Kalee De France is an Assistant Professor at UBCO in the department of Psychology. Kalee’s research has two main themes:

​1) Emotion Regulation: Kalee researches how, and how well, individuals manage their emotions. We all experience big swells of emotions from time to time, but the ways that we deal with these emotions, and how well we do so, varies dramatically. In particular, Kalee is interested in how and why individuals develop specific patterns of emotion regulation, the efficacy of emotion regulation training programs, and how individual differences in emotion regulation map onto wellbeing.

2) Adversity and Child Emotion Development: Kalee is also very interested in studying the effects of adversity, such as poverty, on child development. Specifically, Kalee studies the ways that adversity, such as poverty exposure, can undermine a child’s ability to understand and manage their emotions by (a) encouraging reliance on strategies that may be unhelpful in a broader range of emotional situations, and (b) creating difficulties with broader emotion regulation abilities.

To learn more about Kalee’s research see www.KaleeDeFrance.com or her lab site: www.theseedlab.ca