Gina Mireault earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Vermont in 1992, prior to accepting a faculty position at Johnson State College in Johnson, VT where she is a full professor. For more than a decade, Dr. Mireault’s research focused on adult anxiety and depression subsequent to childhood parental loss, and later on the role of anxiety in toddlers’ temper tantrums. In 2008, Dr. Mireault took sabbatical at the University of Portsmouth (UK) to pursue developmental and methodological study in infant humor perception with Dr. Vasu Reddy. Since then, Dr. Mireault’s research has been investigating the social mechanisms underlying infant humor perception and has been supported by the Vermont Genetics Network. This work has been presented at multiple conferences (e.g., Society for Research in Child Development, International Conference on Infant Studies), and she has been an invited lecturer at the International Summer School on the Psychology of Humor and at the British Psychological Society. Her work has also received attention from Parenting and American Baby magazines, and from PBS NOVA. Dr. Mireault’s first R15 (AREA) proposal to the NIH was funded upon resubmission, and will begin in January 2013.