@affectscience
Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details! society-for-affective-science.org
🎤Heads up! The SAS social media team will be popping around poster sessions asking a fun question each day. Trainees, early-career researchers, professionals, and faculty—come share your thoughts! We’d love to highlight voices from across the SAS community. 💫
Poster printing in progress! Looking forward to #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social
So excited to have my whole lab at @affectscience.bsky.social this year! Come see what the IDEA Lab is up to!
We're excited about SAS 2026! Mark your calendars to check out our lab's latest work.
Beginning with the Thursday preconferences, we have two lab members presenting at the Dev Precon and the Clinical Precon!
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Looking forward to @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 in Pittsburgh this week, where I will speak on AI empathy in a session by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson, along with @anatperry.bsky.social. Ontology of empathy, and pierogies, a balanced meal. I may arrange an AI #empathy popup coffee ☕
1 week until SAS! 🎉 Showcase our community by sharing how you’re preparing—poster practice, lab meetings, travel selfies, and more! We want to highlight our whole community, from trainees to emeritus faculty. Tag us and we’ll repost! Full list of SAS socials here: linktr.ee/SocietyforAf...
I’m so excited to take this incredible crew to Pittsburgh for #SAS2026 next week! I couldn’t be prouder of the thoughtful, innovative presentations they all put together. @affectscience.bsky.social
Attending @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 and interested in interoception, emotion, and development? I'll give 2 presentations on March 12th on these topics!⬇️
Huge thanks to Expiwell for sponsoring this year's conference awards! Your commitment to uplifting early-career researchers helps strengthen our community and invest in the next generation of affective scientists.
Thank you to BIOPAC Systems, Inc. for sponsoring SAS and presenting a special methods session at this year's conference! Join them Friday at 4:15 PM to explore innovative tools and approaches!
One week to #SAS2026!
We are thrilled to to be sponsored this year by @inclivio.com's EMA software. Inclivio offers reliable, secure, and flexible EMA software built by EMA researchers.
Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing to run your study for *free* on Inclivio
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The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!
This week, we're honoring our SAS 2026 sponsors! Starting with Springer Nature (@springernature.com) --our Platinum Sponsor! Their generous commitment helps make this meeting possible and supports high-quality programming for our community✨
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
Only a few weeks until #SAS2026!
We are proud to be partnering with @inclivio.com to support SAS researchers with an intuitive platform for running EMA studies.
Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your EMA
study for free on Inclivio!
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📢CALLING ALL SAS MEMBERS📢
It's time for board elections! Positions up for vote are: President-Elect, Treasurer-Elect, and Director-at-Large.
Candidate info here: society-for-affective-science.org/board-electi...
Check your email for your ballot (double check the spam folder, too--just in case!!)📫
Join us at SAS 2026 for the Presidential Symposium! Consider the lessons affective scientists can learn from non-human and non-traditional systems like plants, animals, and AI! 🐒🌱🤖🐁 #SAS2026
Join us in celebrating this year's award winners as they share their amazing work on Saturday, March 14th from 9:45am-10:45am at the SAS 2026 Awards Symposium! 🏆
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New from SAS! We’re launching a Teaching Resource Repository and inviting members to share syllabi, slides, readings, and assignments. Help build a shared teaching hub for affective science—submit by Feb 15 (ongoing after!) #sas2026
The Diversity Symposium at SAS 2026 will be a panel discussion exploring what it means to diversify our field, how to infuse consideration of cultural context into research on affect, & what we should be doing differently in the coming decades! Don't miss it! #SAS2026
👀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
SAS merch store just dropped! 🎉 All designs are created by SAS trainees, and every purchase supports trainee funding & scholarships. Show your SAS pride and support the next generation of affective scientists: www.bonfire.com/store/societ...
As we head toward #SAS2026 we are excited to partner with @inclivio.com to support EMA research in affective science.
If you’re attending the conference, like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) this post to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your study on Inclivio for *free*.
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Inspired by the recent passing of Dr. Paul Ekman, SAS will now honor members of the affective science community who have retired or passed away at our annual meeting. Submit nominations here via this form by 02/20/2026: bit.ly/3LOBPpi
Our partnership with the @inclivio.com continues as we get closer to #SAS2026.
Inclivio provides EMA researchers with tools that make data collection easier and more participant friendly.
Like (1 pt) and repost (3 pts) to enter a drawing for free access to Inclivio!
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Don't forget to register for SAS 2026! While you can still register up til the day of the conference, you get the best rates with the early bird special 🐥🦜🐦⬛ #SAS2026
Have a data set, skill, analytical technique, or specialized piece of equipment that you're eager to use, but need help to fill in the missing pieces? Sign up for the Collaboration Fair build community & foster innovative research. Submit by 02/13/26: bit.ly/4q2DeGK
🚨SAS has re-opened poster submissions for TWO of the pre conferences!🚨
The AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & POSITIVE EMOTION pre conferences are accepting additional poster submissions until January 22 at 11:00am Eastern Time!
The portal is available here: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
The book corner is back, back, back again!📚
Exhibit your book at this year's conference--boost visibility AND help make conference programming rich yet affordable. We love feeding 2 birds with 1 scone 🥐🐥🦜
Contact your publisher or send their info to our fundraising committee today!
