Invited Program
A slate of invited speakers from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives will present on the topic: contextualizing emotional development. Specifically, their research will highlight how emotions and their development can be better contextualized by considering the influences of evolutionary adaptiveness, societal structure, cultural and cross-cultural norms, race and bias, and temporal dynamics of interpersonal interactions.
Thus, the audience will consider (among other questions):
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From an evolutionary perspective, what adaptive functions do emotions afford?
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How does society influence how emotions are emphasized, socialized, and passed on to future generations?
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How does culture, acculturation, and race impact the development of emotion at the individual and group level?
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How do moment-to-moment emotion dynamics impact long-term outcomes?
Taken together, this program will push the boundaries of how researchers contextualize development, consider how various contexts interact with one another, and stimulate discussion and collaboration to integrate research across disciplines.
Simon Fraser University
Tanya Broesch studies child development and culture, early communication, social learning, parenting practices, and socialization across cultures.
University of California, Irvine
Gustavo Carlo's primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally-diverse children and adolescents.
KU Leuven
Graziela Dekeyser studies multilingualism and its implications for children and families (e.g. well-being, emotional socialization and competence, identity construction) as well as contemporary family sociology (e.g. new family forms, gender, parenting).
**Unfortunately Dr. Dekeyser can no longer attend.
University of California, Merced
Colin Holbrook's program of research explores decision-making under contexts of threat, with particular focus on aggression, coalitional psychology, morality, and the attribution of mental states.
**Unfortunately Dr. Holbrook can no longer attend.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Fantasy Lozada's research takes into consideration how cultural-related beliefs (i.e., beliefs about emotion, race, and discrimination) and race-related experiences (i.e., racial identity, discrimination, and socialization) impact socioemotional competence among ethnic minority youth.
University of California, Merced
Alexandra Main's research focuses on social and emotional development of children and adolescents within the family context. Specifically, she is interested in the development of empathy and emotion regulation and how these processes are shaped by temperament, family, and culture.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonathan Turner is primarily a theorist of social processes, although he has interests in specific subfields, including: interpersonal processes, social institutions, sociology of emotions, stratification systems, and in recent years evolutionary sociology and neurosociology.