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I received my PhD (2020) in Developmental Psychology and MASc (2015) in Developmental and Communication Science from the University of Waterloo. Prior to joining Laurier at the Milton campus, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and a program evaluation specialist at LOFT Community Services.
My research focuses on children's social cognitive development. I am interested in how children make emotion inferences and the factors they consider when doing so. I am also interested in the relation between children's and adults' close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences.
I am always happy to hear from students interested in studying people's emotion understanding, counterfactual reasoning, or even social cognition more broadly. Students interested in working with me are encouraged to reach out (tdoan@wlu.ca).
- Doan, T., Ong, D. C., & Wu, Y. (2025). Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion. Psychological Review, 132, 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000507
- Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2025). Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control. New Ideas in Psychology, 78, 101164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101164
- Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2025). Up and down: Counterfactual closeness is robust to direction of comparison. Cognition and Emotion, 39, 1301-1311. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2434149
- Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2024). Close counterfactuals and almost doing the impossible. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31, 187-195. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02335-w
- Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2023). Calculated feelings: How children use probability to infer emotions. Open Mind, 7, 879-893. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00111
- Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2023). Two kinds of counterfactual closeness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1787-1796. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001369
- Doan, T., Stonehouse, E., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2022). The odds tell children what people favor. Developmental Psychology, 58, 1759-1766. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001395
- Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021). Oh… so close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences. Developmental Psychology, 57, 678-688. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001174
- Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2020). Young children use probability to infer happiness and the quality of outcomes. Psychological Science, 31, 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619895282
- Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018). Beyond belief: The probability-based notion of surprise in children. Emotion, 18, 1163-1173. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000394
Contact Info:
E: tdoan@wlu.ca
Office location: Milton Academic Centre (MAC), Room 151
Languages spoken: English, Vietnamese