麻豆传媒

Education

BA (McGill University)
MA (University of Toronto)
PhD (University of Toronto)
PDF (Universit茅 de Montr茅al)

Research Interests

My research interests focus on the development of three aspects of self-control, namely, cognitive control, behavioural control, and emotion regulation. I am interested in how language contributes to their development, what interventions improve them, and what consequences they have for other psychological and life outcomes. My work uses multiple methods with typically developing preschool and school-aged children, as well as adults and dogs. I do both cross-sectional experimental research and large-scale longitudinal research.

Selected Publications

• Munroe, C. A., Leckey, J., Johnson, S. A., & Jacques, S. (2025). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Learning, Executive, and Attention Functioning (LEAF) Scale in Young Adults.聽Assessment,10731911251317788.听
• Dumont, 脡., Parent, S., Castellanos-Ryan, N., Jacques, S., Freeston, M. H., Zelazo, P. D., & S茅guin, J. R. (2024). The role of executive function at 6 years in the association between behavioral inhibition at 5 years and anxiety at 7 years.聽Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 1-13.聽
• Castellanos-Ryan, N., Parent, S., Chaput-Langlois, S., Rioux, C., Jacques, S., Simard, C., Tremblay, R.E., S茅guin, J. R., & Zelazo, P. D. (2023). Modelling executive function across early childhood: Longitudinal invariance, development from 3.5 to 7 years and later academic performance.聽Cognitive Development, 68,听101365.听
• Reeve, C., & Jacques, S. (2022). Responses to spoken words by domestic dogs: A new instrument for use with dog owners.聽Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 246,听105513.听
• Dumont, 脡., Castellanos鈥怰yan, N., Parent, S., Jacques, S., S茅guin, J. R., & Zelazo, P. D. (2022). Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age.聽Developmental Science,听别13254.听
• Campbell, C. A., Russo, N., Landry, O., Jankowska, A. M., Stubbert, E., Jacques, S., & Burack, J.A. (2017). Nonverbal, rather than verbal, functioning may predict cognitive flexibility among persons with autism spectrum disorder: A preliminary study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 38, 19鈥�25.
• MacLeod, A. A. N., Castellanos-Ryan, N., Parent, S., Jacques, S., & S茅guin, J. R. (2017). Modelling vocabulary development among multilingual children prior to and following the transition to school entry. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
• Hudson, A., & Jacques, S. (2014). Put on a happy face! Inhibitory control and socioemotional knowledge predict emotion regulation in 5-to 7-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 123, 36-52.
• Hudson, A., Jacques, S., & Stewart, S. H. (2013). Selective attention to emotional pictures as a function of gambling motives in problem and nonproblem gamblers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 1079-1091.
• Campbell, C., Landry, O., Russo, N., Flores, H., Jacques, S., & Burack, J. A. (2013). Cognitive flexibility among individuals with Down syndrome: Assessing the influence of verbal and nonverbal abilities. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 118(3), 193-200.
• Jacques, S., & Marcovitch, S. (2010). Development of executive function across the lifespan. In W. F. Overton (Ed.), Cognition, Biology, and Methods across the Lifespan: Volume 1 of the Handbook of life-span development (pp. 431-466), Editor-in-chief: R. M. Lerner. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Blaye, A., & Jacques, S. (2009). Categorical flexibility in preschoolers: Contributions of conceptual knowledge and executive control. Developmental Science, 12(6), 863-873.

Awards and Honours

• Public Health Agency of Canada: Innovation Strategy (Phase II funding: $2,762,308), Socially and Emotionally Aware Kids (SEAK). (Jean Hughes, Project Lead Researcher & Sophie Jacques, Associate Project Lead Researcher) in partnership with Canadian Mental Health Association, Nova Scotia (CMHA NS).
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant 2003-2012, The Role of Language in the Development of Cognitive Flexibility
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2003
• American Psychological Association (APA) Div. 7 Dissertation Award 2002

Memberships

• Society for Research in Child Development
• Cognitive Development Society
• Jean Piaget Society

Teaching

• Methods in Developmental Psychology Laboratory
• Advance Seminar on the Development of Self-Control聽

Service and Activity

Editorial Board,聽Journal of Cognition and Development