Colleges
Danielle M Shore
PhD
Deputy Research Director of Clinical Psychology Training and Research
Research Summary
My research focuses on how social information, especially facial expressions, affect social interactions and decision-making. Specifically I would like to understand what shapes both successful and unsuccessful social interactions and decisions, and the effect that facial expressions of emotion have on both processes. I am interested in the dyadic interpersonal nature of these displays; how a partners displays influence our behaviour but also how we use our displays to shape the behaviour of a social partner.
To investigate these questions I conduct behavioural and social cognition studies examining how people navigate social interactions; how people make social decisions; how social interactions and decisions are shaped by facial expressions or emotion information; how facial expressions and emotional displays are interpreted; and how beliefs about motives shape interpretations of facial expressions and emotion displays.
Recent publications
How Expression, Context and Perspective Determine Judgments of Emotion
Journal article
Han B. et al, (2025), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Contextual Influences on the Perception and Interpretation of Facial Expressions
Chapter
Day SE. et al, (2025), 81 - 105
The reciprocal relationship between smiles and situational contexts
Journal article
Day SE. et al, (2023), Cognition and Emotion, 37, 1230 - 1247
Facial Regulation During Dyadic Interaction: Interpersonal Effects on Cooperation.
Journal article
Shore D. et al, (2023), Affect Sci, 4, 506 - 516
Identifying Meaningful Facial Configurations during Iterative Prisoner’s Dilemma Games
Preprint
Robertson O. et al, (2023)