APS

2026 APS Annual Convention

Novel Perspectives on Nonverbal Communication: Considering Contextual and Developmental Influences on the Expression and Recognition of Emotion

Saturday, May 30, 2026 · Barcelona, Spain

Oral · Emotion & Motivation: What Drives the Self

How do context and developmental mechanisms influence how we express and understand emotions? This symposium gathers cutting-edge research that quantifies widely accepted, yet rarely empirically tested, effects of social context and developmental contributions to nonverbal communication processes.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Michele MorningstarChair
    Queen's University

Presentations

  1. Display Rules for Nonverbal VocalisationsRoza Kamiloğlu
  2. Facial Expressions As Conditional Tendencies to React: An Ethological Field Study on Prosocial BehaviourMarc Mehu
  3. Neural Response to Fear In Mothers and Associations with Maternal Negativity In Parent-Child Interaction, Preschool Child Emotion Regulation, Emotional Knowledge, and Externalising BehaviourGeorgia Chronaki
  4. Association between Neural Marker of Dopamine Function and Emotion Recognition Abilities In Adolescence Michele Morningstar