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How do brain responses change to other's fear across the transition to parenthood? Our lab's new study adds to this small literature and includes task-based fMRI data from men before and after the birth of their first child. Check it out now: doi.org/10.1111/jne.70276
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What happens in the brain as content shown by algorithms shifts from generic to 'For You'? Excited to share our new preprint studying just this! Using fNIRS, we tracked neural connectivity while users freely scrolled on a new TikTok account for 35 minutes osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ad….
Having more symptoms of problematic social media use was associated with different trajectories of intra-prefrontal and prefrontal-temporal connectivity depending on how successful personalization was, and these diverging trajectories appear to emerge by ~20 min into scrolling.
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We’re recruiting a full-time lab manager to join the Shared Minds Lab at USC! This will be a great opportunity for someone who wants to get hands-on experience with research before starting a PhD program in psychology or neuroscience. More below:
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A new preprint.
"Cognitive Feelings from Healthy Experience to Psychopathology: An Integrative Review Across Phenomenology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Computation"
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/9b…
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Happy 30th birthday, Pokémon! Since 1996, the Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity. go.nature.com/4tZOzKY
SAT aside, the answers E), F), and G) that affective scientists would give to this question would be a riot to see on the page
My new piece out in Scientific American!
scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Join us for the UNC Developmental Psychology Ph.D. Program Info Session! 🎓
Learn about curriculum, funding, application tips, and life in Chapel Hill from faculty and students.
🗓️ Oct 26 | 1–2:30 PM EST
🔗Register: tinyurl.com/uncdevpsych
#UNC #PhD #DevelopmentalPsychology
📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.
Our new study in Emotion!
The parenting paradox: higher satisfaction yet lower daily happiness/stress. So in the transition to parenthood, how do we study well-being? We studied how new fathers adapt by examining meaning/purpose and brain connectivity.
doi.org/10.1037/emo0001574
Further studying the distinctions in how these affective processes develop in new parents can help us understand the complex factors distinguishing normative negative emotions in new parenthood from those which may represent risks to overall well-being and mental health.
Shout to senior author @darbysaxbe for supporting this work, as well as my co-authors @philnewsomejr @YWaizman and Geoff Corner.
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