Congratulations to Rista Plate who earned her PhD in Psychology! Rista, who started as an undergraduate in the Child Emotion Lab, has been in our lab for over a decade and has accomplished so much during her time with us. Next month, Rista and her family will be moving to Philadelphia so she can start …
The September 2019 special issue of Developmental Psychology presents articles that challenge existing concepts and motivate new directions in the research on human emotional development. Guest editors Seth Pollak, Linda Camras, and Pamela Cole discuss the issue’s significance and practical implications.
In the past several decades, research on emotional development has flourished. Scientists have made progress in understanding infants’, children’s, and adults’ abilities to recognize, communicate, and regulate their emotions. However, many questions remain unanswered or only partly answered. We are poised to move from descriptions of aspects of emotional functioning to conceptualizing and studying the …
Last week we said farewell to our PREP students (Psychology Research Experience Program). They spent the summer learning the ins and outs of working in a psychology lab with human participants. We’ll miss you Quintin and Roshni!
Facial expressions don’t always mean what you think they do. Check out this great write-up of our newest paper published by Seth Pollak, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ralph Adolphs, Stacy Marsella, and Aleix M. Martinez. “The authors note that the general public and some scientists believe that there are unique facial expressions that reliably indicate six …
After over two years of weekly and biweekly conference calls reviewing over 1000 papers with Lisa Feldman Barrett, Aleix Martinez, Ralph Adolphs and Stacy Marsella our paper is finally out this morning! Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, hiring, clinical diagnosis, and …
A huge congratulations to Child Emotion Lab alum Jamie Hanson for being honored with the Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Paper Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/jamie-hanson-nih-honor
Children in poverty are often exposed to negative influences on brain activity and development while higher-income children benefit from fewer negative exposures and more language and cognitive enrichment. But, these effects are not necessarily permanent. Read more: FF40-2019
Congratulations to two of the Child Emotion Lab’s undergraduate RA’s for presenting in this year’s Psychology Student Thesis and Research Symposium (STARS)! Gwyneth DeLap presented on The Impact of Conflicting Emotional Cues on Facial Expression Intensity Ratings Across Development. Maria L. Szalkowski presented her work with the Learning and Transfer Lab on Media Multitasking and …
We are so pleased to announce graduating senior Gwyneth DeLap was selected for an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award! The award recognizes students who have exhibited dedication, hard work, leadership, and innovation within labs in the psychology department. Her senior thesis project explores the impact of conflicting emotional cues on intensity ratings across development. After graduation, she will start a …