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Jessica Lougheed is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, affiliated with the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She maintains her office in ART 332 and can be reached at 250.807.8045 or jessica.lougheed@ubc.ca. Dr. Lougheed serves as a graduate student supervisor in the Psychology department, though she is not accepting new Psychology graduate students for the September 2026 intake.
Dr. Lougheed's educational background includes a BA from the University of Victoria, followed by an MSc and PhD in Developmental Psychology from Queen's University. Her postdoctoral training included a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018) at Pennsylvania State University, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Her research focuses on adolescent emotional development, parent-adolescent relationships, and interpersonal emotion dynamics, with particular attention to internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Dr. Lougheed employs dynamic systems approaches to examine how emotion regulation develops across childhood and adolescence, often using intensive longitudinal methods and dyadic analyses. Her work frequently investigates how parents and adolescents co-regulate emotions during conflicts and everyday interactions, and how these processes relate to adolescent mental health outcomes.
Analyzing her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on temporal dynamics in emotion and relationships, with increasing attention to multiscale analyses that examine processes across different timeframes. Her research increasingly incorporates ecological momentary assessment methods and examines how emotion processes operate in real-world contexts, particularly during developmental transitions and periods of stress such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), 2016-2018
Dr. Lougheed has established herself as a significant contributor to developmental and family psychology through her innovative methodological approaches to studying emotion dynamics. Her work bridges basic developmental science with clinical applications, particularly in understanding pathways to adolescent mental health problems. She maintains an active research program with numerous publications in top-tier journals including Journal of Family Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Emotion. Her research has received media attention through outlets such as PsychCentral, Science Daily, and Psychology Today, indicating its relevance to broader public understanding of adolescent development.
