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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈

@eriknook.bsky.social
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Psych Professor @Princeton studying how language and emotion interact in the brain, clinic, and over development. He/they

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yayyyyy congrats, Joey!!!
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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very excited for this review with Michael Hallquist on adolescent personality pathology, a critically understudied topic that has only become moreso in recent years as seen by booming publication rates for depression and anxiety - PD lines at the bottom www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Sarah C Vogel, PhD @sarahcvogel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The UMass Boston Department of Psychology is hiring an assistant professor in our clinical area, with a developmental focus and emphasis on Black children and families. Please spread the word! #psychjobs employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Page Up - UMass Boston
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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646
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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vassar is hiring a clinical psychologist!! This is a terrific position for someone seeking a true balance of research & teaching responsibilities on a gorgeous campus 75 miles north of NYC. Please repost!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Omg I’d be more than happy to
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Oh nooooooo- this is devastating! If there’s anything strangers on the internet can do, please let us know. Agh I feel for her so much
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our lab is looking for folks with BPD to help us learn more about 'emptiness'! Would love your help as a participant and/or with spreading the word on this study. Thank you!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
V proud of Steven for his marvelous work pushing forward a new way of analyzing self-representation in language. Really interesting results - check it out!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Huge congrats to Steven on this great review!
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Dr. Jessie Stern @jessastern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Please share widely: We're hiring!📣 The Departments of Psychological Science and Neuroscience at @pomonacollege.bsky.social are seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychological Science and Neuroscience. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32248
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Pomona College, Psychology
Job #AJO32248, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science & Neuroscience, Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Congrats to @hennavartiainen.bsky.social on this marvelous work!
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology. Ad below! psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...
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Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excited to share this paper led by two undergrads in the lab, out now in Neurobiology of Stress! Temporal reorganization of maternal care during early life stress in mice doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
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Redirecting
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
congrats, Henna!!!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Really fascinating results by @danmirea.bsky.social now out in JAMA Psychiatry!
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Jessie Sun @jessiesun.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
HUGE thanks to the NSF and other agencies for funding this work and to my amazing collaborators Emily Holmes, @emotionlabki.bsky.social , and Leah Somerville for their insights and guidance.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In all, we think these paradigms and results will be useful to understanding the socio-cognitive processes that might give rise to anxiety symptoms, and they set the stage for translational interventions that might reduce anxiety onset.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And for clinically-minded readers, this meta-analysis also showed that anxiety contagion in our studies was associated with trait-level worry and anxiety. So our paradigm seems to tap anxiety experiences that are relevant to a person's difficulty with these clinical issues.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Finally, we performed a meta-analysis across our studies and found that anxiety contagion was stronger in people who reported being more empathic or using more mental imagery. These associations support our process model and give clues about who is most prone to anxiety contagion
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We then tested whether occupying visuospatial processing could 'block' anxiety contagion. Indeed, having people play Tetris or complete a visual working memory task led them to no longer 'catch' a peer's anxiety. Control conditions (including a non-visual working memory task) did not block anxiety.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We found that when people were exposed to an anxious peer they empathically took the perspective of that person and then had mental images of negative future experiences (i.e., 'flashforwards') that made them feel anxious. So empathy and mental imagery serially mediate anxiety contagion.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Clinical psychologists have known for decades that psychopathology (including anxiety) can 'spread' through social networks. Using a new experimental task, we induced contagious anxiety about an upcoming threat in participants & then used this task to probe underlying mechanisms.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ever wondered why we sometimes 'catch' another person's anxiety even after a brief interaction? We developed a paradigm to induce contagious anxiety and find that empathy and mental imagery mediate anxiety contagion. See thread & preprint for details! osf.io/preprints/ps...
A link to the preprint described in the thread
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are thrilled to welcome Angélica Rodríguez (Ponce Health Sciences University) and AJ Cruz (The University of Texas - El Paso) to our lab for a 2-month stay through the Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students! They'll be investigating sleep, language, emotion regulation, and mental health. Welcome!
Angélica, Erik, and AJ smiling.
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 14/05/2026
Princeton University Art Museum’s chief conservator, Bart Devolder, spent six months analyzing and preparing “Black Friday” for the current de Kooning exhibition. The work came with surprises — including “the likelihood of an abstract composition with bright colors underneath ‘Black Friday.’”
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A conservator's work on de Kooning’s ‘Black Friday’ for Princeton reveals new insights and a surprise
Princeton University Art Museum's chief conservator, Bart Devolder, spent six months analyzing and preparing “Black Friday” for the current de Kooning exhibition. The work came with surprises — includ...
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We are so proud of @claire-whiting.bsky.social for winning a @princeton.edu Graduate Teaching Award! The award is presented to 10 graduate students each year in recognition of their exceptional skill, dedication, and impact as instructors. Congrats, Claire!! 🎉
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thank youuuuu! Yeah really fun to think through. Almost as fun as all your awesome psycholinguistic discoveries 😜
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
New paper: Jamil Zaki and I integrate theories of empathy + emotion regulation to describe how therapists have to regulate a "therapeutic emotional circuit" in each session. Lots of applications and avenues for new research. Just published in CPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
APPLY APPLY APPLY!
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Adam Bryant Miller, PhD @abryantmiller.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NC folks: I am recruiting participants for an NIMH funded R01 on preteen suicide risk. The study is fully remote, and we're trying to enroll participants from across our state. We'd love to see this map get filled in with participants from every county. Please share our flyer with folks in your area
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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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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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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our lab has a new postdoc position that is ideal for someone interested in a career in data science or statistical consulting and an interest in gender diversity / trans health. apply.interfolio.com/182278
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We're excited about SAS 2026! Mark your calendars to check out our lab's latest work. Beginning with the Thursday preconferences, we have two lab members presenting at the Dev Precon and the Clinical Precon! @affectscience.bsky.social
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Later in the day on Thursday, we also have four amazing posters at Poster Session I. @affectscience.bsky.social
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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So excited to have my whole lab at @affectscience.bsky.social this year! Come see what the IDEA Lab is up to!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026
I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Only a few weeks until #SAS2026! We are proud to be partnering with @inclivio.com to support SAS researchers with an intuitive platform for running EMA studies. Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your EMA study for free on Inclivio! inclivio.com
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Inclivio
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Huge congrats to @logicemotionlab.bsky.social PhD student Steven on his excellent work!
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🧵New paper out in @commspsychol.nature.com We tested whether language-based assessments (LBAs) can predict not just subjective well-being (life satisfaction) but also psychological well-being (autonomy). Across 3 studies, we found that LBAs work well for some constructs—but not all! 1/
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!
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Lauren DiNicola @laurendinicola.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! ** We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy! Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...
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Research Associate in Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to work in the DiNicola Lab. The DiNicola lab uses a precision neuroscien...
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Emily Liquin @emilyliquin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15. #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc
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ELM Lab @ UNH
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