Nicole Nelson
A Leading Expert in Emotional Development and Expression Recognition
About Me
Nicole Nelson serves as an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland, where she has established herself as a prominent researcher in developmental psychology and emotion understanding. Her research focuses on how children and adults process emotional expressions across multiple modalities, including facial, postural, and vocal cues. Her groundbreaking work has revealed that children as young as three can make sophisticated judgments about reality versus fantasy, and understand complex emotional expressions