From One Laboratory to Another

If you though Lab School was an Emotions Laboratory, you were so wrong. One of our classmates has her own emotions laboratory. check this out:

Niedenthal Emotions Laboratory
Principal Investigator, Paula M. Niedenthal
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Welcome to The Niedenthal Emotions Laboratory
Located at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France
Please enjoy a copy of our most recent article:Niedenthal, P.M. (May 18, 2007). Embodying emotion. Science, 316, 1002-1005. [PDF] We conduct research on the representation and the function of emotion. Work on representation attempts to apply recent theories of embodied cognition to the modeling of the processing of emotional information. Research in this area explores two major hypotheses. One is that the use of emotion concepts involves partial reexperience of the state. This work explores the possibility that the core grounding of emotion knowledge is the representations of the sensory-motor states that occurred during actual emotional experiences. A second major hypothesis is that imitation is a basic mechanism in the implicit and explicit processing of facial expression of emotion, and of other social information. Research on the function of emotion addresses in particular the so-called moral emotions (of shame and guilt) and their role, in contrast to the emotion of anger, in assuring adherence to social norms. In this vein, other work explores the relationship between social power and emotion, and the ways in which the expression of certain emotions and the elicitation of certain emotions in others function to maintain social structures. In all of our research, we adopt a cross-cultural perspective.
Lapsco Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrrand II CNRS

Here are pictures from the site as well. Paula writes:
"that pic of me is from 2005 and I grew my hair long and curly last year in Madison (when everyone asked why I had the short severe French hair! ha!) And all my kids are two years older too!"