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Psychology Professor @UMiamiPsych @UnivMiami, Director @UMSocCogLab, one of @Many_Babies & @ManyPrimates. Developmental science, infant social behavior. She/her

Miami, FL
Joined March 2009
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Join us! The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami ( invites applications for fall 2026. Students are fully funded & receive excellent research training. #DevSci #DevPsy #PhDLife #GradSchool #UMiami (thread 1/10)
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Maternal Immune Activation Alters Infant Attentional Processing in a Nonhuman Primate Model #OpenAccess
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RT @amydiehl: Study finds for women without children, an unequal division of cognitive labor (anticipating, filling and monitoring househol….
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New research highlights that the career outcomes of both women with and without children are negatively impacted by engaging in unpaid labour.
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RT @LucinaUddin: It turns out that spending more time in Nature does improve your mood.
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@danielmessinger @BulotskyRebecca @UMSocCogLab Want to learn more? Join us this Sept for a PhD application info session! Interact with faculty & current grad students! Details will be posted by.@UMiamiPsych when available. Meanwhile, please share our Developmental PhD Program brochure: (thread 10/10)
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@danielmessinger @BulotskyRebecca I study social cognitive development in infants, children, & primates, focusing on face perception, social interaction, & positive emotions. Recruiting a student to study individual differences in newborn sociality. My lab: @UMSocCogLab (thread 9/10)
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@danielmessinger Dr. @BulotskyRebecca conducts community-based research with early childhood programs to promote social-emotional skills, school readiness, & early school achievement through classroom-level investigation & intervention. (thread 8/10)
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@danielmessinger Dr. Lynn Perry studies linguistic regularities (shape bias) & social regularities (peer interactions), language dev in kids w/ lang delays, hearing loss, & ASD. Recruiting students to study interaction in lang/literacy dev w/ hearing loss. (thread 7/10)
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Dr. @danielmessinger studies early interaction of healthy & disturbed dev. Uses objective measures, big behav data. Focuses on emotional, social, & language dev in poverty & autism. Recruiting students to study interactions in preschools. (thread 6/10)
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Dr. Daryl Greenfield's community-based partnership research is on early science & engineering to improve multiple areas of learning & dev in children from birth through 8 years of age, including language, literacy, & executive functions. (thread 5/10)
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Dr. Britton, affective neuroscientist. Intersection of emotion (approach-avoidance, threat processing, valence flexibility, empathy) & executive funct (flexibility, response inhibition, working mem) related to anxiety. (thread 4/10)
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. & children from diverse ethnic & cultural backgrounds. Our outstanding faculty are committed to graduate training & mentorship. Applications are due Dec 1st. The following faculty are accepting new PhD students. (thread 3/10)
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. for careers in academia & beyond. Our program focuses on understanding children’s cognitive, language, social, & emotional development in typically-developing, atypically-developing, & at-risk populations. Our dev studies typically include bilingual children. (thread 2/10)
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RT @NeuroscienceNew: “The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes” by Franziska Wegdell et….
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Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.
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RT @lisascottbcd: Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The @bcdlab is expecting to hire a post….
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RT @Dr_BCallaghan: The @BABLab_UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating br….
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A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos #OpenAccess
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Scientific Reports - A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos
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