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Our focus here is facial emotion, emotional influences on judgments, genuine versus malingered emotional distress, and deception.
Our focus here is facial emotion, emotional influences on judgments, genuine versus malingered emotional distress, and deception.
how we study emotion in our lab
how we study emotion in our lab
In general, we employ multiple methodologies to examine the way in which emotion impacts our judgments and perceptions. First, we have examined how emotion influences the recall of primarily negative and traumatic life events. Second, we look at how symptoms of PTSD are presented across different trauma types, and what malingered symptom profiles look like. Third, we examine how facial emotions are expressed (in both genuine and feigned contexts) as well as how these emotions are recognized. Finally, we tie emotion into behavioural and legal issues such as Victim Impact Statements and deception detection.
feature studies
feature studies
Reach out to us for more information on any of these areas of research!
Emotional Memories
Emotional Memories
Features of traumatic memories
Consistency of traumatic memories
Sexual vs non-sexual trauma memories
Weapon focus & unusualness
Memory for gory scenes
Credibility & traumatic memory
Emotion Generation, Recognition & Veracity
Emotion Generation, Recognition & Veracity
Genuine and fabricated expressions
Recognition of emotional expressions
Gender, psychopathic traits & emotion
Affective mimicry and faking faces
PTSD & Malingering
PTSD & Malingering
Genuine & fabricated trauma symptoms
Consistency of real trauma profiles
PTSD v non-PTSD profiles & memories
Motivations for malingering
Malingering and incentives
Detection of fabricated distress/memories
Displayed Emotions & Victim Credibility
Displayed Emotions & Victim Credibility
Emotional displays in court versus VIS
Emotional victims & gender minorities
Emotion, gender, & VIS
Sexual assault & displayed emotion
Emotional Lies & Lie Detection
Emotional Lies & Lie Detection
Judgments of emotional and non-emotional lies
Facial action coding and veractiy judgments
future research directions
future research directions
Forthcoming studies include a cross-Canada collaboration concerning the features and effectiveness of Victim Impact Statements, as well as continued examination of cognitive versus emotional empathy as applied to a variety of judgment and behavioural tasks.
Victim Impact Statements
Emotional versus Cognitive Empathy
Polygraph & CIT Testing
stay tuned for these & other research developments!
stay tuned for these & other research developments!
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