Developmental & Computational Affective Cognition Lab

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Perspectives & Highlights

• Doan, T., Ong, D. C., & Wu, Y. (2024). Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion. Psychological Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000507 [Preprint] [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]

• Wu, Y., Taylor, I. M., Chen, H., Frank, M. C. (2023). Adults tailor their emotional expressions to infants through "emotionese." In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3312-3318).  [PDF]

Emotion as information about the physical world

• Wu, Y., Merrick, M., & Gweon, H. (2024). Expecting the unexpected: Infants use others’ surprise to revise their own expectations. Open Mind, 8, 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00117 [PDF] [Repository]

• 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., 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]

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]

• 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]

• 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]

Computational models

• 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]

• 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]

Children's intuitive theory of emotion

• Doan, T. & Wu, Y. (2024). Children and adults consider others' resources when inferring their emotions. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

• 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]

Mapping emotional expressions to emotion labels

• Chen, H. & Wu, Y. (under review). The emergence of emotion word comprehension in toddlerhood: Evidence from a looking-while-listening paradigm. [Preprint]

• 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

• Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., ..., Wu, Y., ... & Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581 [PDF]

• Singh, L., Barokova, M., Bazhydai, M., Baumgartner, H. A., Franchin, L., Kosie, J. E., ..., Wu, Y., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Tools of the Trade: A guide to sociodemographic reporting for researchers, reviewers, and editors. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2024.2431106 [PDF]

• Singh, L., Barokova, M., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera, D., Omane, P., Sheskin, M., Yuen, F., Wu, Y., … Frank, M. C. (2024). A Unified Approach to Demographic Data Collection for Research with Young Children Across Diverse Cultures. Developmental Psychology, 60(2), 211–227. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001623 [PDF]

• 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]

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]