Society for Affective Science
Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details!
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This list features amazing affective scientists who are advancing our understanding of emotion. While by no means exhaustive, we hope it sparks connections within the affective science community. If you or someone you know should be added to the list, feel free to reach out!
@juliavogtpsy.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Reading, UK Researching self-regulation, emotion, and attention https://juliavogtpsychology.weebly.com/
@smcarpenterphd.bsky.social
Affective, decision, & health behavior scientist and Assistant Professor at ASU College of Health Solutions | Director of the Engage Lab at ASU | UMich Psychology and Ross alum | she/her
@dylanggee.bsky.social
Psychologist @Yale studying brain development, stress, and mental health in childhood and adolescence 🧠 http://candlab.yale.edu/
@ucbcalmprogram.bsky.social
Led by Dr. Sheri Johnson, the CALM Program at UC Berkeley is dedicated to conducting research on bipolar disorder and emotion-related impulsivity. calm.berkeley.edu
@isabellafavalos.bsky.social
MA student in Psychology at California State University, Chico. Incoming PhD student in Social/Personality at University of California, Riverside. Interested in how emotion (dys)regulation unfolds in daily life
@theloveconsortium.bsky.social
Collaboratively leveraging data to accelerate scientific understanding of human connection. theloveconsortium.org Most recent TLC newsletter: https://go.unc.edu/y4K8W
@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor @msupsychology.bsky.social • @ DukeU studying evolution, gossip, morality • Previously @ UVA • she/her • Founder: @psychresearchlist.bsky.social • Lab: @moralmindslab.bsky.social • www.meltemyucel.com
@susannahcwalker.bsky.social
Reader in Behavioural #Neuroscience, Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience Group, Liverpool John Moores University. Chair of Liverpool Neuroscience Group, British Neuroscience Association Representative for #Liverpool.
@katiehoemann.bsky.social
Fascinated by emotion, language, & how we make meaning | Psychology faculty at the University of Kansas | Runs slowly, sweatily, regularly | She/her
@batjamesquita.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology at KU Leuven Author of Between Us: How cultures create emotions
@sarahawalker.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Durham University, UK | Emotions, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Behaviour, Self/Informant Report, | Engagement & Outreach @ACPIDCongress | Comms Asst. @ISSIDOfficial
@nataliavandoren.bsky.social
Clinical scientist focused on #DigitalMentalHealth, #SubstanceUse, & #HealthEquity | Postdoc @UCSFPsychiatry | Passionate about innovative methods and increasing access to care | she/her | Twitter: @nataliavandoren
@thomasehring.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology at LMU Munich https://www.lmu.de/psy/en/persons/contact-page/thomas-ehring-c0f08419.html
@nachemotion.bsky.social
The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
@jkmaccormack.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Virginia. How body-brain shapes interoception, affect, stress, & sociality across the lifespan. Virginia Affect & Interoception Lab: https://www.virginiaaffectlab.com
@eblissmoreau.bsky.social
Affective neuroscientist studying how & why we feel from womb-to-tomb. Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of Psychology @ UC Davis Core Scientist @ the California National Primate Research Center blissmoreaulab.ucdavis.edu CNY -> Chestnut Hill -> Yolo
@samcooper.bsky.social
Clinical psych scientist, UT Austin asst prof | threat + anxiety and trauma/PTSD + learning/memory + HiTOP + quant + cog neuro + fMRI + more | he/him, views my own | Cronbach stan (not alpha, just two streams + validity) | the dog is Frank | scoop-lab.com
@elliemorgenroth.bsky.social
Neuroscientist 👩🔬 Interested in fMRI to understand cognition and emotion in healthy and brain diseases. Currently researching neurodegenerative diseases. I love to show films in brain scanners.
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. Science advocate. Frequent shifter of time zones. Professor (UPenn Psychology). Book: Elusive Cures (June 10, 2025). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
@lapate.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Psych & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara || affective & cognitive neuroscience || formerly at UC Berkeley & UW-Madison https://lapatelab.psych.ucsb.edu
@sakierahudson.bsky.social
Williams College BA, Harvard Psych PhD, Yale postdoc, and now a Berkeley Haas AP studying hierarchies/intersectionalities in the HIGHER LAB. Creator of TheLOTPlanner
@maceygrisso.bsky.social
Current lab manager for the Emotional Lives Lab at the University of California, Riverside. Interested in emotions, especially the uncomfortable ones.
@shannanzchen.bsky.social
emotion regulation & rumination || https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/shannanzchen/home
@rolaustral.bsky.social
Professor of Affective Computing at UNSW Canberra, Human-Centred Technology Research, Interests in Affective Computing/AI/ML/HCI - I also like elephants, mammoths, etc. - Views are my own
@neuroscientist.bsky.social
PhD Neuroscience student @Vanderbilt (Researching Sensory Autism @ Wallace Lab & LASR Lab) | Alum UC Berkeley | NISE Fellow | PD Soros Fellow | Public Voices Fellow | Autism+ADHD
@dpmoriarity.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology @ UPenn | Quant-curious | Lv. 11 Dwarf paladin Inflammatory phenotyping, physiometrics, precision psychiatry Statistics, Transparency, + Rigor Editor @ Psychological Science
@jfeltphd.bsky.social
Quantitative methodologist interested in Bayesian and frequentist approaches to longitudinal data analysis, causal inference, and measurement. Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Healthy Aging at Penn State. UC Merced Quant Psych Alum.
@awiezel.bsky.social
South(w)e(a)sterner & social psychologist studying political psychology, affect, leadership, & intergroup relations. Assistant Professor of Psychology and director of the BORG research lab (https://awiezel.wixsite.com/wiezelborglab) @ Elon University.
@richlopez41.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience • Director of the SNAP Lab at WPI (https://wp.wpi.edu/snaplab/) • Social neuroscientist studying emotions, goals, and values to promote health and wellbeing • FirstGen
@michaelwitthoeft.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Ruhr-University Bochum
@brileekennedy.bsky.social
Emotion, cognition, and ageing researcher. NJ expat. Pun enthusiast. Lead the PECAN (Perception, Emotion, Cognition, Ageing, & Neuroscience) Lab in Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 - we're nuts for science. 🧠
@marcellawoud.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology at University of Göttingen. CBT therapist. Cognitive processes, cognitive bias modification, anxiety.
@dcameron.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Psych, Sherwin Early Career Prof in Rock Ethics Institute @Penn State. Directs Empathy & Moral Psych Lab, Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Assoc Editor @Emotion. Father of four (twin dad), husband, loves ☕, 🍺, 🎶, 📸. Views are my own.
@jimaceverett.bsky.social
Moral psychologist working on AI, utilitarianism, person perception, politics, and whatever else takes my fancy. 🇬🇧🏳️🌈
@sethpollak.bsky.social
Child Emotion Research Lab at Univ of Wisconsin - Madison. Science about emotions to improve children’s wellbeing.
@jmorriss.bsky.social
Lecturer at University of Southampton. Res: Uncertainty; Anxiety; Emotion; Neurobiology; Translation from lab to clinic. Editoral Board Member at BRAT & INTPSY. Committed to generating impact and championing EDI.
@jankaromero.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Psychology at Sage Publications. Formerly Psychology Editor at Cambridge University Press. Interested in cognition, neuroscience, individual differences, applied psychology, and decolonising the curriculum. Views my own.
@felhardi.bsky.social
Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University studying adversity, stress, mental health, and the developing brain 🧠 alum @UMich
@flamboyanti.bsky.social
Post-doc in Sociology (Lüneburg/Zürich) | culture, knowledge, body, reproduction, law, personhood, loss, climate emotions, future | coffee, dancing, feminism
@erikmueller.bsky.social
Personality Psychologist at University of Marburg; trying to find out why some people are experiencing more negative affect than others… EEG, associative and reinforcement learning, brain-heart coupling, … expectations, fear, neuroticism, extraversion…
@camhostinar.bsky.social
Lifelong learner. Studying developmental psychology, Associate Professor of Psychology. Opinions are my own and do not represent my employer. She/her
@drkoraly.bsky.social
Developmental Psychologist; Coffee Addict; Boricua; Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Psychology
@johnjost.bsky.social
Author. Social, personality, political psychologist. Father, partner, mentor, friend. Art, music, sports lover.
@cfmhlab.bsky.social
Research lab of @alzietlow.bsky.social #Perinatal #MentalHealth I #SocialInteraction I #EarlyChildhood I #ChildDevelopment I Family Well-Being
@lluaces.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Associate Chair Psychology at Indiana University. Depression, psychotherapy research, technology, and data science. 🏳️🌈🇵🇷 Personal account. https://medium.com/@lluaces
@dae.bsky.social
Computational cognitive science of emotion. Neukom Postdoc Fellow @Dartmouth, previously PhD @MIT. https://daeh.info #CogSci
@jennawells.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology @ Cornell | relationships, emotion, aging, caregiving, health