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Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

APS and psychological scientists from seven states (AZ, GA, MA, PA, TN, TX, VA) are headed to the Capitol this morning to advocate for U.S. National Science Foundation and NIH funding! #PsychologicalScience #HillDay

Trump ripped NIH funding away from scientists already working on cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more. For me, this is personal.

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Harvard Derangement Syndrome | My new essay in the New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with Walter Isaacson & Christiane Amanpour on Amanpour and Company, airing on PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on CNN International earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

Congratulations to the 2025 APS William James Fellow Award recipients! 🎉Lisa Feldman Barrett, Arie Kruglanski, Randall Engle #APS25DC

Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! Juan Del Toro, Ph.D., Chaz Firestone, Ashley Watts, Justin Minue Kim (M. Justin Kim), julia_a_leonard, Mark Thornton, and Professor Gemma Sharp #APS25DC

PREPRINT THREAD🧵! Ever wanted to know how to ABOLISH THE VALUE FUNCTION, and why IT'S ALL TAXIS NAVIGATION? Maxwell Ramstead and I wrote up some notes for y'all. arxiv.org/abs/2505.17024

Excited to announce the publication of the 3rd edition of The Psychology of Emotion, co-authored with Maital Neta and Adrienne Wood. We did a huge revision of the previous edition! Society for Affective Science Society for Personality and Social Psychology UW–Madison UW-Madison Psychology

✨Deadline approaching, June 1st!✨ Apply if you want to investigate brain orchestration in visual (free!) exploration. You will learn a bunch of cool cog neuro techniques, and get to work with a great team of scientists within and beyond the lab. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Meet julia_a_leonard, assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient. Julia discusses her efforts to understand how children approach #learning. psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in Nature Human Behaviour, led by the great Juliana Trach! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" nature.com/articles/s4156…

President Trump’s FY26 budget for U.S. National Science Foundation will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6% These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

Our newest paper, led by Romy Frömer and Fred Callaway, is now out in Open Mind: “Considering What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Expectations and Confidence Guide Value Integration in Value-Based Decision-Making” 🔗direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

Dear researchers on AI-empathy, We (Anat Perry @anatperry.bsky.social, Michael Inzlicht, and Desmond Ong) are writing a short review of current research on AI and empathy. We know your published work but are also looking for preprints or submitted papers that we may have missed. Share in comments!

Our newest preprint “A novel approach-avoidance task to study decision making under outcome uncertainty” investigates the dynamics of approach-avoid decisions! Check out biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…, led by Ziwei Cheng and Nadja R. Ging Jehli from @Franklab_LNCC.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for 1 to I Mauss/S Chen, 2 to L Wilbrecht