The Society for Affective Science Student Committee (SASSC) held its first 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition on June 28th and it was a huge success!
Two separate groups competed – PhD students and postbacs/Masters students – with 1st- ($100), 2nd- ($50), and 3rd-place ($25) prizes for each in the form of Amazon gift cards. Congratulations to the winners!
PhD
- Michaela Rice, Colorado State University: “Neural Correlates of Prospective Memory in College Students with Anxiety”
- Ming Li, Tsinghua University: “Deep Learning Model Reveals Infant-Caregiver Vocal-Emotional Alignment in Natural Interaction”
- Yuanchao Li, University of Edinburgh: “Speech Emotion Recognition with Acoustic Foundation Models and LLMs”
Postbac/Masters
- Kellyann Navarre, Cleveland State University: “Stigma and Internalization as Pathways to Suicide Vulnerability in a Borderline Personality Disorder Community Sample”
- Ashley Humphries, University of Nebraska – Lincoln: “Intergenerational Transmission of Valence Bias”
- Maddie Hammer, Washington University in St. Louis: “Not ‘Woman’ Enough? Exploring Feminist Allyship Through Implicit Race-Gender Associations”