Exciting news! SANS has received an R13 from the National Institute for Aging at NIH! It will provide support for trainee travel and programming focused on aging at the SANS Annual Meeting as detailed below:
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The SANS 2027 Logo Competition is now underway! We're looking for a creative logo that captures the intersection of neuroscience and the vibrant, connected, and distinctive feel of our host city, Montreal. Read the competition details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-2027-co...
SANS 2027 Conference Logo Competition - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
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Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...
Symposia Submission - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
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Interested in becoming a social and affective neuroscience influencer? SANS will soon be launching a new media initiative, in which we make short-form video content to reach a wider audience. If you're interested in joining this initative, please DM us here or email sans.media.chair@gmail.com!
Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)
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Excited to share my latest preprint, with @jasilvers.bsky.social and @raziasahi.bsky.social! We applied hierarchical Bayesian modeling to an EMA dataset of emotion regulation to uncover how trait-like repertoires of emotion regulation relate to momentary emotion regulation and experiences of affect
From Traits to Moments: How Emotion Regulation Repertoires Shape Daily Affective Experiences: https://osf.io/aextp
Registration is open for the 4th annual Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social Annual conference in Philly 🎊 We are on for a full day on Thursday, Feb 11. 3 keynote themes + a debate that couldn't be more timely 🧵👇
New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...
Excited to share this new preprint from @lindseytepfer.bsky.social, @chujunlin.bsky.social, and me, in which we investigate the different ways our brains allow us to change our minds about people! "The neurocomputational mechanisms of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...
Symposia Submission - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
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Meet @ycleong.bsky.social, assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how social context and affect construct subjective experience. Leong is also a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
SANS membership for AY26-27 is now available! Join or renew to enjoy a range of benefits: socialaffectiveneuro.org/membership/
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NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place! #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
Are you a trainee interested in shaping the future of SANS? Consider joining our Trainee Committee! We're looking for 3-6 new members to help plan and run trainee-focused programming. More information and application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our multiverse analysis of associations between skin conductance and acute pain is published! >550 participants x 18 SCR pipelines = 1 winning approach to SCR analysis! (Ledalab + artifact detection). thread below. We hope others find this useful! Please RT :) journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
I am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...
1/ I’m excited to share our new @NatureHumBehav paper “Social Functioning in Autism: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis” 🧵We synthesized 35 yrs of autism research to ask a fundamental Question: How is social functioning organized, developed, and altered in autism? Free link: rdcu.be/figGl
Social functioning in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nature Human Behaviour - Impaired social functioning is a core feature of autism spectrum disorders. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes the evidence for this across studies...
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Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed
While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...
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@sansmeeting.bsky.social For a spooky good time and great science 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!
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Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
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🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!
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And that's a wrap! We hope you had a great conference! Join us for #SANS2027 in Montreal! With program co-chairs @p1sh.bsky.social and Nina Lauharatanahirun
Announcing our vice president for the 2026-2027 cycle Andy Chen
Congratulations to @jadynpark.bsky.social and colleagues for winning the #SANS2026 Innovation Award for their paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Consider joining SANS Board and working committees! Look out for emails!
Current SANS president @dfareri.bsky.social gives his closing address at the #SANS2026 business meeting
Delighted to be at SANS sharing our latest naturalistic work on how emotion shapes temporal memory! 🕰️
@lapate.bsky.social shares work on how emotions influences temporal memory of autobiographical events in the life of memories (LiMe) studies
Congratulations to #SANS2026 distinguished award winner Dr. John O'Doherty! Thank you for sharing your work on how the brain constructs value
Final poster highlights: first up Nathan Chabin - The relationship between amygdala function and facial emotion recognition across the lifespan