Mark is the Principal Investigator for the lab. He started the lab when he arrived at Queen’s in 2000. Our work is funded by grants from NSERC and SSHRC. CV

Caitlin is a 6th year PhD student who is finishing up her dissertation investigating how warm parent-child interactions might affect preschoolers’ social reasoning skills.

Mark is a 4th year PhD student. His Master’s work focused on the neurobiological processes that become active when we realize someone might think something different from ourselves. Click on the “Participate” button to learn more about and sign up for his study, Bird Box!

Brooke is a 3rd year PhD student whose research investigates how preschoolers use new information to make decisions and change their minds over time. She is particularly interested in how preschoolers make decisions about what and when to explore during belief change. Click on the “Participate” button to learn more about and sign up for her study, Treasure Hunt!

Julie is a 2nd year MSc student and her previous work examined the relationship between technology and the development of executive functioning. She is interested in further investigating attempts to promote executive functioning. Click on the “Participate” button to learn more about and sign up for her study, Seek & Sort!

Kayla is a 1st year MSc student in the lab interested in Theory of Mind.

Ariana is the EEL research coordinator. She graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Science Honours (BScH) degree in 2022. She completed her degree with a major in Psychology and a minor in Life Science. She is mainly involved in helping coordinate and run the ROSie study in the lab! Click on the “Participate” button to sign up and learn more about the ROSie study!

En Ze is a 4th year undergraduate student completing her Honours thesis in the lab. She will be working with PhD student Mark on their study, titled Birdbox!

Kate is a 4th year undergraduate student completing her Honours thesis in the lab. Her research will explore how theory of mind might be related to social anxiety and inhibition in undergraduate students.