Michele Morningstar
@profmorningstar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Queen's University, Psychology (lab: @DSECLab.bsky.social). Emotion • Development • Neuroscience 🇨🇦
Congratulations to Riley Bonar for his successful Master’s thesis defence yesterday! Thank you to the evaluation committee for the engaging discussion and insightful questions. Riley, you have so much to be proud of—can’t wait for the next steps of your academic journey!
September 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congratulations to Riley Bonar for his successful Master’s thesis defence yesterday! Thank you to the evaluation committee for the engaging discussion and insightful questions. Riley, you have so much to be proud of—can’t wait for the next steps of your academic journey!
Happy trails to the dseclab.bsky.social 2025 summer staff! Victoria Cassel (queensuresearch.bsky.social USSRF), Polly Clayton (Matariki Network of Universities), Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami (MITACS), Olivia Merulla (staff), and Kyla Campbell (coordinator) moved our lab's work forward in major ways.
August 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy trails to the dseclab.bsky.social 2025 summer staff! Victoria Cassel (queensuresearch.bsky.social USSRF), Polly Clayton (Matariki Network of Universities), Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami (MITACS), Olivia Merulla (staff), and Kyla Campbell (coordinator) moved our lab's work forward in major ways.
Major thanks to the @DSEC Lab Summer 2025 team for their hard-work & dedication! L to R, top: Tessa Patton, Navid Shabani Barzegar, Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami, Daniel Nault, Olivia Merulla, Catherine Shevelevich, Riley Bonar. Bottom: Victoria Cassel, Kyla Campbell, me, Rushmeet Singh, Polly Clayton.
August 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Major thanks to the @DSEC Lab Summer 2025 team for their hard-work & dedication! L to R, top: Tessa Patton, Navid Shabani Barzegar, Maria Fernanda Trigo Adami, Daniel Nault, Olivia Merulla, Catherine Shevelevich, Riley Bonar. Bottom: Victoria Cassel, Kyla Campbell, me, Rushmeet Singh, Polly Clayton.
The @dseclab.bsky.social sends out triannual newsletters sharing information about our ongoing studies, recent findings, & fun activities for youth. Download them at our website or subscribe to learn more about youth's social and emotional communication!
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DSEC Lab: Welcome
We will be sending out a new newsletter 3 times a year with new studies, recent findings and activities!
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August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The @dseclab.bsky.social sends out triannual newsletters sharing information about our ongoing studies, recent findings, & fun activities for youth. Download them at our website or subscribe to learn more about youth's social and emotional communication!
www.michelemorningstar.com/our-lab-news...
www.michelemorningstar.com/our-lab-news...
You might have heard me harp on about "encoder effects" in the last few years... and now, our review paper on the topic is finally out in Affective Science! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You might have heard me harp on about "encoder effects" in the last few years... and now, our review paper on the topic is finally out in Affective Science! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm very fortunate to be the recipient of a SSHRC Insight Grant this year. Our project will investigate how adolescents' processing of social information varies by social context, and how this relates to psychosocial outcomes during the teenage years.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm very fortunate to be the recipient of a SSHRC Insight Grant this year. Our project will investigate how adolescents' processing of social information varies by social context, and how this relates to psychosocial outcomes during the teenage years.
www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...
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Big congrats to Peyton Nault for her first published paper! 🙌 Peyton found that youth with higher levels of hostile attribution bias (HAB) deemed friendly-sounding responses to peer conflict to be less effective ways of managing the situation.
Hostile Attribution Biases and Evaluation of Vocally Enacted Responses to Peer Provocation in Early Adolescents
Hostile Attribution Bias (HAB) is the tendency to perceive ambiguous social information as threatening. The social information processing (SIP) model provides a theoretical framework for determining ...
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July 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Big congrats to Peyton Nault for her first published paper! 🙌 Peyton found that youth with higher levels of hostile attribution bias (HAB) deemed friendly-sounding responses to peer conflict to be less effective ways of managing the situation.
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lara Courtepatte, BA,PR of Tutor Teach about nonverbal communication & how it develops across childhood and adolescence. Thank you for sharing our conversation on the Parenting Ed-Ventures podcast! 🎤 Listen to the full episode: linkin.bio/parentingedv...
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June 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lara Courtepatte, BA,PR of Tutor Teach about nonverbal communication & how it develops across childhood and adolescence. Thank you for sharing our conversation on the Parenting Ed-Ventures podcast! 🎤 Listen to the full episode: linkin.bio/parentingedv...
Queen's University has a special recruitment initiative for Ph.D. students whose admission was rescinded/who are reconsidering their acceptances to U.S. schools. If you are in this position and are interested in understanding how adolescents learn to navigate their social world, reach out to me! 🍁
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Queen's University has a special recruitment initiative for Ph.D. students whose admission was rescinded/who are reconsidering their acceptances to U.S. schools. If you are in this position and are interested in understanding how adolescents learn to navigate their social world, reach out to me! 🍁
I always enjoy the @psychscience.bsky.social conference, and this year’s #APS25DC was no exception! It was great to reconnect & share ideas with colleagues from around the world. Hope to do it again in Barcelona next year! @chronakigeorgia.bsky.social @kat-roto.bsky.social @danielnault.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I always enjoy the @psychscience.bsky.social conference, and this year’s #APS25DC was no exception! It was great to reconnect & share ideas with colleagues from around the world. Hope to do it again in Barcelona next year! @chronakigeorgia.bsky.social @kat-roto.bsky.social @danielnault.bsky.social
Today's the day: #APS25DC kicks off in Washington, DC! @danielnault.bsky.social and I are representing the @dseclab.bsky.social and presenting new findings from our recent studies. Come say hi - we'd love to chat!
May 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's the day: #APS25DC kicks off in Washington, DC! @danielnault.bsky.social and I are representing the @dseclab.bsky.social and presenting new findings from our recent studies. Come say hi - we'd love to chat!
Let's hear it for the Development of Social and Emotional Communication Lab W2025 team! 🙏 This group of talented researchers was instrumental to the lab's biggest accomplishments this year. Big kudos to this superb group! 💫
May 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Let's hear it for the Development of Social and Emotional Communication Lab W2025 team! 🙏 This group of talented researchers was instrumental to the lab's biggest accomplishments this year. Big kudos to this superb group! 💫
The @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD2025 conference was a blast! Riley Bonar & @danielnault.bsky.social gave superb talks about their research, & Daniel chaired an excellent symposium. It was great to hear about exciting new work in the field, and to connect with so many colleagues & friends. 🙏
May 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD2025 conference was a blast! Riley Bonar & @danielnault.bsky.social gave superb talks about their research, & Daniel chaired an excellent symposium. It was great to hear about exciting new work in the field, and to connect with so many colleagues & friends. 🙏
The @dseclab.bsky.social is at the @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD25 conference! @danielnault.bsky.social and Riley Bonar are both presenting results from their recent studies. Details below!
May 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The @dseclab.bsky.social is at the @srcdorg.bsky.social #SRCD25 conference! @danielnault.bsky.social and Riley Bonar are both presenting results from their recent studies. Details below!
New paper alert: now published in Developmental Psychobiology! Using @theabcdstudy.bsky.social data, we found that pubertal maturation was associated with concurrent & longitudinal change in activation in 'social brain' regions - but not regions typically involved in basic face processing.
April 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New paper alert: now published in Developmental Psychobiology! Using @theabcdstudy.bsky.social data, we found that pubertal maturation was associated with concurrent & longitudinal change in activation in 'social brain' regions - but not regions typically involved in basic face processing.
I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Alma Mater Society of @queensuglobal.bsky.social for awarding me the Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence for 2024-2025. Getting to share my passion for my field with students through teaching is a privilege that I cherish deeply.
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Alma Mater Society of @queensuglobal.bsky.social for awarding me the Frank Knox Award for Teaching Excellence for 2024-2025. Getting to share my passion for my field with students through teaching is a privilege that I cherish deeply.
Major congratulations to our @dseclab.bsky.social students for their fantastic poster presentations at the Psychology Research Day this week! 🙌 Zoe Halpern presented results from her Honours thesis on adolescents' conversation styles with parents versus friends. [...]
April 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Major congratulations to our @dseclab.bsky.social students for their fantastic poster presentations at the Psychology Research Day this week! 🙌 Zoe Halpern presented results from her Honours thesis on adolescents' conversation styles with parents versus friends. [...]
A few weeks ago, I had the immense pleasure of attending the 2025 @affectscience.bsky.social conference in beautiful Portland, OR. SAS has quickly become one of my favourite conferences: the science, the people, and the vibes are top-notch. ✨ Looking forward to future meetings! #SAS2025
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A few weeks ago, I had the immense pleasure of attending the 2025 @affectscience.bsky.social conference in beautiful Portland, OR. SAS has quickly become one of my favourite conferences: the science, the people, and the vibes are top-notch. ✨ Looking forward to future meetings! #SAS2025
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#TBT: The visual cliff experiment is a classic in developmental psychology. Infants were placed across from their mothers on a table that gave the illusion of a visual cliff. Their mothers expressed either happy or fearful faces. Do you think any infants crossed the cliff? (✒️Jaqueline Satok)
March 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#TBT: The visual cliff experiment is a classic in developmental psychology. Infants were placed across from their mothers on a table that gave the illusion of a visual cliff. Their mothers expressed either happy or fearful faces. Do you think any infants crossed the cliff? (✒️Jaqueline Satok)
I'm excited to be sharing results from the @dseclab.bsky.social’s work on the neural correlates of emotion recognition in youth at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies’ #SeminarSeries tomorrow (12pm; Abramsky 002 or online)! 🎉
(Thank you to Tasha Jawa for creating this promo image!)
(Thank you to Tasha Jawa for creating this promo image!)
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I'm excited to be sharing results from the @dseclab.bsky.social’s work on the neural correlates of emotion recognition in youth at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies’ #SeminarSeries tomorrow (12pm; Abramsky 002 or online)! 🎉
(Thank you to Tasha Jawa for creating this promo image!)
(Thank you to Tasha Jawa for creating this promo image!)