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...

Being Glad that “I’m Glad My Mom Died” Exists

I was recently asked to serve as the moderator for a Distinguished Lecture event, which involved interviewing New York Times bestselling author and former Nickelodeon child star (of iCarly and Sam & Cat) Jennette McCurdy, about her recently published book,...

Thinking Threshold

One of our new papers was recently profiled on TherapyTips.org, a site that covers research papers of relevance to therapy. This particular paper was just accepted for publication at the end of 2021 and is available for subscribers via advance online publication here:...

First Author Mugs

We have started a new tradition here at the TEMPT lab.  Upon publication of a student’s first first-author paper (i.e., the first paper on which the student is the lead author that gets published), Dr. Veilleux will buy that student a large mug with the lab logo...

Emotions are messages

Oh goodness, it has been a long time since I’ve posted anything on the Blog portion of the website!  Since I last posted in October 2019, the world has come undone.  We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, the country is more divided than ever, and...

The move toward open science

Dr. Veilleux here. I’ve been slowly making the move toward open science, and although it’s been hard, I ultimately feel good about myself (and my lab) moving in this direction. What is open science, you might ask? Well, if you want a good primer, you...