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Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2024 details!
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The Society for Affective Science is starting a journal!
Yes, that’s right! A new journal!
Called…. drumroll please….
Affective Science!
2/31
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Exciting annoucement -
@affectScience
is starting a journal, “Affective Science”, with
@springerpub
!
First issue in 2020!
#2019SAS
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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:
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Mid-Career Trajectory in Affective Science Award. Congratulations to Abigail A. Marsh!
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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
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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:
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🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!🚨 We are now accepting submissions for
#2021SAS
virtual conference! Abstracts due 12/10, with some important changes (see 👇)
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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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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!
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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 👉
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Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award! Congratulations to Jennifer K. MacCormack!
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🚨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!
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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!
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"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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Congratulations to
@IrisMauss
for winning the SAS Mentorship in Affective Science Award!!
#AffectScience2024
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Please join us in welcoming
@rachaelejack
the new President-Elect of The Society for Affective Science!
#AffectScience2024
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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:
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#2019SAS
by the numbers:
500+ tweets by 200+ people
370 attendees from 16+ countries
180 posters
55 flash talks
23 speed-networking hosts
21 poster spotlights
9 keynote talks
9 methods events
8 salons
6 TED-style talks
4 preconferences
3 days
1 fantastic conference!! ❤️
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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
!
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Read what
@kate_ptrv
and Gross (2023) have to say about the future of emotion regulation research in the latest publication of Affect Science:
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Hooray! 🎉 The
#SAS2022
abstract portal is NOW OPEN! Abstracts are due 22nd November 2021. Please RT. Learn more about abstract submission formats & guidelines here:
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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.
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And our
#AffectScience2023
Mentorship in Affective Science Award goes to Wendy Berry Mendes (
@wendybmendes
) - congratulations!
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"Having healthy doubt in your own research, methods, findings, and conclusions should be a basic attitude of all scientists." -Peter Kuppens at
#2018SAS
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📢ANNOUNCEMENT:
#2021SAS
abstract deadline extended to Dec 17!!! You're welcome 😉
📢Announcements & Reminders:
🖥️ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PORTAL IS NOW OPEN!
🗓️Abstracts due Dec. 10
💳Registration fees posted (by March 1, 2021: $45 for undergrads, $90 trainees, $295 faculty)
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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.
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Congratulations to
@zakijam
for winning the SAS Mid-Career in Affective Science Award!!
#AffectScience2024
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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!
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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!
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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!
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"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
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Congratulations to
@AGVacca
for winning the SAS Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award!!
#AffectScience2024
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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!
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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
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Woah. Mapping the 'human feelings space' across emotions, cognitive processes, somatic states, and homeostatic states.
#weekendreadingmaterials
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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!
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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
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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:
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📜JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT📜We're thrilled to welcome the new Editors in Chief for Affective Science: Ralph Adolphs, Linda Camras, & Lani Shiota!
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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!
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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:
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In the next few weeks we will highlight coping skills & ways to reduce loneliness & stress, informed by
#affectivescience
[thread]
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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
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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:
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#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 ().
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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!
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"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
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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!
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Early-Career in Affective Science Award! Congratulations to Katharine H. Greenaway!
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“The greatest gift in science is when you find out you’re dead wrong.” - Bob Levenson
#2019SAS
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Introducing the Society for ABBActive Science's hit, "S.A.S."!
Words by
@PaulaNiedenthal
, starring
@lasana_harris
@ClaudiaMHaase
@chrisoveis
@JDustinMartin
@adriennerwood
Andrea Samson
@smcarpenter15
& Justin Kim
Virtual conference info coming soon!
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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.”
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#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!
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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
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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
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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! 👏👏
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Our
#AffectScience2022
Best Flash Talk award winner is Edwin Dalmaijer (
@esdalmaijer
). Please join us in celebrating his outstanding work!
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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).
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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!!
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#2018SAS
by the numbers:
430 attendees
223 posters
83 talks
56 OSF Meetings uploads (and counting!)
9 methods lunches
8 student awards
3 preconferences
We'd call that ONE AMAZING MEETING!
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Passing of the gavel from outgoing SAS President
@boblev33
to Incoming President
@PaulaNiedenthal
!
#2019SAS
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Join us in this positive affect induction 🧵with many celebratory CONGRATULATIONS for our many
#AffectScience2022
Award Winners!!! Hip-hip-hooray!
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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!
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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!
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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:
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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!
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In the next few weeks we'll be highlighting the newest Associate Editors for Affective Science!
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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!!
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#AffectScience2024
is quickly approaching! We are so excited for our keynote debate featuring
@AjayBSatpute
and Phil Kragel, moderated by
@wendybmendes
.
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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!
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You might notice a few changes around here.... including our BRAND. NEW. LOGO!!! Just in time for
#2018SAS
!
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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
!
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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
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#2017SAS
by the numbers! 456 attendees, 205 posters, 74 talks, 8 student awards, 4 preconferences/workshops, and 3 amazing days!
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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!
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Honorable mentions for the
#AffectScience2022
Best Flash Talk awards, join us in congratulating Ke Wang (
@kewang_tw
), Jelka Stojanov (
@JelkaStojanov
), Sergio Pirla (
@gersiopirla
), & Lisa Walsh (
@lisawalsh08
).
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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.
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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!
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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
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We are also excited to announce a special
#SAS2022
Diversity Symposium, moderated by Lani Shiota with speakers Jennifer Richeson (
@jaricheson
), Keith Maddox (
@MaddBlackProf
), Ajua Duker (
@AjuaDuker
), and Eran Halperin (
@eranh75_eran
).
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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:
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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
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Mark your calendars for
#2021SAS
April 13-16! There will be symposia, Ted-Style Talks, Salons, Flash Talks, Methods Events, Speed Networking, and more! Check out the full schedule of all events on our website!
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