I'm thrilled to welcome Dr. Johanna Jarcho as our first Seminar Series speaker of the term in the Centre for Neuroscience at Queen's. 🙏 Don't miss her talk, "Rethinking the role of memory in the development of social anxiety", tomorrow (Jan 21)!! neuroscience.queensu.ca/calendar/dr-...
As the Fall '25 semester ends, I wanted to shout out this wonderful team of students who work diligently to advance our understanding of adolescent development. I am fortunate to work alongside such an inspiring group of trainees. Looking forward to more science & fun next year! 🧠
@affectscience.bsky.social notices are out! 🎉 If you’re going to #SAS2026, consider attending its very first Developmental Affective Science pre-conference too! @eriknook.bsky.social and I hope to see you there. 🤞🏻 Spread the word!
Submissions for pre-conference flash talks just opened (society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...), and will close on January 9th, 2026. Please encourage your colleagues and trainees to apply, and share with anyone you think might be interested in attending! We hope to see you there! 🙏
We're pleased to be hosting three speakers for framing talks (Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Vanessa LoBue, @jamielarsh.bsky.social), a flash talk session with presentations from trainees & ECRs, and discussions of key issues in the field (with the goal of fostering collaborations & projects/papers).
Excited to share this: @eriknook.bsky.social and I are hosting a pre-conference on Developmental Affective Science before this year's @affectscience.bsky.social (March 12, 2026). If you're thinking of attending #SAS2026, consider joining us for the pre-con too! ✨
The Department of Psychology at Queen's University (Canada) is hiring! The position is for an established researcher (Associate/Full Professors) in social affective neuroscience.
The full ad can be found here: www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...
Please share widely! 🍁🧠
Congratulations to Riley Bonar for his successful Master’s thesis defence yesterday! Thank you to the evaluation committee for the engaging discussion and insightful questions. Riley, you have so much to be proud of—can’t wait for the next steps of your academic journey!
Happy trails to the dseclab.bsky.social 2025 summer staff! Victoria Cassel (queensuresearch.bsky.social USSRF), Polly Clayton (Matariki Network of Universities), Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami (MITACS), Olivia Merulla (staff), and Kyla Campbell (coordinator) moved our lab's work forward in major ways.
Major thanks to the @DSEC Lab Summer 2025 team for their hard-work & dedication! L to R, top: Tessa Patton, Navid Shabani Barzegar, Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami, Daniel Nault, Olivia Merulla, Catherine Shevelevich, Riley Bonar. Bottom: Victoria Cassel, Kyla Campbell, me, Rushmeet Singh, Polly Clayton.
The @dseclab.bsky.social sends out triannual newsletters sharing information about our ongoing studies, recent findings, & fun activities for youth. Download them at our website or subscribe to learn more about youth's social and emotional communication!
www.michelemorningstar.com/our-lab-news...
Thank you to Liz daSilva, Ryan Lundell-Creagh, and @danielnault.bsky.social for such a fantastic collaboration!
We highlight important systematic sources of individual variability in how people pose emotional expressions (age, gender/sex, etc.) & argue that emotion perception research must account for expresser-related variability to better characterize how we communicate emotional intent.
You might have heard me harp on about "encoder effects" in the last few years... and now, our review paper on the topic is finally out in Affective Science! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thank you to SSHRC-CRSH for funding basic science designed to understand fundamental social processes in the critical developmental stage of adolescence!
Knowing more about how teenagers navigate their social worlds—and how this relates to social success—can inform our educational and therapeutic practices to help adolescents thrive in their social relationships.
How do teenagers attend to social signals from others? How do they interpret their parents' and friends' emotions and adjust their behaviours accordingly in different social situations?
I'm very fortunate to be the recipient of a SSHRC Insight Grant this year. Our project will investigate how adolescents' processing of social information varies by social context, and how this relates to psychosocial outcomes during the teenage years.
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Tone of voice isn't often considered in interventions aimed to reduce HAB, but our findings point to the importance of considering how youth evaluate nonverbal cues when deciding how to respond to peer provocation.
Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Big congrats to Peyton Nault for her first published paper! 🙌 Peyton found that youth with higher levels of hostile attribution bias (HAB) deemed friendly-sounding responses to peer conflict to be less effective ways of managing the situation.
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lara Courtepatte, BA,PR of Tutor Teach about nonverbal communication & how it develops across childhood and adolescence. Thank you for sharing our conversation on the Parenting Ed-Ventures podcast! 🎤 Listen to the full episode: linkin.bio/parentingedv...
See more information about the funding package and eligibility criteria at www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc....
Queen's University has a special recruitment initiative for Ph.D. students whose admission was rescinded/who are reconsidering their acceptances to U.S. schools. If you are in this position and are interested in understanding how adolescents learn to navigate their social world, reach out to me! 🍁
I always enjoy the @psychscience.bsky.social conference, and this year’s #APS25DC was no exception! It was great to reconnect & share ideas with colleagues from around the world. Hope to do it again in Barcelona next year! @chronakigeorgia.bsky.social @kat-roto.bsky.social @danielnault.bsky.social
Today's the day: #APS25DC kicks off in Washington, DC! @danielnault.bsky.social and I are representing the @dseclab.bsky.social and presenting new findings from our recent studies. Come say hi - we'd love to chat!
Not pictured: Selena Gabrielli, Yaein Kim, Navid Shabani Barzegar, & Madhureema Balasubramani Rupa.
Left to right: Julia Guo, Léa Francoeur, Kyla Campbell, Linoy Stepanov, Olivia Merulla, Riley Bonar, Keren Katz, myself, @danielnault.bsky.social, Diana Romano, Victoria Cassel, Zoe Halpern, Alessia Cataudella, Natalie Yang, Sarah Wong, Sophie Ye, Sach Grewal, & Jacqueline Satok.
Let's hear it for the Development of Social and Emotional Communication Lab W2025 team! 🙏 This group of talented researchers was instrumental to the lab's biggest accomplishments this year. Big kudos to this superb group! 💫
The @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD2025 conference was a blast! Riley Bonar & @danielnault.bsky.social gave superb talks about their research, & Daniel chaired an excellent symposium. It was great to hear about exciting new work in the field, and to connect with so many colleagues & friends. 🙏
The @dseclab.bsky.social is at the @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD25 conference! @danielnault.bsky.social and Riley Bonar are both presenting results from their recent studies. Details below!
