Associate Prof @UCSBpsych interested in morality, emotion and brain || was @Yale @OxExpPsy @UniofOxford & @PKU1898
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined January 2012
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Broad cultural shifts don't hit all relationships the same way. Using text analysis of U.S. and Chinese historical corpora, we show how norms around care, hierarchy, mating, and transaction evolve differently across relational contexts. @avamadesousa doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-113…
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Happy lab lunches! We are excited to have former lab friend Suyi join us during this All Gaucho reunion!
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🧠 I’m recruiting a full-time Research Assistant to help build the AIMM Lab at UT Dallas’s Center for Vital Longevity! Preferred start: Spring 2027.
We study emotion regulation using behavioral experiments and fMRI. I’m looking for someone organized, reliable, and collaborative, with experience designing, programming, and conducting experiments. The role also includes participant coordination, IRB work, and helping manage the lab.
This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on research experience before pursuing a PhD in psychology or neuroscience.
Also recruiting 1–2 PhD students for Fall 2027.
Details: kebo2018.github.io/join/
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#Psychjob #Neurojob
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I'm hiring a postdoc in historical psychology!
This project will focus on psychological change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular interest in Islamic history. Topical themes include religiosity, creativity, morality, and institutions.
Info in the pic.
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Failing a social expectation hurts. In a new paper published in Affective Science @affectScience, my first PhD student (now Dr. Kashyap) @madhurik951 @YesLabUcsb explores how failing others’ expectations triggers guilt and behavior change across cultures. link.springer.com/article/10…
If you are interested in understanding how romantic partners share household labor and how this influences their well-being and relationship quality, please consider joining the study. Repost appreciated!
Hi friends,
We are collecting data from US-based cohabitating couples for a daily diary study! Each person will receive $50 and will be entered into a raffle to win $200! If you are interested, consider signing up here: tinyurl.com/3rmk3xzn
The YES Lab @YesLabUcsb will be presenting at @affectScience. Four talks and two posters, covering culture, close relationship, positive emotion, loneliness, and neural signature of craving. See you in Pittsburgh!
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Are we only morally obligated to others?
Our new work shows that people also see moral obligation to the self—bridging the usual divide between self-interest and moral goodness.
Out in JPSP 🎉 with @laura_soter & Susan Gelman doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000474 #MoralPsychology #GoodLife
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🚨Historical Psych Pre-conference at #SPSP2026
Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23,link below. We especially encourage early-career researchers to submit.
Any research on psychological change, cultural evolution,or historical context of social psych is welcome!
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So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @CommsPsychol 🎉
In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions.
(1/4)
nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
I’m honored to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure @UCSB!
To mark this milestone, my lab, the Yu Emotion Science (YES) lab, finally has its official logo (credit to @avamadesousa )
This milestone would not have been possible without the unwavering support and understanding of my family—thank you for your patience and love through the long hours and late nights.
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Excited to share my co–first-authored paper with @JX_Zhang123 and teamwork with @torwager and @JamesGross in @TrendsCognSci! We discuss emerging findings and a potential framework of neural overlap between emotion generation and regulation cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
First article in @TrendsCognSci , led by excellent @YesLabUcsb member and graduate student @avamadesousa . Commentary on a recent cross-cultural work on conceptual representation of social relationships by @Bruce_Yin_Wang et al. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrac…
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How does the human mind understand social relationships? This paper by Wang et al. discovers a universal conceptual structure across modern and ancient cultures, with five major dimensions and three core categories. @Bruce_Yin_Wang
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member @ghezae_isaias and in collaboration with @FanYangUChicago explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/…
