Logic of Emotion Lab

We had an amazing time listening to our lab’s fantastic speakers at SAS 2026! @ErikNook @talvaldivia @HennaVartiainen @claire_whiting Faustine Courbani

We are so proud of our lab’s poster presenters at SAS 2026! Join us in congratulating them on their hard work and accomplishments! @talvaldivia @smesquiti.bsky.social Emily Huang, and our amazing undergrad thesis students: Shauna Contreras, Siena Edwards, Emi Yun, and Aysu Türkay!

Last but not least, on Saturday we have a fantastic lineup of speakers to close out SAS weekend. Hope to see you at SAS! @affectScience

Continuing strong on Friday, come check out our four lab members giving talks and posters! @affectScience

Later in the day on Thursday, we also have four amazing posters at Poster Session I. @affectScience

We're excited about SAS 2026! Mark your calendars to check out our lab's latest work. Beginning with the Thursday preconferences, we have two lab members presenting at the Dev Precon and the Clinical Precon! @affectScience

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026) We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit!👇

We had a blast talking about science at Village Elementary School with a lovely group of students, and presenting some of our research. Here’s to inspiring the next generation of scientists! Thank you Village Elementary for having us!

Halloween may be officially over, but our spOoOooky party spirit isn’t! #Halloween2025

This past weekend, we closed out fall break with a lovely day at the annual Community Fest, held by @Ewingnj township and @TCNJ! We had a fantastic time chatting with everyone about our research.

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

These exciting results highlight the potential of LLM-powered linguistic analysis to detect people who are struggling with anxiety and depression. They also deepen our understanding of the interpersonal processes that support effective therapy.

LLMs can expand beyond only analyzing client language and also estimate how strongly therapists encouraged distance in their clients. Ratings also tracked changing symptoms when word-counting approaches could not!

We have a new paper published in Computational Psychiatry! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that 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!

Apologies link should be @srp_science!

We are very proud to announce that Dr. Erik Nook is the recipient of the @SrpScience Society for Research in Psychopathology’s 2025 Early Career Award! Congratulations @ErikNook 🎉 Click here to learn about the society and its mission: psychopathology.org

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!

Annual @LogicEmotionLab outing to @TrentonThunder!!! Excited for a great summer of science with this crew

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.