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Dynamics Lab

Erika Lunkenheimer and colleagues publish in Family Relations

Lucas-Thompson, Sieter, and Lunkenheimer (2020) found that when adolescents show an attention bias towards angry interpersonal interactions, more negative interparental conflict relates to increased adolescent anxiety symptoms. When adolescents do not show this bias for angry interactions, however, there is no relation between interparental conflict and anxiety.

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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...