1st of 3 papers I had accepted this semester is online! This contribution to the special issue on the future of Developmental Psychopathology is a pre-registered systematic review looking at how friendships influence the mental health of maltreated youth🧵 bit.ly/3PAiarW

The Badger T-shirt finally arrived! 🦡 Very excited to announce I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison UW-Madison Psychology as a new faculty. Couldn’t have asked for a better department to work in. It is a dream come true!

Yay Pearl Han Li you are a rock star! If you’re looking for a moral/social learning lab and a brilliant supportive mentor look no further!

Bravo Jamie!

And which university is pictured on Nate Silver's post encouraging attendance at flagship state universities? Why, UW-Madison, of course!

TWO renewable Teaching Faculty positions in UW Psychology. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/teaching-…

If you have a 10-13 year old, please consider helping ミーム complete an online study of children’s decision-making. Participate anytime – no appointment needed! uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_02…

UW-Madison is hiring 2 social psychologists! -1 tenure-track position (deadline: 9/15/24) -1 tenured/open rank position (deadline: 10/8/24) More info here: psych.wisc.edu/psychology-dep… Please RT and spread the word! Also happy to help with any questions.

Join us in the SPAN Lab! I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle. Apply if interested in questions related to how stress shapes development. Particularly a good fit if interested in loneliness, emotion, learning, decision making, and psychophysiology. Pls RT (1/3)

Lots of research attention to how we learn to infer other people's feelings. We always give a nod to the importance of context but don’t often integrate this into a task. Here, we examine how children versus adults combine facial and contextual cues. rdcu.be/dVjs5

“Arousal Might Not Be Anything to Get Excited About” journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XWGB4Q6… A (hopefully productive) challenge to a major assumption about what constitutes emotion More info: seth pollak.bsky.social

Postdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications due 2/7/25. emotion.wisc.edu

It's been a hectic December, but finally getting around to sharing our (Seth Pollak Child Emotion Research Lab) new theoretical paper! We challenge assumptions around the role of arousal in emotion , highlighting ambiguity in how the construct is defined and measured. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XWGB4Q6…

And our response: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Child adversity influences future decision-making. This systematic review suggests adversity shifts individuals to prioritize information about risks and de-value information about reward- likely adaptive in adverse contexts. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01… Karen Smith ミーム

New issue of Dædalus on the science of caregiving. Megan Gunnar and I discuss scientific data parents can rely upon to make decisions about the care of their children. amacad.org/sites/default/… OPEN ACCESS CASBS American Academy of Arts & Sciences Entire issue: bit.ly/3Qm49ha

Call for Papers: Rigorous science that examines children's developmental trajectories in the long shadow of COVID-19, with a special focus on heterogeneity among children’s developmental contexts, social experiences, and outcomes. srcd.org/call-papers-sp…

While preschoolers initially rely on perceptual information from faces, this diminishes with age and the crux of emotional development shifts to conceptual knowledge gained through social experience. nature.com/articles/s4146… Wanze Xie