Katie Hoemann

The Emotions in Context Lab preps for SAS 2026. Looking forward to seeing Dr. Ratna Kandala present our hot-off-the-press work! @affectscience.bsky.social

Perspective:
Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

👀Take a look at this year's invited speakers! Spread out across all 3 days of the conference, they will cover a range of topics from AI tools, interpersonal relationships, language, and how each intersects with affective science. Can't wait to see you all there!! #sas2026

REGISTER FOR SAS 2026 NOW! EARLY BIRD DEADLINE IS 1/31/26! SEE YOU IN PITTSBURGH👀

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

If you're an affective scientist in the Carolinas or Mid-Atlantic, check out this awesome upcoming event! wfu-cvent.cventevents.com/event/c2ede2...

This is the culmination of years of reading, thinking, and talking with @batjamesquita.bsky.social, Dirk Geeraerts, Lyle Ungar, Yeasle Lee, Èvelyne Dussault, and Simon Devylder. I’m so proud of the roadmap we’ve created, and excited to see where it takes us (all).

In our perspective in Communications Psychology, we use findings from psychology and linguistics to show how accessing attention, construal, and appraisal through language can open new vistas for the science of emotion.

Language doesn’t just tell you how someone is feeling; it reveals what they are attending to, the perspective they are adopting, how they are evaluating the situation. These processes – which we refer to as attention, construal, and appraisal – are how people make meaning of themselves in the world.

The construction of emotional meaning in language Communications Psychology - Emotional meaning should be studied through language. Language may capture emotional meaning by identifying the concerns that are put in focus within a given situation,...

How can language be used to study, in detail and high dimension, the processes by which people understand and experience their emotions? We have some proposals: rdcu.be/eu6ZR

A bar plot comparing the storytelling rates for different topics in the example dataset of congressional speeches. There are often large differences between storytelling and non-storytelling for individual topics. For example, the topic whose top words read "NUM, years, service, great, state" has much more storytelling that non-storytelling.

The top five congressional speeches for the topic "NUM, years, service, great state." All of the documents honor the lives of important people.

I updated our 🔭StorySeeker demo. Aimed at beginners, it briefly walks through loading our model from Hugging Face, loading your own text dataset, predicting whether each text contains a story, and topic modeling and exploring the results. Runs in your browser, no installation needed!
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Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you do ESM research, please fill out this Short ESM Survey on open-ended items. 🤓
You can fill it out even if you do not use open-ended items in your own ESM research (will be even shorter 😊) rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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What is the future of Affective Science? SAS is proud to share our 2024-2034 Strategic Plan, a roadmap for advancing affective science, supporting scholars, and sharing our discoveries to improve lives. Learn more about our vision, mission, & values: society-for-affective-science.org/wp-content/u...

👀 Hope to see you at a Methods Roundtable at SAS 2025! Over lunch, we'll connect with an expert and up to 9 peers to dive into key methodological topics in an informal setting. Whether you're new to an area or refining your expertise, get ready to explore new ideas~

A new survey! This time we're seeking bilingual participants who are proficient in both English and either Spanish or Dutch

pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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📢 Help spread the word!

UNH is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology with a specialization in social cognition. Review of applications starts on January 20th!

jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63725

Come work with me in New Hampshire!!

Hi! Yes, please add me to the list. Thank you for coordinating this!