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Dynamics Lab

Lab Work Published in Child Maltreatment

Check out our latest paper published in Child Maltreatment this month! This article shows that when mothers repair more negative moments in mother-child interaction, it is protective for children’s stress physiology, regardless of maltreatment status.  However, when mothers perform fewer of these repairs, non-maltreated children show the expected physiological arousal indicating a response to a challenge, whereas maltreated children show physiological patterns that indicate disengagement.

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Dr. Kayla Brown passes doctoral defense

Congratulations to the Parent-Child Dynamics Lab's newest PhD! Dr. Kayla Brown successfully defended her dissertation work to her committee on December 14, 2021. Dr. Brown's dissertation is titled, "Parent-child coregulation in early childhood: novel methodological...