Research

The BASE Lab is comprised of scholars interested in bringing interdisciplinary expertise and innovative methodologies to bear on important questions in child development.

Our Studies Lab Publications Resources

Here are a few examples of questions we are working to answer:

• How do early social experiences and components of children’s temperament and self-regulation interact to influence children’s adaptive and maladaptive developmental trajectories?
• How do early experiences become embedded in the neurobiological systems that support children’s emotion learning and regulation?
• In what ways do parents influence children’s social and emotional development, and how do children’s temperament and self-regulation impact these processes?
• In what ways are empathy, guilt, and prosocial behaviors socialized across childhood, and what are the consequences when these normative processes are interrupted?
• What are the early developmental precursors to callous-unemotional traits? In what ways do CU traits contribute to risk for aggression and psychopathy?
• What are the implications of early exposure to environmental adversity and stress for social and emotional development?