Assistant Professor of Psychology @Rutgers_Newark and SPAN lab PI. Studying variability in responses to stress across development.
Joined July 2011
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9 Apr 2025
The SPAN lab is looking for children ages 4 - 7 years old to participate in our new study on emotional development! The study is all online and you can earn up to $60 in gift cards. You can find more information and sign up here: childrenhelpingscience.com/s…
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Behold! Decades of evidence show adversity affects development; the challenge now is figuring out why and how experience matters. Our latest thinking:
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8 May 2025
The Emotion Health and Psychophysiology lab at Yale University is hiring a lab manager. Applicants should have a BA/BS in psychology or related field. Please send CV/resume and cover letter to wendyberry.mendes@yale.edu
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9 Apr 2025
The SPAN lab is looking for children ages 4 - 7 years old to participate in our new study on emotional development! The study is all online and you can earn up to $60 in gift cards. You can find more information and sign up here: childrenhelpingscience.com/s…
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Karen Smith retweeted
27 Mar 2025
⭐️Our students had a chance to showcase their work at the Easter Psychological Association Conference this year! We are amazed at their current work and look forward to the continued progress on these projects! #EPA2025
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Child adversity influences future decision-making. This systematic review suggests adversity shifts individuals to prioritize information about risks and de-value information about reward- likely adaptive in adverse contexts.
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16 Dec 2024
Also check out the thoughtful commentaries on the paper by David Sander, Otniel Dror, and Julian Thayer & Bruce Friedman on the article. Two of the three are out online!
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13 Jan 2025
The final commentary (Thayer & Friedman) is now also out!
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16 Dec 2024
It's been a hectic December, but finally getting around to sharing our (@childemotionlab) new theoretical paper! We challenge assumptions around the role of arousal in emotion , highlighting ambiguity in how the construct is defined and measured.
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Postdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications due 2/7/25. emotion.wisc.edu
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2 Oct 2024
Love an excuse to do some arts and crafts. We had so much fun helping CARES prepare for this event! You can tell by how hard everyone is concentrating 😅
As our excitement grows, the Office of CARES assisted the @span_lab_run today in crafting decorations for @casa_essex Harvest Fest this Saturday. We hope to see you there!
See you there from 1PM-4PM!!! 🫶🏻🎃🍁
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17 Sep 2024
Join us in the SPAN Lab! I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle. Apply if interested in questions related to how stress shapes development. Particularly a good fit if interested in loneliness, emotion, learning, decision making, and psychophysiology. Pls RT (1/3)
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You can find more info on the lab here (sites.rutgers.edu/span-lab/) and the Rutgers Newark PhD program here (sasn.rutgers.edu/graduate-pr…). Email if you have questions! (2/3)
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17 Sep 2024
And a quick plug for New Jersey - it is a fantastic place to live! New York is minutes away, and, on top of that, there’s beautiful beaches and hiking all less than an hour away. Also delis and bagels 🥯 - need I say more.
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27 Aug 2019
Saying an effect size is "small" or "medium" is meaningless. But we didn't have a set of guidelines for saying it better. Now we do, thanks to this awesome piece by @DavidFunder and Dan Ozer--I think everyone doing behav science research should read this. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Karen Smith retweeted
15 Aug 2024
I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @UWPsych in Fall 2025. I can take students through the dev, social, and cog cog neuro areas. Ideal for those interested in decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. pls RT! More info below
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Karen Smith retweeted
12 Aug 2024
Calling all clinical psych PhD applicants! 🍌
I’ll be accepting 1-2 new students at @OhioState this year. This would be a particularly good fit for someone interested in emotion regulation in mood, anxiety, & personality disorders and who likes stats 📈
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Karen Smith retweeted
30 Jul 2024
Three years of COVID-19-related school restrictions and mental health of children and adolescents in Japan @NakataTaisuke
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