The SPAN lab is looking for children ages 4 - 7 years old to participate in our new study on emotional development! The study is all online and you can earn up to $60 in gift cards. You can find more information and sign up here: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/795a...
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What is loneliness and what can we do about it?? @affectscience.bsky.social
Anita Restrepo showed that undergrads who were lonelier worked harder for others than less lonelier undergrads (but still worked harder regardless of loneliness when working for themselves) regardless of gain/loss framing
Check out our symposium on translational approaches to loneliness and emotion tomorrow at 9:45am! @affectscience.bsky.social @mattsouthward.bsky.social
In other summer news, I saw Glass Animals last night and spent much of the concert trying to imagine what Patrick's experience would have been when he took his daughter 😅 @quantitude.bsky.social
Exciting summer news in the SPAN Lab! Gaby Rivera Martinez, a rising senior in the lab, received a RUN Dean's List Summer Undergraduate Fellowship to support her thesis work on how loneliness and socioeconomic status influence emotion perception in young children. Congrats Gaby!! 🥳
I didn't see this until now because I've been at the beach (which also meant I lost the race last week) but can confirm this is quite accurate 😂
The SPAN lab is looking for children ages 4 - 7 years old to participate in our new study on emotional development! The study is all online and you can earn up to $60 in gift cards. You can find more information and sign up here: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/795a...
Please share!
Learning in context: Socioemotional stimuli enhance cognitive learning processes but not psychophysiological engagement in early adolescence
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Learning about psychophysiology in the SPAN lab!
Childhood adversity influences future decision-making. This systematic review suggests adversity shifts individuals to prioritize information about risks and de-value information about reward- which is likely adaptive in adverse contexts.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
@kesmith.bsky.social
The final commentary on this paper (Thayer & Friedman) is now also out!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“Arousal might refer to some set of processes underlying emotion but evidence for its role in emotional experiences and behavior is at best mixed and imprecise” from @kesmith.bsky.social & @sethpollak.bsky.social
(Reading as I prep an arousal coding template 💃)
Also check out the thoughtful commentaries on the paper by David Sander, Otniel Dror, and Julian Thayer & Bruce Friedman on the article. Two of the three are out online!
Sander: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Dror: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Posting here as well as on the other app.
Finally getting around to sharing our (@sethpollak.bsky.social) new theoretical paper! We challenge assumptions around the role of arousal in emotion, highlighting ambiguity in how the construct is defined and measured.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XWGB4...
And a quick plug for New Jersey - it is a fantastic place to live! New York is minutes away, and, on top of that, there’s beautiful beaches and hiking all less than an hour away. Also delis and bagels 🥯 - need I say more.
You can find more info on the lab here (sites.rutgers.edu/span-lab/) and the Rutgers Newark PhD program here (sasn.rutgers.edu/graduate-pro...). Email if you have questions!
In case there is anyone here who is not on Twitter:
I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apply if interested in questions related to how stress shapes development. Particularly a good fit if interested in loneliness, emotion, learning, decision making, and psychophysiology.
Interested in researching emotion regulation, loneliness, well-being, and rural health using EEG and peripheral psychophysiology methods? You are in luck! I am recruiting a graduate student to start Fall 2025! See my faculty webpage for more details www.ndsu.edu/faculty/ajfi...
