Graduate Students
Dr. Lougheed will be considering applications from prospective graduate students to join the Emotion Dynamics Lab for the 2025-2026 academic year. She will consider applications to both the Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology streams. You can read more about our Department’s graduate programs here.
Dr. Lougheed is looking for applicants who have research interests in any of these (or related) topic areas and methods. This list is not exhaustive but it gives a general idea of what types of projects graduate students may be involved in over the next few years.
- The associations between emotion regulation and mental health (e.g., internalizing problems) and well-being in young adults
- Change in mental health symptoms over time and its emotion-related predictors in young adults
- Concordance/discordance among components of the emotion system (autonomic nervous system physiology, self-reported experiences, and expressions)
- Contextual effects on the dynamics of the emotion system
- Intra- and inter-individual variability in emotion processes
- Daily diary/ experience sampling methods
- Behavioural observations of emotion
Dr. Lougheed is especially looking for applicants who have strong computational/statistical skills or a strong interest in learning advanced quantitative methods (or demonstrated potential to do so). These skills are necessary for working with the intensive longitudinal data we collect in this lab, which require the use of methods such as multilevel modelling and structural equation modelling. Dr. Lougheed does not expect students to begin the graduate program already having knowledge or experience with these methods, but rather the interest and aptitude to learn them.
Undergraduate Students
Dr. Lougheed is not currently seeking undergraduate students to be involved in research in the Emotion Dynamics Lab for Term 1 of the 2024/2025 academic year. There may be some opportunities available for Term 2 the 2024-2025 academic year. Please email Dr. Lougheed in November 2024 for more information.
Prospective Honours Thesis Students
Note that Dr. Lougheed is fully committed to supervising Honours students for the 2024-2025 academic year and will not be able to consider additional requests for supervision.
For students who are interested in conducting an Honours Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Lougheed, please reach out to her at some point in the year prior to your anticipated Honours year. Dr. Lougheed requires Honours thesis students to take a Directed Studies course (PSYO 381, PSYO 481) with her prior to the Honours year given the time-intensive nature of research projects in the lab.