Society Leadership
Executive Committee
Maya Tamir, President [website]
Elaine Fox, Past President [website]
Maital Neta, President Elect [website]
Christopher Oveis, Treasurer [website]
Michelle “Lani” Shiota, Member at Large [website]
Nicole Giuliani, Member at Large [website]
Christian Waugh, Secretary [website]
Andrea Samson, 2023 Program Co-Chair [website] [website]
Elizabeth (Liz) daSilva, 2023 Program Co-Chair [website]
2022 Program Committee
Co-Chair: Maria Gendron, 2022 Conference Program Co-Chair [website]
Co-Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, 2022 Conference Program Co-Chair [website]
Shir Atzil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Katherine Aumer, University of Hawaii, West Oahu
Andy Chen, National Taiwan University
Elizabeth da Silva, Indiana University—Purdue University Columbus
Jonas Everaert, Tilburg University
Katie Greenaway, University of Melbourne
Sara Levens, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Catherine Ortner, Thompson Rivers University
Andrea Samson, Unidistance Suisse & University of Fribourg
Jennifer Silvers, University of California, Los Angeles
Adrienne Wood, University of Virginia
Hongbo Yu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Past Chair: Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow
Awards Committee
Chair: Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email]
Past Chair: Maital Neta, University of Nebraska – Lincoln [email]
Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Lasana Harris, University College London
Elaine Fox, University of Oxford
Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
Abigail Marsh, Georgetown University
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Jennifer MacCormack, University of Pittsburgh
Fundraising Committee
Membership/Outreach Committee
Co-Chair: Nicole Roberts, Arizona State University [email]
Co-Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, University of Michigan [email]
Anthony Atkinson, Durham University
Jess Datu, Education University of Hong Kong
Lameese Eldesouky, The American University in Cairo
Katie Greenaway, University of Melbourne
Katie Hoemann, KU Leuven
Sara Levens, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Steven Most, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Magdalena Rychlowska, Queen’s University Belfast
Kaitlyn Werner, University of Pennsylvania
Jolie Wormwood, University of New Hampshire
Publications Committee
Chair: Carien van Reekum, University of Reading [email]
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
Luke Chang, Dartmouth College
Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Georgetown University
Past Chair: Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social Media/Digital Outreach Committee
Co-Chair: Jasmine Mote, Tufts University [email]
Co-Chair: Jennifer MacCormack, University of Pittsburgh [email]
Elise Kalokerinos, University of Melbourne
Rachel Aaron, Johns Hopkins University
Jenna Gilchrist, University of Waterloo
Sarah Pressman, University of California, Irvine
Oriana Aragón, Clemson University
Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, University of Essex
Sarah Sperry, University of Michigan
Past Chair: Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis
Website Committee
Chair: Jeffrey Girard, University of Kansas [email]
Augusta Gaspar, Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Past Chair: Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
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
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.
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