Chantal Valdivia-Moreno

@smesquiti.bsky.social would you know the answer to this?

Three cheers to @raziasahi.bsky.social for a *fantastic* talk on her work with @veravine.bsky.social investigating emotion vocabulary in therapy! And keep an eye out for opportunities to join her in her new lab at Rutgers!

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1.
www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together! 😄

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Wait -- last thing! emotions might be an extra weird abstract category because they are more easily embodied (in my opinion) than something like a philosophical category/rules/morals...

Though, I'm not sure that the same *couldn't* be said for lots of other abstract concepts. As abstractness pertains to fluency tasks, # of valid words produced are def lower compared to concrete categories, and coding the words produced is extremely difficult given the abstract-ness of it all...

I brainstormed this question with my lab and we came to the conclusion that emotion words are a particularly difficult/abstract concept because i) affective scientists haven't come to consensus on what is/isn't an emotion word, and ii) the line between what is/isn't an emotion varies across culture

Does anyone know of any studies/experiments using abstract words as cues in verbal fluency? e.g., name as many 'scientific principles' as you can in 60s? (e.g., emotions, philosophical concepts, rules, conventions, etc)

Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms - PubMed How do you feel? To answer this question, one must first think of potential emotion words before choosing the best fit. However, we have little insight into how the ability to rapidly bring to mind em...

There's this one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37023271/
And this other one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We did!! For the emotion fluency paper. There are at least 3 papers that I know used emotion fluency (the way we defined it, I can include below in threads). There's mine: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Bonan's energy and excitement for CogSci are truly unmatched 🤩 Apply!

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

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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