Elizabeth Nilsen, University of Waterloo

Research

perspective-taking children executive functioning communication mentalizing online adolescents temperament

Latest papers

Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety.
International journal of social robotics · 2022
Theory of mind ability in high socially anxious individuals.
Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2018
Word-learning performance in beginning readers.
Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale · 2008 · first author

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Developing a Personalizable Robotic System for Enhancing Children's Emotion Knowledge
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$26,800
Associations between mentalizing and adolescents' on/off-line communication: Examining the role of temperament
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$28,950
Associations between children's characteristics and their perceptions of, strategies toward, and learning from teachable robots
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$66,461

All 7 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety.

Rasouli S, Gupta G, Nilsen E, Dautenhahn K

International journal of social robotics2022

DOI: 10.1007/s12369-021-00851-0 PMID: 35096198

02

Theory of mind ability in high socially anxious individuals.

Lenton-Brym AP, Moscovitch DA, Vidovic V, Nilsen E, Friedman O

Anxiety, stress, and coping2018

DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2018.1483021 PMID: 29940803

03

Word-learning performance in beginning readers.

Nilsen E, Bourassa D

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale2008First author

DOI: 10.1037/1196-1961.62.2.110 PMID: 18572988

Developing a Personalizable Robotic System for Enhancing Children's Emotion Knowledge

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Ghafurian, Moojan

Keywords: Social robotics; User-centred design; Emotion knowledge; Training system; Children; User interfaces

$26,800

Associations between mentalizing and adolescents' on/off-line communication: Examining the role of temperament

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nilsen, Elizabeth Sidonie

Keywords: communication; mentalizing; online; adolescents; perspective-taking; temperament; shyness; socio-cognitive development; executive functions

$28,950

Associations between children's characteristics and their perceptions of, strategies toward, and learning from teachable robots

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Nilsen, Elizabeth

Keywords: children; learning; socio-cognitive; social robots; teachable robots; executive functioning; theory of mind; prosocial behaviour

$66,461

Associations between mentalizing and adolescents' on/off-line communication: Examining the role of temperament

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nilsen, Elizabeth Sidonie

Keywords: communication; mentalizing; online; adolescents; perspective-taking; temperament; shyness; socio-cognitive development; executive functions

$120,105

Children's use and understanding of speech cues during communicative interactions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: White, Katherine S..

$73,520

Children's perspective-taking during communication and social interactions: mechanisms and outcomes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nilsen, Elizabeth

Keywords: communicative development; perspective-taking; children; social behaviour; executive functioning; cooperation

$285,847

Developing communicative competence: preschoolers' sensitivity to their communicative partners' perspective

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Nilsen, Elizabeth Sidonie

Keywords: social-cognition; communicative competence; perspective-taking; referential communication; inhibition; eye tracking; children; implicit measures; longitudinal design

$120,811

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

Child and Adolescent Psychology
Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Waterloo

Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Waterloo

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Ori Friedman

Child and Adolescent Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Write to this professor

A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.

Applying for

Paper to mentionMention their SSHRC grant from 2023

Subject: Prospective PhD student: perspective-taking Dear Professor Nilsen, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Associations between mentalizing and adolescents' on/off-line communication: Examining the role of temperament" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]