Professor of Psychology, Cornell University | Interested in how people construe and sustain their social affective experience | Human Health Labs: https://www.humanhealthlabs.org/
Anthony D. Ong
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In #ESM / #EMA, how you ask “How do you feel right now?” shapes your data.
Sliders 🎚️, smileys 🙂, drawing trajectories 📈, or emotion wheels 🎡: they all capture something different.
We break down 5 approaches (and their trade-offs) in a new #m-path blog: m-path.io/blog/high-fi...
Your social connections can influence critical health outcomes. Research from @anthonyong.bsky.social & Frank Mann finds that cumulative social advantage is correlated with better health and lower mortality risk across demographic groups. Read the Editor’s Choice article: https://bit.ly/4bVVyxy
with @kvanbogart.bsky.social @ekgraham22.bsky.social @emoriebeck.bsky.social Zoe Hawks
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
Edward L. Deci, 83, Dies; Found Self-Determination as a Key to Happiness www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...
In @jamanetworkopen.com: “Social asymmetry" predicts CVD, COPD, and mortality over 13.6 yrs in 7,845 older adults. Those lonelier than expected given their social connections were at greatest risk. w/ Pei Qin, @ekgraham22.bsky.social, @andrewsteptoe.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
JOB ALERT 🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join our NIA-funded collaboration with Northwestern (@ekgraham22.bsky.social) studying social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive aging. Come work with us in beautiful Ithaca! Review of applications begins immediately: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31543
New paper with Sijing Shao in Emotion on affective inertia—why it’s harder to measure than it looks, and what to do about it. Thanks to Pete Koval for thoughtful comments.
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Submit your article for consideration in a special issue of Emotion on how affective processes—ranging from "fast" momentary and day-to-day fluctuations to "slow" gradual trajectories—predict health outcomes. Letters of intent due January 15, 2026: https://bit.ly/44kfsy0 @anthonyong.bsky.social
