Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Author "Nilsen, Elizabeth S."
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Attention Orienting by Gaze and Facial Expressions Across Development
Neath, Karly; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Gittsovich, Katarzyna; Itier, Roxane J. (APA, 2013-06)Processing of facial expressions has been shown to potentiate orienting of attention toward the direction signaled by gaze in adults, an important social–cognitive function. However, little is known about how this social ... -
Attention orienting by gaze and facial expressions across development
Neath, Karly; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Gittsovich, Katarzyna; Itier, Roxane J. (Ovid, 2013-06)Processing of facial expressions has been shown to potentiate orienting of attention toward the direction signaled by gaze in adults, an important social-cognitive function. However, little is known about how this social ... -
Children accept information from incongruent speakers when the context explains the communicative incongruence
Gillis, Randall L.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Gevaux, Nicole S. (Elsevier, 2019-07-30)Past work has shown that children are less likely to solicit information from speakers who use incongruent communicative cues (i.e., demonstrate an emotion nonverbally that differs from the emotional valence of the words) ... -
Children's Communicative Decisions Are Influenced by Gender, Shyness, and Peer Experiences
Mewhort-Buist, Tracy A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Bowman-Smith, Celina K. (Wayne State University Press, 2020-01)The present study examined how school-age children's communicative decisions are influenced by the situation, their social partner, and their own characteristics (gender, shyness levels, and history of peer relationships). ... -
Children's reactions to inequality: Associations with empathy and parental teaching
Gevaux, Nicole S.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Bobocel, D. Ramona; Gault, Siann F. (Elsevier, 2020-09-24)While children generally prefer equal distributions of resources, we know little about the contextual and individual variability in these preferences. The present work examined experimental manipulations and associations ... -
Children's sharing with collaborators versus competitors: The impact of theory of mind and executive functioning
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Valcke, Alanna (Elsevier, 2018-09-07)While children show an appreciation for fairness, their sharing does not always reflect such principles. This work examined how contextual factors (competition/cooperation; self/other perspective) and socio-cognitive skills ... -
Cognitive and behavioural predictors of adolescents' communicative perspective-taking and social relationships
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Bacso, Sarah A. (Elsevier, 2017-04-01)Given the pivotal role that social interactions play for adolescents' well-being, understanding the factors that influence communication is key. The present study examined relations between adolescents' communicative ... -
Consistency between verbal and non-verbal affective cues: a clue to speaker credibility
Gillis, Randall L.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S. (Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-19)Listeners are exposed to inconsistencies in communication; for example, when speakers’ words (i.e. verbal) are discrepant with their demonstrated emotions (i.e. non-verbal). Such inconsistencies introduce ambiguity, which ... -
Executive functioning moderates associations between shyness and pragmatic abilities
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Silva, Janel; McAuley, Tara; Floto, Shanan (Wiley, 2020-09-26)While elevated shyness is associated with weaker pragmatic language abilities for some children, not all shy children demonstrate pragmatic challenges. Understanding the factors that may account for this variability is ... -
How to turn that frown upside down: Children make use of a listener’s facial cues to detect and (attempt to) repair miscommunication
Bacso, Sarah A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Silva, Janel (Elsevier, 2021-07)Communication involves the integration of verbal and nonverbal cues. This study assessed preschool-age children’s ability to use their conversational partner’s facial expression to determine whether the partner required ... -
Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence
Varghese, Anisha L.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S. (Sage, 2019-08-31)Two studies explored whether the appropriateness of a speaker’s prosodic style (i.e., pitch, volume, speech rate) affects observers’ judgments of speakers’ and listeners’ competence. Adults and school-aged children ... -
Mother-Child Communication: The Influence of ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Functioning on Paralinguistic Style
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Rints, Ami; Ethier, Nicole; Moroz, Sarah (Frontiers, 2016-08-10)Paralinguistic style, involving features of speech such as pitch and volume, is an important aspect of one’s communicative competence. However, little is known about the behavioral traits and cognitive skills that relate ... -
The other side of the screen: The impact of perspective-taking on adolescents’ online communication
Bowman-Smith, Celina K.; Sosa Hernandez, Linda; Nilsen, Elizabeth S. (Elsevier, 2021-10)Introduction: In recent decades, adolescents’ interactions with peers have increasingly transitioned online. While socially interactive technologies provide multiple avenues for positive communication between peers, ... -
Ratings of Everyday Executive Functioning (REEF): A parent-report measure of preschoolers’ executive functioning skills
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Huyder, Vanessa; McAuley, Tara; Liebermann, Dana (APA, 2016-04-07)Executive functioning (EF) facilitates the development of academic, cognitive, and social-emotional skills and deficits in EF are implicated in a broad range of child psychopathologies. Although EF has clear implications ... -
The relationship between children's executive functioning, theory of mind, and verbal skills with their own and others' behaviour in a cooperative context: Changes in relations from early to middle school-age
Huyder, Vanessa; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Bacso, Sarah A. (Wiley, 2017-02-28)Learning to behave in socially competent ways is an essential component of children's development. This study examined the relations between children's social, communicative, and cognitive skills and their behaviours during ... -
Shy children's understanding of irony: Better comprehension does not always mean better socioemotional functioning
Mewhort-Buist, Tracy A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S. (Wiley, 2019-04-12)Childhood shyness is a risk factor for negative socioemotional outcomes including loneliness and depression. Childhood shyness has also been found to relate to various aspects of pragmatic language. For instance, shyer ... -
Shy individuals’ interpretations of counterfactual verbal irony
Mewhort-Buist, Tracy A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S. (Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-31)Counterfactual verbal irony, an evaluative form of figurative language wherein a speaker’s intended meaning is opposite to the literal meaning of his or her words, is used to serve many social goals. Despite recent calls ... -
Witnessing-condition Heterogeneity and Witnesses’ Versus Investigators’ Confidence in the Accuracy of Witnesses’ Identification Decisions
Lindsay, D. Stephen; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Read, J. Don (APA, 2000-06)Undergraduate participants were tested in 144 pairs, with one member of each pair randomly assigned to a “witness” role and the other to an “:investigator” role. Each witness viewed a target person on video under good or ...