Halloween may be officially over, but our spOoOooky party spirit isn’t! #Halloween2025

This past weekend, we closed out fall break with a lovely day at the annual Community Fest, held by @Ewingnj township and @TCNJ! We had a fantastic time chatting with everyone about our research.

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan. @ryanlinnbrown

These exciting results highlight the potential of LLM-powered linguistic analysis to detect people who are struggling with anxiety and depression. They also deepen our understanding of the interpersonal processes that support effective therapy.

LLMs can expand beyond only analyzing client language and also estimate how strongly therapists encouraged distance in their clients. Ratings also tracked changing symptoms when word-counting approaches could not!

We have a new paper published in Computational Psychiatry! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.

The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together!

Apologies link should be @srp_science!

We are very proud to announce that Dr. Erik Nook is the recipient of the @SrpScience Society for Research in Psychopathology’s 2025 Early Career Award! Congratulations @ErikNook 🎉 Click here to learn about the society and its mission:

Exciting day — we have a new lab manager, joining us from Stanford! Emily is interested in studying how people process and communicate emotional experiences, especially in clinical settings. Let's give her a warm welcome!

Annual @LogicEmotionLab outing to @TrentonThunder!!! Excited for a great summer of science with this crew

What a year it's been for the lab - so many incredible accomplishments! A special shoutout to Angie on her graduation and all of her outstanding work. Our junior students also wrapped up strong projects and are heading into senior year, ready for discoveries.

Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to @DanMirea4 for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

We’re thrilled to celebrate @ErikNook for co-authoring the Best Paper at @affectScience (Nencheva et al., 2024) and @DanMirea4 for winning the Diversity Award! Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @ErikNook @RaziaSahi @DanMirea4 @claire_whiting

Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at @affectScience 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments. @RaziaSahi @claire_whiting @HennaVartiainen Steven Mesquiti @milka_waniak @A_R_Challmam

Last but not least, we have a great lineup of fantastic presentations on the final day. Hope to see you at SAS!

On Friday, we are continuing our SAS presentations with three amazing lab members - don't miss it!

We are thrilled about SAS 2025! Mark your calendars to see our lab's latest work! Check out the schedule for Thursday - Emotion Regulation Pre-conference:

🧁Midyear Celebration🧁 Marking the halfway point of the academic year with the lab by baking some delicious cupcakes. Grateful for this amazing team and all the work we’ve done so far!

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @LogicEmotionLab! Please submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website!