For folks course prepping, I wanted to give a quick plug for my recent pub in PSPB on the psychology of guilty pleasures. The research is a great example of discrete emotion theory and self-conscious emotions, but would also work well for discussing self-presentation, dissonance, and norms.

Tomorrow afternoon at #MPA2025, I’ll be giving a talk on my recent research examining the social consequences of (un)successfully sharing guilty pleasures with close others. If you’re attending MPA, I hope to see you there!

Virtually everyone has a guilty pleasure (GP), but not all GPs are experienced the same. This Saturday at #SPSP2025 I’ll be presenting research detailing how different GPs like food and audiovisual media (TV/YouTube) elicit different affective responses and self-presentation concerns. Come stop by!