Affective Science Resources

Organizations

• The Society for Affective Science
• The International Society for Research on Emotion

Other Resources

• BrainFacts.org provides a great deal of information on neuroscience, including a dedicated section on “mood”.
• The “Experts in Emotion” Series by Dr. June Gruber includes 64 interviews with prominent affective scientists.

 

Public & Scientific Outreach Resources

Reasons to engage in scientific outreach

• Janet Napolitano (President of the University of California) on why scientists need to engage the public.
• Public outreach can generate new scientific ideas and are a forum for advocating for science — essays by Dr. Jamil Zaki.
• “Scientists who engage with society perform better academically” (Jensen, Rouquier, Kreimer & Croissant, 2008)

How to engage in scientific outreach

• Peer reviewed articles on how to effectively use social media for scientific outreach: here, here, and here.

 

The resources page will continue to grow and be edited as new resources become available or our brought to our attention. Please email Eliza at eblissmoreau [at] ucdavis [dot] edu if you have suggestions of resources that should be included here.

edited Oct 15, 2015