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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 19h

⚠️ Don’t get caught hanging on the edge! SAS 2027 abstracts are due 11/02 at 11:59PM Baker Island Time. Submit yours and join us in San Diego this March! 🌴 #SAS2027 #PotatoChipRock

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Submissions for the SAS Emotion Regulation pre-conference are due Thursday, 10/01! We're looking for avant-garde discussions, hot takes, & emerging early career work ! Get your panel discussions, spicy talks, and early career flash talks to razia.sahi@rutgers.edu soon! #SAS2027

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How are we—as affective scientists & as humans with emotions—engaging with AI? Check out the call for Papers on Affective Processes & Artificial Intelligence. Due Dec 31, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/... #AffectiveScience #AI

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Affective Processes and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into the conceptual, methodological, and social landscape of affective science. AI systems are ...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who's applying to grad school in affective science? Come to the annual SAS webinar! See flyer below and sign up today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Calling all trainees! Exercise your creative energy and submit to the SAS merch competition! forms.gle/5bASwv76NpAq...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Society for Affective Science Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is excited to invite submissions for three different talk formats this year: (1) 👥 Panel discussions; (2)🌶️‘Spicy’ talks; and (3)🌟Early career researcher talks. Deadline Oct 1. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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2027 SAS Emotion Regulation Social Media Call for Submissions.docx

The Society for Affective Science Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is excited to invite submissions for three different talk formats this year: (1) Panel discussions; (2) ‘Spicy’ talks; and (3) Early...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nominate yourself or a colleague for one of SAS's annual awards! It only takes a few seconds! society-for-affective-science.org/society-awar...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The new deadline for the 2026-2027 SAS Student Committee (SASSC) is June 22 at 11:59pm (your local time). Members-at-Large represent and advance the interests of SAS trainees, attend committee meetings, organize events, and contribute to the annual conference. Apply here: forms.gle/95K1aiaDDkjG...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In case you missed it - here's a little recap of what we did at the end of the SAS 2026 conference! #SAS2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Words matter 💬 This plenary brought together perspectives on how language shapes emotion regulation, development, & experience—from psychotherapy to childhood to insights from classical India. A powerful reminder of the deep links between words, feelings, and wellbeing. #SAS2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We're a little late in posting these last bits, but don't forget about the incredible presidential symposium discussing what affective science can learn about affective by also studying plants, animals, and AI! #SAS2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

More awards to recognize!! We want to recognize our best poster and flash talk winners, our winners for best paper of the year, and last but not least all our diversity award winners. Such great work going on at SAS! #sas2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Another round of applause for our 2026 winners for best dissertation award, early career award, and mid career award! Congratulations Nada, Kieran, Desmond, Hedy, and Sheri! #SAS2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the @inclivio.com draw - @lisastarr.bsky.social , @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Christian Waugh - on each receiving a free license to run an EMA study! 🎉📱

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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So long Pittsburgh and @affectscience.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Clinical Affective Science precon! It was a thrill just to be in a shared space with you all. And congrats to my lab for rocking SAS!⭐️

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Had THE BEST time hearing about alllll the exciting developmental affective science happening at @affectscience.bsky.social. Huuuuuuge thanks to @profmorningstar.bsky.social for being an amazing precon co-organizer 🌟

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So long @affectscience.bsky.social and thanks for all the new science! Loved connecting with the great @heatherurry.bsky.social and @brethelhaurwitz.bsky.social (we forgot to take a pic! I blame Matt), and arrived home to new books already

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

What's YOUR favorite part about going to a conference?? Take a look at what this year's attendees had to say! #SAS2026

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We’re heading to San Diego for #SAS2027! 🌴☀️ And our new president, Chris Oveis, is already promising us a waterslide at the conference location!

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

What a great way to end an inspiring conference: the final program point of #SAS2026 - a presidential symposium on Rethinking Emotions: Lessons from Animals, Machines, and Plants, featuring fantastic panelists Kristen Lindquist, Karen Bales, Jonathan Gratch, and Karl Niklas.

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another big thank you to Springer Nature for sponsoring SAS2026! #sas2026

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@sprofficial.bsky.social ✖️ @affectscience.bsky.social water bottle conference crossover!

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Scenes from Pittsburgh #sas2026 @affectscience.bsky.social

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Had a lot of fun at yesterday's keynote symposium re: the ties that bond with Tristen and Jeffrey! Who could have expected to see Keanu Reeves and a pair of socks make an appearance :P Check out both of their work to learn more about how to increase social connection! #SAS2026

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Shannon M. Brady @shayybray.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@mattsouthward.bsky.social shares how NOT regulating one's emotions is common--mostly when ppl don't feel the need. BUT! It's important to consider the reason behind choices because his team ALSO found diffs in outcomes depending on WHY participants chose not to regulate! @affectscience.bsky.social

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Super inspiring work from Yulia, Mark, and Jose in yesterday's diversity symposium discussing how to rethink our approaches to studying cultural context! #SAS2026

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

How do we best communicate @affectscience.bsky.social?? Jonathan Gratch, Kristen Lindquist, & Karl Niklas advocate seeking out formal communications training. Jonathan Gratch notes in an interview that you don’t have to answer the question asked but use it as a prompt for what you want to say

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Michele Morningstar @profmorningstar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Wow - what a pre-conference! It was a thrill to co-host the first ever Developmental Affective Science pre-conference to the @affectscience.bsky.social conference this week. I was blown away by the group's energy, enthusiasm, and ideas! 🪴

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Luis Flores found that the combination of reappraisal and handholding led to greater reductions in negative affect and negative self-beliefs than either strategy alone @affectscience.bsky.social

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Such an apt emotion for the situation 😭 we hope to catch you at SAS 2027!!

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When you're at a gathering of affective scientists...you just HAVE to ask their favorite emotion! We asked, and the answers at poster session 1 didn't disappoint--tons of variety (even multiple languages!). What's YOUR favorite emotion? #SAS2026

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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

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Stanley Seah @seeyastanley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Join us for an exciting lineup of talks focusing on emotion differentiation/granularity TOMORROW (Saturday) morning! Looking forward to it! With @amycarolus.bsky.social, @elisekalo.bsky.social, Yiqin Zhu, and Megan Korhummel. #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social

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Karen Smith @kesmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Check out our symposium on translational approaches to loneliness and emotion tomorrow at 9:45am! @affectscience.bsky.social @mattsouthward.bsky.social

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Starting off strong with a great welcome from our conference program co-chairs, Katie & Desmond, an informative update from our president, Rachael Jack, and rounding out with an amazing set of talks from Julie, Nick, & Stephen about their work with AI to support mental health!

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Nick Jacobson shows us how we might *think* we could use AI to develop a good mental health app @affectscience.bsky.social However, therapy transcripts aren’t the most enlightening 😅 Shoutout to Nick for doing the hard work to generate an efficacious chatbot! home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/03...

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Bonus pic from the Developmental Affective Science preconference! Add your precon pics to the thread!

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here for @affectscience.bsky.social #sas2026 to kick off with a symposium dive into AI, empathetic support, and therapy

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Lily Marino @lilymarino.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Beyond excited to have talked about our lab's method for using the body to trigger experience sampling prompts at a Construction Retreat, in lead-up to #SAS2026 ! Excited to continue the good conversation at the conference @affectscience.bsky.social !

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

✨️It's heeeeeeeeeeere✨️ in t-minus 25 minutes, we're going to kick off SAS2026 at the welcome and opening remarks. Can't wait to see everyone there--and catch our social media assistant at the posters to share YOUR favorite emotion 😁 #SAS2026

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Isabella Avalos @isabellafavalos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I will be sharing some exciting findings on how behavioral emotion regulation strategies are related to regulation motives and motive satisfaction at the symposium “To Strategies and Beyond!” on Friday morning. If you’re at SAS, I hope to see you there! (2/2)

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Isabella Avalos @isabellafavalos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I am so excited to be at the Society for Affective Science this year with the Emotional Lives Lab! (1/2)

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Shenhav Lab @shenhavlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Come see our work @affectscience.bsky.social! 😁 P2.S.207: “How Anticipated Feelings Guide Goal Prioritization Insights from an Inventory of Daily Goals” by Skylar Brooks 😁 P3.A.243: “Decision Goals Shape the Integration of Affective and Perceptual Information about our Options” by Ana Hernandez

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

. @jenncveilleux.bsky.social throws down the gauntlet at the @affectscience.bsky.social emotional acceptance preconference panel with a proposed model of willingness suggesting acceptance is NOT a regulatory strategy by itself b/c it’s a full sitting-with of emotions

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Ruofan Ma @maruofan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Come check out our symposium on emotional concordance and clinical implications, led by @veravine.bsky.social and @emmailyaz.bsky.social #SAS2026 I will talk about interoception and trust decision-making - work with Kristen Lindquist, @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social @adriennebonar.bsky.social

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'll also discuss empathic choices for animals, @ivytgilbert.bsky.social will talk about empathy and animal agriculture, with panel Q&A @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @ssripennstate.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social

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Ozge Ugurlu @ozgeugurlu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've long wondered how long positive emotions last after an intervention. I will be discussing "The Durability of Positive Emotions Elicited by Collective Movement" during the Positive Emotions Preconference on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 2:10 PM. Stop by :) #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social

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Hongbo Yu @psyhongbo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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NuRelm @nurelm.com · 11/03/2026

Come see us at the Society for Affective Science conference here in Pittsburgh Friday and Saturday! #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social

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