Editors:    

Eva Telzer and Mitch Prinstein, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Theme of the Special Issue:

This special issue will focus on the role of affect and social media, broadly defined. With the proliferation of social media sites in recent years, use of social media has become nearly ubiquitous. This topic is sorely under-represented in emotion journals, especially given the important role of social media in the lives of contemporary adolescents and adults. The field is in need of empirical articles and reviews that unify this multidisciplinary s0cholarship, synthesizes and critiques research to date, and provides a roadmap for future research efforts in this area. Our goal is to provide a nuanced perspective on the role of social media in the daily emotional experiences of children, adolescents, and adults, including both positive and negative aspects of use, as well as a consideration of how, why, and for whom social media may lead to positive or negative emotional experiences.

The goals of this special issue are to showcase novel theoretical ideas and empirical evidence on the interactions between emotional processes and social media across a range of (inter)disciplinary areas. We invite submissions from multiple disciplines, including – but not limited to – psychology (social, developmental, cultural, cognitive, etc.), sociology, communication science, computer science, and neuroscience. We are especially interested in research on social media use within marginalized and underrepresented populations.  In addition, we are interested in studies that examine specific social media behaviors, functions, and content as research demonstrates these factors may be more important than “screen time” overall. At Affective Science, affective processes are broadly construed, and include emotion, mood, stress, motivation, reward processes, and affective evaluations. This call is directed at empirical articles, but theoretical articles may be considered in exceptional cases.

• Specifications for the research article: limit to 2,000 words (including all introductory and discussion material in the main text, any footnotes, and acknowledgements). Abstract to be no longer than 150 words. Method and Results have no word limits. There are no limits on figures, tables, or references.
• Specifications for the brief report: limit to 750 words (including all introductory and discussion material in the main text, any footnotes, and acknowledgements). Abstract to be no longer than 150 words. Method and Results have no word limits. Maximum of two figures or tables and 20 references.
• Specifications for the theoretical article: limit to 4,000 words (including all main text, any footnotes, and acknowledgements). Abstract to be no longer than 150 words. They are no limits on figures, tables, or references.
• Supplemental materials/results may be submitted with the article and will be part of the review process. We will not publish supplemental material that is un-reviewed (SOM-U).

Proposals are due by May 1, 2023. Authors who will be invited to submit a full article will be notified by June 1^st. Full manuscripts will be due by December 1, 2023, with the plan to finalize the special issue by mid-2024.

Proposals should be one-page double spaced. For research articles a description of the question, participants, design, methods, and results are required. Data collection must be completed and data must be fully analysed at the time of submission. For theoretical articles, include a synopsis of the major themes of the paper.  Proposals can be submitted through . Any questions can be directed to Eva Telzer () or Mitch Prinstein ()

On behalf of the SAS Executive Committee, we are pleased to announce that we have identified two outstanding candidates to run for the open leadership position of President-Elect of SAS. You may read about each candidate’s past experiences in affective science and SAS here, alongside their visions for our Society’s future. SAS members will be invited in an upcoming email to cast their vote. As an expression of our collective gratitude for these candidates’ willingness to volunteer their time and energy toward the continued growth and improvement of our Society, we encourage all members to vote.

*Please note that voting closes on March 18th, 2022 at 5:00pm EDT.

Sincerely,

Barbara L. Fredrickson, SAS Past-President 2021-2022
Paula Niedenthal, SAS Past-President, 2020-2021

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]

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.

Link to the pdf version of the call: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OY6wVrU-PqrfeDb0eMDg5FMmCmLvPFcv/view?usp=sharing

SAS Members may be interested in the following conference announcement:

ISRE 2022 In-Person: Hold the Date!

We are happy to announce that the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) conference will
take place in-person on the 15-18th of July 2022 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
USA.

The ISRE conference is an exciting opportunity to meet international colleagues, present your work, and
to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in emotion research. ISRE members study emotions
from a wide range of disciplines including affective computing, anthropology, art and design, education,
history, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and sociology. The ISRE conference 2022 will
include a keynote address by Antonio Damasio (US).

If you would like to contribute to the ISRE conference by presenting your research, submissions will be
opened in the fall of 2021. We invite you to submit an abstract of max. 250 words. Submissions are
welcome from scholars in all relevant disciplines for symposia (of up to four talks and a discussant, or 5
talks), individual talks, and posters. Symposia are encouraged to include more than one discipline to
facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange. Talks will be 15 minutes long. Abstracts should be submitted
online at the ISRE 2022 conference website which will go live later this summer.

Submissions are also encouraged for pre-conferences to take place on the first day of the conference
(July 15th).

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Los Angeles in July 2022!

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella
Organizers, ISRE 2022 Conference