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Tiffany Leung (she/her)

@tiffany6390.bsky.social
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Infant and child social cognition 👶🏽 Sick face perception, infant optimism Postdoc at University of Toronto

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Tiffany Leung (she/her) @tiffany6390.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Can we train children to better recognize and avoid cues of sickness? 🦠 Our findings suggest that children’s disease detection system is malleable! Our Stage 2 Registered Report is now available open access at Infant and Child Development! @simpson.bsky.social @soccoglab.bsky.social
Sickness avoidance accuracy improvement scores from pre- to post-manipulation (proportion of correct trials) for the control condition group (grey) and the disease training experimental group (green). Boxes indicate the first and third quartiles, whiskers indicate 1.5× above and below the interquartile range, horizontal lines within the boxes indicate medians, yellow Xs indicate means, *p < 0.05. Dotted line indicates chance-level performance (no change from pre- to post).
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Individual differences in sick face sensitivity: females are more sensitive to lassitude facial expressions than males - @tiffany6390.bsky.social Free for the next 50 days: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - Behavior Research Methods
Automated behavioral measurement using machine learning is gaining ground in psychological research. Automated approaches have the potential to reduce the labor and time associated with manual behavio...
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Social Cognition Lab, University of Miami @soccoglab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces? New research findings from our lab, led by PhD student Tiffany Leung (@Tiffany6390.bsky.social)! @UMiamiPsych.bsky.social @UnivMiami.bsky.social #SickSelfie news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...
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Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces?
New research from the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami looks at the efficacy of training adults to recognize sick faces.
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New paper by PhD student, Arushi Malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess w/ wonderful team @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @shuoz.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, @dmessinger.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev....
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Training improves avoidance of natural sick faces: Changes in visual attention and approach decisions #OpenAccess led by @tiffany6390.bsky.social in collab with @semaylott.bsky.social @shuoz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.3390/visi...
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Tiffany Leung (she/her) @tiffany6390.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Our new paper is now available #OpenAccess in Developmental Psychobiology: Emerging adults mirror infants’ emotions and yawns - with Guangyu Zeng, @semaylott.bsky.social , Arushi Malik, Shuo Zhang, Emily McNamara, Krisztina Jakobsen, and @simpson.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Tiffany Leung (she/her) @tiffany6390.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
New article for kids, about kids, and reviewed by kids! I had so much fun putting this together with Guangyu Zeng, @semaylott.bsky.social, Shantalle Martinez, Krisztina Jakobsen, and @simpson.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Infection Detection: Children Avoid Sick Faces
Staying away from germs helps humans stay healthy and avoid dangerous sicknesses. People avoid other people who look or act like they might be feeling sick. For example, adults know when someone is si...
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John Franchak @johnfranchak.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
excited to share that our paper on 10-13 month olds' everyday body position, restraint, and object holding (measured via EMA) was accepted in developmental psych. the transition to independent walking predicts changes in some activities and not others: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2023-1....
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Perception, Action, and Development Lab - Article in press
Longitudinal relations between independent walking, body position, and object experiences in home life
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Maternal Stress: The First 14 Months Postpartum - by Maylott, Patel-Syed, Lebowitz, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, & me doi.org/10.1080/1529...
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Kirsten Read @kreadlab.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
researchers have been observing parents reading with their young kids for decades, and we know all the extra talk, side convos and ?s are important for learning in a new review from my lab, we've organized the many ways to categorize & measured this ETT: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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It’s the talk that counts: a review of how the extra-textual talk of caregivers during shared book...
Extra-textual talk (ETT), the spontaneous conversation that occurs alongside the text read aloud during book reading is a common but also critically important f...
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ManyBabies @manybabies.org · 18/10/2023
More good news to share 😁 The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team! Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams #devpsyc #psychscisky
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Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in ea...
Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition to in-person eye-tracking in the lab. However, there is a lack of systematic researc....
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Social Cognition Lab, University of Miami @soccoglab.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Repost from @ResearchMiami Curious about how kids perceive sickness? Introducing the groundbreaking work of graduate student Tiffany Leung (@tiffany6390.bsky.social) and recent alumna Shantalle Martinez! 👩‍🔬📚 (Thread)
Two smiling women are seated at a desk with a laptop showing graphs. Cartoon animals on the wall behind them show a kid-friendly room.
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 08/10/2023
Can't believe it's been 6 months since my 1st, shared-first author paper was published in Nature Scientific Reports 😄 'A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions' with Jessica Taubert, Shruti Japee, Chris I Baker & Houqiu Long #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions
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Tiffany Leung (she/her) @tiffany6390.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
#HiSciSky and #PsychSciSky 👋 I’m a 4th year doctoral student studying the development of social cognition from infancy to childhood. I’m interested in people’s perceptions of sick faces 🤒
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Can children recognize sick faces? 🤒 A new study serves as a first step in teaching children how to use faces to determine whether it is safe to interact with others. news.miami.edu/as/stories/2023/08/c…
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Can children recognize sick faces?
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