Michèle Venet holds a Ph.D. in psychology and is a professor of psychology in the Department of Social and School Adaptation in the Faculty of Education at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her training and research career led her to focus first on cognitive development, then on social-emotional development, from preschool through adolescence. These two initial areas of research led her to focus her subsequent research on the links between affect and cognition, particularly in the context of relationships between adults (parents and teachers) and children, and in the work of Russian psychologist Lev Semyonovitch Vygotsky.
