognitive control. While post-error response slowing has been reliably characterized during cognitive task performance, post-error changes in accuracy have been more variable, with both increases and decreases observed. Motivational context might be a key element in whether post-error, cognitive effort and task accuracy increase, or whether both are reduced. To address this question, we propose a study where healthy young adults will complete a modified Flanker task with adaptive noise calibration (to ensure comparable error rates across individuals) under incentive and non-incentive conditions. Concurrent with task performance, we will collect eye-tracking data to examine pupil dilation (indexing cognitive effort) and gaze allocation (indexing attention) on a trial-level basis. Predictive modeling will allow us to test the extent to which, at the trial-by-trial level, pre-error behavior and physiological measures predict post-error performance recovery across motivational contexts. We will test the hypothesis that, on a trial-by-trial basis, stronger multimodal “ramp-up” signatures (increased post-error slowing, enhanced pupil dilation, and increased on-target gaze) will predict higher rates of adaptive recovery (post-error correct response) versus disengagement (post-error incorrect response). We further anticipate that incentives will amplify multimodal ramp-up, thereby increasing post-error adaptive recovery. We will also examine the extent to which individual differences in reward sensitivity, motivation, and emotion moderate these relationships. This approach will advance understanding of post-error adjustment and help clarify the contexts under which more or less adaptive adjustment of performance occurs, with important implications in applied domains.
We are excited to head to @cogneuronews.bsky.social #CNS2026 in Vancouver soon :) 🇨🇦🌊🏔️ My lab will be presenting two posters on Sunday & Monday. Graduate student Evrim Baykal will be presenting on "Adaptive recovery under motivation" 👁️ at Poster B32 on Sunday morning:
I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and @maureenritchey.bsky.social on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here: academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...
Sorry for the delay – the PsyArXiv link works now 😅
How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?
We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!
Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!
The Emotions in Context Lab preps for SAS 2026. Looking forward to seeing Dr. Ratna Kandala present our hot-off-the-press work! @affectscience.bsky.social
lots of good points have already been made on using AI Agents for cheating (e.g. the latest Canvas-bot), it degrades learning, etc.
One additional thing I'd like to point out: if you use this stuff, you're not being clever, you're just an asshole.
to explain:
🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper 📃🚨
Out today, Melissa Malvaez, Nick Griffin, Andrea Suarez & team discovered that dopamine can enable reward predictions to shape how we pursue reward.
Surprisingly, we find that dopamine can constrain instrumental reward seeking.
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...
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This Wednesday February 25! Dr. Michael Treadway (Emory University) is presenting in
@motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness" 1/
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
@gelliottmorris.com @samwang.bsky.social @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Check out Sheen's brilliant work!!
Born out of the 2024 election season, this is a rare example of a paper that takes you from new insight about mechanisms (how we decide) to meaningful real-world applications (voter turnout & polling). 🗳️
I sing its praises here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/
Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others.
First paper as PI!
Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
