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...

TEMPT at SAS!

Dr. V, grad student Dylan and undergrad honors student Caroline all went to the Society for Affective Science (SAS) conference in Long Beach in March. Dr. V presented the lab’s new theory of emotion regulation flexibility balance (pre-print coming soon!) and...

Congrats to Kayce and Elise

Many congratulations to Kayce and Elise who both matched to their FIRST CHOICE internship sites for next year. Kayce will be going to the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Chicago, and Elise will be going to the Pacific Islands VA in Honolulu, Hawaii. The TEMPT lab is...

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,...

Bitchy Holiday Fun!

Check out the pic from the holiday party at Dr. V’s house where the lab made “bitchy question hats.” This started as a metaphor, where when a student practiced a thesis defense or conference talk in lab meeting, Dr. V would say “put on your...

Welcome new TEMPTers!

Welcome to the Fall 2022 semester! This year we welcome Hannah Henderson’s “upgrade” from post-bacc to 1st year graduate student, and Dylan Shelton (second year grad student) who is moving over to the TEMPT lab. We also welcome new undergraduate...