Preliminary Program

Below you’ll find the latest draft of the program. Keynote speakers and special symposia times will be added soon. Please let us know if you spot an error.

Sunday 12 July 2026
Monday 13 July 2026
Tuesday 14 July 2026
ASession Block A10:45–12:00
Positive Emotions
Homo Emoticus : a new anthropological hypothesis for human sciences
Thierry Paulmier (France)
The Unheard Influence: How Sound Steers Our Feelings
Neil Hillman (Australia)
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)
Technology & AI I
Predicting AI Use: An Examination of Loneliness and Attitudes Towards AI Chatbots
Noah Rose (Australia)
Reaching certainty in legal decisionmaking
Stina Bergman Blix (Sweden)
Examining individual differences in affective dynamics underlying difficult prosocial action
Teerawat Monnor (Switzerland)
Envious Responses to Social Media Posts: Testing the Effects of Manipulated Similarity on Envy
Nicole Henniger (United States)
Animal & Evolution
The Precarious Future of the American Dog
Margret Grebowicz (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)
Judgement bias: a cross-species translatable approach to assessing affective valence
Michael Mendl (United States)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy
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)
Measurement & Methods
Affectometrics: improving the measurement of affect in daily life
Peter Kuppens (Belgium)
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)
Symposium: Emotions in Everyday Life and Extrao…
1. Distinguishing the regulation and dynamics of moods and emotions in daily life
Peter Koval (Australia)
2. Men do not suppress emotions more than women: Evidence from large-scale daily life data
Elise Kalokerinos (Australia)
3. Context Matters, Doesn’t It? The Role of Context in Everyday Emotion Regulation Strategy Use
Anh Tran (Australia)
4. Using predictable changes in uncertainty and controllability to study whether these contextual factors shape emotion regulation effectiveness
Ella Moeck (Australia)
5. Eco-emotions in everyday life
Katie Greenaway (Australia)
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)
Emotion Regulation
Who Benefits? Personality and Mindfulness in Education.
Maria Anna Wasylkowska (Poland)
A computational model of dependence dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation
Yuki Nozaki (Japan)
Profiles of Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents: Integrating Strategy Use and Regulatory Abilities
Abigail Thomson (United Kingdom)
Bridging Work and Home: Extrinsic Emotion Regulation and Bidirectional Affective Spillover
Hester Xiao (Australia)
Regulate or resist? The role of emotion regulation in women’s collective action responses to everyda
Milla Jane (Australia)
Physiology & Neuroscience
Emotional Responsibility in affective modulation technologies
Xiaoyu Ke (China)
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)
Personality and Neural Processing of Emotional Facial Expressions: An EEG Study Exploring Bright and
Marina Palazova (Germany)
Emotion Theory & Philosophy II
How the goal-directed theory of emotions explains "tough" cases of irrationality: recalcitrant emoti
Agnes Moors (Belgium)
A Value-Updating Perspective on Emotions
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)
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
1. Bringing political discussions into the laboratory: The role of subtle emotion sharing during face-to-face interactions for affective polarization
Stefanie Hechler (Germany)
2. Talking About Politics: How Emotional Experience Shapes Everyday Political Interaction
Diego Dametto (Germany)
3. Grievance Expressions and Emotional Dynamics in Progressive Activism: Insights from 360° Immersive Focus Groups and Affective Practice Analyses in Germany
Gavin B. Sullivan (Germany)
4. Political polarization as affect control: implications for partisan differences in event understanding
Aidan Combs (United States)
5. Ressentiment and the Moralization of Grievance: Understanding Affective Polarization through an Emotional Mechanism
Mikko Salmela (Finland)
CSession Block C15:15–16:30
Development & Parenting
Who Gets to Be Angry? Embodied Inequalities in Youth’s Emotional Lives
Betül Özkaya (Denmark)
EFL Students’ Emotional Development: A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of an Integrated Situated Le
Hui-chia Judy Shih (Taiwan)
The Role of Parents’ Emotion Regulation in Shaping Children’s Emotion Regulation
Esther Chung (New Zealand)
Emotion regulation and affectivity across Indian adolescents and the elderly
Nutankumar Thingujam (India)
Reading Minds or Reading Patterns: Schema Use in Younger and Older Adults’ Empathic Accuracy
Julia Anne Freitag (Germany)
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)
Silent Heartache and Heart Intelligence: From Emotional Misalignment to Conscious Leadership
Hema Vyas (United Kingdom)
Religiosity and cognitive emotion regulation strategies among the Hindus in India
Dhanabati Ningombam (India)
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)
Symposium: Emotion Beyond Emotion: Reconsiderin…
1. But what would you do now? Can our theories of emotion predict noise or just what we perceive as emotionally meaningful?
Arvid Kappas (Germany)
2. Dynamic relationships between cognition and emotion
Gina Grimshaw (New Zealand)
3. Culturally-attuned affective science needs to move beyond its emphasis on WEIRD forms of experiential expertise
Yulia Chentsova Dutton (United States)
4. A new lens on old emotion regulation concepts
Katharine Greenaway (Australia)
📌Poster Session 112:15–13:15
Aesthetics & Art
TeachYourWorld: Evaluating a Training Program Through Participants’ Emotional Experiences
Luca Scacchi (Italy)
Clinical & Mental Health
Mindfulness and Depressive Symptoms Among Emerging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kalista Putri (Indonesia)
Eco-anxiety and fear of environmental risks: A study in a high risk territory
Elena Cattelino (Italy)
Can Happiness Be Taught?
Leslie Simons (United States)
Abstract Rumination Fully Moderates Metacognitive Beliefs About Worry in Alexithymic Individuals
Lachlan Thomson (Australia)
Moral & Prosocial Emotions
Risking the social bond when communicating unpleasant information: How self-relevant appraisals and feelings explain distancing and repair motivations
Stine Torp Løkkeberg (Norway)
Risking the social bond: Motivations to defend or to repair when dealing with displeasing information.
Stine Torp Løkkeberg (Norway)
Individual Differences in Emotional Appraisals of Conspiracy Narratives: Parallel Pathways of Entertainment versus Evil Perception
Hiroko Nakamura (Japan)
Ingroup biases toward racialized patients’ suffering across the empathy continuum, from emotion perception to helping behaviour
Jacqueline Nguyen Phuong Trieu (Canada)
Does reading literary fiction prime the motivation to mentalize or empathize?
Toshiki Takeuchi (Japan)
Narcissism and emotional contagion
Anna Z. Czarna (Poland)
Physiology & Neuroscience
Attentional modulation during emotional voice processing: a fMRI study on cerebellar stroke patients
Emma Stiennon (Switzerland)
Bidirectional Benefits: Inter-Brain Synchronization and Role-Specific Neural Signatures in Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
Yunkai Yang (China)
Behavioral and Neural Correlates of the Memory Disadvantage for Facial Expression of Pain
Clémentine Pouliot (Canada)