Paula M. Niedenthal is the Howard Leventhal Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs the Niedenthal Emotions Lab. She studies the social functions of emotion and facial expression and examines cultural differences in emotion expression, experience, and regulation.

Maital Neta is Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. There, she also directs the Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Lab. She studies individual differences in response to emotional ambiguity using a variety of behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging measures.

Adrienne Wood is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where she directs the Emotion and Behavior Lab. She studies interpersonal connections, focusing on the nonverbal behaviors people use to communicate and the resulting emotions and social networks.