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Research
Latest papers
Adolescents and Adults Use Different Facial Movements and Vocal Cues to Express Emotions.
Developmental science · 2026 · senior author
On What Can We Agree?: Principles Endorsed by Facial Affect Researchers across Theoretical Perspectives and Subdisciplines of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Affective science · 2026
A Louder Call for the Integration of Multiple Nonverbal Channels in the Study of Affect.
Affective science · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $42,158
Parents vs. peers: Probing the influence of context on social information processing in adolescence
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $67,390
Tracking Digital Activities and Parenting Processes that Foster the Development of Adolescent Digital Flourishing
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $150,000
Neuroimaging equipment for investigating primate brain structure and function
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
12 publications.
Adolescents and Adults Use Different Facial Movements and Vocal Cues to Express Emotions.
Nault DR, Robichaud SMC, Morningstar M
On What Can We Agree?: Principles Endorsed by Facial Affect Researchers across Theoretical Perspectives and Subdisciplines of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Shiota MN, Vornlocher C, Jack RE, daSilva EB, Fernández-Dols JM, Holley SR, Larsen JT, Morningstar M, Plusquellec P, Roberts NA, Soto JA, Sturm VE
A Louder Call for the Integration of Multiple Nonverbal Channels in the Study of Affect.
Morningstar M
Fast and friendly: The role of vocal cues in adolescents' responses to and perceptions of peer provocation.
Nault DR, Bonar RJT, Ilyaz E, Dirks MA, Morningstar M
Young Children of Mothers with a History of Depression Show Attention Bias to Sad Faces: An Eye-tracking Study.
Fu X, Bolton SH, Morningstar M, Mattson WI, Feng X, Nelson EE
Neural activation to peer acceptance and rejection in relation to concurrent and prospective depression risk in adolescent and pre-adolescent girls.
Stroud LR, Morningstar M, Vergara-Lopez C, Bublitz MH, Lee SY, Sanes JN, Dahl RE, Silk JS, Nelson EE, Dickstein DP
Exogenous testosterone administration is associated with differential neural response to unfamiliar peer's and own caregiver's voice in transgender adolescents.
Morningstar M, Thomas P, Anderson AM, Mattson WI, Nahata L, Leibowitz SF, Chen D, Strang JF, Nelson EE
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence.
Morningstar M, Mattson WI, Nelson EE
Adolescents and young adults differ in their neural response to and recognition of adolescent and adult emotional faces.
Sandre A, Morningstar M, Farrell-Reeves A, Dirks M, Weinberg A
Atypical age-related changes in the structure of the mentalizing network in children with refractory focal epilepsy.
Hung A, Morningstar M, Mattson WI, Saygin ZM, Nelson EE
Parents vs. peers: Probing the influence of context on social information processing in adolescence
Principal investigators: Morningstar, Michele
Keywords: social information processing; social contexts; adolescence; emotion; attention; interpretation; expression; social competence; social functioning
Tracking Digital Activities and Parenting Processes that Foster the Development of Adolescent Digital Flourishing
Principal investigators: Hollenstein, Tom
Keywords: Adolescence; digital activities; parenting; flourishing
Neuroimaging equipment for investigating primate brain structure and function
Principal investigators: Tusche, Anita
Keywords: brain connectivity; brain function; brain structure; cognitive neuroscience; neuroimaging; nonhuman primates; social neuroscience
Reducing the impacts of emotion recognition bias on Canadians
Principal investigators: Livingstone, Steven R.
Keywords: emotion; algorithmic bias; emotion recognition bias; survey; emotion dataset; human ai assistance; emotional decision making; diversity; harm reduction; skin tone; speech accent
Self-Compassion in Sport Intervention Sensitive to Identity
Principal investigators: Kowalski, Kent C.
Keywords: Self-compassion; sport intervention; social identities; intersectionality
Companion: A Cognitive Voice and Video Assistant Bot for Safe Aging
Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana
Keywords: voice and video bots; conversational systems; aging and voice communication; memory, attention and perception; aging and perception; avatar for video and voice communication; customer churn for voice bots; empathic communication; affective prosody; individualized technologies
Development of neural and cognitive processing of peers' nonverbal cues in adolescence
Principal investigators: Morningstar, Michele
Keywords: development; adolescence; nonverbal communication; neural systems; cognition; attention; emotion; facial perception; vocal perception
Development of neural and cognitive processing of peers' nonverbal cues in adolescence
Principal investigators: Morningstar, Michele
Understanding changes in nonverbal emotional expression and its relationship to social functioning in adolescence
Principal investigators: Morningstar, Michele
Keywords: emotion expression; nonverbal communication; social functioning; adolescence; encoding; vocal prosody; facial expression
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Anna Weinberg and Melanie Dirks: 4 shared papers
- Anna Weinberg and Michele Morningstar: 1 shared paper
- Michele Morningstar and Melanie Dirks: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
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