Chicago, here comes TEMPT!

Congrats, TEMPTers! Kayce and Regina will both be giving their first national talk at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) convention in Chicago this coming May. Undergraduate honors student Hannah Frala and graduate student Elise are also presenting...

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:...

Congrats to Kayce!

Congratulations to Kayce, who got married in November! Jeremy and Regina and Dr. V were able to attend Kayce's fabulous Memphis wedding. Cheers for Kayce, who will now be known as Kayce Hyde Brott!

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 on...

Welcome new TEMPTers!

The TEMPT lab is delighted to welcome new first year graduate student Jeremy Clift into the lab.  We are also happy that Kayce Hyde, 3rd year graduate student, has decided to join TEMPT this year!  This fall is a strange one, but TEMPT is glad to have a thriving grad...

TEMPT at SPSP

Look for the TEMPT lab at SPSP in New Orleans!  Grad students Elise and Danielle are presenting posters.  Undergraduates Ally, Kiley, Riley, and Danielle are presenting posters at the emotion pre-conference.  Ally is also a finalist for the Undergraduate Poster Award...

Welcome to TEMPT!

The lab has changed it's name from the Laboratory of Emotion and Addictive Processes to TEMPT (Treating Emotion and Motivational Processes Transdiagnostically), reflecting the broad focus of our lab on emotion and self-control in the context of mental health issues...

Congrats, Dr. Skinner!

Congrats to Dr. Kayla Skinner for defending her dissertation, obtaining her PhD, snagging a job as a consultation/liaison psychologist at Eastern Virginia Medical School and getting licensed as a psychologist.  We'll miss you!!!

Ally presented at ASPS!

Undergrad LEAP research assistant Ally Heiland gave a talk at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students in Conway on April 20th. Bri and Katie were there to see her talk and cheer her on.  Ally's talk was titled "Does the discrepancy between desired and...

Master Kaitlyn!

Congrats to Kaitlyn who successfully defended her masters thesis!  Her thesis, called "Turn that frown upside-down! The effectiveness of opposite action in changing emotion"  examined different components of an emotion regulation skill used in DBT called...