Emotional Lives Lab

Hello! We are the Emotional Lives Lab. We study emotion and emotion regulation in daily life.

- Dr. Springstein and Macey will present their research at the Society for Affective Science conference in Portland from March 20 – March 22.

SAS Presentations

- Dr. Springstein will give a talk entitled “Emotions as Self-Regulatory Systems? Integrating Emotion Regulation Goals” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in Denver, Colorado. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Emorie Beck & PhD candidate Rohit Batra from the University of California, Davis. The symposium entitled “A Dynamic and Multifaceted Perspective on Well (and Ill)-being in Daily Life” will be held on February 22nd at 9:30 AM in Bluebird 2E.

- Dr. Springstein will be talking about her research at an upcoming event on campus for the Aging and your Brain: Advancing Aging Research at UC Riverside Symposium. The symposium is open to the public and will be held at CHASS Interdisciplinary South, 1113 on Friday, January 31st from 1PM to 3PM. Hope to see you there!
- Dr. Springstein is celebrating a publication in the Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, titled “How often and why do people manage their emotions in older adulthood?”
- Macey has had her first co-authored paper, titled “Intersection of Biases: In-Group Positivity for Racially Diverse Ambiguous Facial Expressions” accepted for publication in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. This work was conducted by Dr. Jordan Pierce at the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where Macey previously worked.
- We are so excited that Dr. Springstein was awarded a SoCal OASIS Grant for her proposal “Healthy emotional aging for minority older adults in Riverside County” in collaboration with Dr. Rachel Wu’s lab. We can’t wait to get this research started!
- Dr. Springstein and Macey received notices that their submissions for the Society for Affective Science conference were accepted. They will present the lab’s research in Portland at the end of March!

- 8 new undergraduate research assistants have joined the lab. Welcome to the lab we are so excited to start working with you!

- We have launched our undergraduate research application and will be looking to recruit several motivated research assistants for the Winter quarter! You can fill out an application for the lab here.

- Macey Grisso just joined as our new lab manager and first lab member. Welcome, Macey!