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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers]

@malloryjfeldman.bsky.social
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Psychologist studying how people sense and make sense of their bodies. Learn more at www.MalloryJFeldman.com. Currently on the job market!

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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey #interoception folks. Jenn MacCormack and I have been hosting a weekly reading/working group on interoception for *early career scholars* for ~3 years now. We'd love to add some new members. Message for more info!
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 26/03/2026
New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123
Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer.    
Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w
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Microsoft Forms
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com
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Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is really important. How can we counter this false narrative?
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So awesome to see a community-based-participatory approach to interoception research in practice. Major kudos to this team for publishing on patient priorities!
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Breaking through the mind-body divide: patient priorities for interoception research
Interoception—sensation, interpretation, and prediction of bodily signals—is reliably disrupted across a wide range of mental health conditions. A gro…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/04/2025
This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
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‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community
“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
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Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Yuta Katsumi, PhD @yutakatsumi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r... shocked by this! Sam Sommers’ book is what made me interested in psychology, and is what made me choose to go to Tufts. Sending love to his family and colleagues.
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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/03/2025
"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
CASL is showing up for Society for Affective Science this week!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#proud #workWife www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
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Emotion detective tracks effects of stress | UNC-Chapel Hill
Doctoral candidate Adrienne Bonar studies the many factors that shape people’s feelings.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Physio people -- when you have messy data, what's your philosophy on filtering? Under filter and discard a lot of data due to excess noise OR potentially over filter and smooth true signal? In this case i'm working with PPG. #psychophysiology #interoception
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Incredible. Thank You!
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a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
Alt: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m here for biologists making a big fucking stink but I think psychologists should get in on the action too.
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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
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The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications
Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...
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Jolie Wormwood @jbwormwood.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢 Help spread the word! UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725 Come work with me in New Hampshire!!
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin fall, 2025 in the area of social psychology. ...
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Leonardo Hansa @handle.invalid · 20/12/2024
What is your favorite R function you've learned this 2024? Mine: I've loved understanding !! and enquo from rlang. #rstats
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
There are now nearly 5000 papers on #interoception. And the output over the last 4 years is more than the previous 59. 🤯
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
This collaboration was so fun! We found evidence that emotional attention & clarity were higher in social v nonsocial contexts and when interacting with close v nonclose others. Participants with MDD showed enhanced emotional clarity in social v nonsocial settings.
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Social contexts are associated with higher emotional awareness than nonsocial contexts: Evidence in a sample of people with and without major depressive disorder - PubMed
Growing evidence suggests that social contexts may prompt qualitatively distinct experiences of emotions than nonsocial contexts. In this study of people's naturalistic daily emotional experiences, we...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
This one has been long in the making! We find preliminary evidence that teens with more similar vmPFC representations of positive affect (in particular) are more like to be friends/be in the same friend group. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39412190/
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Proximity Within Adolescent Peer Networks Predicts Neural Similarity During Affective Experience - PubMed
Individuals befriend others who are similar to them. One important source of similarity in relationships is similarity in felt emotion. In the present study, we used novel methods to assess whether gr...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Check out our new chapter on Interoception's role in Social and Emotional Cognition. We begin by exploring WHY you might expect interoception to predict socioemotional cognition in the first place... Let us know what you think!
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The Role of Interoception in Emotion and Social Cognition
We begin this chapter by clarifying our working definition of interoception and discussing how interoception fits within the larger picture of human brain functional evolution. We focus on the role of...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Does anyone know whether this is a precedent for using factor scores instead of average scores on SDO questionnaires? @sakierahudson.bsky.social
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Adding to this list the ineffable Dr. Sam Brosso, Dr. Aslihan Imamoglu, Dr. Kylie Chandler, Dr. Connor O' Fallon, Dr. Nate Fields, and, as of today, Dr. Matt Coleman! So proud of my friends!
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Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn @drdanielcm.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
We are published!! An SSRI changes neural responses to #interoception and its links to anxious states. This changed how I think about #serotonin, internal sensation, and #anxiety. W/ James Livermore @sarahgarf.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social, Hugo Critchley + more www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - General and anxiety-linked influences of acute serotonin reuptake inhibition on neural responses associated with attended visceral sensation
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
ok #psychology and #affectsci bsky- can you please help me find the best up-to-date methodological reviews on measuring interpersonal synchrony (physio/motor/affective)?
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Just your friendly local aphantasic sharing a great new review paper on Aphantasia by Adam Zeman.
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Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes
The vividness of imagery varies between individuals. However, the existence of people in whom conscious, wakeful imagery is markedly reduced, or absent entirely, was neglected by psychology until the ...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Celebrating my friends Dr. Sam Abrams, Dr. Manuel Galvan, and Dr. Taylor West who all defended dissertations in the past few days!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Excited to share a new paper led by the ineffable Dr. Tatum Jolink further illustrating how even acute inflammation serves to organize social cognition and behavior: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioaq15hUd...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
In Cambridge, London, and then Brighton this week for APS! Would love to meet people while I’m here! If you’re in the area, shoot me a DM.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Thrilled to be attending the 11th MindBrainBody Symposium by Max Planck Institute virtually!
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
For those going to SAS- @affectscience.bsky.social (#affectsci) -- check out some of the awesome work being done by folks in our lab:
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
New paper at Nature Communications from me & @dianatamir.bsky.social! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Late to the game on this- but so grateful to papers like these for continuing to evolve my thinking on #interoception.
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Eric Shuman @ericmshuman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Really excited to announce that our paper introducing an expanded framework and measure of advantaged identity management has been accepted @ PSPB! You can check out the thread below for more details and find an updated preprint here: tinyurl.com/2uvem5nh
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