Ju-Hyun Song earned her Ph.D. (developmental psychology) from the University of Michigan in 2015 and joined the Laboratory for Social-Emotional Development and Intervention at the University of Toronto in May, 2016.
Broadly, she focuses on two lines of research: First, she studies children’s temperament (e.g., shyness, callousness) as a moderator of their experience of social environments (e.g., parent-child relationships, peer interactions). Second, she examines how socio-emotional characteristics (e.g., sympathy, guilt, aggression) conjointly develop with socio-cognitive competencies (e.g., self-reflection, theory-of-mind) in children. Ultimately, her goal is to apply these developmental mechanisms in effectively screening individual-level risks and strengths in children, and designing interventions for childhood antisocial behaviours.
Here's how to raise a child to be sympathetic
Sep 22, 2016 12:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Parents and teachers might often wonder how to teach children caring toward others more so when the world feels full of disagreement, conflict, and aggression. As development psychologists, we know that children start...
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