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Shyness is very common among young children, and it has important consequences for children’s social lives. In Project Shyness, we conduct several studies to better understand the development of shyness from infancy to childhood, the role parents play in the development of their children’s shyness, and the social benefits and costs of childhood shyness
In the first months of life, infants are limited in their ability to regulate distress. They depend on their caregivers to regulate their states through a process known as co-regulation (e.g., singing, rocking). In this project, we examine the transition from co-regulation to self-regulation during naturalistic interactions between mothers and their infants.
Do children and adults from different cultures express and recognize emotions in the same way, or are there some crucial differences? In this project, we examine how children and adults in multiple cultures express and recognize spontaneous facial expressions of emotion, using a method in which we induce and record real emotional experiences.
This project examines whether digital brief interventions can help youth regulate their thoughts and emotions and reduces social anxiety symptoms in real-life socially-stressful situations. Furthermore, we take the first step in examining the short- and long-term effectiveness of existing interventions, innovatively, in digital format, on reducing symptoms and improving the social functioning of highly socially anxious adolescents.
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