Katie Hoemann Ph.D.

About

Katie Hoemann, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and the Dale J. Weary Faculty Fellow of Social Psychology at the University of Kansas. She wants to know what is going on in the mind, the body, and the world when people experience emotion, how people come to make meaning of their experiences as emotion, and how we can harness emotion concepts and language for individual and societal benefit. Katie received her Ph.D. in 2020 from Northeastern University. She has been awarded fellowships from Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Katie is an associate editor for Affective Science and a consulting editor for Emotion. In 2022, she received the Early Career Award from the Society for Ambulatory Assessment and in 2024 was designated a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.

Recent Posts

How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions

To capture human emotion in all its richness, we must broaden where and how we study it.

What’s in an Emotion Word?

Emotion words sort out the what, how, and why of your feelings, but more is not always merrier. Four considerations can help you label your experiences to greater effect.

Being an Expert in Emotion: 4 Key Characteristics

What does it mean to be "good at emotion"? Mapping the key characteristics provides a roadmap for future research as well as some suggestions to aid health and well-being.