Bottom row (left to right): Tom Hollenstein, Vanessa Martin, Xiaomei Li, Christina Meier, Sherry Han, Phoebe Macleod Emmer, Sarah Steadman, Isabel Ianni, Khushi Sarah, Diana Romano, Sarah Robichaud
Top row (left to right): Maddie Fellows, Megan Wylie, Katie Faulkner, Haley Miller, Brenna Hartleib, Chloe Levy, Grace Armstrong, Seva Gill, Deanne Pinto, Emma Graham
Not Pictured: Alexandra Tighe, Olivia Berry, Jacqueline Parry, Liza Pleshkevich, Jamie Weiner
Current MSc/PhD Students
Xiaomei Li, Ph.D.
Current Year: Post Doc
Research Interests: My research aims to identify key risk and resilience factors that contribute to the socioemotional well-being of adolescents and families. From the dynamic systems and biopsychosocial perspectives, I examine developmental implications of the flexibility in adolescents’ biobehavioral emotion regulation and parent-adolescent psychophysiological coordination. Currently, I am interested in integrating individual and dyadic regulatory processes at multiple time scales (e.g., moment to moment, day to day, year to year) to better understand how development occurs in relational contexts.
Alexandra Tighe
Current Year: PhD 6
Research Interests: I am interested in socioemotional development across childhood and adolescence. In particular, I am interested in the study of flexibility in emotion regulation and its impact on adolescent development.
Megan Wylie
Current Year: PhD 4
Research Interests: I am interested in the form, function, and development of expression suppression, an emotion regulation skill. My dissertation examines when and why people use expressive suppression, individual differences in its use, and its impact on psychosocial functioning in naturalistic and day-to-day circumstances.
Vanessa Martin
Current Year: PhD3
Research Interests: My research interest surrounds the developmental needs and milestones of adolescents and how parents can meet these needs through acting as a resource to their child. More centrally, my focus is on emotion socialization and how parents can aide their child in developing an effective relationship with their emotions in order to optimize wellbeing throughout adolescence and into adulthood. Additionally, I believe that emotions are inherently social, and that in learning about emotions, we are really learning about ourselves in relation to others. For this reason, I have also taken an interest in identity development as a process, and the role parental autonomy granting plays in this process.
Katie Faulkner
Current Year: MSc 2
Research Interests: My research explores adolescent digital experiences and social and emotional development in digital contexts. I seek to understand how adolescents are using digital technology to achieve social and emotional developmental goals, as well as the parenting processes that unfold that shape adolescent digital experiences.
Project Coordinator
Sarah Robichaud
Current Research Assistants
Olivia Berry
Liza Pleshkevich
Emma Graham
Jacqueline Parry
Deanne Pinto
Sarah Steadman
Seva Gill
Deanne Pinto
Khushi Sarah
Chloe Levy
Jamie Weiner
Diana Romano
Brenna Hartleib
Christina Meier
Isabel Ianni
Project Students
Maddie Fellows
Grace Armstrong
Haley Miller
Current Honours Students
Pheobe Macleod Emmer
Research Interests: I am interested in learning about the ways in which adolescents regulate their emotions, specifically their use of the emotion regulation strategy of expressive suppression. My thesis will explore differences in state-level emotional expressiveness between high and low habitual suppressors.
Sherry Han
Research Interests: I am interested in social load sharing through physical touch and it’s effects on emotional expression, arousal, and emotional repair! My thesis will investigate how handholding in mother-daughter dyads can impact their positive emotional expression and physiological arousal during emotional exchanges.