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:

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

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

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! 

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…

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.

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…

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!

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!

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…