SAS 2026
March 12-14, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Welcome to the Society for Affective Science
The Society for Affective Science is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering basic and applied research in the variety of fields that study affect broadly defined. To achieve this goal, we hold conferences annually to showcase research drawn internationally from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, computer science, law, economics, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, business, political science and other related fields.
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Call for Nominations: SAS Executive Board of Directors
The Society for Affective Science (SAS) invites nominations for the following positions on its Executive Board of Directors. President-Elect The President-Elect serves a three-year term: one year as President-Elect, one year as President, and one year as...
Remembering Dr. Paul Ekman
Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms, and his fierce...
SASolina – Regional Event on September 19, 2025
SAS is excited to officially announce the inaugural Mid-Atlantic offshoot conference, which we are affectionately calling SASolina, and will take place at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Friday, September 19, 2025. The theme of this SASolina...