Research Team

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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Role: Gizem earned her PhD (Psychological Sciences program) in June, 2024.

Research interests: Parent-adolescent dynamics; adolescent development; emotion regulation in the family context

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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

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.

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.

Jacklyn is a fourth-year Psychology major involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study as a research assistant.

Magpie is a Master’s student in the Psychological Sciences program under the supervision of Dr. Leanne ten Brinke. Magpie is a research assistant on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion study.

Jayda is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Psychology. She is a research assistant on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.

Role: 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.

Role: 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.

Role: 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 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.

Role: 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.

Role: 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.

Role: Sierra Adamow-Boudreau was a research assistant involved with the Daily Stressors and Emotions Study.