SAS 2025: Success, Success, Success! šŸŽ‰
March 22, 2025

We’re thrilled to share that Erik Nook is a co-author of the Best Paper Award at SAS (Nencheva et al., 2024)! And huge congratulations to Dan Mircea-Mirea for winning the Diversity Award 2025!

Beyond these fantastic achievements, we also had a chance to listen to our four outstanding speakers:

Amazing Poster Presentations at SAS 2025
March 22, 2025

Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at SAS 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments.

Dr. Razia Sahi, Postdoctoral Scholar - Larger Natural Emotion Vocabularies are Linked with Better Mental Health in Psychotherapeutic ConversationsHenna Vartiainen, PhD…
We are thrilled about SAS 2025!
March 11, 2025

We’ve got presenters every day! Check out the schedule (attached below) so you don’t miss any of our lab’s latest work.

Midyear Celebration!🧁
Jan. 29, 2025

Halfway through the academic year! Celebrating with the lab by baking some delicious cupcakes. 🧁 Grateful for this amazing team and all the work we’ve done so far! 

New Paper: Development of Emotion Word Organization and Accessibility
Nov. 27, 2024

Adults differ in their ability to generate non-emotion and emotion words (verbal fluency and emotion fluency, respectively), but little is known about how these skills develop. This study investigated the emergence of emotion fluency and its relationship to verbal fluency in a cross-sectional sample of individuals aged 4–25 (N = 194). Results…

Pumpkin Nightmare: A LEmo Lab Carving Evening
Oct. 31, 2024

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.

New Paper: Peer Threat Evaluations Shape Threat Perceptions and Feelings of Distress
Oct. 16, 2024

Social media is part of daily life for most Americans, but how do peer reactions on social media influence our own perceptions of the world? This study explores how seeing peers' reactions to images (i.e., the number of other people who labeled an image either as 'threatening' or 'safe for others to see') influences our own judgments and…

Sharing Science at Community Fest!
Sept. 24, 2024

Our lab and Baby Lab recently took part in an amazing 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, talk about what we do, and celebrate science in a fun and engaging way!

Welcome Back Joint Lab Party
Sept. 17, 2024

To kick off the fall semester, LEmo, ARC and CoLab joined forces for a festive back-to-school celebration! We combined our analytical talents to crack a thrilling murder mystery, all while savoring delicious food and great company. It was the perfect way to start the new academic year with collaboration and fun!

Welcome to our New Grad Student!
Sept. 6, 2024

Our lab has a new member — Steven is joining us as a first-year graduate student! Previously, he worked as a lab manager at the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, led by Dr. Emily Falk. Steven is interested in questions like: does the language people use to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs grant…