Developmental & Computational Affective Cognition Lab
University of Toronto Scarborough
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Highlights & Perspectives
Wu, Y., Taylor, I. M., Chen, H., Frank, M. C. (in press). Adults tailor their emotional expressions to infants through "emotionese." In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Wu, Y., Schulz, L. E., Frank, M. C., & Gweon, H. (2021). Emotion as information in early social learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(6), 468-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211040779 [PDF]
Doan, T., Ong, D. C., & Wu, Y. (in prep). Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion.
Emotion as information about the physical world
Wu, Y., Muentener, P., & Schulz, L. E. (2017). One- to four-year-olds connect diverse positive emotional vocalizations to their probable causes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(45), 11896-11901. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707715114 [PDF]
Wu, Y. & Gweon, H. (2021). Preschool-aged children jointly consider others’ emotional expressions and prior knowledge to decide when to explore. Child Development, 92(3), 862-870. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13585 [PDF] [SI] [Repository]
Wu, Y., Merrick, M., & Gweon, H. (under review). Infants use others' surprise as vicarious prediction error. [Preprint]
Emotion as information about the social world
Wu, Y. & Schulz, L. E. (2020). Understanding social display rules: Using one person's emotional expressions to infer the desires of another. Child Development, 91(5), 1786-1799. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13346 [PDF] [Repository]
Wu, Y. & Schulz, L. (2018). Inferring beliefs and desires from emotional reactions to anticipated and observed events. Child Development, 89(2), 649-662. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12759 [PDF] [Repository]
Wu, Y., Haque, J. A., & Schulz, L. E. (2018). Children can use others' emotional expressions to infer their knowledge and predict their behaviors in classic false belief tasks. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1193-1198). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Asaba, M.*, Wu, Y.*, Carrillo, B., & Gweon, H. (2020). You're surprised at her success? Inferring competence from emotional responses to performance outcomes. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2650-2656). (*Co-first authors) [PDF] [Repository] [Preprint]
Computational models
Wu, Y., Baker, C. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2018). Rational inference of beliefs and desires from emotional expressions. Cognitive Science, 42(3), 850-884. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12548 [PDF] [SI] [Repository]
Wu, Y.*, Tessler, M. H.*, Asaba, M., Zhu, P., Gweon, H., & Frank, M. C. (2021). Integrating emotional expressions with utterances in pragmatic inference. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2260-2266). (*Co-first authors) [PDF] [Repository]
Mapping emotional expressions to emotion labels
Wu, Y., Matteson, H. M., Baker, C., & Frank, M. C. (2023). Angry, sad, or scared? Within-valence mapping of emotion words to facial and body cues in 2- to 4-year old children. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 74333. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.74333 [PDF] [Repository]
Methods paper
Chuey, A., Asaba, M., Bridgers, S., Carrillo, B., Dietz, G., Garcia, T., Leonard, J., Liu, S., Merrick, M., Radwan, S., Stegall, J., Velez, N., Woo, B., Wu, Y., Zhou, X., Frank, M. C., Gweon H. (2021). Moderated Online Data-Collection for Developmental Research: Methods and Replications. Frontiers in Psychology, 4968. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734398 [PDF]
Singh, L., Barokova, M., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera, D., Omane, P., Sheskin, M., Yuen, F., Wu, Y., … Frank, M. C. (under revision). A Unified Approach to Demographic Data Collection for Research with Young Children Across Diverse Cultures. [Preprint]
Other work on children's causal reasoning
Wu, Y., Muentener, P., & Schulz, L. (2016). The invisible hand: Toddlers connect probabilistic events with agentive causes. Cognitive Science, 40(8), 1854-1876. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12309 [PDF] [OSF]
Wu, Y., Schulz, L. E, & Saxe, R. (2018). Toddlers connect emotional responses to epistemic states. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2711-2716). [PDF]