Mark Shuquan Chen

Speaker 3, Dr. Wendy Mendes, presented an EMA study of emotion regulation and blood pressure comparing Black and white US adults. Results showed white adults used maladaptive strategies more frequently, but associations between blood pressure and maladaptive strategy use was higher in Black adults

This afternoon at #SPR2026, I attended an engaging symposium titled, “Turning Toward or Pulling Away: New Findings Using the Engagement-Disengagement Dimension as a Framework” that was chaired by Dr. Annmarie MacNamara @therealspr.bsky.social

I will be reviewing grad school applications for the clinical psych program at Stony Brook this year. Students interested in personalization, case conceptualization, ecological momentary assessment, LGBTQ+ mental health, LLMs, and related topics, should consider applying. www.prplab-science.com

I had a wonderful time chairing my symposium at SRP this weekend I hope we conveyed the importance of examining social context in psychopathology Thank you @markschen.bsky.social, Yiqin Zhu, Yinghao Zhang, and @reneejthompson.bsky.social for sharing your amazing research and concluding remarks

Our brand new Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab is heading to its first conference! Catch the EPiC Lab at SRP 2026 in Columbus, Oct 8-11. Posters Thursday and Saturday, symposium Sunday. Come say hi!

It was such a joy to present alongside these folks at APS! I am beyond impressed by the work my early career peers are producing. 🤩 See below for a very brief sneak peak of my talk!

So, if you're at #APSBCN (this the right hashtag?), come through on Friday for a great set of talks from ECRs on different ways of integrating social contexts within Psychopathology research. Talks from @shayanasadi.bsky.social @markschen.bsky.social @awiglesworth.bsky.social and Teresa Vargas!

Excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at @umassamherst.bsky.social, joining @katieleedg.bsky.social's lab! Grateful for the support from all my mentors. Also thrilled to announce that I was nominated for and have been awarded the Spaulding Smith Fellowship!

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

I will be sharing some exciting findings on how behavioral emotion regulation strategies are related to regulation motives and motive satisfaction at the symposium “To Strategies and Beyond!” on Friday morning. If you’re at SAS, I hope to see you there! (2/2)

New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social

I am excited to welcome Aaron to join my lab as a PhD student! Keep an eye out for his cool work on computational models and emotion regulation dynamics!

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

So thrilled to welcome @bella-peckinpaugh.bsky.social as one of the inaugural members of the EPIC Lab! Stay tuned for her amazing work.​​​​​​​​​​​ 🙌

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

I will be at SRP in LA next week! Looking forward to seeing friends and connecting with folks working on emotion/emo reg, flexibility, internalizing psychopathology, EMA, etc!

Postdoc with us in Columbus! 🌰 I'm pumped to recruit a 1-2 year postdoc working on: - mechanisms of change in treatment - treatment personalization - emotion reg With a breakdown of: 50% research 30% treatment 20% mentorship/collaboration/conferences osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Postdoc opportunity alert!

Are individuals with greater cognitive flexibility (CF) less likely to report suicidal thoughts and behaviors? Our new meta-analysis found a small yet significant association, highlighting CF as a potentially protective mechanism against suicide risk. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One of my independent projects from my master’s is now online! @markschen.bsky.social @vnikakobrinsky.bsky.social @kaiwen bi. doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...

Again please share our study on the executive orders in academia iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

Thrilled to co-chair a symposium with @yutongzhu.bsky.social on Emotion Regulation in Context: Variability, Goals, and Strategies across Temporal, Situational, and Cultural Dimensions at @psychscience.bsky.social with @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social, Sophia Capellini, Audrey Hey, and Casey Brown!!

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities