Invited Flash Talks
Spotlight on leading affective scientists and their seminal works, followed by open audience Q&A.
Clicking on each speaker’s name will take you to their personal websites.

Gal Sheppes
Transcending the "Good & Bad" and "Here & Now" in emotion regulation

Yukiko Uchida
Threat based awe induces meaning making process and interdependently oriented happiness

Nilam Ram
The Human Screenome Project and the emotional dynamics of individuals’ everyday digital lives

Aaron Heller
Computational modeling of personally meaningful events to determine the drivers of human emotion

James Cavanagh
Best experiment ever! Puppies, milkshakes, and the neurobiology of anhedonia

Jessica Lougheed
Emotion dynamics in parent-adolescent dyads

Emily Mower Provost
Human-centered computing: Using speech to understand behavior

Shushi Namba
The facial dynamics of genuine and deliberate of surprise
Uchida/Sheppes/Namba: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021; 1:15pm – 2:15pm JST (4:15am – 5:15am UTC)
Heller/Provost/Ram: Friday, April 16th, 2021; 1:15pm – 2:15pm BST (12:15pm – 1:15pm UTC)
Cavanagh/Lougheed/Hoggard: Friday, April 16th, 2021; 1:15pm – 2:15pm PDT (8:15pm – 9:15pm UTC)