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:

• Dr. Erik Nook, Professor - Language, Emotion Regulation, and Mental Health. The What, Why, and How of Emotion Development in Research. 
• Dr. Razia Sahi, Postdoctoral Scholar - Larger Natural Emotion Vocabularies are Linked with Better Mental Health in Psychotherapeutic Conversations
• Dan-Mircea Mirea, PhD Candidate - Emotions in the Digital Age. Semantic Similarity between Clients and Therapists Predicts Alliance and Treatment Outcomes in Large-Scale Digital Psychotherapy
• Claire Whiting, PhD Candidate - Emotion Differentiation in Parent-Child Dyads

Nencheva, M. L., Nook, E. C., Thornton, M. A., Lew-Williams, C., & Tamir, D. I. (2024). The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood. Affective Science, 5(3), 246-258.