The main ISRE conference and associated pre-conferences each provide exciting opportunities to meet international colleagues, present your work, and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in emotion research. ISRE members study emotions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, affective computing, history, anthropology, and design (http://isre22.org).

ISRE2022 welcomes pre-conference proposals on any topic related to the field of emotion science. Previous pre-conferences include (but are not limited to) Affective Computing, Emotion Development, Social Dimensions of Emotion, and Culture and Emotions.

If you would like to submit a proposal for an ISRE conference, please prepare a 1 page PDF that includes:

1. Title of pre-conference

2. Names of organizers each with affiliations and contact details

3. Summary (up to 400 words) describing the key questions, relevance to emotion science, and the aims of the symposium

4. Provisional line-up of the speakers and their topics

Please send your submission by email to Gale Lucas at lucas@ict.usc.edu with the subject heading ‘ISRE2022 Preconference Proposal’ by 30th November 2021 11:59 pm International Date Line West (IDLW; UTC-12). Confused by timezone conversions? Check out worldtimebuddy (don’t forget to select the date 30 November 2021).

ISRE2022 will host a maximum of 6 pre-conferences. All proposals will be reviewed by the pre-conference chairs, Gale Lucas and Rachael Jack and will be evaluated on the following criteria: (a) relevance to emotion science, (b) interest to the ISRE community, (c) the novelty/groundbreaking nature of the topic, and (d) potential to advance knowledge and stimulate new lines of research.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for pre-conference proposal submissions: 30th November 2021 11:59 pm IDLW

Decision outcomes announced: Early December 2021

Questions? Please contact Gale Lucas at lucas@ict.usc.edu or Rachael Jack Rachael.Jack@glasgow.ac.uk.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Gale Lucas and Rachael Jack

ISRE 2022 in person: Hold the Date!

We are happy to announce the call for submissions and for pre-conference proposals for the bi-annual ISRE (International Society for Research on Emotion) conference. The conference will take place in-person on the 15-18th of July 2022 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles USA.

The ISRE conference is an exciting opportunity to meet international colleagues, present your work, and to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in emotion research. ISRE members study emotions from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, affective computing, history, anthropology, art and design. The ISRE conference 2022 will include keynote addresses by Antonio Damasio, Barbara Fredrickson and Eran Halperin.

If you would like to contribute to the ISRE conference by presenting your research, we invite you to submit an abstract of max. 250 words by November 21, 2021. Submissions are welcome from scholars in all relevant disciplines for symposia (of up to four talks and a discussant, or 5 talks), individual talks, and posters. Symposia are encouraged to include more than one discipline to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange. Talks will be 15 minutes long. Abstracts should be submitted online at the ISRE 2022 conference website (http://isre22.org). Submissions will open later this October. Please consult the guidelines on the website before preparing your submission. 

If you would like to organize a pre-conference, we will be accepting proposals up until November 30, 2021. Please submit a 1 page PDF proposal to the pre-conference chairs, Gale Lucas (lucas@ict.usc.edu) and Rachael Jack (Rachael.Jack@glasgow.ac.uk). Proposals should include names and affiliation of the organizers, a 400 word max description and provisional line-up of speakers and topics.

All abstracts will be subject to peer review by an international scientific committee; accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated in February 2022. Online registration is expected to be available shortly after that.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Los Angeles in July 2022!

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella

Organizers, ISRE 2022 Conference

Please see the below promotional image, and their abstract, for more information on our featured speaker and webinar topic.

Webinar Title: "Cultural Meaning, Identity and Emotion: The Advantages of a Formal Model" with Dr. Lynn Smith-Lovin"

Time: 4 PM PDT/ 7 PM EDT (on 9/27) & 1 AM CEST/ 9 AM AEST (on 9/28)

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jIY619T-QS6oMGDZiw_4oA

ABSTRACT

Sociologists are interested in emotions because they are important outcomes of social interaction, acting as a powerful indicator of how events are maintaining cultural meanings about self and other. Affect control theory-- a formal, mathematical theory of identity, action and emotion-- also uses affect as the primary motivator of social action and cultural expectations. The theory uses three dimensions to represent shared cultural meanings: evaluation (good—bad), potency (powerful—powerless) and activity (lively—quiet). When these meanings change because of social events, people experience emotions as a signal about a new location in the three-dimensional space and the direction and the distance of the change. They try to create new events (or new understandings of what happened) that restore their fundamental cultural understandings. The advantage of the mathematical, formal version of these ideas is that it can be represented in a computer simulation, allowing concrete theoretical predictions. Recent studies show that the theory can predict emotions, moods and depressive symptoms in a wide variety of social circumstances. Researchers have looked at the labeling of the mentally ill and its effects on characteristic emotions. Whether one sees oneself as a “victim” or a “survivor” influences the effects of a sexual assault. Whether one is higher or lower in status than someone that one is angry at influences whether or not the anger is experienced as a quick flash of emotion or a longer-term mood. The occupational identity that one occupies and the degree to which others defer to one shapes the emotions that one experiences, whether one is generally happy, fulfilled in one’s job and wants to continue working. At a more global level, the evaluation, potency and activity of the self-view influences how college undergraduates and PhD students describe their emotions over time, and how likely they are to suffer anxiety and depression. Having one formal model that can predict such a wide range of phenomena has great potential for both parsimony and practical application.

Autonomous Nervous System recovery was measured during elicitation of positive emotions and during neutral conditions. 

If you have any unpublished work on this topic, we would like to include it in our analyses. We would be very grateful if you might either send your study information or data at your earliest convenience (deadline: 15th of October) or contact us with any questions you may have to the following address: macbeh@amu.edu.pl.

• Additionally, we are interested if you know of any additional unpublished or ongoing studies (by yourselves or other authors) that might be relevant. We would also appreciate it if you would forward our request to any researchers in your network that may be doing relevant work in these areas.
• Please find the list of studies that we identified by the literature search. If you cannot find your papers that can contribute to our meta-analysis on this list, please let us know about your work. There have been relatively few studies published about this phenomenon, thus every contribution is highly appreciated

Best regards,
Maciej Behnke & Łukasz D. Kaczmarek
Adam Mickiewicz University
macbeh@aum.edu.pl

James J. Gross
Stanford University
gross@stanford.edu

Mark Assink
University of Amsterdam
m.assink@uva.nl


List of identified studies:

• *Fredrickson, B. L., & Levenson, R. W. (1998). Positive emotions speed recovery from the cardiovascular sequelae of negative emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 12(2), 191–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/026999398379718.
• *Fredrickson, B. L., Mancuso, R. A., Branigan, C., & Tugade, M. M. (2000). The undoing effect of positive emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 24(4), 237–258. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010796329158
• *Gilbert, K. E., Gruber, J., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. N. (2016). I don't want to come back down: Undoing versus maintaining of reward recovery in older adolescents. Emotion, 16(2), 214–225. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000128.
• *Hannesdóttir, D. K. (2007). Reduction of fear arousal in young adults with speech anxiety through elicitation of positive emotions (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from, https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitsteam/handle/10919/28941/dissertation.pdf?sequences=2&isAllowed=y.
• *Kaczmarek, K. (2009). Resiliency, stress appraisal, positive affect, and cardiovascular activity. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 40(1), 46–53. https://doi.org/10.2478/s10059-009-0007-1.
• *Kaczmarek, L. D., Behnke, M., Kosakowski, M., Enko, J., Dziekan, M., Piskorski, J., ... & Guzik, P. (2019). High-approach and low-approach positive affect influence physiological responses to threat and anger. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 138, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.01.008
• *Medvedev, O., Shepherd, D., & Hautua, M. J. (2015). The restorative potential of soundscapes: A physiological perspective. Applied Acoustics, 96, 20–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.03.004.
• *Qin, Y., Lü, W., Hughes, B. M., & Kaczmarek, L. D. (2019). Trait and state approach-motivated positive affects interactively influence stress cardiovascular recovery. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 146, 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.08.011
• *Radstaak, M., Geurts, S. A., Brosschot, J. F., Cillessen, A. H., & Kompier, M. A. (2011). The role of affect and rumination in cardiovascular recovery from stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 81(3), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.06.017
• *Soenke, M. (2014). The role of positive emotion eliciting activities at promoting physiological recovery from sadness (Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved from, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/325214/1/azu_etd_13407_sip1_m.pdf.
• *Sokhadze, E. M. (2007). Effects of music on the recovery of autonomic and electrocortial activity after stress induced by aversive visual stimuli. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 32(1), 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-007-9033-y.
  

Link to the pdf version of the call: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OY6wVrU-PqrfeDb0eMDg5FMmCmLvPFcv/view?usp=sharing

Please see the below promotional image for more information on our featured speaker.

Webinar Title: "The Social Effects of Emotions Are Functionally Equivalent Across Expressive Modalities"
Time: 5 AM PDT/ 8 AM EDT/ 2 PM CEST/ 10 PM AEST

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DaxkBamxRuGM8CvXTxFSNA?fbclid=IwAR2G71UImXCwygkZ2Gmh5L72wgjdDBU03s-ljtY4ls_D-yM95INqydEW6No

ABSTRACT

Emotions play a crucial role in regulating social life. Interpersonal interactions are the most commonly reported sources of emotions, and these emotions in turn influence social behavior via intrapersonal as well as interpersonal processes. Traditionally, the dominant research focus has been on the intra-individual consequences of emotional experience for cognition and behavior. In this talk I advocate a more social approach to emotion, which views emotion as occurring between rather than just within individuals. I present a theoretical framework for studying the interpersonal effects of emotions, which addresses the impact of one person's emotional expressions on others' emotions, cognitions, attitudes, motivations, and behaviors: Emotions as Social Information (EASI) theory. EASI theory posits that emotional expressions exert social influence on observers via affective as well as inferential processes. The social consequences of emotional expressions depend on the relative strength of these processes, which is in turn determined by observers' information processing motivation and ability and by social-contextual factors that shape the perceived appropriateness of the emotional displays. EASI theory further postulates that the social effects of emotional expressions emitted through different channels (face, voice, posture, words, symbols) are similar in direction (though not necessarily magnitude). I provide theoretical arguments and empirical support for this “functional equivalence hypothesis” and discuss some of its theoretical, practical, and methodological implications. See Less

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Our 4th Emotion Webinar is now coming up in less than 2 weeks on Monday, September 13th! Please see the below promotional image for more information on our featured speaker.

Webinar Title: "As soon as there was life, there was danger"

Time: 2 PM PDT/ 5 PM EDT/ 11 PM CEST (on Monday, 9/13) and at 7 AM AEST (on Tuesday, 9/14)

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nwhITMdORr2sx_JTMWTYig

There will be a Q&A opportunity at the end of the webinar. All are welcome to attend, but space is limited - be sure to register! See you all there!