Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces? New research findings from our lab, led by PhD student Tiffany Leung (@Tiffany6390.bsky.social)! @UMiamiPsych.bsky.social @UnivMiami.bsky.social #SickSelfie news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...

New paper by PhD student, Arushi Malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess w/ wonderful team @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @shuoz.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, @dmessinger.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev....

Training improves avoidance of natural sick faces: Changes in visual attention and approach decisions #OpenAccess led by @tiffany6390.bsky.social in collab with @semaylott.bsky.social @shuoz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.3390/visi...

Our new paper is now available #OpenAccess in Developmental Psychobiology: Emerging adults mirror infants’ emotions and yawns - with Guangyu Zeng, @semaylott.bsky.social , Arushi Malik, Shuo Zhang, Emily McNamara, Krisztina Jakobsen, and @simpson.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New article for kids, about kids, and reviewed by kids! I had so much fun putting this together with Guangyu Zeng, @semaylott.bsky.social, Shantalle Martinez, Krisztina Jakobsen, and @simpson.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

excited to share that our paper on 10-13 month olds' everyday body position, restraint, and object holding (measured via EMA) was accepted in developmental psych. the transition to independent walking predicts changes in some activities and not others: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2023-1....

Maternal Stress: The First 14 Months Postpartum - by Maylott, Patel-Syed, Lebowitz, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, & me doi.org/10.1080/1529...

researchers have been observing parents reading with their young kids for decades, and we know all the extra talk, side convos and ?s are important for learning in a new review from my lab, we've organized the many ways to categorize & measured this ETT: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

More good news to share 😁 The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team! Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams #devpsyc #psychscisky

Repost from @ResearchMiami Curious about how kids perceive sickness? Introducing the groundbreaking work of graduate student Tiffany Leung (@tiffany6390.bsky.social) and recent alumna Shantalle Martinez! 👩‍🔬📚 (Thread)

Can't believe it's been 6 months since my 1st, shared-first author paper was published in Nature Scientific Reports 😄 'A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions' with Jessica Taubert, Shruti Japee, Chris I Baker & Houqiu Long #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#HiSciSky and #PsychSciSky 👋 I’m a 4th year doctoral student studying the development of social cognition from infancy to childhood. I’m interested in people’s perceptions of sick faces 🤒

Can children recognize sick faces? 🤒 A new study serves as a first step in teaching children how to use faces to determine whether it is safe to interact with others. https://news.miami.edu/as/stories/2023/08/can-children-recognize-sick-faces.html