Logic of Emotion Lab
@logicemotionlab.bsky.social
Lab at Princeton University studying why people feel what they feel and how they can best manage their emotions using dev, neuro, and translational tools. PI: @ErikNook
This past weekend, we closed out fall break with a lovely day at the annual Community Fest, held by Ewing Township and The College of New Jersey! We had a fantastic time chatting with everyone about our research.
@tcnj.bsky.social
@tcnj.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This past weekend, we closed out fall break with a lovely day at the annual Community Fest, held by Ewing Township and The College of New Jersey! We had a fantastic time chatting with everyone about our research.
@tcnj.bsky.social
@tcnj.bsky.social
We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social
We have a new paper published in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that these ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.
September 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We have a new paper published in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that these ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.
The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together! 😄
September 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together! 😄
We are very proud to announce that Dr. Erik Nook is the recipient of the Society for Research in Psychopathology’s 2025 Early Career Award! Congratulations @eriknook.bsky.social 🎉
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psychopathology.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We are very proud to announce that Dr. Erik Nook is the recipient of the Society for Research in Psychopathology’s 2025 Early Career Award! Congratulations @eriknook.bsky.social 🎉
Exciting day — we have a new lab manager, joining us from Stanford! Emily is interested in studying how people process and communicate emotional experiences, especially in clinical settings. Let's give her a warm welcome!
July 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Exciting day — we have a new lab manager, joining us from Stanford! Emily is interested in studying how people process and communicate emotional experiences, especially in clinical settings. Let's give her a warm welcome!
Cheering on a baseball game, @trentonthunder.com, with an amazing summer lab team!
June 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cheering on a baseball game, @trentonthunder.com, with an amazing summer lab team!
What a year it's been for the lab - so many incredible accomplishments! A special shoutout to Angie on her graduation and all of her outstanding work. Our junior students also wrapped up strong projects and are heading into senior year, ready for discoveries.
May 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
What a year it's been for the lab - so many incredible accomplishments! A special shoutout to Angie on her graduation and all of her outstanding work. Our junior students also wrapped up strong projects and are heading into senior year, ready for discoveries.
Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social
for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan
@danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!
for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan
@danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!
April 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social
for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan
@danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!
for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan
@danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!
Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at SAS 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments.
@raziasahi.bsky.social
@claire-whiting.bsky.social
@hennavartiainen.bsky.social
@smesquiti.bsky.social
@milkawaniak.bsky.social
Angie Challman
@raziasahi.bsky.social
@claire-whiting.bsky.social
@hennavartiainen.bsky.social
@smesquiti.bsky.social
@milkawaniak.bsky.social
Angie Challman
March 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Join us in congratulating our lab’s incredible poster presenters at SAS 2025! We’re so proud of their hard work and accomplishments.
@raziasahi.bsky.social
@claire-whiting.bsky.social
@hennavartiainen.bsky.social
@smesquiti.bsky.social
@milkawaniak.bsky.social
Angie Challman
@raziasahi.bsky.social
@claire-whiting.bsky.social
@hennavartiainen.bsky.social
@smesquiti.bsky.social
@milkawaniak.bsky.social
Angie Challman
We’re thrilled to celebrate Erik for co-authoring the Best Paper at SAS (Nencheva et al., 2024) and Dan for winning the Diversity Award!
Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social
Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We’re thrilled to celebrate Erik for co-authoring the Best Paper at SAS (Nencheva et al., 2024) and Dan for winning the Diversity Award!
Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social
Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social
Last but not least, we have a great lineup of fantastic presentations on the final day. Hope to see you at SAS!
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Last but not least, we have a great lineup of fantastic presentations on the final day. Hope to see you at SAS!
On Friday, we are continuing our SAS presentations with three amazing lab members - don't miss it!
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
On Friday, we are continuing our SAS presentations with three amazing lab members - don't miss it!
We are thrilled about SAS 2025! Mark your calendars to see our lab's latest work! Check out the schedule for Thursday - Emotion Regulation Pre-conference:
March 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We are thrilled about SAS 2025! Mark your calendars to see our lab's latest work! Check out the schedule for Thursday - Emotion Regulation Pre-conference:
New Paper! Adults differ in their ability to generate emotion and non-emotion words, but how these develop is unclear. We found both increases with age, plateau in adolescence, and are correlated. Negative words were the most common. Emotion fluency may be a subtype of verbal fluency. osf.io/h3gtp/
December 2, 2024 at 5:40 PM
New Paper! Adults differ in their ability to generate emotion and non-emotion words, but how these develop is unclear. We found both increases with age, plateau in adolescence, and are correlated. Negative words were the most common. Emotion fluency may be a subtype of verbal fluency. osf.io/h3gtp/
So grateful for Princeton's Spring Into Science! At our outreach booth, youth raced to name emotion words in our emotion fluency task, generating a community histogram. We also introduced concepts such as valence and arousal using a circumplex model. We love community outreach!
April 22, 2024 at 2:47 PM
So grateful for Princeton's Spring Into Science! At our outreach booth, youth raced to name emotion words in our emotion fluency task, generating a community histogram. We also introduced concepts such as valence and arousal using a circumplex model. We love community outreach!
And we are extra-super pumped for our STELLAR undergraduate thesis students who are also presenting @affectscience.bsky.social . Many of them are on the post-bacc market, so be sure to check out their truly innovative scholarship!!!
![LEmo Lab Presenting at SAS, Undergraduate Edition [LEmo lab logo on right]
4 colored bands with headshots and information about the conference are listed in the following order
Jesus Arroyo - Undergrad Thesis Student
Accepting mindfulness-based interventions: Do religious vs. scientific framings affect a patient's acceptance? Flash Talk. 3.2.24.4:45pm
Tiffany Cao - Undergrad Thesis Student
Examining differences in social reappraisal efficacy across first- and second-language in Spanish-English bilinguals. Poster. 3.3.24. 12:30pm.
Does a less clear sense of self predict higher conformity to others' emotions? Poster. 3.3.24. 3:15pm
Sofia Baran - Undergrad Thesis Student
Expressive writing and the perceived other: Productive psychopoathological intervention? Date and Location TBD](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u52xad4bfiqgjnup3mhxknq4/bafkreigvuv2zpkewmfm4plx4ky46xbl2eafblhrpqmv3ibayjq56cnflde@jpeg)
February 26, 2024 at 7:41 PM
And we are extra-super pumped for our STELLAR undergraduate thesis students who are also presenting @affectscience.bsky.social . Many of them are on the post-bacc market, so be sure to check out their truly innovative scholarship!!!
We are sp pumped for @affectscience.bsky.social!!!
Learn more more about our work on emotion naming, emotion essentialism, emotion differentiation, and treatment outcomes! @raziasahi.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social @clairewhiting @hennavartiainen
Learn more more about our work on emotion naming, emotion essentialism, emotion differentiation, and treatment outcomes! @raziasahi.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social @clairewhiting @hennavartiainen
![LEmo Lab Presenting at SAS [LEmo lab logo on right]
4 colored bands with headshots and information about the conference are listed in the following order
Dr. Razia Sahi - Postdoctoral Scholar
Investigating the effects of emotion naming on emotion regulation: Contextual, social, and temporal dimensions. Poster. 3.1.24. 6:35pm
Chantal Valdivia-Moreno - Lab Manager
Emotion essentialism and its relations with other affective processes from childhood to young adulthood. Poster. 3.1.24. 6:35pm
Claire Whiting - PhD Student
Evaluating expressive writing as an intervention to improve emotion differentiation. Poster. 3.2.24. 3:05pm
Henna Vartiainen - PhD Student
Tracking treatment outcomes using sentiment analysis. Symposium. 3.2.24. 10:45am](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u52xad4bfiqgjnup3mhxknq4/bafkreibbbnsug63k6jf2hfnwtoszelpnfyr2lmqhde6pyzb32jalm7ycee@jpeg)
February 26, 2024 at 7:39 PM
We are sp pumped for @affectscience.bsky.social!!!
Learn more more about our work on emotion naming, emotion essentialism, emotion differentiation, and treatment outcomes! @raziasahi.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social @clairewhiting @hennavartiainen
Learn more more about our work on emotion naming, emotion essentialism, emotion differentiation, and treatment outcomes! @raziasahi.bsky.social @talvaldivia.bsky.social @clairewhiting @hennavartiainen
New Study! Looking for participants aged 18-25 who are fluent in English and able to make in-person visits to our campus in Central New Jersey. Earn up to $120 if eligible! Email us at lemolab@princeton.edu to learn more.
February 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
New Study! Looking for participants aged 18-25 who are fluent in English and able to make in-person visits to our campus in Central New Jersey. Earn up to $120 if eligible! Email us at lemolab@princeton.edu to learn more.
Congratulations to our fearless leader and lab director @eriknook.bsky.social for being named an APS Rising Star @psychscience.bsky.social and receiving the Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) Award from @ADAA_Anxiety. We are in awe!
February 5, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Congratulations to our fearless leader and lab director @eriknook.bsky.social for being named an APS Rising Star @psychscience.bsky.social and receiving the Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) Award from @ADAA_Anxiety. We are in awe!
After a fantastic semester, a cupcake party with the LEmo-rs really is the icing on the cake! All the best with finals and enjoy the holidays!
December 10, 2023 at 3:25 PM
After a fantastic semester, a cupcake party with the LEmo-rs really is the icing on the cake! All the best with finals and enjoy the holidays!
We are so excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Griffiths from UCL
as a Visiting Research Fellow! Her research examines the relationship between communication skills and mental health. She was recently awarded a grant to examine linguistic complexity in adolescent therapy conversations while here!
as a Visiting Research Fellow! Her research examines the relationship between communication skills and mental health. She was recently awarded a grant to examine linguistic complexity in adolescent therapy conversations while here!
November 13, 2023 at 7:16 PM
We are so excited to welcome Dr. Sarah Griffiths from UCL
as a Visiting Research Fellow! Her research examines the relationship between communication skills and mental health. She was recently awarded a grant to examine linguistic complexity in adolescent therapy conversations while here!
as a Visiting Research Fellow! Her research examines the relationship between communication skills and mental health. She was recently awarded a grant to examine linguistic complexity in adolescent therapy conversations while here!