Research Team

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

Gizem Keskin (she/her/hers)

Role: Gizem is a fifth-year PhD student in the Emotion Dynamics Lab (Psychological Sciences program).

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

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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 first year MA student in the Psychological Science program.

Honours Thesis Students 2023-2024

Laura Moore (she/her/hers)

Laura is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Psychology. She is currently completing an Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.

Geetika Sadarangani (she/her/hers)

Geetika is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Psychology. She is currently completing an Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.

Raman Sangha (she/her/hers)

Raman is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Psychology. She is currently completing an Honours thesis on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.

Research Assistants

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 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 McGregor (she/her/hers)

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

Emily Thompson (she/her/hers)

Role: Emily is a third-year Psychology undergraduate student involved in the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study as a research assistant.

Jasreet Dhillon (she/her/hers)

Role: Jasreet is a fourth year undergraduate student in psychology. She is a research assistant and a Directed Studies student on the Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study.

Lab Alumni

Alyssa Truong (she/her/hers)

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.

Minju Yu (she/her/hers)

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.

Enya Duffield (she/her/hers)

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 (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)

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.

Summer Fulford (she/her/hers)

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.

Sierra Adamow-Boudreau (she/her/hers)

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