Society Leadership
Executive Committee
Barbara Fredrickson, President [website]
Paula Niedenthal, Past President [website]
Elaine Fox, President Elect [website]
Leah Somerville, Treasurer [website]
Christopher Oveis, Treasurer Elect [website]
Terry Maroney, Secretary [website]
Maital Neta, Member at Large [website]
Michelle “Lani” Shiota, Member at Large [website]
Rachael Jack, 2021 Conference Program Chair [website]
Olivia Zhao, 2020-2021 Student Representative
2021 Program Committee
Chair: Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow [email]
Jean-Julien Aucouturier, CNRS/Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music
Luke Chang, Dartmouth College
Maria Gendron, Yale University
Sara Levens, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Andrea Samson, University of Fribourg
Jen Silvers, University of California, Los Angeles
Adrienne Wood, University of Virginia
Hongbo Yu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Past Co-Chair: Tammy English, Washington University in St. Louis
Past Co-Chair: Amitai Shenhav, Brown University
Preconference Committee
Chair: Ajay Satpute, Northeastern University [email]
Chair-Elect: Aaron Heller, University of Miami
Past Chair: Maital Neta, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Awards Committee
Co-Chair: Paula Niedenthal, University of Wisconsin-Madison [email]
Co-Chair: Maital Neta, University of Nebraska-Lincoln [email]
Barbara Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maria Gendron, Yale University
Lasana Harris, University College London
M. Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Fundraising Committee
Chair: Nicole Giuliani, University of Oregon [email]
Jennifer Silvers, University of California, Los Angeles
Luis Flores, Queen’s University
Past Chair: Hedy Kober, Yale University
Publications Committee
Chair: Carien van Reekum, University of Reading [email]
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
Ann Kring, University of California, Berkeley
Luke Chang, Dartmouth College
Past Chair: Barbara L. Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social Media/Digital Outreach Committee
Chair: Jasmine Mote, Tufts University [email]
Adrienne Wood, University of Virginia
Elise Kalokerinos, University of Melbourne
Rachel Aaron, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer MacCormack, University of Pittsburgh
Jenna Gilchrist, University of Waterloo
Sarah Pressman, University of California, Irvine
Oriana Aragón, Clemson University
Past Chair: Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California, Davis
Website Committee
Chair: M. Justin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University [email]
Jeffrey Girard, Carnegie Mellon University
Past Chair: Peter Sokol-Hessner, University of Denver
Past Chair: Lisa Williams, UNSW Sydney
Leadership Archive
Founders: Lisa Feldman Barrett and James Gross
Past Presidents:
2014: James Gross
2015: Lisa Feldman Barrett
2016: Wendy Berry Mendes
2017: Kevin Ochsner
2018: Ann Kring
2019: Robert Levenson
2020: Paula Niedenthal
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