The foundations of social and moral behavior.
We investigate when and how we learn empathy, cooperation, and prosocial behavior, as well as what happens when the development of these skills goes awry.
Research topics.
Antisocial behavior
Brain function and structure
Callous-unemotional traits
Emotion processing
Empathy
Intervention
Implementation science
Parenting
Psychopathy
Pregnancy
Prosocial behavior
Methods.
Behavior observation
Computational linguistics
Computer vision
Eye-tracking
Electrocardiogram
Diffusion tensor imaging
Functional neuroimaging
Questionnaires
Structural neuroimaging
Structural equation modeling
Twin studies