Two research networks funded by the National Institutes of Health are requesting proposals for projects that utilize large scale cohort studies to examine psychological predictors and correlates of health and aging.
The Network for Emotional Well-being: Science, Practice, and Measurement, a collaborative project between UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, in partnership with the NIA-funded Stress Measurement Network, will support several projects via grant funding of up to $15,000 per project. For the full RFP and application [click here]
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The Society for Affective Science’s publication committee is pleased to announce that Ralph Adolphs, Linda Camras and Michelle (Lani) Shiota have been selected to serve as incoming Editors in Chief of the Society’s flagship journal, Affective Science. They will take over the role from founding editors Wendy Berry Mendes, James Gross and Robert Levenson on 1 August 2022. The team brings considerable editorial experience from their leadership roles at other top journals such as Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Emotion and Emotion Review. In addition, the new team covers a range of perspectives and scholarship in subfields of psychology and neuroscience. Their diversity in expertise and prior experience puts the new team in an ideal place to serve Affective Science’s mission to publish research from a range of disciplines, perspectives and methods, and to further grow Affective Science in its next phase.
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We looking for unpublished data/manuscripts regarding the undoing effect of positive emotions for the purpose of a meta-analysis. We are a team of researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University, Stanford University, and University of Amsterdam
Specifically, we are looking for studies with the following characteristics:
Experimental studies that induced positive emotions vs a neutral control following experimentally induced negative emotions or stress.
Autonomous Nervous System recovery was measured during elicitation of positive emotions and during neutral conditions.
If you have any unpublished work on this topic, we would like to include it in our analyses. We would be very grateful if you might either send your study information or data at your earliest convenience (deadline: 15th of October) or contact us with any questions you may have to the following address: .
Additionally, we are interested if you know of any additional unpublished or ongoing studies (by yourselves or other authors) that might be relevant. We would also appreciate it if you would forward our request to any researchers in your network that may be doing relevant work in these areas.
Please find the list of studies that we identified by the literature search. If you cannot find your papers that can contribute to our meta-analysis on this list, please let us know about your work. There have been relatively few studies published about this phenomenon, thus every contribution is highly appreciated
Best regards,
Maciej Behnke & Łukasz D. Kaczmarek
Adam Mickiewicz University
James J. Gross
Stanford University
Mark Assink
University of Amsterdam
List of identified studies:
*Fredrickson, B. L., & Levenson, R. W. (1998). Positive emotions speed recovery from the cardiovascular sequelae of negative emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 12(2), 191–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/026999398379718.
*Fredrickson, B. L., Mancuso, R. A., Branigan, C., & Tugade, M. M. (2000). The undoing effect of positive emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 24(4), 237–258. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010796329158
*Gilbert, K. E., Gruber, J., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. N. (2016). I don’t want to come back down: Undoing versus maintaining of reward recovery in older adolescents. Emotion, 16(2), 214–225. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000128.
*Hannesdóttir, D. K. (2007). Reduction of fear arousal in young adults with speech anxiety through elicitation of positive emotions (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from, https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitsteam/handle/10919/28941/dissertation.pdf?sequences=2&isAllowed=y.
*Kaczmarek, K. (2009). Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect, and cardiovascular activity. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 40(1), 46–53. https://doi.org/10.2478/s10059-009-0007-1.
*Kaczmarek, L. D., Behnke, M., Kosakowski, M., Enko, J., Dziekan, M., Piskorski, J., … & Guzik, P. (2019). High-approach and low-approach positive affect influence physiological responses to threat and anger. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 138, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.01.008
*Medvedev, O., Shepherd, D., & Hautua, M. J. (2015). The restorative potential of soundscapes: A physiological perspective. Applied Acoustics, 96, 20–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.03.004.
*Qin, Y., Lü, W., Hughes, B. M., & Kaczmarek, L. D. (2019). Trait and state approach-motivated positive affects interactively influence stress cardiovascular recovery. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 146, 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.08.011
*Radstaak, M., Geurts, S. A., Brosschot, J. F., Cillessen, A. H., & Kompier, M. A. (2011). The role of affect and rumination in cardiovascular recovery from stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 81(3), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.06.017
*Soenke, M. (2014). The role of positive emotion eliciting activities at promoting physiological recovery from sadness (Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved from, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/325214/1/azu_etd_13407_sip1_m.pdf.
*Sokhadze, E. M. (2007). Effects of music on the recovery of autonomic and electrocortial activity after stress induced by aversive visual stimuli. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 32(1), 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-007-9033-y.
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The Society for Affective Science (SAS) is delighted to announce its call for abstracts to be considered for the 2022 Annual Conference, held in an all-virtual format between March 30th – April 2nd, 2022. This year’s format aims to facilitate international participation and account for schedule adjustments due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Note that a longer call with more specific details will be distributed prior to the submission portal opening.
Advancing Interdisciplinary Science
In line with our goal to facilitate interdisciplinarity, we welcome submissions from across the domain of affective science including anthropology, business, computer science, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, integrative medicine, law, linguistics, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, sociology, theater, and more.
Abstract Submissions
IMPORTANT: Abstracts are changing this year!
All single presenter submissions (posters and flash talks, described below) will require a 1600-character abstract for evaluation and a brief 400-character summary for the conference program.
Symposia submissions will require individual 1600-character abstracts of each talk for evaluation and brief 400-character summaries for the conference program, as well as a single symposium overview abstract of 1600-characters for evaluation and a brief 400-character summary of the session.
Note: All character counts include spaces and indicate the maximum length. Detailed abstract submission instructions will be posted to the website soon.
Four submission types:
Poster: New Idea – Showcasing a new research idea, complete with planned experimental design(s) and analysis approach(es). Data is not required, but pilot data for proof of concept is welcome. Work already pre-registered in another platform is admissible. New theoretical contributions are also welcome in this category.
Poster: New Results – Showcasing the latest new findings in affective science based on data collected and analyzed. We welcome and encourage preliminary work!
Thematic Flash Talk – Showcasing the latest findings based on data already collected and analyzed or new theoretical contributions in affective science.
Symposium – Set of talks providing an in-depth perspective on individual research areas/topics within affective science. Sessions can be comprised of 3 talks with a discussant or 4 talks. All symposia must be chaired. Submitted symposia will be part of SAS for the first time in 2022!
No fee to submit an abstract. The fee structure for conference registration will be announced soon.
We encourage submissions from authors at all career stages.
Submission Deadline
Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, November 22nd, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 — last time zone on earth) to be considered for inclusion in the program.
Submission Review Process
Abstracts will be evaluated based on scholarly merit by a double-blind peer review process with our Abstract Review Board. Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by the end of January 2022. Presenters must be the first author on the submitted abstract. All presenters must register and pay to attend the meeting.
Questions?
For abstract submissions, please contact the Abstracts Committee Communications Lead, Katherine Aumer at . For any other SAS 2022 conference related questions, please contact the Program Co-Chairs, Stephanie Carpenter at and Maria Gendron at .
For more updates, watch our website and follow us on Twitter (@affectScience)!
SUBMISSION PORTAL OPEN SOON!
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The 2021 SAS virtual Speed Networking Event offers registrants of the 2021 conference the opportunity to have informal 30-minute one on one virtual meetings with leaders in the field of affective science. During these meetings, mentees have the opportunity to introduce themselves to their mentor and ask research and career related questions.
If you would like to participate as either a mentor or mentee, you must sign up during conference registration by April 1st2021 and provide up to 10 keywords that describe your interests. The SAS Speed Networking Committee will then match mentors and mentees on the basis of these keywords using the neuromatch algorithm. Participants will be informed with match information, including contact details by April 7th 2021. Mentees and mentors can then self-arrange a private 30-minute meeting before, during, or after the conference via any video conferencing platform (e.g., Gather.Town, Zoom, Skype, etc). Meeting spaces will be provided in Gather.Town during the conference.
Methods Event
The Methods Event offers an opportunity to focus on the “how” in a structured small-group setting. Discussion leaders will draw on their expertise to introduce and summarize selected methodologies, and then will facilitate dialogue within the small group. Topics range from tools used in the laboratory to those used in the field. They will include well-established methods and experimental innovations. The Methods Event is meant to help you to expand, refine, or rethink your methodological toolkit, whatever your career stage.
Discussion leaders will include: Alexandra Crosswell (University of California, San Francisco), Derek Isaacowitz (Northeastern University), Tamlin Conner (University of Otago, New Zealand), Tiffany Ho (Stanford University), Christian Waugh (Wake Forest University), Nicole Giuliani (University of Oregon), Heather Urry (Tufts University), Samira Shaikh (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Catherine Norris (Swarthmore College), Zakia Hammal (Carnegie Mellon University).
Live Demos
We will demonstrate how to measure and analyze Heart Rate Variability and Skin Conductance Responses using Biopac’s ECG and EDA modules and associated analysis software.
Speed Networking Event
The Speed Networking Event will provide attendees the opportunity to interact with several leaders in the field of affective science, briefly and in an informal setting. Each networking event attendee will get to meet one-on-one with several of these mentors. This meeting will give mentees an opportunity to introduce themselves and ask the mentor questions related to their research, career advice, or any other burning questions they have. Each of these meetings will last around five minutes, after which mentees will rotate to meet with another host.
Hosts will include: Daniel Foti (Purdue University), Elaine Fox (University of Oxford), Barbara Fredrickson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), James Gross (Stanford University), Lasana Harris (University College London), Kristin Lagattuta (University of California, Davis), Dacher Keltner (University of California, Berkeley), Hedy Kober (Yale University), Ann Kring (University of California, Berkeley), Robert Levenson (University of California, Berkeley), Kristen Lindquist (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Terry Maroney (Vanderbilt University), Iris Mauss (University of California, Berkeley), Kateri McRae (University of Denver), Wendy Berry Mendes (University of California, San Francisco), Joseph Mikels (DePaul University), Paula Niedenthal (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Matt Nock (Harvard University), Sarah Pressman (University of California, Irvine), Leah Somerville (Harvard University), Virginia Sturm (University of California, San Francisco), and Maya Tamir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
Preconference: Emotion Regulation
The Emotion Regulation Pre-Conference will feature emotion regulation research from various disciplines and topics, consider emotion regulation from different perspectives, and share exciting new findings and methods. It will feature a range of formats from short talks to panel discussions to breakout groups. All presentations will be invited. Our goal is to have fun, build connections among those interested in emotion regulation (faculty, post-docs, students), and share ideas about new directions in emotion regulation research. This year’s program includes a methods spotlight on the use EMA (ecological momentary assessment) in emotion regulation research.
Preconference: Positive Emotions
The Seventh Annual SAS Positive Emotions Pre-Conference will feature state-of-the-science research on positive emotions. The Positive Emotions Pre-Conference is designed to bring researchers together from a variety of fields to advance the science of positive emotions using a data-centric approach. We encourage thinking, discussing, and integrating across disciplines, and feature speakers who range across research lab traditions to promote diversity in positive-emotion research. This year’s pre-conference will feature talks showcasing the latest findings in the field and ample opportunities for collaborative discussions and for attendees to connect with one another. Highlights include an interactive panel on big data in positive affective science, featuring speakers from both academia and industry, and a series of invited talks focusing on new and unpublished work. The preconference also features submitted flash talks and posters, and offers prizes for the best flash talk and posters presented by trainees.
Preconference: Culture & Emotion
This preconference will highlight recent advances in research on the interplay between culture and emotion, featuring two themes: “Culture and Emotion Perception” (focusing on research investigating cultural influences on emotion perception) and “Cultural Fit of Emotions” (focusing on implications of emotions that fit (or do not fit) in their cultural contexts). The preconference will include two thematic sessions with invited speakers, a data blitz session, a poster session, and a keynote address by Batja Mesquita. Invited speakers include Rachael Jack, Maria Gendron, Taka Masuda, and Ursula Hess for Culture and Emotion Perception session, and Jeanne Tsai, Jose Soto, Yukiko Uchida, and Will Tsai for Cultural Fit of Emotions session. Abstract submissions for data blitz and poster presentations will be solicited (deadline January 15, 2019)
