Erik Nook 🏳️🌈
@ErikNook
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Psych Professor @Princeton . Director of the @logicemotionlab . Studying how language and emotion interact in the brain, clinic, and over development. He/they
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I have found my dream, my love, my life, my joy, and I could not be happier.
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After 8 years of training, I’m officially a licensed clinical psychologist!!
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I am overjoyed to announce that I have accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Psych dept at
@Princeton
starting July 2022 after a year as a postdoc w
@dylanggee
at
@Yale
. This is a literal dream come true - come work with me!
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So so excited about my first day as a Professor at
@Princeton
and overjoyed to welcome
@talvaldivia
as the inaugural Logic of Emotion lab manager!!! Can’t wait to welcome the rest of the team in the Fall - keep an eye out for the website announcement soon!!
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Moved to Princeton, bought a house, brought the cat, went to IHOP.
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From rural Iowa to
@Harvard
PhD to
@Princeton
Faculty, I am overcome with gratitude for this path and all who have helped me on the way. My love to my parents, my advisors, and my friends. Now to walk into the future, building a lab, a society, a world that does good for all.
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🎉Upcoming Job + PhD Opportunities!🎉
As application cycles begin, please keep in mind (and help spread the word) that I plan to recruit a lab manager, postdoc, and PhD student to lead awesome affective and translational research at
@PsychPrinceton
starting Summer/Fall 2022!
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Very excited to share a new paper in
@PNASNews
with
@leahsom
,
@mk_nock
, &
@derrickhull
. This was my 3rd dissertation paper, and it feels *great* to share it with the world! Key result: language tracks both symptom severity and treatment outcomes in therapy
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Today I passed my PhD Defense! Officially
#PhDone
! I'm so grateful to all the incredible people who supported me along the way. Thank you for making this such an amazing journey. Most especially,
@leahsom
, my phenomenal advisor. Gonna miss
@ANDL_Harvard
so much!!!
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SO EXCITED to learn I matched at
@WeillCornell
for my clinical psych internship next year!!!! I *can't wait* to be with the brilliant folks there sharpening my clinical and research skills. Brace yourself, NYC - I'm comin back for ya 😎🧠🍕🗽
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I am excited to announce the new Logic of Emotion Lab team, website, and Twitter (
@LogicEmotionLab
)!! It's truly a dream come true to have the chance to work folks like
@talvaldivia
,
@HennaVartiainen
,
@claire_whiting
, &
@RaziaSahi
. Read below for more!
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See here for a 12-week reading group syllabus on Anti-Black Racism, Racial Disparities, and Allyship that we assembled at
@ANDL_Harvard
. We wanted to share it in case it is helpful to others.
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Y'all, my advisor
@leahsom
has received the highest teaching award Harvard offers: a Harvard College Professorship! It's a 5-year appointment awarded to only 5 faculty each year across all of FAS for exceptional contributions to ugrad teaching, mentorship, & culture. CONGRATS! 🎉
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I'm still developing as an academic advisor, but a few techniques I've observed that help when giving writing feedback: (i) labeled praise. Tell the advisee when you see something you like and *why* you like it. We learn A LOT from these moments & they make critique easier to
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🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨 We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1!
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🎉Lab manager application is live!🎉 Come help found a new lab
@PsychPrinceton
investigating emotion using linguistic, developmental, neuroscientific, and translational tools w opportunities to lead studies! Priority deadline March 15. RTs appreciated 😊
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In case anyone is feeling down about rejections, I wanted to share that I applied to 14 jobs and got 13 rejections + 1 interview/offer (7% hit rate, but that 1 hit is my literal dream job). It's easy to think that a rejection = failure, but things can def work out. You got this❤️
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Honored to share two recent updates: The
@BBRFoundation
has granted a Young Investigator Award to support studies on how emotion naming impacts emotion regulation, and a recent paper from my postdoc with
@dylanggee
has won the Editor's Choice award from
@APA
's journal Emotion! 🎉
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🎉Postdoc search for my new lab at
@PsychPrinceton
is now live!🎉 Come advance scientific understanding of emotions! Apply by Feb 1st for priority consideration, but please just reach out if you'd like to apply and need more time. RTs appreciated!
🎉Upcoming Job + PhD Opportunities!🎉
As application cycles begin, please keep in mind (and help spread the word) that I plan to recruit a lab manager, postdoc, and PhD student to lead awesome affective and translational research at
@PsychPrinceton
starting Summer/Fall 2022!
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Just submitted my first grant for my new lab! A small foundation grant, but feels good to be dreaming of fun ideas we can be working on in the coming years... Fingers crossed!
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Today my undergrad thesis w
@AjayBSatpute
& Kevin Ochsner (
@ColumbiaSCANLab
) was accepted at
@affectScience
*ten full years* after we ran the studies. Sometimes science is slow, ideas have to be refined, and projects have to be juggled. Don't give up - persistence pays off!!!
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My first solo-author paper is now published! In it, I summarize what we do/don't know about youth emotion differentiation (the ability to specifically identify emotions). V relevant for clin, dev, and affective researchers. See Box 1 & thread for summary!
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My undergrad thesis was published in
@affectScience
today!
@AjayBSatpute
, Kevin Ochsner
@ColumbiaSCANLab
, and I found that naming emotions actually makes it HARDER to regulate them. We replicated this curious finding in order to believe it. Thread below.
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Overflowing with gratitude for my postfdoc year with
@dylanggee
and all the incredible folks in the
@Yale
CANDLab. Such a brilliant and kind crew doing unbelievable work. I’ve learned so much and will cherish my time here. Thank you for everything!!
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I've told several folks this week "if this feels hard, that's because it *is* hard." Doing science is extremely cognitively & emotionally difficult even in the *best* of times. So feelings of difficulty or struggle (esp now) are natural, not signs of weakness or inadequacy.
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I am so so so impressed by these PhD applicants. Y’all are stunninggggg. Narrowing it down is going to be so hard… Q for senior folks: Is it a bad idea to take on a dozen brilliant students my first year????
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So pleased to see in my mailbox my first ever chapter printed in a book alongside several
@affectScience
heroes of mine!
@leahsom
,
@profmaitalneta
,
@IngridHaas
,
@ColumbiaSCANLab
,
@profelainefox
,
@BarchDbarch
,
@DPagliaccio
,
@knutson_brain
,
@torwager
, James Gross et al!
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There’s nothing quite like being stared at and called a pedophile while holding hands w your boyfriend on the NYC subway to remind you why we need
#pride
marches for queer liberation. Here’s to kinder tomorrows full of the knowledge that
#LoveIsLove
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The Nooks visit
@LogicEmotionLab
at
@PsychPrinceton
!! So much fun showing them around the office :)
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Here's a petition regarding the
#StudentBan
. Please sign and distribute. I wish the reasons for reversing the ban were more "human" and less "economic," but at least it's pushing the conversation.
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So excited for the start of this new chapter!!
First LEmoLab lunch and group photo!! So good to have the group together 😁
@talvaldivia
@ErikNook
@HennaVartiainen
@claire_whiting
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Thrilled to have the one and only
@Sakiera_Hudson
visiting us to talk about her fabulous work!!
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Excited to share a new paper with
@dylanggee
at
@yale
and Eli Lebowitz + Wendy Silverman at
@YaleCSC
. Linguistic markers associated with emotion and emotion regulation dynamically spread between children and parents when trying to solve challenging puzzles
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Pleased to share a new review paper in Affective Science on the Promise of Affective Language for Identifying and Intervening on Psychopathology. Was fun to review this lit for the upcoming Future of Affective Science special issue.
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New preprint showing that emotion differentiation buffers adolescents from anxiety/depression when stressed (in a joint EMA+monthly intensive longitudinal study)! Fun working with inimitable
@flourneuro
,
@arodman123
, Patrick Mair, & Kate McLaughlin.
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Excited to share a new paper arguing that 'narcissism' can be (i) understood as dysregulations in a natural self-esteem system, (ii) described using cognitive-behavioral concepts, and (iii) treated using CBT skills. Early (but I think exciting) ideas!
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New preprint with
@HayoungAhn
,
@JSchleiderPhD
, and
@leahsom
! We find that language becomes both more psychologically distanced and more *abstract* when regulating emotions. Results nicely align with Construal Level Theory and extend lang-emotion relations!
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New preprint and first solo author paper!
I review what we do and do not know about emotion differentiation (a key emotional skill) in youth. Lots of ideas & future directions for any researchers studying differentiation. Email feedback or relevant pubs!
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A quick reminder that you will find a way through. You always have.
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New paper from our team used an emotion vocabulary assessment to capture how ~200 people aged 4-25 define 27 emotion words! Emotion words were comprehended by age 11, but definition of emotions as *abstract* states continued to develop through adolescence
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Had such a wonderful time giving my first ever colloquium at
@UChicago
!! Huge thanks to
@YuanChangLeong
for being a spectacular host!
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Woot woot! Dissertation defense is officially scheduled for 5/13 at 3pm! It's open to the public, so if you'd like to learn about how we can use language to best regulate our emotions, send me a DM and I'll pass along the link :)
#COVID18ThesisDefense
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The fact that visa holders are no longer facing deportation is a really fantastic outcome, but 2 important things. 1) The possibility of coming/staying in the US should never have been a matter of debate and 2) merely threatening to upend one's future plans is extremely damaging.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE my graduation gift from
@leahsom
’s
@ANDL_Harvard
(made by
@laurenatlas
’s
@brainedglass
). It’s so gorgeous - thank you! I will treasure it and think of you all ❤️ 🌈 🧠
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Being queer has taught me to be genuine and brave. Being queer has given me the strength to fight for equality and the humility to upend the many privileges I hold. This
#LGBTQSTEMDay
, I am grateful for those who have bent the world so it is safer to be queer. May we do the same.
Happy
#LGBTQSTEMDay
everyone!! 🥳🥳
If you’re LGBTQ+ and you work in STEM or study a STEM subject, why not say hi below and tell us about what you do? 😊
#AcademicTwitter
#LGBTQSTEM
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Beyond grateful to all the scientists who worked tirelessly for this moment. The end is in sight!! (Was able to get it early due to staffing the Psych ER).
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A touching speech by
@dylanggee
while accepting the
@srp_science
Early Career Award. Huge congrats, Dylan! You are an inspiration!!
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SO STOKED that we can announce that
@PsychPrinceton
made THREE hires this year!! I'll be starting along with the inimitable
@natvelali
and
@RebeccaCarey_
!! These two are beyond incredible scientists, and I am just so honored to be a part of this exceptional cohort. 🎉🐯🎉🐯🎉🐯🎉
I am joined by not one, but TWO brilliant new faculty 🥳
@RebeccaCarey_
will launch her lab in summer 2021, and
@ErikNook
in summer 2022. Looking forward to joining the Princeton Psych community!
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I was once stalked, followed home by a man, while I was out in drag. I‘ve heard the spine chilling “f****t” too many times. THIS MONTH the Supreme Court is deciding our right to adopt and ~3 trans women will be murdered. Celebrate gains, yes, but never forget the fight
#Pride2021
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So so so enjoying a very special spring break writing retreat with
@RebeccaCarey_
and
@natvelali
!!
Cozy morning coffee ✅
Lakeside grilling ✅
Specific aims ✅
Bonding with rockstar new
@PsychPrinceton
colleagues (ONGOING)
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I'm pleased to publicly share our lab manual! Huge thanks to the labmates as we built it together (
@talvaldivia
@claire_whiting
@HennaVartiainen
@RaziaSahi
), but especially to Chantal for her leadership building the document! 🎉Thanks also to all the labs that inspired it (below)
The Logic of Emotion Lab Manual is now publicly available as a resource to other scientists and labs. (See the Resources page on our lab website, or link below)
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Really enjoyed my first week at the
@YalePsychology
CANDLab with
@dylanggee
and crew! What an inspiring group of folks doing great work. So excited for a year of fun science and community building ahead :)
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If you see a man weeping openly on NJ Ttransit, it’s probably me as I finish reading The Song of Achilles.
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Being a therapist in 2020 is being the best little skeleton fairy you can be 💀🧚♂️
#AcademicChatter
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ok so I've been re-reading my acknowledgements slide aloud for the last hour to try to habituate to the feelings that come up, but I still can't get through it it without crying PLZ SEND HALP I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO REGULATE MY EMOTIONS BY NOW
#AcademicChatter
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#LGBTQScience
Hey all! I'm Erik (he/him), and I'm a gay clinical psych PhD student
@Harvard
. I study how language and emotion interact: E.g., How people use words to understand and manage what they feel, and how these skills develop in kids+teens. Follow/see below for more info!
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Oh my goodness, so grateful for this recognition! Wow!! Huge thanks also to coauthors
@leahsom
,
@mk_nock
, and
@derrickhull
! And an equally huge CONGRATS to the other award winners!!!! What an all star cast <3
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!
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Happy National Coming Out Day! May you find love and joy in who you are ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎
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Society has come far since I was in high school. (2003-2008 I was crying/praying every night that God would turn me straight). Thx to good frnds+fam, I'm now out and proud. It's easy to think that it's gotten better for all of us, but these stats say otherwise. We have work to do
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As my grandmother always used to say: "The watched journal submission site never leads to an earlier decision."
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9 years ago today I presented my first ever poster (w
@AjayBSatpute
and
@ColumbiaSCANLab
) at
@CogNeuroNews
. Love how I’m rockin that
@Columbia
blue haha.
Afterwards,
@zakijam
and I met for the first time to discuss working as his lab manager at the
@StanfordSNL
. What memories!
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Ok who's written code that scrapes recipes and leaves behind all the "when I was 8, I had an unforgettable trip to a local farm..." preamble?
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Just YESTERDAY while reviewing a video of me doing therapy I said “Wow, I sound so... gay,” and my supervisor patiently helped me unpack my own judgments. Turns out peer taunts from a childhood in rural Iowa leave echoes that are hard to silence, even after becoming so...
I have been asked by trainees how I am so comfy in my own skin. But today I spent time worrying about the sound of my voice on a zoom recording, and spotted some internal heterosexism. Take home point: the process is incremental and being comfy with yourself is easier in joggers.
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Twittersphere:
@Sakiera_Hudson
and I are curious who are fabulous people in the humanities (soc/anthro/phil/hist/art/linguistics/etc) who are studying affect/emotion, have great work, and give 🔥 talks? Recs / self-noms must appreciated! Plz retweet!
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Amazing how after 9 hrs of continuous zoom meetings my computer fan sounds the way that my brain feels.
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Thank you, Dylan!!! Beyond excited about the year ahead with you and so so grateful for the
@NSF
fellowship!
Live action of when we got the news:
So many congrats to
@ErikNook
on receiving an
@NSF
SBE postdoctoral fellowship!! Erik's work
@YalePsychology
will examine the neural mechanisms supporting emotion differentiation and its associations with well-being. Over the moon to embark on this exciting work together! 🧠🤓🎉
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So so so so lovely to enjoy a joint lab dinner w
@LogicEmotionLab
and
@AjayBSatpute
,
@MariaGendronPhD
,
@profmaitalneta
,
@elisa_baek
, and incoming
@affectScience
PRESIDENT
@ka_lindquist
’s labs at
#AffectScience2023
!!! The future is bright 🥳
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I'm so so glad we can now share that
@RebeccaCarey_
will ALSO be starting as a new faculty member at
@Princeton
! I've had the joy of knowing Rebecca's sharp mind and exquisite energy for a few years now, and I am *so* thrilled I get to be her colleague. Seriously - so so excited
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#ASFP2022
Roll Call! I’m an Assistant Professor at
@PsychPrinceton
who’s helping underrepresented PhD applicants through the Application Statement Feedback Program (
@asfp_phd
) because I believe in breaking down hidden curricula and other barriers to joining the field.
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On SAS Saturdays we wear pink!!
@affectScience
@ Luis Flores and Jonas Everaert
#AffectScience2024
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Leah is one of the most incredible people I've ever met, and I am *so* fortunate that I was able to train under her. Incomparably brilliant, innovative, rigorous, supportive, and kind. Congratulations
@leahsom
- enjoy this very well deserved honor :)
Congratulations Leah Somerville
@leahsom
of
@Harvard
, winner of a 2022 Troland Research Award for her pioneering research on how brain and psychological development are intertwined during adolescence!
Read more:
#NASaward
#psychology
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Y'all, I'm SO excited to share the launch event of a non-profit I've been helping w over the last 2 years. They're dedicated to translating dev/affective/clin psych to foster emotional health in youth. Please consider joining & spreading the word!
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Well, today I checked “weep openly while writing acknowledgments section” off my dissertation to do list, so there’s that.
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Decided to work at the boyf’s office today. Jeez, they really need to update their decor, amirite?
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I complimented my niece on her eyes and she responded by helping me see them better.
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Topping off this Monday with a rosemary, olive, and roasted garlic sourdough with the boyfriend.
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I have a developmental psych joke, but it's a little childish...
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Happy
#NationalComingOutDay
. To those who have come out and to those who haven't, this day is for you. However you show up and whoever you love, you bring joy and color to this world. We love you, we see you, we're here with you.
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If you have not read MLK's (1968) "The role of the behavioral scientist in the civil right's movement," you simply must. Here it is:
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Doctoral regalia is *wildly* expensive. Why I plan to follow
@betsylevyp
's lead and purchase a set of robes for the lab that students can use for free.
I just looked at the price for regalia at my university and I’m shook.
Talked to two friends and they gave reasons as to why they bought it or why they didn’t.
Now I’m curious about others’ experiences with this. Did you buy your doctoral regalia? Why?
@AcademicChatter
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#ASFP2021
Roll Call! I’m a postdoc at
@YalePsychology
who’s helping underrepresented PhD applicants through
@asfp_phd
because I believe unequal access to advising networks shouldn't hinder our field's brightest young minds from contributing their ideas.
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Check out
@PsychPrinceton
's new Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you and your advisor think a summer stint in our dept would benefit your research (and you have no summer funding), consider applying! Details here:
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If you're early-career faculty and want to have a fully-funded 'microsabbatical' here at
@PsychPrinceton
, now's your chance! Applications are open, with a 3/25 deadline. See website for more info on the this program, organized by our DEI committee.
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HUGE CONGRATS to
@LogicEmotionLab
PhD student
@claire_whiting
who won this year’s poster award at the SAS conference!!!! Tremendous work!! And so so proud of all 8 LEmoLab presenters! 🎉🥳🎊🎈
And a round of applause for our conference award winners!
@claire_whiting
won Best Poster - New Idea, Anna Gilioli won Best Poster - New Results, and
@pablo_arias_sar
won Best Flash Talk!
#AffectScience2024
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Very excited to share a new preprint with
@derrickhull
,
@mk_nock
, and
@leahsom
! We show that a basic linguistic signature of healthy emotion regulation tracks symptoms of dep/anx in a large set of therapy transcripts (>1.2 mil messages from >6k people)!!!
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Pink tie is on for my
@srp_science
poster happening NOW 5-7pm Central: "Translating Psycholinguistic Research on Emotion Regulation to Develop Markers of Treatment Progress" 🎉 You can also catch my flash talk Sunday 12-1:30 Central or the preprint here:
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My dad just apologized to Alexa when she didn’t understand his question, and that’s the wholesome content my heart needs.
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Washing away code frustrations w a gorgeous walk along the Hudson
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A guide to retrieving
@APA
papers:
1) Find article on psycnet website
2) Click "Get Access." Meet paywall
3) Use institution proxy. Meet paywall
4) Enter user info. Meet paywall
5) Cry in despair and rage
6) Search paper in institutional library. Not find it
7) Repeat step 5
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