Florina Uzefovsky
fuzefovsky.bsky.social
Florina Uzefovsky
@fuzefovsky.bsky.social
Associate professor, studying the biological basis of empathy in typical and atypical development
www.bioempathylab.org
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Excited to share our new study tracking how empathic disequilibrium develops in children aged 3–12!
With @fuzefovsky.bsky.social, Prof Rebecca Waller & Dr Nicholas Wagner, we found that both forms of empathic disequilibrium are common across development.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Empathy
Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Empathy, a socioemotional capacity with emotional and cognitive components, develops from infancy onward. An imbalance between these components, termed empathic disequilibrium, is related to socioemot...
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June 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Finally published! In a longitudinal study (N=250) we show that empathy development is a dynamic, bidirectional process. We found that children's cognitive empathy buffered maternal personal distress for mothers at high risk for maltreatment journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @idoshal.bsky.social
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April 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Come work with me!
We are delighted to invite applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position at the developmental psychology track within the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

For more information, follow the link:
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February 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Schizophrenia is complex, but empathic disequilibrium may hold the key to understanding some of the related social challenges. Check out our newest paper, led by the stellar @idoshal.bsky.social
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December 11, 2024 at 8:13 PM