Emotion Group Archives

Schedule of Emotion Group Meetings for 2025-2026

Friday, October 24th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader: Randy Lee

Topic: Gratitude and Costly Prosocial Behavior

Article: This paper challenges the claim that gratitude reinforces complacency. Across seven studies (N = 210,975), we show that people higher in trait gratitude are more likely to engage in costly prosocial actions that advance the greater good. This paper is currently under review. PDF Link. Supplemental Materials.

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, November 14th, 1:00-2:00pm

Discussion Leader: Estelle Higgins

Topic: Immune-Brain Dialogues in Depression

Articles:

Miller, A. H. (2025). Advancing an inflammatory subtype of major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 182(6). DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20250289

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, December 12th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader: Zishan Jiwani

Topic: Making Precision Medicine Clinically Applicable

Articles: This article explores opportunities and barriers—clinical, technical, statistical, and contextual—to implementing precision treatment methods in clinical practice and offers a roadmap for overcoming them to make precision mental health care more feasible and effective in real-world settings.

Deisenhofer, A., Barkham, M., Beierl, E. T., et al. (2024). Implementing precision methods in personalizing psychological therapies: Barriers and possible ways forward. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104443 

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, January 16th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader: Caroline Swords

Topic: Zhan et al. (2025) test whether multi-modal passive sensing (“digital phenotyping”) using smartphone and wearable data can index depression severity and predict treatment response in 183 adults with MDD undergoing standard treatment. Their findings highlight meaningful methodological progress in passive sensing in this area and have implications for monitoring symptom change and improving depression treatment within a real-world setting.

Articles:

Zhan, Y., Liu, H., & Wang, Y. (2025). Digital phenotyping of depression: A multi-modal passive sensing approach to identifying novel behavioral and physiological markers of treatment response. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 194, 40–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.12.036

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, February 13th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader: Veronika Kobrinsky

Topic: History, Conceptualization, and Measurement of Emotion Differentiation 

Article: A conceptual review of how emotion differentiation is defined, measured, and when it might meaningfully predict adaptive psychological outcomes.

• Thompson, R. J., Springstein, T., & Boden, M. (2021). Gaining clarity about emotion differentiation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 15(3), Article e12584. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12584.

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, March 20th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader: Randy Lee

Topic: TBD

Articles:

Ekman P. (2016). What scientists who study emotion agree about. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 31–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615596992

Cowen, A. S. & Keltner, D. (2021). Semantic Space Theory: A computational approach to emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(2), 124-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.11.004 

Meeting Link: Emotion Group Zoom

Friday, May 8th, 2:00-3:00pm

Discussion Leader:

Topic: TBD

Articles: TBD

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Schedule of Emotion Group Meetings for Spring 2021: 

Monday, March 29th, 1:00-2:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Camille Williams

Topic: Empathy

Articles:

Imel, Z. E., Barco, J. S., Brown, H. J., Baucom, B. R., Baer, J. S., Kircher, J. C., et al. (2014). The association of therapist empathy and synchrony in vocally encoded arousal. J. Counseling Psychol. 61, 146–153. doi: 10.1037/a0034943

Rogers, C. (1980).Empathic: an unappreciated way of being (pp 137-163) in A Way of Being. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.

Meeting link: Zoom

Tuesday, April 6th, 9:00-10:00am

Discussion Leader(s): Emily Hilton

Topic: The structure of psychopathology

Articles:

Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Harkness, A. R. (1994).  Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology. Journal of abnormal psychology, 103(1), 18–31. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.103.1.18

Tackett, J. L., Lahey, B. B., van Hulle, C., Waldman, I., Krueger, R. F., & Rathouz, P. J. (2013). Common genetic influences on negative emotionality and a general psychopathology factor in childhood and adolescence. Journal of abnormal psychology, 122(4), 1142–1153. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034151

Meeting link: Zoom

Monday, April 12th, 4:00-5:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Andrea Stein

Topic: Differentiation theories of emotional development

Articles:

Bridges, K. M. B. (1932). Emotional development in early infancy. Child Development, 3(4), 324–341. https://doi.org/10.2307/1125359

Camras, L. A. (2011). Differentiation, dynamical integration and functional emotional development. Emotion Review, 3(2), 138–146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073910387944

Meeting link: Zoom

Thursday, April 22nd, 11:00am-12:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Nakul Aggarwal

Topic: Fear and anxiety

Articles:

LeDoux, J.E., Pine, D.S. (2016) Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1083-1093.  https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16030353

Davis, M. (1992) The Role of the Amygdala in Fear and Anxiety. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 353-375. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ne.15.030192.002033

Meeting link: Zoom

Schedule of Emotion Group Meetings for Fall 2020:

Thursday,  November 5th, 1:00-2:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Ashley Ruba

Topic: Interoception and the nature of emotion

Articles:

Meeting link: Zoom

Thursday,  November 19th , 1:00-2:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Karen Smith

Topic: Somatovisceral Models of Emotion.

Articles:

Meeting link: Zoom

Thursday,  December 3rd, 1:00-2:00pm

Discussion Leader(s): Justin Russell

Topic: Conceptualizations of Adverse Experiences/Traumas

Articles:

Felitti, V.J., Anda, R.F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D.F., Spitz, A.M., Edwards, V., Koss, M.P., Marks, J.S. (1998). Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 14(4):245-58.

Weems, C.F., Russell, J.D., Herringa, R.J., Carrion, V.G. (2020). Translating the Neuroscience of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Inform Policy and Foster Population Level Resilience. American Psychologist. In press.

Meeting link: Zoom