Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for
#AffectScience2024
details!
It's official! 🗓️ Save the date for
#AffectScience2023
from March 30th-April 1st 2023 in sunny Long Beach, California!! Abstract submissions will open September 19th, 2022. See our 2023 SAS Annual Conference website for regular updates:
Ten wonderful years of affective science at SAS, ten wonderful presidents. So much gratitude as we reflect on the society's growth in the past decade--and excitement looking ahead to the next decade of SAS!
#AffectScience2023
It’s official - we are going to NEW ORLEANS!!
Save the date for
#AffectScience2024
from Friday, March 1 to Sunday, March 3, 2024. Abstract submissions will open in late September. See our 2024 SAS Annual conference website for regular updates:
CONGRATULATIONS to all our
#SAS2021
Award winners!! Congratulations to
@ErikNook
& Guro Løseth each for their Best Talk Awards,
@jkmaccormack
for Best Dissertation Award,
@katiehgreenaway
for our Early Career Award, &
@aa_marsh
for our Mid-Career Award. Celebrating with you all!
For our inaugural 2022 Mentorship Award in Affective Science, please join us in congratulating Lisa Feldman Barrett (
@LFeldmanBarrett
) & James Gross of
@StanfordPsych
for their outstanding mentorship contributions in affective science!
Hooray! 🎉Join us in congratulating Dr. Maya Tamir who has been elected as our
@affectScience
2022-2023 President! Dr. Tamir is a leading expert on emotion regulation motivation & its effects on mental health, wellbeing, & relationships. Read more here 👉
🚨Important
#2021SAS
update🚨To protect from COVID-19 & due to travel restrictions, our 2021 conference will be FULLY VIRTUAL! A full program will include on-demand materials, live interactive events, & more! Stay tuned here & on our website for updates!
And finally *drumroll* we are delighted to announce that the next President-Elect of
@affectScience
, who will take the gavel at our next conference in 2024, is
@ka_lindquist
! Congratulations!
"The inherent connection between pain and emotion emphasizes the need for closer interactions between the fields of pain and emotion." This great new paper ( ), by
@gadigilam
, James Gross,
@torwager
, Frank Keefe, and
@DrSeanMackey
is SURE to inspire!
We all know negative emotions can be bad for our
#health
, right? But a new study led by Dr. Jiyoung Park
@UTAustin
suggests this isn't true across cultures. What might matter more are our beliefs & construals about negative feelings. Read more here:
And that's a wrap to our 10th anniversary at
#AffectScience2023
!! Here's a positive affect induction thread featuring our SAS 2023 Awardees and the future of SAS. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to SAS over the past decade, and we're excited to look toward the future!
For our 2022 Early Career in Affective Science Awards, please join us in congratulating Dylan Gee (
@dylanggee
) & Daryl Cameron (
@DCameron84
) for outstanding early career contributions in affective science!
Scientists working within affective computing are trying to tackle whether and how facial expressions signal feelings and behavioral intentions. Short answer: people smile for all sorts of reasons, even when they're not happy.
Believe it or not,
#2022SAS
is right around the corner! The all-virtual conference will be held March 30-April 2, 2022. Check out our new format for abstracts here, submission portal to be open soon:
Super cool new paper by
@jurafsky
and colleagues demonstrating that the evolution of linguistic biases towards gender and ethnic groups is detailed in our language:
#2018SAS
New findings in
@PNASNews
show that helping strangers (e.g., giving blood, experiencing pain for charity) can reduce the negative
#affective
qualities of
#pain
, mediated by prefrontal brain activity
Here's to 2020 being the year for
#altruism
!
Hooray! 🎉 The
#SAS2022
abstract portal is NOW OPEN! Abstracts are due 22nd November 2021. Please RT. Learn more about abstract submission formats & guidelines here:
At
#AffectScience2023
,
@LFeldmanBarrett
discusses the story of paper she published from start to finish, how to move past scientific stalemates, and why theoretical dialogue is so important for the science of emotion and beyond.
"Having healthy doubt in your own research, methods, findings, and conclusions should be a basic attitude of all scientists." -Peter Kuppens at
#2018SAS
Fascinating new work shows that individuals w/ hypertensive heart disease have poorer emotion perception than healthy controls, with evidence suggesting that this difference may be driven by disease-related interoceptive difficulties.
With much joy, we welcome our new
@affectScience
President for 2023-2024,
@profmaitalneta
, who will be leading us into the next decade of SAS history. We can't wait to see what's next for the society!
The way we design facial emotion perception tasks (from forced choice to free-labelling) greatly impacts whether we find that emotions are 'universally' recognized. New review paper from
@LFeldmanBarrett
& co!
"Feeling blue" or "seeing red"? Across 30 countries and 22 langauges, these kinds of color-emotion associations have some universal features: for e.g. black and red were seen as most emotional and brown as least emotional
We're proud to introduce our first-ever hardship fund, which will grant select students a registration waiver of up to $400 for
#AffectScience2024
. Please submit your applications by January 31st and spread the word!
Why should affective scientsts care about pain? It’s sensory + affect, clinically significant, we’re in the midst of an opiod epidemic, and as psychologists we’re in a unique position to develop pyshcological interventions for pain.
@laurenatlas
of the
@NIH
#2019SAS
Congrats to those who received an acceptance for
#2021SAS
! This year will showcase 458 abstracts from 35 different countries 🌎Looking forward to seeing you (virtually) in April!
For our 2022 Mid-Career Trajectory in Affective Science Award, please join us in congratulating Anthony Ong at
@Cornell
for outstanding mid-career contributions in affective science!
Let's kick off
#BlackHistoryMonth
by celebrating some Black affective science heroes!
I'll start with the awesome Julian Thayer
@UCIrvine
. He's done critical work understanding vagal roles in
#emotion
, 🧠-❤️ cnxns, & how anxiety hurts health
Thank YOU for making
#SAS2021
outstanding... & in a new virtual, 24hr international format no less! You can still log in to GatherTown and watch prerecorded talks + interview series until April 22nd. You can also find Thematic Flash Talks on our OSF page:
Happy Friday! Next week is
#2021SAS
& with 700+ people registered from across the globe, it promises to be one of our biggest and best meetings yet. Thank you to everyone working hard behind the scenes & to all of our speakers, hosts, and attendees. Can't wait to see you soon!
Accentuate the positive! In a 9-year-longitudinal study,
@emilyhittner
and
@ClaudiaMHaase
find that positive affect is associated with less memory decline among older adults
It is also with great pleasure that we announce our new President Elect, Maital Neta (
@profmaitalneta
), who will take on the mantle of
@affectScience
President after Maya Tamir next year. Congratulations, Dr. Neta!
The experimenter is invisible, right?
@katethorson88
of
@NYUPsych
knows differently, finding that experimenter race, career status (!), and experience deeply affects participants' physiological reactivity, even in easy, neutral control tasks, across 100s of people!!
#2019SAS
Decades of research findings suggest that doing good things for others benefits us. A recent meta-analysis supports this conclusion, with particularly strong effects of prosocial behavior on psychological aspects of well-being.
Do preverbal infants understand discrete
#facial
expressions of
#emotion
? 😆😖😒🤨
A recent
@Emotion_Review
paper by
@ashleyruba
& colleagues has sparked new discussion, which cuts to the heart of how we understand the nature of
#emotion
itself
Abstract acceptance notifications for the main
#SAS2022
meeting have now been released!! 🎉 Don't forget to secure your early bird rates before they disappear on Feb 14th at:
#SAS2022
is just around the corner & we can't wait!! We’ve got the inside scoop for you on this year’s international, virtual meeting happening March 30 – April 2, 2022. 🧵below, plus see more details on our website + this handy Program-at-a-Glance ().
Writing is a big part of academic life. But it doesn't come easily to everyone.
@jayvanbavel
and
@junegruber
offer useful advice on writing, particularly for early career scientists, but helpful regardless of career stage!
Happy new year! Announcing TWO stellar virtual preconferences for
#SAS2022
on: (1) Positive Emotions and (2) Interoception. Abstract submissions for flash talks and posters are now open, due February 6th 2022! See below 🧵for details & our website:
"You know you’re making progress when you’re wrong. When you’re right… not so sure. Don’t fall in love with your own hypotheses. Find out how it works.” - Bob Levenson
#2019SAS
Hooray! 🎉 Announcing that the
#SAS2021
full program is now available on the website to help you better plan your conference experience. We will also post a traditional PDF version, coming soon. Keep checking our conference home page for regular updates!
#AffectScience2024
will host 3 exciting pre-conferences (Positive Emotion, Facial Affect & Emotion Recognition, Emotion Regulation). Abstract submissions for Positive Emotion (flash talks/posters) or Emotion Regulation (posters) are still open until 01/18!
What’s in a smile? New research shows that smiles communicate more than positive emotions. They can specifically represent and communicate reward, affiliation, and dominance. “… smiles are distinct signals with specific social functions.”
Great new commentary by Dr. Jeanne Tsai
@Stanford
on why passion matters more in individualistic cultures. A good reminder on the many reasons ideal
#affect
matters.
Across 87 countries, during the COVID-19 pandemic, cognitive reappraisal consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions: an exciting registered report from a big collaborative
@PsySciAcc
team lead by
@kewang_tw
TOO cool! Perceiving emotions as conceptually similar impacts perceptual processing of those emotions, as shown through computer-mouse trajectories.
We wonder, might this extend to perception of physical sensations?
Great paper
@freemanjb
!
@NatureHumBehav
We know. Monday's rough, and this one's even worse, because
#2018SAS
is over. Well, we have good news: that means it's time to start getting excited for
#2019SAS
in BOSTON! We can't wait to see you in Beantown next year for more awesome affective science!
Our abstract submission portal for
#2020SAS
opens today!
Submit your abstracts for posters, flash talks, and symposia before 11/8 (portal closes at 11:59 pm in the last time zone on earth).
Shoutout to the chairs of
#AffectScience2024
!
@Sakiera_Hudson
and
@ErikNook
did such an incredible job pulling everything together. Huge thank you for making this year's annual meeting a roaring success! 👏👏
It's time!!!
#SAS2022
annual meeting registration is officially open! Curious about this year's speakers, methods events, salons, and more? Read more and register on our website.⏰ Be sure to grab your early bird price by February 14th!!
We interrupt our currently scheduled programing - featuring
#2020SAS
speakers - to bring you
#2020SAS
by the numbers:
364 submitted abstracts:
20 symposia
170 flash talks
174 posters
OVER 100 MORE SUBMISSIONS THAN LAST YEAR!
Working on topics related to language and emotion?
Submit a proposal for a manuscript to be included in a special issue of Affective Science, edited by
@ka_lindquist
.
Proposals due Mar 1, 2020.
Info can be found here:
Start getting pumped for
#2021SAS
! In the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting the speakers we have lined up for our virtual conference. Specific dates and times of synchronous content forthcoming!
Extended deadline alert!🥳SAS has extended the deadline for
#AffectScience2023
abstract submissions. The old deadline (November 22nd) has been extended to December 2, 2022. Learn more & submit on our website!
And with that, the gavel (and torch!😂) has now been passed to
@affectScience
President Maya Tamir for the 2022-2023 cycle. Deepest gratitude to this year's President
@profelainefox
for steering at the helm of our Society!
Inspired by
@emilyhittner
's amazing
#SAS2021
salon on transitioning to a career in industry,
@explauramay
has created a Linked In group for affective scientists! This will be an excellent resource for networking and learning about job opportunities. JOIN!
This month we’re counting down to the opening of the submissions portal (on 8/1). We’ll explore the ins and outs of the new journal - including why it was founded, what niche it aims to fill, what makes it different from other journals, etc.
Have questions? Ask them here!
3/31
Our Award Symposium next! Hear from last year’s Mid-Career Trajectory in Affective Science awardee Abigail Marsh
@aa_marsh
, Early Career in Affective Science awardee Katie Greenaway
@katiehgreenaway
, & Best Dissertation in Affective Science awardee Jenn MacCormack
@jkmaccormack
!
Susanne Schweizer recently spoke to
@sciam
about her team's Emotional Brain app, which you can use to track the relationship between your mood and cognitive performance!
#CitizenScience
📈🧠😀
@ebrainstudy
@suschweizer
We’re sad about next week’s canceled meeting, but excited to announce our mini-virtual
#2020SAS
next Friday (4/24), featuring:
The Presidential Symposium, Presidential Announcements, and an “Ask-an-Editor” Salon with the editors of Affective Science.
Don’t forget to submit your exciting affective science work (new idea/new results poster, flash talk, and symposium) to
#AffectScience2024
by November 15! We are not able to extend the deadline this year. We cannot wait to see all of you in New Orleans!!
What does the future hold for affective science? 🤔 The incoming editorial team at Affective Science is soliciting paper proposals for a new special issue that addresses this very question! Proposals due September 15th 2022. Learn more here:
Important news re:
#2020SAS
. The meeting has been canceled.
From our executive committee:
Dear SAS Members,
In light of recent policy developments and SAS’s commitment to public health practices, the executive committee and management of the Society has decided to...1/5
The
#AffectScience2022
Honorable Mentions for Poster Awards with New Idea - please join us in congratulating Srishti Goel from Yale University & Livia Sacchi from University of Lausanne!
This year's
#AffectScience2022
Honorable Mentions: Poster Awards with New Results - join us in celebrating Julia Davidson (
@96Davidson_J
), Corinne Sejourne (
@corinnesejourne
), & Megan Wylie from Queen’s University!
The abstract portal is NOW OPEN for
#AffectScience2024
March 1 - March 3 in NEW ORLEANS! Abstract submissions are due *Wed, November 15 2023* We look forward to your poster (new idea or new results), flash talk, and symposium submissions!