Dr. Michele Morningstar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University. Previously, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, OH. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in 2017.
Dr. Morningstar’s research focuses on the development of emotional processing and social cognition from childhood to adulthood. She is particularly interested in the ways in which we learn to express and perceive emotional states through nonverbal cues, such as our tone of voice. She uses a variety of methods, including speech analysis and functional neuroimaging, to determine how these basic emotional skills contribute to our social functioning and psychological well-being across development.
Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies.
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