Melanie Glenwright

Melanie Glenwright is a developmental psychologist who uses experimental and survey methods to examine factors that influence social communication comprehension in children, adolescents and adults.

• PhD (Experimental Psychology), University of Calgary, 2006
• MSc (Experimental Psychology), University of Calgary, 2002
• BA (Honours) (Psychology), University of Winnipeg, 1999

Research interests

• Verbal irony/sarcasm
• Gossip
• Prosocial teasing
• Humour

• Glenwright, M., & Budhoo, C. (In press). Explaining children’s comprehension of verbal irony. Pragmatics & Cognition.
• McAuley, L., & Glenwright, M. (2025). Humor styles predict self-reported sarcasm use in interpersonal communication. Behavioral Sciences, 15(7), 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15070922
• Pexman, P. M., & Glenwright, M. (2025). Acquisition of irony and sarcasm. Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00501-9
• Fanslau, A., Olech, M., Kałowski, P., Branowska, K., Glenwright, M., McGuinness, L., & Banasik-Jemielniak, N. (2024). Let’s entertain others: Comic predictors of histrionic self-presentation in Polish, British, and Canadian samples. HUMOR. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2023-0116
• Krygier-Bartz, M., Glenwright, M., & Pexman, P.M. (2024). Verbal irony and gossip appreciation among children and adults in Poland and Canada. In N. Banasik-Jemielniak, P. Kałowski, & M. Zajączkowska (Eds.). Studying verbal irony and sarcasm: Methodological perspectives from communication studies and beyond (pp. 107-144). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Krygier-Bartz, M., & Glenwright, M. (2022). "Verbal irony comprehension in adults who speak English as an additional language." Studies in Linguistics and Literature, 6(2), 58-71.
• Glenwright, M., Scott, R., M., Bilevicius, E., Pronovost, M., & Hanlon-Dearman, A. C. (2021). "Children with autism spectrum disorder attribute false beliefs in a spontaneous-response preferential-looking task." Frontiers in Communication, 6, 669985.