Lab Director
Jessica P. Lougheed, PhD (she/her)
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)
Marcus is in the final year of the PhD program in the Emotion Dynamics Lab (Clinical Psychology program). He defended his doctoral research in the Spring of 2026 and is heading to the final clinical residency year.
Research interests: Fathers’ experiences in parenting adolescents; parent-adolescent relationships; gender differences in parenting; conflict within the family system
Trina Janzen (she/her)
Trina is the first year of the MA program in Psychological Science. Her research focuses on the role of emotions in problematic alcohol behaviours.
Hayleigh Armstrong (she/her)
Hayleigh is in the first year of the MA program in Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on emotion regulation flexibility in daily life.
Research Assistants
Laura Moore (she/her)
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 currently a student in the BEd program and previously completed a BA with a major in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and a minor in Psychology. They are a research assistant on the Sexual Health and the Role of Education study.
Care House (she/they)
Care is a third year Psychology major who is a Directed Studies student and research assistant on The Regulation of Emotional Experiences Study.
Olivia Beshtoev (she/her)
Olivia is a second year Psychology major who is a Directed Studies student/ research assistant on The Regulation of Emotional Experiences Study.
Harneet Dhillon (she/her)
Harneet is a second year Psychology major and Directed Studies student/ research assistant on The Regulation of Emotional Experiences Study.
Mikhail Alzona (he/him)
Mikhail is a third year Psychology major who is a Directed Studies student/ research assistant on The Regulation of Emotional Experiences study.
Honours Thesis Students 2025-2026
Jaelyn Becvar (she/her)
Jaelyn is a fourth year undergraduate Psychology major. She is completing her Honours thesis on how socioeconomic status is related to 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)
Essence is an Honours student under the supervision of Dr. Lougheed 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.
Clara Jurgenliemk (she/her)
Clara is an Honours student under the supervision of Drs. John-Tyler Binfet and Jessica Lougheed. Her Honours thesis involved adapting campus dog therapy sessions through the BARK Lab for students with Autism. You can read about her project here.
Lab Alumni–Graduate Students
Colin Loveridge (he/him)
Colin Loveridge completed his MA in the Psychological Science program in 2025. His MA thesis focused on emotional concordance across stressful and positive contexts and its associations with depressive and anxious symptoms.
Gizem Keskin, PhD (she/her)
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
Analise van Vliet (she/her)
Analise completed her Honours thesis in the 2024-2025 academic year on the associations between positive emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms on observed emotion regulation on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion study.
Geetika Sadarangani (she/her)
Geetika completed her Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study in the 2023-2024 academic year.
Raman Sangha (she/her)
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)
Jacklyn was involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study as a research assistant.
Magpie Winslow (she/her)
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)
Jayda was a research assistant on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Emily Thompson (she/her)
As a third-year Psychology undergraduate student, Emily was involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Jasreet Dhillon (she/her)
Jasreet was a research assistant and a Directed Studies student on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.
Alyssa Truong (she/her)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sierra Adamow-Boudreau was a research assistant involved with the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study.