It’s Dr. Michelle Marji to you! My PhD adviseensuccessfully defended her dissertation today. Congratulations, Michelle!!! 🥳🥳

Taught a grad sem on Emotion and Social Agents this semester. None of the students was from Psychology. They were from CS, engineering, and communications. Stunningly successful. Most claimed that their PhD research had been fundamentally affected by the course. Highly recommend. Happy to share syl.

Want to have holiday lunches with our social faculty for years to come? That chair could be yours! Tatum Jolink will also be joining the department in the fall of '26. Check out our job posting: shorturl.at/4Vc1T @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social

We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8

Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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I was incredibly honored to give the inaugural Abraham and Carmen Tesser Social Psychology Lecture at Purdue. Seeing Abraham again was such a pleasure. @spspnews.bsky.social

Our latest work on ancestral diversity and cultural evolution is out. Co-authored with Sophie Wohltjen. For a special issue of CRESP on Historical Psychology edited by Josh Jackson and @mohammadatari.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So much fun to have Maital Neta’s whole family here in Madison and at our farm. Come back soon!! ❤️

Thank you Wisconsin Attorney General, Josh Kaul, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court!

Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-3 on Wednesday that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictio...

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So exciting to see the new Handbook of Social Psychology in open-access format! Enjoy our chapter on emotion and all the other amazing chapters here: the-hsp.com @affectscience.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social

Heard so much about Martin Marty when I was growing up. My father was also a Lutheran theologian in Hyde Park and talked about Marty often. RIP. news.uchicago.edu/story/martin...

Martin E. Marty, ‘most influential interpreter of religion’ in U.S., 1928-2025

UChicago theologian and historian helped shape the field—and public understanding of religion

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Māori stone carvings (from the 1970s) and a lovely Māori moko (with permission to share)

Couldn't be more thrilled for Sophie Wohltjen, my post-doc and PhD student of @ThaliaWheatley, for accepting a TT position in social psych @UTKnoxville. Great dept, close to family ... Vols, Y'all! Congrats, Sophie!

New paper alert: "Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression." From our great team modeling naturally occurring facial expressions. Stay tuned to read about the results of our model! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression

People routinely use facial expressions to communicate successfully and to regulate other’s behaviour, yet modelling the form and meaning of these facial behaviours has proven surprisingly complex....

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So, so cool to spend time with one of my very first grad students, Jamin Halberstadt and his spouse. Remembering our 1000s of research meetings discussing really great ideas!

Love this! 👀

The Pacific Way: Lessons and inspirations from 'remote islands'

I live in a nation that has elected a woman president twice, provides universal health care, where owning a gun has always been illegal

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I spoke to the Cap Times

Opinion | For the new year, parsing different strains of Trump voters

Paul Fanlund: UW-Madison psychology professor Paula Niedenthal has good advice for progressives talking to Trump voters: Don’t assume you know their needs.

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On this day, remembering me and my youngest son asleep on a train from Paris.

Our dept's summer PREP program-an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates-is an immersive mentored research experience and prof. development for undergrads w an interest in a career in research in Psych. Send your students our way! psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site...

(Most of) my wonderful lab group. The future is bright!

I’m curious what the media means by the Midwest and the Great Lakes states getting a ton of snow. We have none and there is none in the forecast. So I take the news as ill defined? I think just focusing on the states of PA, OH, and NY is more precise.

Nice that the Times covered the Farm/Art DTour in Southern Wisconsin

A 50-Mile Art Road Trip Celebrates the Culture in Agriculture

In Wisconsin, the Farm/Art DTour brings artists and farmers together and each get a fresh perspective.

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Watched the Donna Summer doc and am remembering how amazing it was to dance to Dim All the Lights .... So many memories. 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=If13...

Amazing December day for a long bike ride apparently wearing my bike helmet backwards…

Have a few places to visit

Wonderful concert last night by my childhood friend, singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, at the ever-fun venue in Fort Atkinson, WI, Cafe Carpe.

Great talk by Ben Armstrong from MIT’s Industrial Performance Center for our NRT program INTEGRATE (Integrating Robots into the Future of Work - learn all about it here: shorturl.at/doTXZ) on the success (and failure) of automation.

Just cresting peak fall colors.

Good morning with no filters applied. No AI needed.

Watching Suits and teaching about attachment and emotion tomorrow... So here's a PSA: The Spinners really WERE one of the best bands of their era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Neg...

Tell your undergrads: PREP at UW offers mentored research, data science training and prof. development for undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in psych/neurosci. 28 May–9 August 2024. Application window opens 1 November 2023. @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social