Lab
Current members of the Social Emotions Lab
Matt Coleman
My research explores how people think about their own and others’ well-being in the future, as well as how these judgments affect care about large-scale global problems. By understanding how and why people’s subjective feelings do not scale with the severity of societal issues, I hope that my work can help close this gap and, in turn, promote more impactful altruistic decision-making.
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Damien Crone
My research broadly focuses on the topics of morality, emotion, and well-being. I’m particularly interested in designing and implementing novel methodological approaches (and evaluating and improving existing approaches) to facilitate rigorous and efficient research on these topics. Before arriving at Northeastern, I completed a PhD at The University of Melbourne, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexandra Gray
I am interested in how positive emotions and positive interpersonal interactions can affect well-being as well as perceptions of and behavior toward others. In particular, my research examines how gratitude expressions shape witnesses’ impressions of these expressers and their benefactors. My research also explores the effects of social capitalization on emotion experiences and how partner traits and responses within the interaction drive intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits.
Shanyu Kates
My research broadly focuses on gratitude expressions in the workplace. More specifically, I am interested in how gratitude is naturally expressed at work, what features of gratitude expressions are preferred, and whether certain types of expressions lead to positive employee outcomes. My ultimate goal with this line of work is to uncover how gratitude expressions can be optimized to improve the workplace experience.
Lab Alumni/ae:
Fredrick Duong, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Monica Bartlett, Associate Professor of Psychology, Gonzaga University
Julia Braverman, Associate Director of Patient Experience, Celgene
Paul Condon, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Southern Oregon University
Leah Dickens, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kenyon College
Daniel Lim, Assistant Professor, Adelphi University
Piercarlo Valdesolo, Associate Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College
Lisa Williams, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales
Jolie Wormwood, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire