Publications

In Press

Widen, S.C., & Nelson, N.L. (in press) Differentiation and Language Acquisition in Children’s Understanding of Emotion. In D. Dukes, A. Samson, & E. Walle (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion Development.

Vidas*, D., Nelson, N.L., & Dingle, G. A. (in press). Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students. Psychology of Music.

2021

Van Der Zant*, T. & Nelson, N.L. (2021). Recognition of Spontaneous, Dynamic Emotion Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour.

Van Der Zant*, T., Reid*, J., Mondloch, C.J. & Nelson, N.L. (2021). The influence of postural expressions on trait judgments. Motivation and Emotion.

Nguyen*, T. & Nelson, N.L. (2021). Winners and Losers: Recognition of Spontaneous Emotional Expressions Increases across Childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Vidas*, D., Larwood, J., Nelson, N.L., & Dingle, G. A. (2021). Music listening as a strategy for managing COVID-19 stress in first-year university students. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 922.

Butler*, J. R., & Nelson, N. L. (2021). Children Overclaim More Knowledge than Adults Do, but for Different Reasons. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 201.

West*, M., Angwin, A., Copland, D., Arnott, W., & Nelson, N.L (2021). Effects of emotional cues on novel word learning in typically developing children in relation to broader autism traits. Journal of Child Language.

2020

Fong, F., Mondloch, C.J. & Nelson, N.L. (2020). Interactive Situations Reveal More About Children’s Emotion Knowledge. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Vidas*, D., Calligeros*, R., Nelson, N.L., & Dingle, G. (2020). Development of Emotion Recognition in Popular Music and Vocal Bursts. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 906-919.

Barker*, M. S., Bidstrup*, E. M., Robinson, G. A., & Nelson, N. L. (2020). “Grumpy” or “furious”? arousal of emotion labels influences judgments of facial expressions. PLoS ONE, 15(7): e0235390.

Kapitány, R. Nelson, N.L., Goldstein, T.R., & Burdett, E. (2020). The Child’s Pantheon: Children’s Hierarchical Belief Structure in Real and Non-Real figures. PloS ONE, 15(6): e0234142 .

West*, M. J., Arnott, W. L., Copland, D. A., Angwin, A. J., & Nelson, N. L. (2020). Cross-modal emotion recognition and autism-like traits in typically developing children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104737.

Barker*, M., Nelson, N.L., & Robinson, G. (2020). Idea Formulation for Spoken Language Production: The Interface of Cognition and Language. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26, 226-240.

2019

Nelson, N.L., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A. & Dixson, B.W. J. (2019). Children’s Judgements of Facial Hair are Influenced by Biological Development and Experience. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40, 551-556.

Nelson, N.L., & Mondloch, C.J. (2019). Children's Perception of Emotions in the Context of Live Interactions: Eye movements and Emotion Judgments. Behavioural Processes, 164, 193-200.

Craig, B. M., Nelson, N.L., & Dixson, B.W.J. (2019). Sexual selection, agonistic signaling, and the effect of beards on men's threat displays. Psychological Science, 30, 728-738 .

Dixson, B.W.J., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A.J. & Nelson, N.L. (2019). Mothers are sensitive to men's beards as a potential cue of paternal investment. Hormones and Behavior, 113, 55-66.

Mondloch, C.J., Gerada, A., Proietti, V, & Nelson, N.L. (2019). The influence of subtle facial expressions on children’s first impressions of trustworthiness and dominance is not adult-like. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 180, 19-38.

Coy, A., Nelson, N.L., & Mondloch, C.J. (2019). No Experimental Evidence for Emotion-Specific Gaze Cueing in a Threat Context. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 1144-1154.

2018

Nelson, N.L., & Mondloch, C.J. (2018). Children’s Visual Attention to Emotional Expressions Varies with Stimulus Movement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 13-24.

Barker*, M. S., Nelson, N.L., O’Sullivan, J.D., Adam, R., & Robinson, G.A. (2018). Energization and Spoken Language Production: Evidence from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Neuropsychologia, 119, 34-362.

Nelson, N.L., Nowicki, N. Diemer, M.C. Sangster, K., Cheng, C., & Russell, J.A. (2018). Children can create a new emotion category through a process of elimination. Cognitive Development, 47, 117-123.

Vidas*, D., Dingle, G. & Nelson, N.L. (2018). Children’s Recognition of Emotion in Music and Speech. Music & Science, 1, 1-10.

West*, M.J., Copland, D.A., Arnott, W.L., Nelson, N.L., & Angwin, A.J (2018). Effects of Prosodic and Semantic Cues on Facial Emotion Recognition in Relation to Autism-Like Traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 2611-2618.

2017

West*, M.J., Copland, D.A., Arnott, W.L., Nelson, N.L., & Angwin, A.J (2017). Effects of emotional prosody on novel word learning in relation to autism-like traits. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 749-759.

Nelson, N.L., & Mondloch, C.J. (2017). Adults’ and Children’s Perception of Facial Expressions is Influenced by Body Postures—Even for Dynamic Stimuli. Visual Cognition, 25, 563-574.

2016

Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2016). Building emotion categories: Children use a process of elimination when they encounter novel expressions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 120-130.

Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2016). A facial expression of pax: Assessing children’s “recognition” of emotion from faces. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 141, 49–64.

2015 and before

Nelson, N. L. & Russell, J.A. (2015). Children Distinguish Between Positive Pride and Hubris. Developmental Psychology, 51, 1609-1614.

Nelson, N.L. & Russell, J.A. (2014). Dynamic Facial Expressions Allow Differentiation of Displays Intended to Convey Positive and Hubristic Pride. Emotion, 14, 857-64.

Nelson, N.L. & Russell, J.A. (2013). Universality Revisited. Emotion Review, 5, 8-15.

Mondloch, C.J., Nelson, N.L. & Horner, M. (2013). Asymmetries of Influence: Differential Effects of Body Postures on Perceptions of Emotional Facial Expressions. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73605.

Nelson, N.L., Hudspeth, K. & Russell, J.A. (2013). A story superiority effect for disgust, fear, embarrassment, and pride. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31, 334-348.

Nelson, N. L. & Russell, J. A. (2012). Children’s Understanding of Nonverbal Expressions of Pride. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 379-385

Nelson, N.L. & Russell, J.A. (2011). Preschoolers’ Use of Dynamic Facial, Bodily, and Vocal Cues to Emotion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 52-61.

Nelson, N.L. & Russell, J.A. (2011). Putting Motion in Emotion: Do Dynamic Presentations Increase Preschooler’s Recognition of Emotion? Cognitive Development, 26, 248-259.

Nelson, N.L. & Russell, J.A. (2011). When Dynamic, the Head and Face Alone Can Express Pride. Emotion, 11, 990-993.