I recently learned that if you leave a whole foods employee a "rave" review they get a free lunch voucher y'all know what to do 😈

Excited to have this new piece featured today in @RattleMag as part of their issue highlighting Appalachian poets!

🎉Upcoming Job + PhD Opportunities!🎉 As application cycles begin, please keep in mind (and help spread the word) that I plan to recruit a lab manager, postdoc, and PhD student to lead awesome affective and translational research at @PsychPrinceton starting Summer/Fall 2022!

A bit late to twitter: I've started as a postdoc with Laurie Santos working on educational tools for improving subjective wellbeing at scale. Yale and NYC people, we should catch up.

Excited to share that I’m launching a weekly editorial series on Bulletin! I’ll be exploring the latest scientific research on happiness and offering practical tips so you can lead a happier life. Read and subscribe here: lauriesantos.bulletin.com

Dear Yale University kids in New Haven. No I am not a Lyft, I’m just brown. No matter how hard you try to open my door. 🙃

The CosanLab is hiring a new lab manager. Great opportunity to get experience studying emotion and social interactions and also learn Python, fMRI analyses, computational modeling, and more! tinyurl.com/3fj7yewu

New paper at JPSP from me & Diana Tamir! "Six dimensions describe action understanding: The ACT-FASTaxonomy" We derive & validate a 6d taxonomy of action concepts across 7 studies w/ text analysis, behavior, & fMRI. Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-89… Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gt6bw/

My first first-author paper is out at JESP with Zidong Zhao and Diana Tamir! We find that simulating other people causes extensive, long-lasting changes in self-concept. Short 🧵(1/8): sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Delighted to share our latest work (w/ incredible collaborators Oriel FeldmanHall, @psychNerdJae) examining how violations of emotion expectations (i.e., emotion prediction errors) are central to social decision making, now out in Nature Human Behaviour nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited my *first* 1st author publication of grad school is now out in PNASNews! Over a series of behavioral and fMRI studies, meghan meyer (@[email protected]) and I found evidence supporting a "temporal self-compression" effect ⏳🧠 pnas.org/content/118/49…

🎉Postdoc search for my new lab at Psychology@Princeton is now live!🎉 Come advance scientific understanding of emotions! Apply by Feb 1st for priority consideration, but please just reach out if you'd like to apply and need more time. RTs appreciated! princeton.edu/acad-positions…

Our paper is out in PNASNews (w/ Andy Guess, C. Tarnita): Using a model & Twitter data, we show that polarized news coverage can lead people to unwittingly sort their social networks along political lines, even w/o knowing their friends' politics! 1/🧵⬇️ pnas.org/content/118/50…

Our lab at Boston College is recruiting a lab manager and a postdoc to start sometime between Jan and July 2022. Please share/RT, thanks! tinyurl.com/moralitylabpos…

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Excited to share a new review paper on *Planning with Theory of Mind* by Rebecca Saxe, @fierycushman and myself, now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! authors.elsevier.com/a/1fjBQ4sIRvLY… A very brief 🧵:

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the University of New Hampshire Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024! My lab will study how people make new discoveries, especially by exploring, asking questions, and learning from others.

I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at University of New Hampshire Psych in Fall 2024! Check out our lab website at liquinlab.github.io for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying!

If you're still around SfN this morning, I'll be presenting brand new, ongoing work on how sleep promotes the integration of new & existing memories. I'm very excited about where this work is headed, and would love to get thoughts & feedback!

I’ll be considering applications for a PhD student to start in Fall 2025! I’ve been having a blast starting up the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at University of New Hampshire this fall, and I’m excited to grow our lab community. App review begins 1/15. Learn more: liquinlab.github.io