Final Program
Below you’ll find the final version of the program (as of 28 June 2026). Please let us know if you spot an error.
Pre-Conference Day Registration open all dayOpening Reception 18:00–20:00, QAGOMA
Emotional Development Pre-Conference
BCEC · Organisers: Lukas Lopez & Peter Reschke
Invited speakers: Alexandra Main (UC Merced), Ella Moeck (University of Adelaide), Nicole Nelson (University of Adelaide), Eric Walle (UC Merced). Plus contributed short talks and posters.
Technology & Emotions Pre-Conference: “Feeling the Future”
BCEC · Organisers: Eric Vanman & Arvid Kappas
09:00–09:15 Welcome and Framing — Eric Vanman & Arvid Kappas
09:15–10:00 Opening position papers
10:20–11:20 Panel 1: Sensing & Measuring Emotion in the Wild
11:20–12:20 Panel 2: Empathy, Attachment & Relationships with Machines
12:20–13:00 Hi-Density Presentation — pitches + posters
13:00–14:15 Lunch + Demo Zone
14:15–15:15 Panel 3: Designing for Emotion
15:35–17:00 Closing Fishbowl
17:00–17:10 Wrap-up
Arts Exhibition / Dance-Theatre Pre-Conference
Room P3 (afternoon) · Dr Nidya Shanthini Manokara (LASALLE, Singapore), Kunalan Manokara (Duke University), Melissa Quek
A performance-based arts exhibition / dance-theatre programme.
Late-Breaking Flash Talks
Saturday afternoon · 2-minute pitches previewing the late-breaking posters
Maya Israel-Shabat (Israel) · Emma Sullivan (Australia) · Ellie Dorrans (United Kingdom) · Thomas Ganzetti () · Frances Doyle (Australia) · Kealagh Robinson (New Zealand) · R Thomas Boone (United States) · Alicja Nowacka (New Zealand) · Minttu Huttu (Australia) · Olivia Bradshaw (Australia) · Nidya Shanthini Manokara (Singapore) · Aurore Boullier (Australia) · Sheng-Ling Chang (Taiwan) · Isabelle Zammit (Malta) · Senudi Malaweera (Australia) · Peter Reschke (United States) · Hiroshi Shibata (Japan) · Kathleen Giles (Australia) · Bahram Mahmoodi Kahriz (United Kingdom)
Schedule Welcome to Country · Welcome & Opening — 09:00–09:30Keynote 1: Christian von Scheve — 09:30–10:30 (morning coffee shortened to 10:30–10:45)Block A — 10:45–12:00Lunch & Poster Session 1 — 12:00–13:30Block B — 13:30–14:45Block C — 15:15–16:30Special Session: Ekman Tribute — 16:45–17:45Early Career Award Session (Xia Fang & Katie Hoemann) — 17:45–18:45Early Career Social Event (evening)
ASession Block A10:45–12:00
Measurement & Methods
Human–AI Dialogic Synthesis: A Methodology for Emotionality as Systematic, Reviewable Evidence
Sabahet Bruncaj (United States)
The Mood Cube: A Data-Driven Model of Emotion Using Colour
Nathan Jones (Australia)
Mapping the Minimally Verbal Affective Space
Assaf Kron (Israel)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy / Animal & Evolution
Do language-based arguments inform us about basic emotions?
Juan R. Loaiza (Chile)
Weathering Emotions: Extending the justification of climate anger
Mary Carman (South Africa)
Hunger Selectively Amplifies Cue-Triggered Wanting and Body Sensations but Not Predicted Liking for
Zaiyao Zhang (United States)
Sickness Increases Pathogen Avoidance Motivated by Disgust: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Amy Zhao (Netherlands)
Disgust theories, subtypes of disgust and evolutionary mechanisms
Martin Krippl (Germany)
Positive Emotions & Technology
Is it better to have loved?
Tom Cochrane (Australia)
What is Queer Joy?: A Community Construct in Search of a Definition
Ilana Seager van Dyk (New Zealand)
Predicting AI Use: An Examination of Loneliness and Attitudes Towards AI Chatbots
Noah Rose (Australia)
Envious Responses to Social Media Posts: Testing the Effects of Manipulated Similarity on Envy
Nicole Henniger (United States)
Culture & Cross-Cultural II
Music-Based Mood Regulation and Academic Focus among Malaysian Students
Sindhu Nair (Malaysia)
Social Emotions in Relational Context: A Cross-Cultural Computational Approach
Ava Ma de Sousa (United States)
Concept Training Predicts Semantic But Not Perceptual Convergence In Identification Of Emotion Event
Zhimeng Li (United States)
Symposium · Emotions in Everyday Life and Extraordinary Situations
Distinguishing the regulation and dynamics of moods and emotions in daily life
Peter Koval
Men do not suppress emotions more than women: Evidence from large-scale daily life data
Elise Kalokerinos
Context Matters, Doesn’t It? The Role of Context in Everyday Emotion Regulation Strategy Use
Anh Tran
Using predictable changes in uncertainty and controllability to study whether these contextual factors shape emotion regulation effectiveness
Ella Moeck
Eco-emotions in everyday life
Katharine Greenaway
BSession Block B13:30–14:45
Positive Emotions II
Awe on the Margins: An Examination of Youth Perspectives in Designing Awe- Inspiring Spaces and Plac
Demond Hill (United States)
Distinguishing Phenomenology, Behaviors, and Goals of Relief, Other Positive Emotions, and Surprise
Anitha Varghese (United States)
Compassionate Helping and Admiration-based Collaboration in Intergroup Settings
Kunalan Manokara (United States)
Computational mechanisms of gratitude practice
Elizabeth Fisher (Australia)
Physiology & Neuroscience
SYMPATHETIC AND PARASYMPATHETIC CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVATION COMPONENTS AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF NEGATI
Gesine Jordan (Luxembourg)
Colour- mood associations are physiologically rooted
Saara Asarudheen (New Zealand)
rom physiological workload to motivation: A mediation model involving affective valence and arousal
Melissa Muzeau (Australia)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy II
How the goal-directed theory of emotions explains "tough" cases of irrationality: recalcitrant emoti
Agnes Moors (Belgium)
Reward Prediction Errors Drive Emotional Valence
Thalia Vrantsidis (United States)
What is Love: Distinguishing 6 types of Love
Manasa Ganesh Kumar (United States)
Exploring Nature’s Capacity to Reduce Stress: A Systematic Review of HRV Evidence
Dylan Thomas Barrett (Australia)
Paradoxical attraction to and enjoyment of threat and "negativity"
Reg Adams (United States)
Gender & Identity
Feeling Gendered: Mind Your Emotions
Gaia Carlotta Fiamberti (Italy)
"Afropemotions": The Cultural and Political Implications of Emotions in Afro-European Women’s Fictio
Isabella Villanova (Belgium)
Mitigating the Emotional Witness Effect: The Role of Expert Testimony in Correcting Gendered Expecta
Mircea Zloteanu (United Kingdom)
Identity, Emotion, and Desistance from Crime
Dawn Robinson (United States)
Symposium · Emotions and Affective Polarization
Bringing political discussions into the laboratory: The role of subtle emotion sharing during face-to-face interactions for affective polarization
Stefanie Hechler
Talking About Politics: How Emotional Experience Shapes Everyday Political Interaction
Diego Dametto
Grievance Expressions and Emotional Dynamics in Progressive Activism: Insights from 360° Immersive Focus Groups and Affective Practice Analyses in Germany
Gavin B. Sullivan
Political polarization as affect control: implications for partisan differences in event understanding
Aidan Combs
Ressentiment and the Moralization of Grievance: Understanding Affective Polarization through an Emotional Mechanism
Mikko Salmela
CSession Block C15:15–16:30
Emotion Regulation II
Online, Open-Source Behavioural Assessment of the Extended Process Model of Emotion Regulation
Ian Raugh (Canada)
The Why Behind The How: Motives As Predictors Of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Everyday Life.
Valentina Bianchi (Australia)
Social sharing without reappraisal fails to regulate negative affect
Živa Krajnc (Slovenia)
Religiosity and cognitive emotion regulation strategies among the Hindus in India
Dhanabati Ningombam (India)
A computational model of dependence dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation
Yuki Nozaki (Japan)
Bridging Work and Home: Extrinsic Emotion Regulation and Bidirectional Affective Spillover
Hester Xiao (Australia)
Physiology & Neuroscience II
In the Eye of the Beholder: Dynamic Associations between Observed and Perceived Mother Behavior Pred
Lucas Parnell (United States)
Robots Make Us Frown But Not Smile? Asymmetric Facial EMG Responses to Artificial Social Agents
Conrad Earney (Australia)
Emotion regulation, physiological activation and context: An experimental lab study
Carmen Nimtz (Netherlands)
Feeling More, Adapting Less? Emotional and Autonomic Markers of High Sensory Processing Sensitivity
Beata Pacula (Poland)
Emotional and psychophysiological correlates of self-reported crying episodes in daily life over 10
Lauren Bylsma (United States)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy III
The Human Affectome: A Philosophical Odyssey
Alessandra N. C. Yu (United States)
Precision Emotion and Affective Context (PEAC) Process Model: A Theoretical Framework for Creating t
Stephanie Marita Carpenter (United States)
Examining the Ontology of Misandry: What do young Chinese women feel when they say they hate men?
Jiashan Han (Hong Kong)
Is Happiness a Distributional Summary of Momentary Pleasures?
Michelle Yik (Hong Kong)
Culture & Cross-Cultural
Sim ‘heart’ and hoz ‘neck/throat’ in the Zhuang vocabulary of emotion
Liuhuan Qin (Australia)
The F-M Face Prototypic Model of the 9 Basic Emotions: Cross-Cultural Validation and Neuropsychophys
Dr A. Freitas-Magalhães (Portugal)
Perceived Threat as the Engine of Political Hate: Evidence from the 2024 U.S. Election
Katherine Aumer (United States)
Symposium · Emotion Beyond Emotion: Reconsidering the Scope of Affective Science
But what would you do now? Can our theories of emotion predict noise or just what we perceive as emotionally meaningful?
Arvid Kappas
Dynamic relationships between cognition and emotion
Gina M. Grimshaw
Culturally-attuned affective science needs to move beyond its emphasis on WEIRD forms of experiential expertise
Yulia Chentsova Dutton
A new lens on old emotion regulation concepts
Katharine Greenaway
Toward a Broader Understanding of Emotion
W. Gerrod Parrott
PPoster Session 1
Aesthetics & Art
Luca Scacchi (Italy)
Clinical & Mental Health
Kalista Putri (Indonesia) · Elena Cattelino (Italy) · Lachlan Thomson (Australia) · Alicja Nowacka (New Zealand)
Moral & Prosocial Emotions
Stine Torp Løkkeberg (Norway) ×2 · Hiroko Nakamura (Japan) · Jacqueline Nguyen Phuong Trieu (Canada) · Toshiki Takeuchi (Japan) · Anna Z. Czarna (Poland)
Physiology & Neuroscience
Emma Stiennon (Switzerland) · Yunkai Yang (China) · Clémentine Pouliot (Canada)
Late-Breaking Research
Nidya Shanthini Manokara (Singapore) · Gi-Eun Lee (South Korea) · Steven Love (Australia) · R Thomas Boone (United States) · Aurore Boullier (Australia)
Schedule Block D — 09:00–10:15Keynote 2: Kate Rossmanith — 10:45–11:45Lunch & Poster Session 2 — 11:45–13:15Block E — 13:15–14:30Block F — 15:00–16:15Then-and-Now Reflections Panel (Disa Sauter, moderator) — 16:30–17:45Conference Dinner — 19:00–22:00
DSession Block D09:00–10:15
Development & Parenting II
Comprehensively Capturing Adolescent Emotion Regulation: The Process of Emotion Regulation Measure (
Greg Vukets (New Zealand)
Dyadic affective synchrony and adaptive brain development following childhood maltreatment
Sarah Whittle (Australia)
Neural Substrates of Risk: How Early Adversity Shapes Positive and Negative Alcohol Expectancies in
Dhatsayini Rattambige (Australia)
Reading Minds or Reading Patterns: Schema Use in Younger and Older Adults’ Empathic Accuracy
Julia Anne Freitag (Germany)
Emotion Regulation III
For Whom is Emotion Regulation Variability Adaptive? An Examination of Trait, Diagnostic, and Physio
Kristin Naragon-Gainey (Australia)
Savouring and Negative emotion: Investigating Its Buffering Effect
Sami Hossain (Australia)
A psychosocial approach to emotion regulation among Lyon firefighters
Anaïs MOULIN (France)
Emotional Labour and Mental Health in Policing: The Impact of Suppression, Dissonance, and Desensiti
Cody Porter (United Kingdom)
Individual differences in emotion regulation strivings in political engagement
Paul Jose (New Zealand)
Moral & Prosocial Emotions
‘Working through’ shame and guilt: narration as an emotional processing tool for offenders of interp
Christiana Harous (Australia)
The Emotional Burden of Rumination: The Effects of Abstract Rumination on Guilt and Shame
Lachlan Thomson (Australia)
Compassion Promotes and Negative Emotions Undermine Blood Donation Intention
Dewa Ayu Puteri Handayani (Australia)
Moral Reasoning Overrides Tears: Empathic Responses Depend on How People Decide, Not How They Feel
Sarah Johnson (Australia)
Beyond Hurt Feelings: Distinct Emotional Reactions to Social Rejection and the Amplifying Role of St
Irene Castro (Spain)
All the World's a Stage: Engagement with Literature and the Development of Empathy
Katey Workman (United States)
Social & Political Emotions
Chaotic Governance and Collective Resistance: A Politics of Fear and Solidarity
Arina Pismenny (United States)
Perceived Threat as the Engine of Political Hate: Evidence from the 2024 U.S. Election
Katherine Aumer (United States)
Difficulty Reading Faces: Emotion Recognition Predicts Real World Aggression
K. Lira Yoon (United States)
Narratives and Emotions Predict Support for (or Opposition to) U.S. Presidential Candidates
Ira Roseman (United States)
Symposium · Nonverbal expressions of emotions: Ethological studies of the face, voice, and body
Facial expressions within facial expressions: Implications for human interactions
Mark Frank
Bystander affiliation reduces the expression of anger in antagonists of interpersonal conflicts
Virginia Pallante
Towards an ethological typology of non-verbal vocalisations
Lidya Yurdum
A data-driven study of naturally occurring nonverbal expressions of emotions
Elisabeta Militaru
ESession Block E13:15–14:30
Development & Parenting III
Parent emotion expressions to infants in daily life: A mixed methods design
Lukas Lopez (United States)
Parent emotion expressions to infants in daily life: A mixed methods design
Lukas Lopez (United States)
The effect of regular meditation on domains emotion experience: a longitudinal cohort study.
Lillian Ward (Australia)
Emotion Regulation IV
Influence of a Vipassana (Mindfulness) Meditation Retreat on Wellbeing, Emotion Regulation and Heart
Jonathan Krygier (Australia)
The Association Between Emotion-Improving Extrinsic Emotion Regulation Strategies and Relationship O
Hanning Wang (Australia)
Hormone Variability in Adolescent Females: Associations with Brain Structure and Mental Health
Muskan Khetan (Australia)
Developmental changes in the perception of emotion authenticity.
Joanna Wincenciak (United Kingdom)
Workplace Emotion Regulation and Exportation of Moral Values
Yifan Wang (United States)
Person-by-Situation Encodings for Significant Others: Emotion & Communication Effects in Romantic Co
Alejandro Campero Oliart (United States)
Symposium · Advancing the Foundations of Affect and Affect Regulation Research
Expressive Suppression: Goal, Strategy, or Both?
Sooyeon Kim
What is Social Sharing? A Scoping Review of Operationalisations of Social Sharing
Sarah T. O’Brien
Reciprocal Dynamics of Affect and Affect-Regulation Strategies in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Secondary Analysis of Experience Sampling Studies
Runqiu Fei
Loneliness and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life
Jasmin Stariolo
Symposium · From Frowns to Coy Smiles: Mapping the Emergence of Discrete Emotional Expressions Across Development
Cross-cultural emotions reconsidered: the spontaneous production of emotions across age in Japan and the Netherlands
Post-doc, on behalf of Milica Nikolic
How preschool children draw their feelings
Xia Fang
You Deserved It: Children’s Evaluation of Hubristic Pride and Experience of Schadenfreude
Manasa Ganesh Kumar
The Early Ontogeny of Self-Conscious Emotions During Infancy
Christopher Riddell
Symposium · From Stimulus to Measurement: Insights from Research on Facial Expressions
Reduced Sensitivity to Motion Cues from Facial Expressions in Autism Spectrum Conditions
Tanja S. H. Wingenbach
The Psychological and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Facial and Subjective Emotional Responses
Wataru Sato
Covert Expressions, Overt Conclusions: Revisiting How We Measure and Manipulate Facial Activity
Magdalena Rychlowska
Guilt Increases Facial-Expression Synchrony in Social Interaction
Ziyu Zhang
FSession Block F15:00–16:15
Cross-Cutting Themes I
Clashing Emotions Hamper Response Inhibition
Rashmi Gupta (India)
Becoming a Member : The role of affective markers in deontic social learning
Emilie Jeanneret (Switzerland)
Working Memory Load Potentiates Emotional Mimicry of Happy Expressions
Eswar Naveen Yengisetty (India)
Are hate targets really dehumanized? Human and psychological attributions towards hate targets
Cristhian Martínez (Netherlands)
Clinical & Mental Health
The emotional victim effect in practice: Disbelief in (emotional) intimate partner violence victims
Janne van Doorn (Netherlands)
Emotion Difficulties in Eating Disorders: From Multi-Study Insights to Intervention Development
Laura Vuillier (United Kingdom)
What kind of fear memory is measured during fear conditioning?
Luke Ney (Australia)
Fearful but Willing: Understanding Donor and Non-Donor Fears Associated with Blood Donation
Kristen Baker (Australia)
Negative Emotional Cycle as Contributing Factor to Chronic Pain in Women: A Mixed-Methodological App
Ambi Joseph (India)
Faces & Nonverbal Communication
Social Context Shapes Facial Synchronization - A Virtual Reality Study
Argaman Bell Meir (Israel)
The temporal effect of belonging to a minimal group on facial mimicry
Akiha Osa (Japan)
High dimensional representational geometry and compound social categories underlying similarity judg
Natalie Peluso (Australia)
Symposium · Climate change and emotions: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Climate anxiety as a socially embedded mental health concern: Global patterns, impacts, and implications
Fiona Charlson
Anxiety, anger, apathy? Which climate emotions predominate, and how do they affect hope and responsibility for the future?
Roger Patulny
Modernity, ambivalence, and climate anxiety: A sociology of emotions perspective
Jordan McKenzie
Discourse, emotion and climate change: Analysing Australian interviews and news reporting on eco-anxiety
Rebecca Olson
Symposium · Conceptualising and addressing emotion regulation in diverse populations and contexts
Understanding the Role of Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in LGBT People’s Mental Health
Robbie Eres
Emotion Regulation in Bereavement: Intra- and Interpersonal Associations with Grief and Growth
Fiona Maccallum
Development and Trial Protocol for Tuned In Connect, A Group Emotion Regulation Intervention Using Music Listening for Neurodivergent University Students
Genevieve Dingle
Adaptation and Co-Regulation Within the Dynamics of Crying in Therapy: Therapists’ Perspectives of Client Crying
Leah S Sharman
PPoster Session 2
Cross-Cutting Themes
Olivia Karaman (United States) · Kristen Baker (Australia) · Momoka Okamura (Japan) · Mariko Shirai (Japan)
Culture & Cross-Cultural
Sabahet Bruncaj (UAE) · Eunji Jeong (South Korea)
Faces & Nonverbal Communication
Evgeniia Mekhtieva (Switzerland) · Tomomi Fujimura (Japan)
Interoception & Body
Hikaru Koike (Japan)
Legal & Decision-Making
Cassidy Penfold (Australia)
Measurement & Methods
Margarid Turnamian (United States)
Social & Political Emotions
Christopher Maymon (New Zealand) · Yuxuan Li (Netherlands) · Catherine L. Mann (Australia)
Late-Breaking Research
Kealagh Robinson (New Zealand) · Sheng-Ling Chang (Taiwan) · Ryonosuke Akimoto (Japan) · Frances Doyle (Australia) · Isabelle Zammit (Malta)
Schedule Block G — 09:00–10:15Keynote 3: Ronnie de Sousa — 10:45–11:45Block H — 12:00–13:15Lunch & Poster Session 3 — 13:15–14:45Block I — 14:45–16:00Buck, Smith, Scheff & Averill Tribute — 16:30–17:30Business Meeting, Awards & Closing — 17:30–18:30
GSession Block G09:00–10:15
Cross-Cutting Themes II
Behavioral Inhibition System and Frontal Alpha Asymmetry in Approach–Avoidance Conflict: Why Affect
Angélica Mendes (Luxembourg)
Morbid Curiosity predicts motivation to approach aversive foods
Pamela Taylor (Japan)
Emotional Labour and Mental Health in Policing: The Impact of Suppression, Dissonance, and Desensiti
Cody Porter (United Kingdom)
Clinical & Mental Health II
Expanding the moral circle: How compassion can reduce stigma towards those with depression and anxie
Amanda B. Chan (Australia)
Reconsidering happiness and wellbeing: a sociological study of patients with advanced cancer partici
Rebecca Olson (Australia)
Understanding Apathy (Emotional-Motivational Disorder) in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Revie
Nhi Pham (Vietnam)
The Effects of Expressive Suppression on Parent Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Parent Mental Heal
Camille Driscoll O'Keefe (New Zealand)
Fostering connection and belonging in physiotherapy chronic pain care
Miriam Dillon (Australia)
Faces & Nonverbal Communication II
Revisiting the ingroup advantage: A pre-registered meta-analysis on emotion recognition from facial
Yong-Qi Cong (Netherlands)
Mood Influences Recognition of Facial Expressions: Emotional congruence with happy and sad faces.
Tynneille Mulder
Is she really going out with him?
Gary McKeown (United Kingdom) — substitute for Bronagh Allison
Nonverbal Communication of Empathy: A Scoping Review of Over Five Decades of Empirical Research
Audrey Marcoux (United States)
Symposium · Trusted or Toxic? How Faces, Feelings and Past Acts Shape Trust—and How Trust Shapes Emotion Perception
More Than Trust: The Influence of Facial Trustworthiness and Gender on Emotion Perception
Belinda Craig
I Don’t Trust You – but You Seem a Nice Guy: Effects of Perceived and Learned Trustworthiness on Facial Expression Recognition
Ottmar Lipp
Proud of Harm, Sorry for Good Deeds? The Social Costs of Emotion-Moral Incongruence
Heidi Mauersberger
Not All Smiles Inspire Trust
Ursula Hess
Symposium · Antecedents and Mechanisms of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Romantic and Co-worker Relationships
Daily Hassles, Uplifts, and Extrinsic Emotion Regulation in New Graduate Nurse Dyads: A Daily Diary Study
Hannah Kunst
Why and How Romantic Partners Make Each Other Feel Bad
Carolyn MacCann
Situational Influences on Emotion Regulation Strategies Among Romantic Partners
Sarah A. Walker
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Healthcare Teams: Interviewing Healthcare Workers
Alistair Barkl
HSession Block H12:00–13:15
Technology & AI II
Motivations to defend or to repair when dealing with displeasing information.
Stine Torp Løkkeberg (Norway)
Trust, Anxious Attachment, and Conversational AI Adoption Intentions in Digital Counseling: A Prelim
Xiaoli Wu (New Zealand)
Towards Relational Affective Computing
Jacklyn Girgis (Canada)
Regret as a regulator: balancing search quantity and quality in exploration under uncertainty
Rio Sumida (Japan)
Clinical & Mental Health III
When Empathy Comes at a Cost: Interpretation Bias Toward Sadness as a Contributor to Depression and
Ottmar Lipp (Australia)
Problematic Use of AI Companionship: The Role of Loneliness Across Neurotypes
Hollis
The Relationship Between Emotional Vocabulary Size and Mental Health
Shinnosuke Ikeda (Japan)
Legal & Decision-Making
Reward Prediction Errors Drive Emotional Valence
Thalia Vrantsidis (United States)
Understanding the effects of juror emotions in sexual assault trials
Faye Nitschke (Australia)
How are male victims’ emotional expressions understood by jurors in criminal trials for sexual violence?
Faye Nitschke (Australia)
Symposium · Caring across cultures: Understanding cultural differences in compassion, social support, and likability
When grief gets real: Cultural differences in what bereaved U.S. Americans and Germans consider compassionate
Birgit Koopmann-Holm
Wanting to maximize positivity shapes what we consider supportive behavior: A study of US and Japanese couples
Verity Y. Q. Lua
How miscalibrated interpersonal concerns undermine support-seeking across societies: A comparison of Japan and the U.S.
Kuan-Ju Huang
Appropriateness vs authenticity of emotional expression: Cultural differences in perceptions of people who perform affect
Raphael Uricher
Symposium · Emotions in Context: Relationships, Life Stage, and Social Perception Across the Lifespan
Pixel Pleasers and Tiny Feelers: A Longitudinal Investigation of Parent Media Emotion Regulation and Children’s Emotion Knowledge
Peter Reschke (substitute for Anna Smith)
Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions
Alicia K. Jones
Expressive Communication in Families: Familiarity and Accuracy in an Interactive Emotion Recognition Task
Kye Palmer
Life-stage plasticity in social perception: Sensitivity to face-like patterns across the perinatal period
Jessica Taubert
The influence of social rejection on emotion recognition capacity in younger and older adults
Sarah A. Grainger
ISession Block I14:45–16:00
Technology & AI III
Trait respect-related emotions as significant predictors of work engagement in Japan
Sera Muto (Japan)
An Affective Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire: Vividness of negative and positive emotional
Andrea Wat-Si (Australia)
AI Empathy: A Bidirectional Framework for Understanding Emotional Relationships Between Humans and A
Haneen Abu-Obeid (Australia)
DialogGuard: Multi-Agent Psychosocial Safety Evaluation of Sensitive LLM Responses
Han Luo (United Kingdom)
Large Language Models as Perceivers of Dynamic Full-Body Expressions of Emotion
Huakun Liu (Japan)
Culture & Cross-Cultural III
Cultural Differences in Compassion Functions: Social Goals, Interdependent Happiness, and Social Anx
Kohki Arimitsu (Japan)
On ‘unspeakable feelings’ in Chinese
Zhengdao Ye (Australia)
Gratitude and Wellbeing: A Robust Relationship Across Individual Differences, but Moderated by Cultu
Irene Teulings (Norway)
Aesthetics & Art
Being Moved by Street Art: Emotional Pathways Linking Exposure to Social (In)Equality Artworks and P
Patrícia Arriaga (Portugal)
Being Moved by Street Art: Emotional Pathways Linking Exposure to Social (In)Equality Artworks and P
Patrícia Arriaga (Portugal)
Influence of a Costum Interactive Artwork on Users’ Emotional Valence: Evidence from a Pilot Study
Amel Achour-Benallegue (Japan)
Symposium · Emotion regulation and cognitive process in interpersonal relationships
How do the motives and strategies to worsen a partner’s emotions relate to intimate partner violence? A dyadic study
Iana Wong
Loneliness and intimate partner violence among young people in Australia: The emotional impact of isolation abuse
Catherine L Mann
How Your Partner Makes You Feel Better or Worse: Do Worsening and Improving Strategies Interact to Predict Conflict?
Alexander Mitchell
Not Always Nice: Cultural Differences in the Motives and Strategies People Use to Make Others Feel Worse
Yue Li
Lack of concern versus lack of attention: outcome processing in callous-unemotional traits as a mechanism of interpersonal insensitivity.
Caroline Moul
Symposium · Emotions and Climate Action: Integrating Affective, Cognitive, and Neural Pathways to Climate Engagement
Climate of emotions and emotions on climate: country-level emotion towards climate change and their impact on pro-environmental behavior
Izïa Vallaeys Mora
Identifying and validating the strongest predictors of informed energy policy support across Europe
Morris Krainz
Climate Communications Evoking both Negative and Positive Emotions Drive Advocacy
Anandita Sabherwal
Neural processing of imagery of climate change and environmental degradation
Boryana Todorova
PPoster Session 3
Development & Parenting
Zilu Zhang (Australia) · Karen McCarthy (Australia) · Senudi Malaweera (Australia) · Kathleen Giles (Australia) · Carole Bélanger (Canada) · Lucas Parnell (United States) · Carmen Nimtz (Netherlands) · Katey Workman (United States) · Brandt Bosworth (US) — presented by Lukas Lopez
Emotion Regulation
Maryam Arab (Iran) · Riko Matsubayashi (Japan) · Tünde Emma Jenes (Belgium) · Jonathan Krygier (Australia) · Olivia Bradshaw & Samiul Hossain (Australia) · Bahram Mahmoodi Kahriz (United Kingdom)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy
Shushi Namba (Japan)
Late-Breaking Research
Emma Sullivan (Australia) · Thomas Ganzetti · Hiroshi Shibata (Japan) · Minttu Huttu (Australia)