Society Leadership
Executive Committee
Maital Neta, President [website]
Maya Tamir, Past President [website]
Kristen A. Lindquist , President Elect [website]
Christopher Oveis, Treasurer [website]
Rachael Jack, Member at Large [website]
Nicole Giuliani, Member at Large [website]
Christian Waugh, Secretary [website]
Erik Nook 2024 Program Co-Chair [website]
Sa-Kiera Hudson, 2024 Program Co-Chair [website]
Angela Smith, Student Committee Representative [email]
2023 Program Committee
Co-Chair: Andrea Samson, 2023 Conference Program Co-Chair [website] [website]
Co-Chair: Elizabeth daSilva, 2023 Conference Program Co-Chair [website]
Shir Atzil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lameese Eldesouky, The American University in Cairo
Jonas Everaert, Tilburg University
Ivan Grahek, Brown University
Yuval Hart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yael Millgram, Harvard University
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Jen McCormack, University of Virginia
Erik Nook, Princeton University
David Preece, Curtin University
Magda Rychlowska, Queen’s University Belfast
Angela Smith, University of Toronto
Adrienne Wood, University of Virginia
Hongbo Yu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Past Chairs:
Co-Chair: Maria Gendron, 2022 Conference Program Co-Chair
Co-Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, 2022 Conference Program Co-Chair
Awards Committee
Chair: Elaine Fox, The University of Adelaide [email]
Past Chair: Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email]
Dylan Gee, Yale University
Katie Greenaway, University of Melbourne
Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley
Anthony Ong, Cornell University
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Jennifer MacCormack, University of Virginia
Maya Tamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fundraising Committee
Membership/Outreach Committee
Co-Chair: Nicole Roberts, Arizona State University [email]
Co-Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison [email]
Anthony Atkinson, Durham University
Jess Datu, Education University of Hong Kong
Lameese Eldesouky, The American University in Cairo
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Steven Most, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Magdalena Rychlowska, Queen’s University Belfast
Jolie Wormwood, University of New Hampshire
Kyle Barrentine, University of Virginia
Publications Committee
Chair: Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Georgetown University [email]
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
Luke Chang, Dartmouth College
Past Chair: Carien van Reekum, University of Reading
Social Media/Digital Outreach Committee
Chair: Jennifer MacCormack, University of Virginia [email]
Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, University of Essex
Sarah Sperry, University of Michigan
Past Chair: Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis
Past Co-Chair: Jasmine Mote, Tufts University
Website Committee
Chair: Jeffrey Girard, University of Kansas [email]
Augusta Gaspar, Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Eva Liu, Yale University
Past Chair: Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Newsletter Committee
Editor & SAS Membership & Outreach Committee member:
Katie Greenaway, University of Melbourne
Science Feature & SAS Membership & Outreach Committee member:
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Student Update Facilitator & SAS Membership & Outreach Committee member:
Jess Datu, The Education University of Hong Kong
SAS Membership & Outreach Committee Co-Chair:
Stephanie Carpenter, University of Michigan
SAS Membership & Outreach Committee Co-Chair:
Nicole Roberts, Arizona State University
The Newsletter Committee thanks many SAS members for their ad-hoc contributions – your hard work keeps our newsletter running! See individual stories for their byline.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Chair: Michelle (Lani) Shiota, Arizona State University [email]
Derek Isaacowitz, Northeastern University
Joseph Mikels, DePaul University
Yuri Miyamoto, Hitotsubashi University
Jose Soto, Pennsylvania State University
Angela Smith, University of Toronto
Livia Sacchi, University of Lausanne
Leadership Archive
Founders: Lisa Feldman Barrett and James Gross
Past Presidents:
2014: James Gross, Stanford University
2015: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University
2016: Wendy Berry Mendes, University of California, San Francisco
2017: Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University
2018: Ann Kring, University of California, Berkeley
2019: Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley
2020: Paula Niedenthal, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021: Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022: Elaine Fox, University of Oxford
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