# Training Program in Emotion Research

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2020 · $412,566

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
This application seeks five additional years of support for the training grant on emotion research at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. This training program continues to focus on four specific themes: 1.
Personality, temperament and individual differences: Lifespan developmental, genetic, cognitive and biological
approaches; 2. Affective neuroscience; 3. Emotion and health; and 4. Emotion and psychopathology. In this
renewal, funds are requested for 5 pre-doctoral and 3 post-doctoral stipends/year, the same as our current
funding. At the time of the last competing continuation, this training grant provided support for 7 pre-doctoral
and 3 post-doctoral stipends/year. Since the time of the last competitive renewal, several additional faculty with
research interests centrally in emotion have been added; the brain imaging facility has been strengthened—the
Waisman Center Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior—that is focused principally on affective
neuroscience; the innovative Center for Healthy Minds has dramatically expanded, which focuses on
contemplative neuroscience and its impact on positive affect; novel new data and research strategies have
emerged from the NIMH-sponsored Conte Center here at Wisconsin; and several major collaborative projects
focused on emotion in aging, various areas of affective neuroscience, and affective development have begun.
There are now 17 program faculty, drawn from three academic units, with Psychology as the lead department.
Pre-doctoral trainees will be supported for two years and post-doctoral trainees will be offered up to three
years of support but will be encouraged to write their own post-doctoral training proposals during their initial
year in the program to help leverage the funds we request from this T32. Major elements of the training
program include: two 8-week course modules devoted to different aspects of emotion theory and research,
focusing primarily on the four themes upon which the program is based, with Davidson and Goldsmith each
teaching one module on a rotating basis; a Spring seminar each year associated with the Wisconsin
Symposium on Emotion, an annual event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that brings 5-6 outside
speakers to campus for a meeting on a specific topic in emotion research; participation in a seminar series
devoted to ethical issues in research; participation in periodic meetings of our NIMH-funded Conte Center that
focus on the neural bases of individual differences in emotion regulation in adolescents; and participation in
monthly emotion groups held in informal off-campus locations (e.g., restaurants) each month. We believe this
program is unique and provides an extraordinary opportunity for interdisciplinary training in emotion research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9987757
- **Project number:** 5T32MH018931-31
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** Richard J Davidson
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $412,566
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1989-07-01 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9987757

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9987757, Training Program in Emotion Research (5T32MH018931-31). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9987757. Licensed CC0.

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