Congrats, Almost-Dr.-Brott!

Doctoral student Kayce Hyde Brott defended her dissertation, “A Brief Values-Based Intervention for Increasing Distress Tolerance in Overcontrol” on Friday August 25th. Her project was a lab-based project that involved an experimental manipulation using a...

Congrats, Dr. Higuera!

In July, recent TEMPT alum Dr. Danielle Higuera defended her dissertation entitled “Components of emotional functioning among people with substance use and post-traumatic stress difficulties: An idiographic perspective.” Her project involved interviewing...

Who wants emotion t-shirts? We got ’em!

Sometime last year, I really wanted to buy a T-shirt (or a few) depicting positive messages about emotions. Namely shirts that described emotions as helpful or pleasant. So I started searching through all the t-shirt sites, including Amazon, RedBubble, TeePublic and...

Great job, TEMPT undergrads!

In April, the TEMPT lab *represented* at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students conference in Conway, AR. Undergrad Jansen Williams and recently-graduated Jaydn Haynes presented their research on emotion charting (with mentoring by Kayce), and undergrads Kenzi...

Congrats Caroline and Ethan!

Caroline Dina won SECOND PLACE in one of the social science divisions of the Undergraduate Research Competition for her poster on the relationship between willpower, time and affect (that she presented at SAS). And Ethan Dennis won THIRD PLACE for his poster on affect...