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…

Baby Lab, Young Kid Lab, and Teen Lab are very grateful for all the amazing participants contributing to our projects and the advancement of science. Your involement is invaluable to our research. To learn more about our findings, please explore the provided file!

Emotion regulation (changing what emotions we feel) is an important emotional skill. Our lab’s prior work has found that when people regulate their emotions, they spontaneously make their language more distant from themselves by reducing the use of words like “I” and present-tense verbs. Here, we found that a parallel process occurs…

The study examines how labeling facial expressions with various intensities changes across development, and how this perceptual sensitivity relates to subclinical psychopathology. A total of 184 participants (4-25 years old) viewed expressions of posed stereotypes of angry, fearful, angry, and happy morphed with neutral expressions at 10-90%…

We are very proud to announce that Razia Sahi has officially received the NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which will fund her impactful research on 'Investigating Contextual, Social, and Temporal Dimensions of Emotion Regulation.' We couldn’t be more excited for her!

Congratulations to Ali Zareian Jahromi for completing his Visiting Internship for PhD Students Program at our lab! Ali’s project on “Emotion Differentiation, Emotion Regulation, and Overall Distress in Children: The Role of Age” has been a fantastic contribution. Thank you so much for your positive energy and sharp intellect!

Exciting news! We have a new lab manager joining us from UCSD. Miłka is passionate about emotion research and is especially enthusiastic about working on emotion regulation with us. Let's give her a warm welcome! 

And just like that, our first cohort of undergraduates are graduating! We are in awe of their hard work over the past two years, culminating in truly amazing senior theses. We can't wait to see what the future has in store for these soon-to-be alums! 

So grateful for Princeton University's annual Spring Into Science event! At our outreach booth, youth raced to name emotion words in our emotion fluency task, generating a community histogram. We also introduced concepts such as valence and arousal using a circumplex model. We love community outreach!

In a new paper with Marie-France Champoux-Larsson, we examined whether emotion perception might vary when thinking about emotions in our first vs. second languages. We adapted a prior paradigm for testing the associations between emotion words and emotion facial expressions (see Nook et al., 2015) to see whether people with Swedish as their…