Kristen Lindquist

@ka_lindquist

Psych/Neuro prof . Studies how our brain, body, and social worlds create our emotions.

Carrboro, NC
Joined January 2015

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    Our paper showing both variation and structure in the meaning of emotions is out today in . We show that words for emotions such as "love," "fear," and "surprise" have different meanings in languages around the world 1/n

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  2. Feb 1

    I’m handling a special issue on language and emotion at Affective Science. Submissions welcome from interdisciplinary research areas focused on the interplay between language and emotion. DM me with questions

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  3. Jan 22

    Great postdoc opportunity in a great department with a great mentor .

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  4. Jan 9

    Congrats to and others for your early career contributions to !

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  5. Jan 8

    Women students leave academia when they don’t see faculty women doing this with kids. So here’s my goals for the first week of class: 1) re-submit grant 2) organize lab schedule 3) update slides 4) editorial duties 5) memorize Frozen lyrics

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  6. Jan 8

    Other evidence suggests this gender bias in citation rates is also common in science, more generally.

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    Jan 3

    Wow - every psychologist knows that mere exposure increases liking but this paper proposes that a) it’s not just mere exposure but relative exposure and b) it’s not just liking but extreme affect. These important nuances would change the original theory if true.

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  8. If you want to apply to one of these to come work in my lab, please reach out!

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    My SPSP blog piece with is out! We write about our recent paper about religion and passive immorality (). Despite the provocative title, we actually argue for more nuance in arguments about religion and morality ;).

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  10. Some great press for our recent paper on variation and universality in emotion meaning in languages across the world. So grateful to such excellent reporters getting our work out there

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    20 Dec 2019

    The best finding from this paper: people with religious decorations on their car are more likely to park over the line.

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  12. There's something particularly nice about seeing my work with graduate student and postdoc appear on the homepage:

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    19 Dec 2019

    Attention academic twitter, I understand that we IMPEACHED THE PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT (woot woot!), but there's BASIC SCIENCE going down. et al. give a new look at the universal vs. constructivist debate in emotion-

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  14. Our recent findings showing variation and structure in emotion meaning around the world are covered in

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    19 Dec 2019

    An amazingly ambitious paper examining emotion concepts in thousands of languages by a stellar team in

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    19 Dec 2019

    New paper showing variation and structure in the semantics of emotions across language families: with , Henry, , , Mucha, , Gray,

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  17. 5/n many thanks to our truly interdisciplinary authorship team: , , , , , Peter Mucha, , and Russell Gray. And thanks to for commentary and for his editorial guidance

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  18. 4/n these findings weigh in on debates about the nature of emotion that are as old as the study of psychology, neuroscience, and even evolution. Darwin himself questioned the extent to which emotions were universal v. culturally relative

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  19. 3/n despite wide variability, all languages understand emotions to differ in terms of how pleasant v. unpleasant they are and how physiologically activating v. calming they feel

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  20. 2/n similarity in emotion understanding was predicted by geographic proximity of language families, suggesting that those language families with closer historical contact are more likely to understand emotions in the same way

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