Department of Psychology
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 7
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 5
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: PhD4
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: PhD 1
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
Haley Miller
Current Research Assistants
Olivia Berry
Emma Graham
Sarah Steadman
Chloe Levy
Jamie Weiner
Isabel Ianni
Project Students
Current Honours Students
Olivia Berry
Research Interests: I am interested in learning about the ways in which adolescents and parents repair from conflict. My thesis will examine the ability to return to mutual positivity following conflict and whether this ability varies as a fucntion of relationship quality or growth emotion mindsets.
Emma Graham
Research Interests: I am interested in how youth use digital means to regulate their emotions. My thesis will be the first test of the Adolescent Digital Emotion Regulation model with which I will comapre how digital/ non-digital emotion generation and regulation relate to successful regulation.