'Unravelling emotional language: Insights from normative and large scale studies', a càrrec de José A Hinojosa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

'The Alignment Gap: When Approval Is Not Value', a càrrec de Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University)

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'Infants' early development through the lens of language', a càrrec de Núria Sebastian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

'Biases and question tags: the case of Catalan no? and oi?', a càrrec de Laia Mayol i Elena Castroviejo

An interdisciplinary seminar investigating emotion and language. We are interested in valence, and the asymmetries between good and bad. We invite speakers from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology...

'Underspecified Valence and Goal Sensitivity in Predicates of Personal Taste', a càrrec de Víctor Carranza-Pinedo (University of Münster)

The First Valence Asymmetries Conference took place with tremendous success on 19 & 20 March 2026. Hans Alves, Frédérique de Vignemont, Saif M. Mohammad, and Pascale Willemsen were the keynote speaker...

'Is lie a prototype or a dual character concept?', a càrrec de Joanna Odrowaz-Sypniewska (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw)

Freedom, Valence, and Evaluativity, a càrrec de Pietro Intropi (UC Louvain)

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Communicating Uncertainty - Expectations and Facts, a càrrec de Jozef Bavoľár (Pavol Jozef Safarik University)

Are There Bad Dual Character Concepts?, a càrrec de Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

'Valence Asymmetries in Adopting Explanatory Beliefs', a càrrec de Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (University of Birmingham)

'Pessimistic Knowers: Emotional valence and epistemic standards', a càrrec d'Aarón Álvarez González (Universitat de València)

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejor...

'Toward a bivalent dyadic morality' a càrrec de Dario Cecchini (NC State University)

'Striking generics: sharks attack people and glippets love to play with fire', a càrrec de Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (University of East Anglia)

STAL organizes a monthly seminar on issues related to the study of slurs, pejoratives, and evaluative and expressive terms in general, from less studied languages. The titles and abstracts of the tal...

Valence Asymmetries Conference   DATES: 03/19/2026 TO 03/20/2026 SALA NAU | UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA | CAMPUS DEL POBLENOU, CARRER DE ROC BORONAT, BARCELONA Organized by the Factultat de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Contact: valence.asymmetries@upf.edu   The Valence Asymmetries ERC team is happy to announce that it will be organizing the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference on March 19th-20th 2026 at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. This interdisciplinary event will discuss themes which are central to the Valence Asymmetries project, including the role of valence asymmetries in perception, emotion, morality, language, and communication. Discussions will draw upon insights from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. In addition to our invited speakers, we will also have talks by Filippo Domaneschi ">We will also have a pre-conference event on the 18th of March - details to be announced in early 2026!   Invited speakers:   Hans Alves (Ruhr Universität Bochum) Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod) Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada) Pascale Willemsen (Universität Zürich)   Program Committee and Organization: Isidora Stojanovic (Chair); Morgan Moyer; Michelle Stankovic This event is funded by Isidora Stojanovic’s ERC Advanced Grant “Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” (GA n° 101142133).

“On the instability of processing expressive meaning: A pupillometry study”, a càrrec de Camilo Ronderos (Lund University)

'Why miratives are (un)expected”, a càrrec de Martina Wiltschko (ICREA, UPF)

“High Standards”, a càrrec de Pekka Väyrynen (Professor of Moral Philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds)

'Emotion processing among German-English bilinguals: The Valence-Arousal Interaction', a càrrec de Michelle Stanković (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value will take place at the University of Barcelona & University Pompeu Fabra on November 6-7th, 2025. We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “a...

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejor...

The Valence Asymmetries ERC team is happy to announce that it will be organizing the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference on March 19th-20th 2026 at the Pompeu Fabra University in&...

“VALENCE ASYMMETRIES: The positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to understand the mechanisms that underlie the asymmet...