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Andrew Langbehn

6th Year PhD Student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Research Presentations and Mentoring

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Conference Presentations

  1. Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2026, March 12 - 14). What people see in ambiguous facial expressions. [Poster Accepted].  Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2026, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

  2. Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2026, February 26 - 28). Differentiating the ambiguity of surprised and neutral faces. [Poster Accepted].  Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2026, Chicago, IL, United States.

  3. Brayton, E. A., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2025, March 20 - 22). Transitions, more so than endings, elicit mixed emotions. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2025, Portland, OR, United States.

  4. Langbehn, A. T., Mohammad, S. M., Lamer, S. A., & Larsen, J. T. (2025, March 20 - 22). Bittersweet: How it feels and when we feel it. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2025, Portland, OR, United States.

  5. Brayton, E. A., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2025, February 19 - 22). Transitions, more so than endings, elicit mixed emotions. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2025, Denver, CO, United States.

  6. Langbehn, A. T., Norris, C. J., Harp, N. R., Neta, M., & Larsen, J. T. (2025, February 19 - 22). Who sees negative affect in surprised and neutral faces? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2025, Denver, CO, United States.

  7. Brayton, E. A., Langbehn, A. T., O’Mara-Kunz, E., & Larsen, J. T. (2024, March 1 - 3). “The best-worst experience of my entire life”: How does it feel to be voted off the island? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2024, New Orleans, LA , United States.
     
  8. Langbehn, A. T., Harp, N. R., Norris, C. J., Neta, M., Niedenthal, P. M., & Larsen, J. T. (2024, March 1 - 3). Seeing the negative in the neutral: When and why Americans perceive negative affect in neutral faces. [Symposium Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2024, New Orleans, LA, United States.

  9. Brayton, E. A., Langbehn, A. T., O’Mara-Kunz, E., & Larsen, J. T. (2024, February 7 - 10). “The best-worst experience of my entire life”: How does it feel to be voted off the island? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2024, San Diego, CA, United States.

  10. Langbehn, A. T., Harp, N. R., Norris, C. J., Neta, M., Niedenthal, P. M., & Larsen, J. T. (2024, February 7 - 10). ’Why the neutral face?’: Display rules help explain why Americans see negative affect in neutral faces. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2024, San Diego, CA, United States.

  11. Brayton, E. A., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2023, March 30 – April 1). Does hopelessness amplify the effect of reminiscence about good times on sadness? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2023, Long Beach, CA, United States.

  12. Langbehn, A. T., Harp, N. R., Norris, C. J., Neta, M., Niedenthal, P. M., & Larsen, J. T. (2023, March 30 - April 1). Are neutral faces truly neutral? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2023, Long Beach, CA,  United States.

  13. Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2023, February 23 - 25). Routes to acquiescence to intuition. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2023, Atlanta, GA, United States.

  14. Langbehn, A. T., Coles, N. A., & Larsen, J. T. (2022, March 30 - April 2). Smown: Smiling and frowning at the same time elicits mixed emotions of happiness and nervousness. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2022, Virtual Conference.

  15. Harp, N. R., Langbehn, A. T., Larsen, J. T., Niedenthal, P. M., Neta, M. (2022, February 16 - 19). Facial coverings and political ideology alter valence judgments of emotional expressions. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2022, San Francisco, CA, United States.

  16. Kottakis, A., Langbehn, A. T., Larsen, J. T., Norris, C. J., Neta, M. (2022, February 16 - 19). Testing competing theories of neutral face perception and liking: Are neutral faces neutral, (slightly) negative, or (slightly) positive?. [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2022, San Francisco, CA, United States.

  17. Langbehn, A. T., Halberstadt, J. Thongpaibool, T., & Larsen, J. T. (2022, February 16 - 19). Trusting your gut does intuition improve (and reasoning impair) prediction accuracy? [Poster Presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference 2022, San Francisco, CA, United States.

  18. Langbehn, A. T., Coles, N. A., & Larsen, J. T. (2021, October 23). Smown: Does smiling and frowning at the same time elicit mixed emotions? [Poster Presentation]. 44th Annual Conference of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Virtual Conference.

  19. Langbehn, A. T., Yermol, D. A., Zhao, F., Thorstenson, C. A., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2021, April 13 - 16). Wearing N95, Surgical and Cloth Face Masks Compromises the Communication of Emotion”. [Flash Talk]. Society for Affective Science Annual Convention 2021, Virtual Conference.

  20. Langbehn, A. T., & Niedenthal, P. M. (2016, February). Facial Mimicry: Emotion Perception in Clinical Patients with Facial Paralysis. University of Wisconsin - Madison Undergraduate Research Scholars Symposium, Madison, WI, United States.
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Published Abstracts

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Undergraduate Theses Mentored

  • Elisabeth Bolton, Spring 2025 
    Thesis: “Are they in a bad mood, or do they dislike me? The role of depression, fear of negative evaluation, and hostile attribution bias in perceptions of neutral faces.”

  • Parker Duncan, Fall 2024
    Thesis: “Why the neutral face?: Effects of eye contact on perceptions of affect in neutral faces”

  • Emma Pareigis, Spring 2024
    Thesis: “Not quite the best: Do bronze and silver Olympic medalists express mixed emotions?”

  • Jessica Martin, Spring 2023
    Thesis: “Not quite the best: Do bronze and silver medalists express mixed emotions?”
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Undergraduate EURÄ“CA Posters Mentored

(Undergraduate Students Names are in Bold)
  1. Bolton, E., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2025).  Why aren’t they smiling at me? Individual differences in perceptions of neutral facial expressions. [Poster Presentation]. EURēCA 2025, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States.

  2. Bolton, E., Langbehn, A. T., Sullivan, J., & Larsen, J. T. (2024).  Seeing the negative in the neutral: Effects of anxiety and depression on perceptions of neutral faces. [Poster Presentation]. EURēCA 2024, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2024/presentations/64785

  3. Duncan, P. T., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2024). Does eye contact make neutral faces look more negative? [Poster Presentation]. EURÄ“CA 2024, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2024/presentations/64988

  4. Pareigis, E., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2024). Not quite the best: Interpreting the emotions of bronze and silver Olympic medalists [Poster Presentation]. EURÄ“CA 2024, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2024/presentations/64879

  5. Ball, A. D., Duncan, P. T., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2023). Why aren’t neutral faces neutral? [Poster Presentation]. EURēCA 2023, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2023/presentations/55901

  6. Martin, F. J., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2023). Not quite the best: Do bronze and silver medalists express mixed emotions? [Poster Presentation]. EURÄ“CA 2023, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2023/presentations/55873

  7. Williams, M., Langbehn, A. T., & Larsen, J. T. (2023). Bittersweet: A naturalistic observation study of mixed emotions expressed on Twitter. [Poster Presentation]. EURÄ“CA 2023, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States. https://symposium.foragerone.com/eureca-2023/presentations/55852Â