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Yang Wu
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Latest funding
- $43,093
How do you feel about my performance? The effects of emotional cues on children's reasoning about competence and their intrinsic motivation
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $47,514
Infants' understanding of emotion words
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $66,000
"Emotionese": The role of infant-directed emotional expression in early learning
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
How do you feel about my performance? The effects of emotional cues on children's reasoning about competence and their intrinsic motivation
Principal investigators: Wu, Yang
Keywords: emotional expressions; social learning; motivation; children
Infants' understanding of emotion words
Principal investigators: Wu, Yang
Keywords: emotion word; language acquisition; looking time methods; infants
"Emotionese": The role of infant-directed emotional expression in early learning
Principal investigators: Wu, Yang
Keywords: social learning; emotion understanding; emotional expression; social cognition; cognitive development; infants; infant-directed speech
"Emotionese": The role of infant-directed emotional expression in early learning
Principal investigators: Wu, Yang
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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