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Emotion Development Lab, Dept of Psychology, Boston College, USA  The Emotion Development Lab investigates people’s understanding of emotion. Currently, much of our research focuses on: Children’s understanding of emotion: To do this research, we develop games designed to tap children’s knowledge and beliefs about emotion. Adults’ understanding of emotion: This research uses questionnaires or computer applications to investigate adults’ knowledge and beliefs about emotion. 

ASU Toddler Emotional Development Project, Arizona State University, USA  The Toddler Emotional Development Project at Arizona State University is designed to study how children grow and develop during their early years. The main goal of the project is to understand patterns of emotion and behavior in toddlers and how these patterns relate to their behavior as they grow older.

Caltech Emotion & Social Cognition Laboratory, CIT, USA Our laboratory investigates the neural underpinnings of human social behavior. We are pursuing questions such as: How do we recognize emotion from facial expressions? How do we make social judgments about other people? How do we look at people’s faces (how do we move our eyes when looking at them)? How do we make decisions that are influenced by emotion? How do we remember emotional events in our lives? How do we make moral judgments about what is right and wrong?

Psychotherapy & Emotion Research Laboratory, Boston University, USA  The Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory focuses on the following issues: Treatment mechanisms: How does cognitive behavioral therapy work?  What is the mechanism of treatment change, and what are the active ingredients?  How can treatments be improved further? Translational research: How can we translate knowledge from basic neuroscience into clinical techniques to enhance therapies for anxiety disorders? Culture and mental health: What are the culture-specific expressions of mental disorders, and how can psychological treatments be made more culturally sensitive in order to enhance their efficacy, dissemination, and acceptability? Emotion research: What are the effects of emotion regulation strategies on anxiety and subjective well-being?Psychopathology and nosology: What is the psychopathology of social anxiety disorder?  Are there any meaningful subgroups?

Child Emotion Lab, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA  Research projects in our lab are focused upon children’s emotional development and the relationship between early emotional experience and child psychopathology. We are particularly interested in understanding two related aspects of emotional development: What are the mechanisms of normal emotional development? To what extent are emotions shaped by nature and nurture? Does it make sense to try and separate biology and experience? How are emotions related to the development of psychopathology in children? Might the development of emotional processes help explain the link between people’s early experiences and later development of psychological difficulties?

Psychopharmacology & Emotion Research Lab (PERL), University of Oxford, UK  We explore how the brain processes emotional information and how this is influenced by brain chemicals and medicines. This helps us to understand disorders such as depression and anxiety and to understand and contribute to the development of drug and psychological treatments.

Laboratory of Multimodal Modelling of Emotion & Feeling, University of Geneva, Switzerland   The Laboratory of Multimodal Modelling of Emotion and Feeling (MMEF) conducts a research program, headed by Prof. David Rudrauf, centered on computational modelling of consciousness and emotion, both in their subjective and objective aspects. This program is developed along multiple research foci, encompassing psychology, mathematics, engineering, and computer science, and includes experimental, observational, and simulation-based studies.

Emotion & Self-Control Laboratory, University of Michigan, USA  The mission of the laboratory is to improve our understanding of how people can adaptively control impulses and emotions that undermine their goals and compromise their health. We adopt an integrative approach spanning multiple levels of analysis to address this issue, and focus on a variety of participant populations.

The Emotion Research Lab, UCIrvine, USA  The primary mission of the emotion and health research lab is to address emotion regulation and well-being across the lifespan in a variety of contexts. We also have developed a strong health psychology orientation looking at physiological reactivity to appraised stress, genetic predictors of depression, and a behavioral genetic study of personality traits. Our theoretical orientation is based on Carstensen’s Socioemotional Selectivity Theory. The theory posits that, as people age, they place a higher priority on pursuing emotion-related goals (like spending quality time with loved ones) rather than knowledge-related goals or goals related to the distant future.

Motivation & Emotion Research Laboratory, San Francisco State University, USA  We study the basic science of emotion and motivation in the general population using measures of self-report, psychophysiology, and behavior. We then apply these findings in studies with individuals with various disorders including schizophrenia and depression.

Culture & Emotion Research Lab, San Francisco State University, USA  The director of the CERL, Dr. David Matsumoto, is a world-renowned leader in studies of culture and emotion. CERL was the first laboratory to document cultural differences in emotion judgments, and continues to be a leader in this field. CERL is a world leader in the study of facial expressions of emotion, and other nonverbal behaviors, across cultures. CERL is the world leader in the first cross-cultural study of display rules.

Relationships, Emotion, & Health Lab, San Francisco State University, USA   Romantic relationships are an important part of most people’s lives.  Relationship discord is associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes.  Conversely, emotional or health-related issues can be a source of strain for a relationship.  Therefore, it is critical to understand these linkages in order to develop and apply effective interventions that improve functioning in all domains.  The REH lab uses a range of self-report, behavioral, and physiological methodologies to examine the connections between intimate relationship processes, emotional functioning, and mental and physical health.  The lab additionally explores processes related to power differences and gender-stereotyped behaviors within relationships.  For more about the lab, please see our ongoing Research Projects page or visit our Get Involvedpage for information on how to become a research assistant or participate in a study.

Culture & Emotion Lab, Stanford University, USA  Does culture influence people’s feelings? To answer this question, our lab uses a variety of methods (survey, archival, interview, observational, experimental, experience sampling, and psychophysiological) to compare people’s affect (i.e., emotions, moods, and other feeling states) within and across cultures. Our goal is to produce research and theory that broaden our current understandings of affect and culture in ways that are both scientifically and clinically useful.

Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory, Stanford University, USA  The Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory is a research laboratory designed for the study of emotion and emotion regulation. It is also a teaching laboratory, training undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and visiting scholars in the measurement and analysis of emotion and emotion regulation processes using behavioral, autonomic, and brain imaging methods.

The Emotion & Self Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada  In the Emotion and Self Lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, we study the process, structure, expression, and regulation of emotions and self. Much of our research is focused on self-conscious emotions (pride, shame, embarrassment, and guilt) — emotions that are intricately entwined with complex self-evaluative processes. But we also study more basic level emotions, such as anger, fear, sadness, and happiness.

Roberts Lab, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK   Emotions in humans and animals are regulated by circuits in the brain. These circuits process both positive and negative emotions. Our lab studies the higher order brain circuits that regulate both positive and negative emotion. This is relevant to our understanding of the heightened fear and anxiety and loss of pleasure associated with a range of disorders including not only generalised anxiety and depression but also schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

Emotion Development Lab, The Pennsylvania State University, USA  Our research involves understanding the complex systems involved in the development of emotions, temperament, and personality in infants, toddlers, and young children. We are interested in understanding early emerging individual differences in social-emotional behaviors and the consequent developmental trajectories of different types of behavior.

The Emotional Brain Institute, USA  The Emotional Brain Institute (EBI), established April 16, 2007, is a joint initiative between New York University and New York State. The goal of EBI is to understand emotions and their impact on mind and behavior. A multi-disciplinary group of researchers is investigating the origins of normal and pathological emotions from the level of mind and behavior to neural systems, cell activity, molecules, and genes. The Director of EBI is Dr. Joseph LeDoux, a University Professor, and a Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU. 

Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA    Cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind

Culture & Emotion Lab, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA  In the Culture and Emotion Lab, we study emotions in their social and cultural context using a multi-method approach. We are especially interested in how people from different cultures experience having a positive or negative image in the eyes of others. Thus, we study a wide range of emotions about being respected and disrespected, from pride, happiness, and satisfaction to anger, shame, fear of envy, and humiliation.

Personality & Emotion Research Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada  At the PERL, we aim to understand what contributes to problems with emotion regulation and how we can help people improve emotion regulation through effective treatment strategies. One such effective treatment is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington. Our research includes basic laboratory studies of emotions and emotion regulation with clinical (e.g., persons with BPD) and non-clinical (e.g., students) samples, as well as treatment research designed to figure out how and why treatment strategies work.

Emotion Regulation Lab, Hunter College, Dept of Psychology, New York, USA   The Emotion Regulation Lab focuses on one fundamental question: How do emotions organize development and facilitate or hinder mental health? Emotions permeate and influence every aspect of our lives. Indeed, even moderate fluctuations in emotion systematically change, and are changed by, biological states, cognitions, goals, behaviors, and social interactions. Emotion regulation refers to the flexibility and control of these changes, and has a direct and profound influence on our daily actions and on our ability to cope with conflict and challenge. Ultimately, our mission is to use the concept of emotion regulation to better understand how emotions promote competence or in some cases create vulnerability for psychopathology, particularly anxiety and mood disorders. We integrate the use of physiological and behavioral assessment tools to refine the conceptualization and measurement of emotion regulation and disorders of mood.Topics of interest include: 1. Biomarkers for emotion regulation and anxiety-related threat biases. 2.  Attention training to reduce the threat bias. 3. The influence of social media on emotional adjustment. 4. Emotion- cognition integration

Affective Computing Group @ MIT’s Media Lab, MIT, USA  The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses machine recognition and modeling of human emotional expression, including the invention of new software and hardware tools to help people gather, communicate, and express emotional information, together with tools to help people better manage and understand the ways emotion impacts health, social interaction, learning, memory, and even shopping. 

Emotion & Communication Lab, Lancaster University, UK   Our lab is based in the Psychology Department at Lancaster University. We are interested in how people process emotionally salient stimuli, e.g., how accurately do we recognise emotions from facial expressions? Is this ability affected by perceptual cues such as pleasant vs. sour or bitter taste, or individual differences such as ethnicity? We are also interested in emotional language, e.g., are emotionally-laden words, sentences, or texts easier to read, understand and memorise? Emotion words have been shown to capture attention very quickly; they are also processed faster and more efficiently than neutral words. Thus, emotional verbal material may be specifically used to foster learning of a second language, to facilitate reading and learning of novel concepts, or to help the recovery of impaired language functions. We are currently investigating the use of figurative language, e.g., metaphors or idioms, which is pervasive in communication. Why do speakers prefer figurative over literal expressions? Recent research from our lab seems to suggest that figurative language engages the reader or listener more strongly at the emotional level. Hence, using figurative language may render communication more effective, may have stronger persuasive effects, but it may also evoke aesthetically pleasing experiences, such as the ones we have when we read poems or good novels. We have recently developed an interest in aesthetics or beauty perception, in relation to both visual art such as paintings and literature such as poems or narrative.

“Focus on Emotions” Emotional Development Research Lab, Leiden University, The Netherlands  Our research involves many aspects of children’s emotion regulation, such as appraisal and emotion awareness, coping, emotion expression, and social influences on children’s emotional development. We study children’s emotional functioning in typically and atypically developing groups.

Human Emotions Lab, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA  Much of the current research in the lab concerns the development of emotion knowledge, emotion regulation, and key components of emotion competence. A principal goal of our research is to develop a scientific basis for emotion-based intervention programs that prevent behavioral disorders and facilitate the development of social and emotion competence.

Humaine, Emotion – Research Net, Europe  Emotion-oriented computing is a broad research area involving many disciplines. The EU-funded network of excellence HUMAINE is currently making a co-ordinated effort to come to a shared understanding of the issues involved, and to propose exemplary research methods in the various areas.

Center for the Study of Emotion & Attention, University of Florida, USA  The Center for the Study of Emotion & Attention is devoted to studying the behavior and physiology of human emotion, highlighting emotion’s motivational significance for both attention and response mobilization. Guided by a motivational model of emotion, which proposes that an appetitive motive system mediates pleasant affect and a defense motive system mediates unpleasant affects, the Center’s research goals are to elucidate the functions and mechanisms of the defense system, as it determines human fear and anxiety.

Affective Neuroscience & Biopsychology Lab, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA  We aim to improve understanding of neural mechanisms of emotion, motivation, learning and reward. Our topics include the psychology and neurobiology of pleasure and desire, with implications for motivational disorders such as drug addiction and eating disorders. We also study how brains produce the detailed structure of natural behavior.

Cognitive & Affective Neuropsychology Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA   The Cognitive and Affective Neuropsychology Laboratory is dedicated to investigating the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and affect.  Through the combined use of performance measures and neuroimaging, our goal is to develop new models of how the brain gives rise to mental life across the lifespan.  Our projects focus on attention, working memory (cognitive and affective), and executive processes, with special emphasis on discovering how these abilities change due to aging. 

Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, Northeastern University, USA  Our laboratory studies emotionswhat they are, and how they work. Our research uses experiential, behavioral, psychophysiological, and brain-imaging techniques.The IASL is located at Northeastern University, with a secondary site at Mass General Hospital.

Laboratory for Clinical Affective Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, USA The Laboratory for Clinical Affective Neuroscience is directed by Dr. Brady D. Nelson and is based in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University. Our lab uses affective neuroscience to investigate the cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms that contribute to the development of psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on anxiety disorders and depression. Our research involves psychophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, biological, behavioral, observational, and self-report methods and spans child, adolescent, and adult populations. We aim to use affective neuroscience to better identify individuals who are at risk for psychopathology and improve efforts to prevent and treat mental illness.

Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, UCBerkeley, USA  Our research focuses on emotion, morality, power, and culture. If you are interested in joining the lab as a research assistant, please contact the graduate student whose research interests most closely match your own.

Emotion & Social Interaction Laboratory, UCBerkeley, USA   Our lab studies how emotions help (and hurt) us in everyday life by examining the ways in which emotions influence social interactions, decision making, memory, prospection, and goal-directed behavior. We ask questions about the linkage between emotion and these processes in healthy people and in people with different psychological disorders, including schizophrenia and depression. We also study how different contextual factors influence feelings and the perception of emotion in others, as well as how emotion shapes our perceptions of social contexts. We use behavioral, self-report, psychophysiological, and brain imaging methods in our research.

Psychophysiology Laboratory, UCBerkeley, USA  Our research group, led by Robert Levenson, Ph.D, seeks to understand the nature of human emotion in terms of its physiological manifestations, variations associated with age, gender, culture and clinical pathology, and the role emotion plays in interpersonal interactions.

Emotion, Brain & Behavior Lab, Tufts University, USA  We are pursuing a number of lines of research, all of which tackle questions about emotion and its regulation. Current Research Areas: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Risk and Resilience; Isolating Emotion-Regulatory Processes; Age Differences in the Neural Correlates of Cognitive Reappraisal; The Influence of Stress and Mood States on Attention

Cognitive &  Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Dartmouth College, USA   The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, directed by Professor Tor Wager, studies the neurophysiology of affective processes—pain, emotion, stress, and empathy—and how they are shaped by cognitive and social influences. We are interested in how thoughts, beliefs, and expectations affect the brain and body. We use a range of techniques, including fMRI, psychophysiology, EEG, pharmacology, and computational modeling of brain networks and behavior. We are also dedicated to developing models for the analysis and synthesis of functional neuroimaging data, especially fMRI, and open sharing of tools and scientific data.

Workgroup Kappas, Emotion, Cognition, Social Context, Jacobs University, Germany  We study human emotions and the various cognitive and psychophysiological processes associated with them. Since emotions possess a strong social component, we also look at their relationship with social context. Currently, we are mainly interested in the study of emotions in cyber space communication (see official website of the EU consortium CyberEmotions andCyberEmotions on Wikipedia) and in the application of technology for enhancing cultural understanding (see official website of the EU consortium eCUTE). In Decmber 2012 a new project, EMOTE, also linked to affective computing, started.

Affect & Cognition Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada  Our research explores the psychological and neural underpinnings of the emotions, from their facial and physiological expression to their interactions with cognitive processes such as attention and memory.

Emotion Group, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), Cambridge, UK   We use a variety of research approaches including neuroimaging, neuropsychology, cognitive, psychophysiological, computational and clinical trial methodologies. We specifically investigate: The representation, elicitation, maintenance and control of emotion in healthy individuals; How emotion relates to attention, memory and executive function; How these processes may be disturbed in disorders of emotion, such as Depression, Anxiety and PTSD; The development and evaluation of translational and novel therapeutic interventions for disorders of emotion. Because of its excellent facilities and considerable research training experience, the CBU is recognised by the University as a “Non-University Institution” for the purposes of graduate study. This means that students can undertake their research at the Unit, while being registered for their degrees at the University of Cambridge and can enjoy all the benefits of University and College membership.

The Affective & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Birkbeck, University of London, UK   The Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab investigates cognition and emotion, particularly emotional information processing and its effects on cognitive processes

NCCR Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland  The National Center of Competence in Research “Affective Sciences – Emotions in Individual Behaviour and Social Processes” (NCCR Affective Sciences) is one of the first research centres worldwide dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of emotions and their effects on human behaviour and society. More than 100 researchers from various disciplines and universities collaborate in the NCCR Affective Sciences. The NCCR Affective Sciences is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and is hosted at the University of Geneva (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences).

Research Center “History of Emotions”, Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Germany   The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development and education. Researchers of various disciplines – including psychology, education, sociology and medicine, as well as history, economics, computer science and mathematics – work together on interdisciplinary projects at the Berlin Institute. Our research rests on the assumption that emotions – feelings and their expressions – are shaped by culture and learnt/acquired in social contexts. What somebody can and may feel (and show) in a given situation, towards certain people or things, depends on social norms and rules. It is thus historically variable and open to change.A central objective of the Research Center is to trace and analyse the changing norms and rules of feeling. We therefore look at different societies and see how they develop and organise their emotional regimes, codes, and lexicons. Research concentrates on the modern period (18th to 20th centuries).Geographically, it includes both western and eastern societies (Europe, North America and South Asia).

Languages of Emotion, Free University of Berlin, Germany  The most widely discussed models of emotion in more recent psychology and neuroscience tend to disregard the role of language as well as of other cultural sign systems. Conversely, the current language models in modern linguistics say little or nothing about emotional processes. The cluster aims to reverse this trend. The four areas of research of the cluster examineA: the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (language, sound, image)B: the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/shaping emotionsC: correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders) andD: modes of emotion modeling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social behavior.

Affective Computing Group, Media Lab, MIT, USA  The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses machine recognition and modeling of human emotional expression, including the invention of new software and hardware tools to help people gather, communicate, and express emotional information, together with tools to help people better manage and understand the ways emotion impacts health, social interaction, learning, memory, and even shopping. Our projects are diverse: from inventing ways to help people who face communication and emotion regulation challenges; to enabling customers to give rich emotional feedback; to quantifying patterns in core emotion systems, such as autonomic activity, during seizures, stress-related disorders, and sleep.