Research
Alexithymia
Alexithymia — a personality trait involving difficulty identifying and describing one's own emotions — is the central focus of this thread. We approach it from multiple angles: psychometric work examining how alexithymia clusters with other traits (such as autistic traits), and behavioural studies using eye tracking and other measures to probe how it shapes attention and perception.
Ongoing work in this area includes a study on alexithymia as it relates to attention and interpretation of emotional facial expressions and a larger-scale psychometric project mapping the overlap and distinctions between alexithymia and autistic traits.
Social Identity
We study gender, neurodiversity, and other identities both as constructs and as sources of social belonging and normative pressure. We're interested in how people relate to and experience these identities across different contexts such as home, work, and friendships, what happens when identities conflict (e.g., in sexual- and gender-diverse people), and their implications for well-being.
Ongoing projects in this area examine gendered experiences and health indicators in community samples, and a scoping review on identity-linked pressure in sexual- and gender-diverse populations.
