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Latest papers
Does Guilt Help or Hinder Gratitude? Personal Distress, Guilt Proneness, and Gender Differences in Adolescents.
Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Loneliness and self-concept in the relations between Theory of Mind and social anhedonia in adolescents.
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025
Interrelations Among Adolescents' Family Connections, Solitude Preferences, Theory of Mind and Perceptions of Academic and Work Competence.
The Journal of genetic psychology · 2025
Latest funding
- $429,892
Adolescents' kind mindset: Linking mentalization, self-processes, and prosocial development
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $102,942
The development of mentalization, identity, and well-being across adolescence
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $105,522
The development of mentalization, identity, and well-being across adolescence
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
18 publications.
Does Guilt Help or Hinder Gratitude? Personal Distress, Guilt Proneness, and Gender Differences in Adolescents.
Yasiniyan S, Bosacki S, Talwar V
Loneliness and self-concept in the relations between Theory of Mind and social anhedonia in adolescents.
Chen S, Bosacki S, Talwar V
Interrelations Among Adolescents' Family Connections, Solitude Preferences, Theory of Mind and Perceptions of Academic and Work Competence.
Jones M, Bosacki S, Talwar V
Kindness Is the Language That the Deaf Can Hear and the Blind Can See: Kindness, Theory of Mind and Well-Being in Adolescents.
Stamp P, Bosacki S, Talwar V
"Mom said it in quotation marks!" Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds.
Garfinkel S, Rowe ML, Bosacki S, Banasik-Jemielniak N
Longitudinal relations between theory of mind and academic achievement among deaf and hard-of-hearing school-aged children.
Smogorzewska J, Szumski G, Bosacki S, Grygiel P, Osterhaus C
The moderating role of spirituality and gender in Canadian and Iranian emerging adolescents' theory of mind and prosocial behavior.
Khalili N, Bosacki S, Talwar V
Peeking and lying in the temptation resistance paradigm in 2.5-year-olds: The role of inhibitory control.
Białecka-Pikul M, Białek A, Stępień-Nycz M, Talwar V, Bosacki S
Did You Just Lie to Me? Deception Detection in Face to Face versus Computer Mediated Communication.
Eskritt M, Fraser B, Bosacki S
Just listen to your mind: Consequences of theory of mind development for deaf or hard-of-hearing children.
Smogorzewska J, Szumski G, Bosacki S, Grygiel P
Adolescents' kind mindset: Linking mentalization, self-processes, and prosocial development
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
The development of mentalization, identity, and well-being across adolescence
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
Keywords: social cognition; emotion; identity; kindness; compassion; well-being; adolescence; development; education
The development of mentalization, identity, and well-being across adolescence
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
Keywords: social cognition; emotion; identity; kindness; compassion; well-being; adolescence; development; education
Theory of mind development in emerging adolescence
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
Keywords: theory of mind; social cognition; emotion; adolescents; morality; spirituality; development; education
Understanding artistic learning and youth arts engagement in a digital age
Principal investigators: O'Neill, Susan A.
Keywords: artistic learning; youth engagement; creativity; innovation; emotional development; multimodal learning; digital media; multiliteracies; arts education
Children's diverse voices: children's spirituality and its relationship with identity and social adjustment
Principal investigators: Talwar, Victoria
Keywords: spirituality; social adjustment; social competence; self identity; moral development; social cultural factors
The socioemotional worlds of gradeschoolers: psychological understanding, self-conceptions, and peer relations
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
Keywords: social cognition; theory of mind; child development; emotional competence; self-concept; language; gender differences; gradeschool
Psychological understanding and social behaviour in middle childhood
Principal investigators: Bosacki, Sandra L.
Keywords: psychological literacy; sociocognition; self-concept; social behaviour; middle childhood; schooling; gender
Children's stories as cultural mirrors : self-concepts and worldviews
Principal investigators: Elliott, Anne
Keywords: storying; children; media; literature; soical; psychology; self; literacy; gender; worldview;
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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