NEW-B Workshop Series: Biological Processes, Emotional Well-Being, and Health

This workshop series is about the relationship among biological processes, emotional well-being and health. In some cases biological systems are best known for their association with dysfunction or disease (e.g. inflammation, cortisol); this workshop series aims to examine how biological systems and patterns of activation might be uniquely associated with emotional well-being and help promote health.  Our first seminar focuses on the Autonomic Nervous System.

Esteemed guest speakers for this webinar include Julian Thayer, PhD, Professor of Psychological Science at UC Irvine, Lani Shiota, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Psychology at Arizona State University, and Antony Ong, PhD professor of psychology at Cornell University. Network for Emotional Well-Being co-PI Wendy Mendes, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF will also share key insights from her research during this inaugural webinar. Q&A and interactive segments will be led by members of our Network for Emotional Well-Being collaborative team.

This workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, October 25, 2022, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm pacific time. Participation in the N-EWB: Biological Processes, Emotional Well-Being, and Health webinars are free, though registration is required to access the calendar invites, webinar links, and pre-reading materials.

PRE-READING MATERIALS: 

• Emotional Well-Being and Public Health: Proposal for a Model National Initiative (Feller et al., 2018).
• Positive psychological functioning and the biology of health. Social and Personality Psychology Compass (Kubanzsky et al., 2015). 
• Psychophysiology of positive and negative emotions, dataset of 1157 cases and 8 biosignals (Behnke et al., 2022).
• Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting (Laborde et al., 2017). 
• Affective Reactions are Mediators of the Relationship between Stigma and Health (Mendes & Muscatell, 2018).
• What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion? (Shiota et al., 2021)
• Fragile and Enduring Positive Affect: Implications for Adaptive Aging (Ong & Ram, 2017).