Society for Affective Science

T-minus 2 weeks until SAS abstracts are due! The conference ✨️resort✨️ has 3 pools and a 4-story water slide👀 you won't want to miss it!☀️🌴 #sas2027

“Join us at the Computational Affective Linguistics (CAL) preconference at SAS’27! We invite submissions that discuss new ideas and new findings on topics at the intersection of language, computation, and affect. Details at bit.ly/4jNQ2Bm!

Ten more days to make your vision for SAS merch a possible reality! Get those submissions entered!!

⚠️ Don’t get caught hanging on the edge! SAS 2027 abstracts are due 11/02 at 11:59PM Baker Island Time. Submit yours and join us in San Diego this March! 🌴 #SAS2027 #PotatoChipRock

Submissions for the SAS Emotion Regulation pre-conference are due Thursday, 10/01! We're looking for avant-garde discussions, hot takes, & emerging early career work ! Get your panel discussions, spicy talks, and early career flash talks to razia.sahi@rutgers.edu soon! #SAS2027

How are we—as affective scientists & as humans with emotions—engaging with AI? Check out the call for Papers on Affective Processes & Artificial Intelligence. Due Dec 31, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/... #AffectiveScience #AI

Who's applying to grad school in affective science? Come to the annual SAS webinar! See flyer below and sign up today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Calling all trainees! Exercise your creative energy and submit to the SAS merch competition! forms.gle/5bASwv76NpAq...

The Society for Affective Science Emotion Regulation Pre-conference is excited to invite submissions for three different talk formats this year: (1) 👥 Panel discussions; (2)🌶️‘Spicy’ talks; and (3)🌟Early career researcher talks. Deadline Oct 1. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Nominate yourself or a colleague for one of SAS's annual awards! It only takes a few seconds! society-for-affective-science.org/society-awar...

The new deadline for the 2026-2027 SAS Student Committee (SASSC) is June 22 at 11:59pm (your local time). Members-at-Large represent and advance the interests of SAS trainees, attend committee meetings, organize events, and contribute to the annual conference. Apply here: forms.gle/95K1aiaDDkjG...

In case you missed it - here's a little recap of what we did at the end of the SAS 2026 conference! #SAS2026

Words matter 💬 This plenary brought together perspectives on how language shapes emotion regulation, development, & experience—from psychotherapy to childhood to insights from classical India. A powerful reminder of the deep links between words, feelings, and wellbeing. #SAS2026

We're a little late in posting these last bits, but don't forget about the incredible presidential symposium discussing what affective science can learn about affective by also studying plants, animals, and AI! #SAS2026

More awards to recognize!! We want to recognize our best poster and flash talk winners, our winners for best paper of the year, and last but not least all our diversity award winners. Such great work going on at SAS! #sas2026

Another round of applause for our 2026 winners for best dissertation award, early career award, and mid career award! Congratulations Nada, Kieran, Desmond, Hedy, and Sheri! #SAS2026

Congratulations to the winners of the @inclivio.com draw - @lisastarr.bsky.social , @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Christian Waugh - on each receiving a free license to run an EMA study! 🎉📱

So long Pittsburgh and @affectscience.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Clinical Affective Science precon! It was a thrill just to be in a shared space with you all. And congrats to my lab for rocking SAS!⭐️

Had THE BEST time hearing about alllll the exciting developmental affective science happening at @affectscience.bsky.social. Huuuuuuge thanks to @profmorningstar.bsky.social for being an amazing precon co-organizer 🌟

So long @affectscience.bsky.social and thanks for all the new science! Loved connecting with the great @heatherurry.bsky.social and @brethelhaurwitz.bsky.social (we forgot to take a pic! I blame Matt), and arrived home to new books already

What's YOUR favorite part about going to a conference?? Take a look at what this year's attendees had to say! #SAS2026

We’re heading to San Diego for #SAS2027! 🌴☀️ And our new president, Chris Oveis, is already promising us a waterslide at the conference location!

What a great way to end an inspiring conference: the final program point of #SAS2026 - a presidential symposium on Rethinking Emotions: Lessons from Animals, Machines, and Plants, featuring fantastic panelists Kristen Lindquist, Karen Bales, Jonathan Gratch, and Karl Niklas.

Another big thank you to Springer Nature for sponsoring SAS2026! #sas2026

@sprofficial.bsky.social ✖️ @affectscience.bsky.social water bottle conference crossover!

Had a lot of fun at yesterday's keynote symposium re: the ties that bond with Tristen and Jeffrey! Who could have expected to see Keanu Reeves and a pair of socks make an appearance :P Check out both of their work to learn more about how to increase social connection! #SAS2026

@mattsouthward.bsky.social shares how NOT regulating one's emotions is common--mostly when ppl don't feel the need. BUT! It's important to consider the reason behind choices because his team ALSO found diffs in outcomes depending on WHY participants chose not to regulate! @affectscience.bsky.social

Super inspiring work from Yulia, Mark, and Jose in yesterday's diversity symposium discussing how to rethink our approaches to studying cultural context! #SAS2026

How do we best communicate @affectscience.bsky.social?? Jonathan Gratch, Kristen Lindquist, & Karl Niklas advocate seeking out formal communications training. Jonathan Gratch notes in an interview that you don’t have to answer the question asked but use it as a prompt for what you want to say

Wow - what a pre-conference! It was a thrill to co-host the first ever Developmental Affective Science pre-conference to the @affectscience.bsky.social conference this week. I was blown away by the group's energy, enthusiasm, and ideas! 🪴

Luis Flores found that the combination of reappraisal and handholding led to greater reductions in negative affect and negative self-beliefs than either strategy alone @affectscience.bsky.social

When you're at a gathering of affective scientists...you just HAVE to ask their favorite emotion! We asked, and the answers at poster session 1 didn't disappoint--tons of variety (even multiple languages!). What's YOUR favorite emotion? #SAS2026

What is loneliness and what can we do about it?? @affectscience.bsky.social Anita Restrepo showed that undergrads who were lonelier worked harder for others than less lonelier undergrads (but still worked harder regardless of loneliness when working for themselves) regardless of gain/loss framing

Join us for an exciting lineup of talks focusing on emotion differentiation/granularity TOMORROW (Saturday) morning! Looking forward to it! With @amycarolus.bsky.social, @elisekalo.bsky.social, Yiqin Zhu, and Megan Korhummel. #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social

Check out our symposium on translational approaches to loneliness and emotion tomorrow at 9:45am! @affectscience.bsky.social @mattsouthward.bsky.social

Starting off strong with a great welcome from our conference program co-chairs, Katie & Desmond, an informative update from our president, Rachael Jack, and rounding out with an amazing set of talks from Julie, Nick, & Stephen about their work with AI to support mental health!

Nick Jacobson shows us how we might *think* we could use AI to develop a good mental health app @affectscience.bsky.social However, therapy transcripts aren’t the most enlightening 😅 Shoutout to Nick for doing the hard work to generate an efficacious chatbot! home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/03...

Beyond excited to have talked about our lab's method for using the body to trigger experience sampling prompts at a Construction Retreat, in lead-up to #SAS2026 ! Excited to continue the good conversation at the conference @affectscience.bsky.social !

I will be sharing some exciting findings on how behavioral emotion regulation strategies are related to regulation motives and motive satisfaction at the symposium “To Strategies and Beyond!” on Friday morning. If you’re at SAS, I hope to see you there! (2/2)

I am so excited to be at the Society for Affective Science this year with the Emotional Lives Lab! (1/2)

Come see our work @affectscience.bsky.social! 😁 P2.S.207: “How Anticipated Feelings Guide Goal Prioritization Insights from an Inventory of Daily Goals” by Skylar Brooks 😁 P3.A.243: “Decision Goals Shape the Integration of Affective and Perceptual Information about our Options” by Ana Hernandez

. @jenncveilleux.bsky.social throws down the gauntlet at the @affectscience.bsky.social emotional acceptance preconference panel with a proposed model of willingness suggesting acceptance is NOT a regulatory strategy by itself b/c it’s a full sitting-with of emotions

Come check out our symposium on emotional concordance and clinical implications, led by @veravine.bsky.social and @emmailyaz.bsky.social #SAS2026 I will talk about interoception and trust decision-making - work with Kristen Lindquist, @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social @adriennebonar.bsky.social

I've long wondered how long positive emotions last after an intervention. I will be discussing "The Durability of Positive Emotions Elicited by Collective Movement" during the Positive Emotions Preconference on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 2:10 PM. Stop by :) #SAS2026 @affectscience.bsky.social