Sandra Bosacki is Professor at Brock University, Canada, in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research interests focus on social cognitive development and mental health in children and adolescence. She has published on social cognition, silence, and emotion within the context of education. Her most recent books are Social Cognition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence (2016), and Culture of ambiguity: Implications for Self and Social understanding in Adolescence (2012).