Katie Hoemann, Ph.D.

Katie Hoemann
  • Assistant Professor
  • Dale J. Weary Faculty Fellow
  • ***Dr. Hoemann will be considering applicants for Fall 2025 admission***
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Contact Info

Fraser Hall, Room 406
Lawrence
1415 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045

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Biography —

Katie Hoemann studies how people experience emotion, and how the ways they make meaning of these experiences can shape motivations, behaviors, and social interactions in each moment. She also looks at how these momentary processes map on to individual and cultural differences in emotion, and how they are predictive of health and well-being. Katie brings an interdisciplinary background, a unique set of tools, and multiple sociocultural perspectives to bear on these questions. The hallmark of her research is studying emotion in the real-world contexts people navigate in their daily lives.

Education —

Ph.D. in Psychology, Northeastern University
M.A. in Cognitive Linguistics, Bangor University, Wales
B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, Spanish, & Linguistics, Northwestern University

Research —

• Emotion concepts & categories

• Individual & cultural differences

• Ambulatory & data-driven methods

• Cognitive linguistics

• Peripheral physiology

Teaching —

• Emotion

• Language

• Social & cultural psychology

• Statistical methods

Selected Publications —

Hoemann, K., Gendron, M., Crittenden, A. N., Mangola, S. M., Endeko, E. S., Dussault, È., Barrett, L. F., & Mesquita, B. (2023). What we can learn about emotion by talking with the Hadza. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Hoemann, K., Lee, Y., Kuppens, P., Gendron, M., & Boyd, R. L. (2023). Emotional granularity is associated with daily experiential diversity. Affective Science, 4(2), 291-306.

Hoemann, K., Nielson, C., Yuen, A., Gurera, J. W., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience. Psychological Bulletin, 147(11), 1159-1183.

Le Mau*, T., Hoemann*, K., Lyons, S., Fugate, J. M. B., Brown, E. N., Gendron, M., & Barrett, L. F. (2021). Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs. Nature Communications, 12(1), 5037.

Hoemann*, K., Khan*, Z., Kamona, N., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. (2021). Investigating the relationship between emotional granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in daily life. Psychophysiology, 58(6), e13818.

Hoemann*, K., Khan*, Z., Feldman, M. J., Nielson, C., Devlin, M., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2020). Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience. Scientific Reports, 10, 12459.

Hoemann, K., Xu, F., & Barrett, L. F. (2019). Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children: A constructionist hypothesis. Developmental Psychology, 55(9), 1830-1849.

Service —

• Associate editor, Affective Science

• Consulting editor, Emotion

• Abstracts committee chair & newsletter editor, Society for Affective Science