Grace Hart (she/her)

Me presenting at a lectern in the Crystal room at the Biltmore hotel

Presenters at the interpersonal SRP symposium

Me and Aidan in the Crystal conference room at the Biltmore in front of a projector

Me and my friends at the Biltmore hotel in front of glass doors

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford!

@sydadams.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social
@jmote.bsky.social

Thanks very much to the organizers for facilitating such a great event– truly one of the best poster sessions I've attended! 😊

Had a great time presenting my poster exploring people's thoughts & feelings about death w/ #BERTopic this evening at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat– it was wonderful learning more about others' work and nerding out! 💀🪦
#SRP2025

I called the phone number listed on their site and was directed by an automated message to email grfp@nsf.gov— I sent them an email and it didn’t bounce so that might be worth a try!

I reply here to Mickey Inzlicht’s critique of our assessment of the TMT literature -led by former grad students, Lihan Chen and Rachele Benjamin. We consider the question of how can we best evaluate a literature and, judging from his critique, reach a controversial conclusion.

The Reports of Terror Management Theory’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated Last week I declared the social psychology of death officially dead.

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

(6/6) Big thank you to co-authors @sharinahamm.bsky.social , @leilyb.bsky.social , @kathrynfox.bsky.social , @shirleybwang.bsky.social- and bluesky-less Kathryn Coniglio, Erin Reilly, and Leah Somerville- for their support in this project!

(5/6) This reveals a striking dimension of emotion regulation: that many adolescents sometimes engage in self-destructive behaviors not to escape negative emotions, but to amplify them. Implications for these findings can be found in our manuscript.

Figure 1: Stacked bar charts showing frequency of endorsement of contra-hedonic functions of restrictive eating, binge eating, purging, and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI).

(4/6) We found that: (1) contra-hedonic functions are not just present but prevalent, (2) contra-hedonic functions are most common for NSSI, and (3) contra-hedonic functions are consistently associated with a desire to self-punish.

(3/6)...*pro*-hedonic motivations for these behaviors- i.e., how people use them to feel *better.* However, we were curious if people ever use these behaviors to feel *worse* given that even healthy people voluntarily pursue activities that induce negative emotions.

(2/6) Usually we think of people as being motivated to feel good- in research, practice & everyday life. But we know that people also do things to feel bad- like listening to sad music/watching scary movies.

Historically, explanations of NSSI & ED behaviors have only examined...

(1/6) New pre-print alert! 🤩🚨

We provide new evidence for contra-hedonic functions of NSSI & ED behaviors in adolescents.

See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Before the attempt: How people think and plan in suicide crises Cognitive processes preceding suicidal attempts (SA) remain poorly understood, particularly in distinguishing those who act on suicidal thoughts from …

Check out our new paper "Before the attempt: How people think and plan in suicide crises."

We characterized contemplation & planning in suicide crises, and identified factors that related to classification in the attempt group (vs. a plan-only group).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Woohoo! We had so much fun working on this! 🤩

Calling for abstracts for the 2025 @abctnow.bsky.social convention by Aug 15! Submit your Student SIG poster abstracts here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Slide from Dr. Debora Bell's (Mizzou) keynote talk on how to navigate our career paths.

Expert panel on multiple paths we can go with a psych degree!

Shoutout to @abctstudentsig.bsky.social & Chair @francesghart.bsky.social for a rewarding & enriching FREE student research symposium today! 🤩

Honored @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social could be a part of it.

Thanks so much for your support Matt- couldn’t have done it without you! 😁🙏

Thank you for your support in making this happen!! 😊

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...

YouTube video by Frances Grace Hart Applying Natural Language Processing for Death-Related Phenomena Detection

Thanks to @sharinahamm.bsky.social for recording my talk- viewable here!

youtu.be/PGK7CaxkUZ8?...

That’s a wrap! Thanks so much to everyone who came to our symposium- it was so much fun! So grateful to have chaired my first symposium with such a great group! 🤩

#APSDC25

@jnfrltackett.bsky.social

The CCS lab is en route to #APS2025! Come check out our exciting research tomorrow and Sunday 🤩

@francesghart.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social

Counting down the days til our #ABCTStudentSymposium2025! Be sure to register on our website & check out our program: 1a812b7f-01db-43fd-b528-3a2cdc1be9c4.filesusr.com/ugd/3a1e4b_a...

Such a great conference! 😁

Last weekend my lab attended our first conference together @harvardwipsych.bsky.social! It was an *incredible* way to wrap up our first year 😍

@sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social

Debora J Bell biography

Exploring careers in psychology mid symposium panel

📅SAVE THE DATE | May 31st 2025
We are excited to have Dr. Debora J Bell as our keynote speaker for this year's #ABCTStudentSymposium2025!
Additionally, we are excited to share our mid-symposium professional development session!

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO SUBMIT!

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon FOR FREE than with this star-studded crew (and me)??

Sunday, March 23, 2:30-4:00 ET

Register below to join over 130 of your friends and colleagues! 👇

A poster showing the Rod of Asclepius (I.e., a snake with mouth open, coiled around a staff) with red text that reads “don’t tread on med”

A poster showing the Rod of Asclepius (I.e., a snake with mouth open, coiled around a staff) with red text that reads “don’t tread on stem”

Although I won’t be able to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally tomorrow, I’m with y’all in spirit! In solidarity, I’ve designed some posters anyone should feel free to use if they’d like.

Thanks to @cdelawalla.bsky.social and others for organizing!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence