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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Rethinking the study of newborn sociality: Challenges and opportunities.
Free link until Nov 7th.
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ALT Face to face newborn and woman both with open mouth smiles and eye contact.
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Applications for 2027–28 are now open!
📅 Apply by December 1, 2026 — all materials must be received by the deadline.
Don’t miss your chance to join us! Learn more & apply:
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Infant heart rate variability is not associated with infant or mom smiling. Instead, it rises up to 10 seconds before mutual (baby and mom) smiling. Seems like mutual enjoyment affords infant self-regulation. tinyurl.com/5e22pxp4
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The science behind a baby’s smile.
Two new studies suggest that smiling and other positive interactions with caregivers help shape infants’ emotional development.
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Can we train children to better recognize and avoid cues of sickness? 🦠 Findings from our new paper suggest that children’s disease detection system is malleable!
@ZengGuangyu, Sarah Maylott, @arushi_malik, Shuo Zhang, @krizzyvj, @Lizzy_Simpson
doi.org/10.1002/icd.70134
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Congrats to Shuo, for defending her master's thesis! She discovered infants may have stable levels of social attention, a trait linked to empathy in adults. Cheers!
ALT Title slide says: Development and consistency of infant social attention: Interindividual differences in social prioritization across stimuli and with age. 7 smiling people on a zoom meeting.
Automated Quantification of Affect Synchrony: Links to Autism Risk and Social Communication in Infancy doi.org/10.1007/s10803-026-0…
For those in the US, from @APA - take 2 minutes today to urge Congress to reject the administration’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposal that seeks a complete dissolution of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate and a staggering 54% cut to the @NSF
Tell Congress to Reject Unprecedented Cuts and at the National Science Foundation: votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAAA…
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A day to remember. Congrats to Giulia D’Adamo! We show that human relationality, contagious behavior, and motor resonance begin before birth in mother–fetus dyads—opening new paths for neurobiology and clinical research.
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Academic friends,
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions; and for practical support for students and scholars.
Please read, share & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protec…
#IranWar
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The PRIDE Lab (Psychology of Racism, Identity, Diversity & Equity) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, directed by me, invites applications for a full-time Research Associate (Lab Manager) position.
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Cross-cultural & cross-species comparisons of mutual gaze & infant emotion: Challenging WEIRD, barren, institutional, zoo, & other rare rearing environments assumptions - by Jaddi, Kishimoto, & Bard doi.org/10.1037/com0000444 (preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/24…)
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New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with Dr. Bayet
From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Neonatal mimicry of caregivers at home: Feasibility of an asynchronous online paradigm #OpenAccess by @lauriebayet & team! doi.org/10.1111/infa.70070
Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.…
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EMPATHY
In a new article in Behaviour "The Evolutionary & Developmental Origins of Empathy: Honouring Frans de Waal’s Legacy", I consider how mimicry, contagion and early social experiences shape later social-emotional development. #OpenAccess here👉:brill.com/view/journals/beh/…
Impact of Surgical Masks on Newborns' Spontaneous Face Processing Skills
doi.org/10.1111/infa.70064
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New pub by Dr. Lynn Perry & colleagues:
Videos and Vocabulary: How Digital Media Use Impacts the Types of Words Children Know
#OpenAccess in #DevelopmentalScience
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70091
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Congrats, Dr. @tiffany6390! 👏
#UMiami graduate students showcase big ideas in just 180 seconds at the 10th Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition. bit.ly/3LGgpdx
@UMGradSchool
Individual differences in sick face sensitivity: females are more sensitive to lassitude facial expressions than males - @tiffany6390
Free for the next 50 days:
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1/2 Violencia letal en bonobos
El 18 de febrero, 5 hembras dieron una paliza mortal a un macho en LuiKotale Bonobo Project (Congo). Los autores creen que pudo deberse a una agresión ligera a una cría dos días antes. Los detalles son horribles.
(paper) cell.com/current-biology/ful…
