My research interests primarily focus on researching emotion expression that is more ecologically valid than much that has dominated the field. Thus, my honours project sought to examine emotion recognition of genuine expressions from natural environments. Through my PhD I hope to examine the effects of social audiences of emotion expression with a continued focus on seeking genuine, rather than posed, expressive behaviour.
Melina West (secondary supervisor)
PhD Awarded November 2018, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut
Thesis Title: Emotion processing and the broader autism phenotype
Megan Barker (secondary supervisor)
PhD Awarded October 2018, postdoctoral fellow at the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
Thesis Title: The role of attention and emotion in message formulation
Evren Etel (secondary supervisor)
PhD Awarded May 2017
Thesis Title: Associations between peer cooperation and mind understanding among preschoolers: the effects of play context and culture
Joshua Santin (primary supervisor)
MA of Counseling Awarded May 2020
Thesis Title: Children’s Judgments of Masculine Facial Cues to Trustworthiness, Dominance, and Competence
Caitlin Millward (primary supervisor)
MA of Counseling Awarded May 2020
Thesis Title: Children’s Visual Attention to Violence
Hanne-Marie Marais
Trudy McCaul
Laura Whelan
Carissa Thong
Teresa Nguyen
Ting Fang Tee
Jessica Reid
Tamara Van Der Zant
Jo Butler
Amie Willis
Georgina Bond
Amanda Liew
Emma Bidstrup - Thesis: An About-Face Perspective on Emotion Perception: The Influence of Language Information
Dianna Vidas - Thesis: Children’s Recognition of Emotion in Popular Music
Matthew Yung - Thesis: Are you mad at me? A study of multimodal emotion perception
Royce Fong - Thesis: Children’s experiences of bullying and their emotion recognition abilities
Margot Moody - Thesis: Learning pax: children’s acquisition of a novel facial expression
Danielle Welch - Thesis: Cocky or confident: The attribution of hubris and positive pride to in-group and out-group members
Courtney McCaul - Thesis: Emotional perceptions from natural stimuli: displaying fear in Pamplona is all just bull