Thank you to Liz daSilva, Ryan Lundell-Creagh, and @danielnault.bsky.social for such a fantastic collaboration!

We highlight important systematic sources of individual variability in how people pose emotional expressions (age, gender/sex, etc.) & argue that emotion perception research must account for expresser-related variability to better characterize how we communicate emotional intent.

Thank you to SSHRC-CRSH for funding basic science designed to understand fundamental social processes in the critical developmental stage of adolescence!

Knowing more about how teenagers navigate their social worlds—and how this relates to social success—can inform our educational and therapeutic practices to help adolescents thrive in their social relationships.

How do teenagers attend to social signals from others? How do they interpret their parents' and friends' emotions and adjust their behaviours accordingly in different social situations?

Tone of voice isn't often considered in interventions aimed to reduce HAB, but our findings point to the importance of considering how youth evaluate nonverbal cues when deciding how to respond to peer provocation.

Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

See more information about the funding package and eligibility criteria at www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc....

Not pictured: Selena Gabrielli, Yaein Kim, Navid Shabani Barzegar, & Madhureema Balasubramani Rupa.

Left to right: Julia Guo, Léa Francoeur, Kyla Campbell, Linoy Stepanov, Olivia Merulla, Riley Bonar, Keren Katz, myself, @danielnault.bsky.social, Diana Romano, Victoria Cassel, Zoe Halpern, Alessia Cataudella, Natalie Yang, Sarah Wong, Sophie Ye, Sach Grewal, & Jacqueline Satok.

These results help pinpoint HOW puberty may shape the developing brain's regions to emotional information in the social environment during adolescence. Special shout out to Jay Burns, who started this project as a directed lab student in the @dseclab.bsky.social!