Chantal Valdivia-Moreno

I am putting it out into the universe that I am available for guest lectures and any sort of talks or writing this fall! I’d be happy to talk to your students about body image, eating disorders, gender, sexuality, social identity, or violence/safety. :)

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

A lineup showing upcoming talks and posters for the CoLab at CogSci 2025. Wednesday Natalia Vélez: Understanding structural diversity in human collaboration Metareasoning Workshop, Pacific H, 10:30-11:10am Thursday Huang Ham: Collaborative encoding of visual working memory P1-H-244 Friday Bonan Zhao (new PI!): Discovering hidden laws in innovation by recombination P2-Z-231 Elizabeth Mieczkowski: A normative account of specialization: How task and environment shape role differentiation in collaboration P2-M-133 Bella Fascendini: Are two-year-olds intrinsically motivated to explore their own competence? Learning & Development 2, Salon 6, 1-2:30pm Saturday Renée Creppy (first-timer!): Children’s expectations of dominant and prestigious leaders P3-C-40 Natalia Vélez: Thinking in teams Invited Symposium: New Theoretical Directions in Cognitive Science Salon 7, 2:15-3:45pm

The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!

Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...

Anyone out there know of US-based postdoctoral fellowships that are open to applications from non-US citizens?

How do we regulate each other's emotions? We talk big strategies (reappraisal, validation) and subtle mechanisms (acoustics, linguistics) in this new ep of @mindsmatter.bsky.social! Thanks for the fun convo @avamadesousa.bsky.social!

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

I'm now ready to share a rough DRAFT of the teaching resources list for cognitive psychology I've been compiling. As you'll see, I could use further help from you, esp. where there are no entries yet. Pls take a look & share your favorite resources.🙏 I'll keep updating the list this summer. Thanks!

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on:
- Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices
- Development of homophobia in childhood
- Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities
- Structural explanations & stereotypes

👋!

University of California, Riverside - Jobs UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

Two days left to comment. Takes mere seconds. Saves lives.

If you’ve been feeling helpless— this is a thing you can do! It’s been effective in the past.

Healthcare is a human right. Disability & health justice is for everyone. Be LOUD.

Our enemies are spineless, and we outnumber them.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo

Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?

Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Prolific is supposedly running a q&a session on this tomorrow? This is what they say they'll cover:

suite of features that verify and monitor participants
strategies to enhance study design for the highest data qualitydemo on Prolific's data quality safeguarding feature

Does anyone study how kids think about existential issues? Like why do we exist, what is our purpose, etc.

I've got a thesis student interested in this area and I have this feeling like people are doing this work. I want to point her in the right direction!

NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6 The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

Benny is one of my favorite people on the planet and a ✨brilliant scientist! Pls repost/share to your networks!

Six months ago, I accepted a postdoc offer in a fabulous lab. Three days ago, the Trump administration terminated the NSF grant supporting the position. Today, my offer had to be rescinded, and my PhD defense is a week away. (1/3)

The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow, PhD) at Northeastern in Boston is hiring a full-time lab manager! Assist in conducting an NSF CAREER awarded project on adolescent neurocognitive development of motivated learning! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social
for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan
@danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

Many people from my lab are presenting exciting work at SRCD!

What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportations Today Prepared remarks for a public talk on “What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today,” presented April 22 at the Wellesley College Pendleton Atrium:…

Here is the text of my public talk at @wellesley.edu showing how closely the stories of enemy alien internment, denial of due process, and pressures to self-deport that we present in our graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE, presage the daily terrors unfolding across the nation as we speak.

I plan to call my Republican senators every day for the next 365 days. I'm going to chronicle the calls here for accountability, and to hopefully encourage others to do the same.

Day 1 request: Please stop the Trump administration from attempting to limit NIH funding.

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

a yellow sign that says we 're hiring ALT: a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947