Lab Director
Jessica P. Lougheed, PhD (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Role: Director
Research Interests: Parent-adolescent relationships; interpersonal emotion regulation; emotion dynamics; emotional concordance; emotion regulation; stress; internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety)
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Read Dr. L.’s faculty profile here.
Graduate Students
Marcus Gottlieb (he/him/his)
Role: Marcus is a third-year PhD student in the Emotion Dynamics Lab (Clinical Psychology program)
Research interests: Fathers’ experiences in parenting adolescents; parent-adolescent relationships; gender differences in parenting; conflict within the family system
Colin Loveridge (he/him/his)
Role: Colin Loveridge is a second year MA student in the Psychological Science program. His MA thesis is focusing on emotional concordance across stressful and positive contexts and its associations with depressive and anxious symptoms.
Research Assistants
Laura Moore (she/her/hers)
Laura completed her BSc (Honours) in Psychology in 2024. She completed an Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study. She is currently working as the lab coordinator and is involved in the Survey of Emotions Every Day study and the Sexual Health and the Role of Education study.
Phoebe Hodgson (she/they)
Phoebe is a fourth year major in Gender, Women, and Sexually Studies with a minor in Psychology. They are a research assistant on the Sexual Health and the Role of Education study.
Jaelyn Becvar (she/her/hers)
Jaelyn is a third year undergraduate Psychology major. She is involved in the lab in a couple different ways– as a Directed Study student, she is focusing on learning about how socioeconomic status is related to things like mental health and emotion regulation. She’s also a research assistant on the Surveys of Emotions Every Day Study, and is helping out with participant recruitment and processing experience sampling data.
Essence Mayo (she/her/hers)
Essence is a directed studies student under the supervision of Dr. Lougheed. Her research focuses on examining discrepancies in relationship quality reports between adolescents and their caregivers, as well as exploring how these differences relate to their mental states and well-being.
Honours Thesis Student 2024-2025
Analise van Vliet (she/her/hers)
Analise is a fourth-year Psychology major completing her Honours thesis in the lab. She is examining the associations between positive emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms on observed emotion regulation on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion study.
Lab Alumni–Graduate Students
Gizem Keskin, PhD (she/her/hers)
Gizem earned her PhD (Psychological Sciences program) in June, 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Calgary.
Research interests: Parent-adolescent dynamics; adolescent development; emotion regulation in the family context
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Lab Alumni–Undergraduate Students
Geetika Sadarangani (she/her/hers)
Geetika completed her Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study in the 2023-2024 academic year.
Raman Sangha (she/her/hers)
Raman completed her Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study in the 2023-2024 academic year. She is currently a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Western University.
Jacklyn Awotwi-Pratt (she/her/hers)
Jacklyn is a fourth-year Psychology major involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study as a research assistant.
Magpie Winslow (she/her/hers)
Magpie completed her MA in the Psychological Sciences program under the supervision of Dr. Leanne ten Brinke. Magpie was a research assistant on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion study.
Jayda McGregor (she/her/hers)
Jayda was a research assistant on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Emily Thompson (she/her/hers)
As a third-year Psychology undergraduate student, Emily was involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Jasreet Dhillon (she/her/hers)
Jasreet was a research assistant and a Directed Studies student on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Alyssa Truong (she/her/hers)
Alyssa completed an Honour’s thesis in the 2021-2022 academic year. Her thesis focused on the associations between loneliness and remote social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study. She was then a research assistant on the Daily Conflicts in Parent-Adolescent Dyads: Associations with Parent and Adolescent Development study.
Minju Yu (she/her/hers)
Minju Yu completed an Honours thesis in the 2022-2023 academic year on the Variability in Emotion Regulation Strategies in University Students study. Research Interests: Emotion differentiation; emotion regulation; emotional variability in daily life; positive emotions and well-being.
Enya Duffield (she/her/hers)
Enya Duffield completed an Honours thesis in the 2022-2023 academic year on the Daily Reactions, Experiences, and Mood study. She examined the relationship between daily stressors, major life events, and mood.
Sean Morgan (he/him/his)
Sean Morgan was a research assistant involved in coordinating the Daily Conflicts in Parent-Adolescent Dyads: Associations with Parent and Adolescent Development study and also contributes to the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study. He is now a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Victoria.
Keaghan Forster (he/him/his)
Keaghan completed an Honours thesis in the 2021-2022 academic year. His thesis focused on the associations between mood variability and mental health in the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study.
Summer Fulford (she/her/hers)
Summer completed an Honour’s thesis in the 2021-2022 academic year. Her thesis focused on how health perceptions are associated with the experience of negative affect in daily life in the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study.
Sierra Adamow-Boudreau (she/her/hers)
Sierra Adamow-Boudreau was a research assistant involved with the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study.