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The YES Lab will be presenting at @affectscience.bsky.social Four talks and two posters, covering culture, close relationship, positive emotion, loneliness, and neural signature of craving. See you in Pittsburgh! @avamadesousa.bsky.social @shangchengzhao.bsky.social

Deeply grateful to my wonderful and creative lab for celebrating my 9.5th birthday!

Heading to #spsp with talented lab members

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in
@commspsychol.nature.com
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In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Thank you Billy! How time flies! By the way, the chair is still in my lab 😀

I’m deeply grateful to my mentors, colleagues, collaborators, and trainees whose guidance, partnership, hard work and curiosity continue to challenge and inspire me. Excited (and humbled) to step into this next chapter.

This milestone would not have been possible without the unwavering support and understanding of my family—thank you for your patience and love through the long hours and late nights.

I’m honored to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure @ucsb.

To mark this, our lab, the Yu Emotion Science (YES) lab releases its official logo (credit: @avamadesousa.bsky.social )

We are strong together💪 Chinese students and scholars at SANS2025 #SANS2025 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Thank you!

First article in TICS led by excellent YES Lab member and graduate student @avamadesousa.bsky.social Commentary on a recent cross-cultural work on conceptual representation of social relationships by @bruceyinwang.bsky.social

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On the Perception of Moral Standing to Blame Abstract. Is everyone equally justified in blaming another’s moral transgression? Across five studies (four pre-registered; total N = 1,316 American participants), we investigated the perception of mo...

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae (Harvard) and in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yang (UChicago) explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is highly engaging and need not be accurate to achieve its communicative goals, making it an attractive signal to embed in misinformation. In eight studies that used US data from Facebook (1,063,298 links) and Twitter (44,529 tweets, 24,007 users) and two behavioral experiments (1475 participants), we show that (i) misinformation sources evoke more outrage than do trustworthy sources; (ii) outrage facilitates the sharing of misinformation at least as strongly as sharing of trustworthy news; and (iii) users are more willing to share outrage-evoking misinformation without reading it first. Consequently, outrage-evoking misinformation may be difficult to mitigate with interventions that assume users want to share accurate information.

Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵

#SANS2025 will feature two debates! First Damien Fair will debate @thaliawheatley.bsky.social about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then @mohammadatari.bsky.social will debate @markthornton.bsky.social about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!

Please add me to the list, thank you!

⏳ Time’s almost up! Just 14 hours left to submit your abstract to #SAS2025! Don’t miss your chance to share your research and connect with fellow affective scientists. Deadline: 11:59 PM Baker Island Time (UTC-12)! Submit now! #AffectiveScience

I'm recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info: www.crockettlab.org/joining-the-... Apps due Nov 17!

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

🚨 New job🚨 The Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at UCSB is hiring a new Director for the Brain Imaging Center! Join us in beautiful SB 🏝️ and intellectually stimulating and collegial department (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) t.co/FOC7OxWT12

New preprint on prejudice and state centralization: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our team of historians, psychologists, and anthropologists analyzed 90 historical societies and Chinese records from 206 BCE - 1911 CE

In both studies, we find a link btw group prejudice and historical state centralization