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Students attend the 2025 Society for Affective Science Conference!
Last week, Emjai Deschamps, Madison Clements, and EJ Ulmer from the Emotion Science Lab attended the 2025 SAS conference in Portland, Oregon. EJ and Madison presented their research posted titled, “Effects of a novel, brief intervention on emotion beliefs, emotion regulation, and emotion regulation flexibility”. Congratulations!
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Students attend the 2024 Northwest Cognition & Memory Conference!
In May 2024, three students from the Emotion Science Lab attended the 2024 Northwest Cognition & Memory Conference (NOWCAM) at the University of Victoria. This conference focused on research related to truthiness/misinformation, memory/eyewitness, executive functioning, cognition/physical activity, learning/metacognition, and memory/emotion. Jenna Spencer presented her research poster titled “Effects of a brief emotion regulation intervention on…
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Students Attend the 2024 Society for Affective Science Conference!
In March 2024, four students attended the Society for Affective Science Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. They had a wonderful time presenting their research, networking, and listening to lectures from amazing researchers from around the globe. EJ Ulmer and Monty Armstrong presented their research poster titled “Emotion regulation predicts climate distress and climate action”. Jenna…
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How Timbre Affects Emotional Sound
by Tim Killough Music can make us feel strong emotion, but what is it about different sounds that cause us to feel one way or the other? Casady Bowman and Takashi Yamauchi have taken some steps to find out in their recent publication, Perceiving Categorical Emotion in Sound: The Role of Timbre. Musical notes can…
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Should an Eyewitness be Trusted?
by Katie Nickel It is commonly assumed that emotions improve memory, but would you be willing to risk someone’s freedom on it? Imagine yourself shopping in a convenience store when you witness a man at the counter assault the young attendant and steal cash from the register. You are still experiencing unpleasant emotions from this…
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Electroconvulsive Therapy Improves the Ability to Recognize Disgust in People With Schizophrenia
by Madelaine Morton For most of us, reading other people’s emotions is an automatic and essential part of daily interaction. Knowing your partner had a bad day the moment they walk in the door or avoiding your dad when he looks grumpy is a skill that many don’t need to put conscious effort into. Emotion…