ISRE 2024 EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRECONFERENCE
ISRE 2024
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRECONFERENCE
ISRE 2024 Emotional Development Preconference is just around the corner! This pre-conference will bring together people from different countries and disciplines to focus on Emotional Development.
Invited Speakers
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language and Emotional Development
Knowledge about, experiences of, and competencies for emotion change as individuals develop over the lifespan and as cultures evolve over historical time. How does the language used for emotion track these changes? What role might it play in maintaining or even precipitating them? Our invited speakers will engage with these questions, among others, as they present research on language and emotional development.
Focusing on individual development, their talks will explore how emotion words and caregiver interactions may scaffold emotion knowledge and experience in infants and young children, how fostering social and emotional skills may promote healthy behavioral and relational dynamics, and how these processes are shaped by cultural context.
Focusing on cultural development, speakers will examine how words for emotion take on new meanings, how cross-cultural contact may impact language for emotion, and how these processes may subsequently influence development at the individual level.
Educational Psychology
Ilaria Grazzani
University of Milano-Biococca, Italy
Ilaria Grazzani's research centers around children's development of social cognition, especially theory of mind and emotion understanding. She develops programs to promote social and emotional learning in diverse educational settings.
Psychology, Neuroscience
Kristen Lindquist
University of North Carolina, USA
Kristen Lindquist's research seeks to understand the psychological and neural basis of emotions, moods, and feelings. Her on-going work uses tools from social cognition, physiology, neuroscience, and big data methods to examine how emotions emerge from the confluence of the body, brain, and culture.
Developmental Psychology
Mira Nencheva
Princeton University, USA
Mira Nencheva's research investigates the dynamics of emotion and language early in life and their role in shaping communicative development.
Cognitive & Behavioral Science
Holly Shablack
Washington and Lee University, USA
Holly Shablack's research examines the intersection(s) between language, culture, and emotion, covering questions such as how the language we use shapes our emotions and attitudes and how caregiver discourse and responsiveness influences children’s emotion understanding and regulation.
Language Studies, History
Heli Tissari
Umeå University, Sweden
Heli Tissari's research focuses on English words for emotions, their meanings since Late Middle Ages, and English conceptual metaphors describing emotions. She has also published on Finnish words for emotions, and English words and expressions for politeness.
Anthropology, Linguistics
Ewelina Wnuk
University of Warsaw, Poland
Ewelina Wnuk carries out interdisciplinary research with hunter-gatherer groups in
Mainland Southeast Asia. She is interested in linguistic and emotional diversity across cultures and mutual relationships between language, culture, and the mind.
Call for Submissions
(closed)
Submissions for flash talks and poster presentations focusing on emotional development are invited. We encourage researchers of various disciplines and career stages to attend and present their research. Submissions will be evaluated by at least 2 experts of emotional development, and flash talk submissions not accepted will be considered for poster presentations. The preconference will also feature a “Best Poster Award” to the top presented poster, as evaluated by the invited speakers.
Organizers
Eric Walle
University of California, Merced