Excited to be part of this great precon!

⚡ Big ideas, short and sweet! Got a research finding or new theory you’re excited about? Flash Talks are the perfect way to deliver your message quickly, packing your best work into a dynamic 6-minute presentation followed by audience Q&A.

Interested in how infants and young children learn about plants and nature? I am currently looking for PhD students to be part of my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. The application deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

🎤 Deep dives, big discussions! Want to bring together a team of experts and give the audience a 360-degree view of your research area? Consider a symposium! More information & submission link here: society-for-affective-science.org/2025-sas-annua…

I admire how creative and funny the YES Lab members are. Thank you YES Lab UCSB

The inaugural SAS preconference on Clinical Affective Science will explore the vibrant, emerging area of research at the intersection of affective & clinical science. We'll bring together scholars at all career stages to articulate the goals & boundaries of this growing subfield!

✨Dive into emotion regulation research! Join us for an Early Career Data Blitz, EMA methods session, and talks on real-world applications to pressing issues. Connect with faculty, post-docs, and students as we share ideas and explore new directions in ER at the ER Preconference!

🚨 New job🚨 The Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at UCSB is hiring a new Director for the Brain Imaging Center! Join us in beautiful SB 🏝️ and intellectually stimulating and collegial department (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858

🚨 New paper out with Sam Nastase and Haxby Lab! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae and in collaboration with Fan Yang explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

How does the human mind understand social relationships? This paper by Wang et al. discovers a universal conceptual structure across modern and ancient cultures, with five major dimensions and three core categories. Dr. Yin Wang nature.com/articles/s4156…

First article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences , led by excellent YES Lab UCSB member and graduate student Ava Ma de Sousa . Commentary on a recent cross-cultural work on conceptual representation of social relationships by Dr. Yin Wang et al. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Excited to share my co–first-authored paper with Jinxiao Zhang and teamwork with tor wager and @JamesGross in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! We discuss emerging findings and a potential framework of neural overlap between emotion generation and regulation cell.com/trends/cogniti…

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in Communications Psychology 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. (1/4) nature.com/articles/s4427…

🚨Historical Psych Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23,link below. We especially encourage early-career researchers to submit. Any research on psychological change, cultural evolution,or historical context of social psych is welcome!