EDUCATION
2004 - present PhD. Candidate, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Psychology
Dissertation: The Psychological Construction of Emotion
Advisor: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
2004 A.B., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Major: Psychology/English
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Thesis: Language and the Perception of Emotion
Advisor: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
HONORS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS
2008-2009 Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Engelhard Pingree Fellowship For research achievement
2007 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Award
2006 Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Achievement Award For achievement in research, leadership and service
2005-2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2005 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Student Poster Award
PUBLICATIONS
  • Lindquist, K.A. (2009). Language is powerful: Commentary on Wierzbicka. Emotion Review, 1, 16-18.

  • Lindquist, K.A., & Barrett, L.F. (2008). Constructing emotion: The experience of fear as a conceptual act. Psychological Science, 19, 898-903.

  • Kober, H., Barrett, L.F., Joseph, J., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T.D., (2008). Functional networks and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage, 42, 998-1031.

  • Barrett, L. F. & Lindquist, K. A. (2008). The embodiment of emotion. In G. R. Semin and E. R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding: social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press

  • Lindquist, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotional complexity. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of emotions (3rd ed.), New York: Guilford.

  • Wager, T.D., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K.A., et al (2008). The neuroimaging of emotion. In M. Lewis, J.M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of emotions (3rd ed). New York: Guilford

  • Barrett, L.F., Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J. & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotion in the mammalian brain? Perspectives in Psychological Science, 2, 297-312.

  • Barrett, L.F., Lindquist, K. A., & Gendron, M. (2007). Language as context in the perception of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 327-332.

  • Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J. A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. Emotion, 6, 125-138.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
  • Gendron, M., Barrett, L.F., Lindquist, K.A., & Barsalou, L. (2009). Language and perception of emotional percepts. Manuscript under review.

  • Barrett, L.F., & Lindquist, K.A. (2009). The emotion enigma. Manuscript under review.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
  • Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T.D., Bliss-Moreau, E., Kober, H., & Barrett, L.F. (2009). What are emotions? A meta-analysis of neuroimaging research. Manuscript in preparation.

  • Lindquist, K.A., Barsalou, L. & Barrett, L.F. (2009). Language grounds embodied representations of emotion. Manuscript in preparation.

INVITED TALKS & LECTURES
  • Lindquist, K.A., & Barrett, L.F. (November, 2008). Intelligent emotion regulation: The wisdom of feelings. Address at the Learning and Brain Conference, Cambridge, MA.

  • Lindquist, K.A.(February, 2009). The psychological construction of emotion. Northeastern University Social Personality Area Meeting. Boston, MA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
  • Lindquist, K.A. (August, 2009). What's in a word? Language and the construction of emotion. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Lleuven, Belgium..

  • Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T.D., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Kober, H. (May, 2009). The neural reference space for emotion. A meta-analytic review. Poster presented at the Tufts Unversity Neuroscience of Emotion conference, Medford, MA.
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    • Lindquist, K.A., & Barrett, L.F. (February, 2009). Essentializing emotion: Are emotions natural kinds? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL..
  • Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T. Bliss-Moreau, E., Kober, H., et al (April, 2008). Seeing emotion with your feelings: A meta-analytic review of the neural reference space for emotion experience vs. perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA..

  • Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T. Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., et al (January, 2008). Seeing with your feelings: Meta-analytic review of the neural reference space underlying perception vs. experience of emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. .

  • Lakdawala, S.,* Mellor, A.,* Lindquist, K.A., Barsalou, L., & Barrett, L.F. (January, 2008). Simulation bias: A test of embodied emotion knowledge. Poster presented at Emotion Pre-conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. .
    • (*senior thesis advisees).
    Lindquist, K. A., & Barrett, L.F. (January, 2007). The Psychological Construction of Emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. .
  • Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L.F., & Hancock, R. (August, 2006). The Experience Emotion: An Act of Categorization. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotion, Atlanta, Ga. .

  • Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L. (July, 2005). Language and perception of emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Bari, Italy. .

  • Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E. & Barrett, L. (January, 2005). Language and the perception of emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. .

  • Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E. & Barrett, L. (September, 2004). Semantic satiation of emotion concepts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the New England Social Psychology Association, Storrs, CT. .

  • Lindquist, K. A., Connor, T., Feldman Barrett, L., Tugade, M., & Zubowicz, A. (January, 2004). Complexity of the mind: The relation between self and emotional complexity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. .

MENTORSHIP AND TRAINING
2003 - present Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory
Mentor: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
(Boston College, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School)
2004; 2008 Psychophysiological recording
Mentors: Karen Quigley, Ph.D.
(University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey)
Wendy Mendes, Ph.D.
(Harvard University)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 Teaching Assistant, Emotion (PS032), Boston College:
Undergraduate core course in emotion
2007 Teaching Assistant, Social Psychology of Emotion (PS531), Boston College:
Graduate seminar in emotion
2005-presentAdvisor, Independent study in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory, Boston College:
Advise and instruct a lab group of 10+ undergraduate students. Oversee research projects, lead weekly lab meetings, tutorials and discussions
2004-presentAdvisor, Senior Thesis, Dept. Psych, Boston College:
Oversee and advise the independent projects of senior thesis students, including research design, data analysis and manuscript preparation
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Association for Psychological Science (APS)
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
  • International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
  • Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
EXTERNAL SERVICE HISTORY
2008 Ad Hoc Reviewer Emotion Review
2008 Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
2005 Poster Abstract Reviewer Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS)
INTERNAL SERVICE HISTORY
Boston College
2007 - present Member,
Boston College Department of Psychology Honor's Program Committee
2006 - 2008 Vice President,
Graduate Student Association, Boston College
2006 - 2007 Member,
Graduate Research Day Committee, Boston College
2005 - 2007 Member,
Professional Skills and Ethics Advisory Board
Boston College Committee for implementing programming related to professional skill development and ethical conduct of research
2005 - 2006 Chairperson,
Scholarship and Excellence Committee
Graduate Student Association, Boston College
Developed programming aimed at increasing graduate student scholarship and intellectual development
2005 - 2006 Co-Founder & Chairperson,
Graduate Student Research Expense Grant Program,
Boston College
Graduate student-run granting program for independent graduate student research at Boston College
2005 - 2006 Psychology Department Representative
Graduate Student Association, Boston College
2004 - 2006 Member,
Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
  • Psychophysiological measurement:
    1. September, 2004; November 2008- trained in facial electromyography, skin conductance, heart rate variability and impedance cardiography measurement; (Karen Quigly, Ph.D.)
    2. June, 2007 - 2-day training workshop on impedance cardiography; (Gary Berntson, PhD)
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI):
    1. 2004 - seminar in fMRI methodology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    2. 2006 - seminar in Human Brain Mapping; Boston College
    3. 2007 - Freesurfer structural analysis software; Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Stimulus Development and Paradigm programming software: MorphMan, Poser, Eprime