Have you caught our latest ep on identity with Dr. Pauline Ho? Make sure to listen here mindsmatterpodcast.com/s4-ep-5-your-m…, & drop any questions you have in this thread 🧵 Plus, Dr. Ho is building on this research and is recruiting participants. Help spread the word!

Please apply and/or forward to your networks! Review begins 12/18!

This was fun! Many thanks to Ava & Beth for having me on the Minds Matter Podcast

Our human relationship project (see the past thread below) has now been officially published in Nature Human Behavior nature.com/articles/s4156…. The article PDF can be freely download here rdcu.be/edpa2. We also wrote a behind-the-paper blog communities.springernature.com/posts/mapping-….

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…

I am heartbroken to share that my partner, Dr. Courtney Durdle, passed away. Courtney was a singular, positive force who left an indelible impact on everyone she met. To honor her memory, please consider supporting the Dr. Courtney Durdle Foundation: donorbox.org/dr-courtney-du…

The world recently lost a phenomenal researcher, a true force of nature and one of my favorite people ever. If you believe in impactful science and mentorship of underrepresented students, please consider donating to her foundation (link below). Love you forever, Courtney ❤️ 🐢

The Emotion Health and Psychophysiology lab at Yale University is hiring a lab manager. Applicants should have a BA/BS in psychology or related field. Please send CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]

New Episode!! Have you ever seen a robot that looks almost human, but something feels a bit off? Dr. Julija Vaitonytė joins us to discuss her research on this phenomenon of the uncanny valley and explain why this eerie feeling is provoked. Links in 🧵!!

Five years ago, Daniel Gilbert and Susan Fiske contacted me and Eli Finkel to join them as editors for the HSP 6th ed. Dan envisioned a completely free, open access edition and I doubted it was possible. Today, Dan proved me wrong, and I present the HSP 6th ed.

New paper out in JMIR Publications! Scaling a brief digital well-being intervention (the Big Joy Project) and sociodemographic moderators. We explored how a 7-day digital intervention impacted well-being across 17,000+ participants worldwide. jmir.org/2025/1/e72053/

New Episode! Dr. Razia Sahi (@raziasahi.bsky.social) joins Ava and Beth to discuss the details of social emotion regulation, including the use of reappraisal and validation to help navigate difficult emotions! Links in 🧵

🎊 New paper out! In this Trends in Cognitive Sciences Forum, we (with Lucas Molleman and Björn Lindström) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution: cell.com/trends/cogniti…

New episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in bio!🔗🎧

Looking for a new PhD student this cycle to join the lab UCSB Psychological and Brain Sciences! Reach out if you are interested in social cognition in infancy and childhood, especially early expectations about social relationships. See our lab page liberman.psych.ucsb.edu for more details! 1/

New work led by Jonathan Doriscar on responses to police brutality (justification and outrage), with analyses of YouTube video comments and a behavioral experiment. Very grateful to have gotten to work on this with the team! 🙏