Jennifer Silk
@jennifersilk.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh | emotion regulation | intersection of social (parents, peers, social media) and neurobiological risk factors for affective disorders in adolescence | therapy dog mom
👀 In a live speech with mobile eye-tracking, teens who both delayed looking at and spent less time looking at a critical judge reported higher anxiety symptoms 3 years later. Read about this avoidance-avoidance gaze pattern as a marker of anxiety risk in our new paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
👀 In a live speech with mobile eye-tracking, teens who both delayed looking at and spent less time looking at a critical judge reported higher anxiety symptoms 3 years later. Read about this avoidance-avoidance gaze pattern as a marker of anxiety risk in our new paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Digital Media and Developing Minds 2025 Congress. Great meeting so far! @childrenandscreens.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Digital Media and Developing Minds 2025 Congress. Great meeting so far! @childrenandscreens.bsky.social
Colleagues who study adolescent emotions— please fill out this survey!
Are you a scientist who uses emotional faces in your research with teens?
We hope to develop a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set that meets the needs of scientists across a range of projects & want input from stakeholders who may use these stimuli!
(see linked 2-min survey)
We hope to develop a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set that meets the needs of scientists across a range of projects & want input from stakeholders who may use these stimuli!
(see linked 2-min survey)
Adolescent Emotional Faces Stimuli Survey
Dear colleagues,
We are considering developing and validating a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set. Our goal is to create a stimulus set that will meet the needs of scientists across a wide ...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Colleagues who study adolescent emotions— please fill out this survey!
Was excited to see some of my older work cited in this article/book. Very interesting read. apple.news/AgVMCkHlvRxq...
The Teen-Disengagement Crisis — The Atlantic
By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff. The ripple effects could last for years. February 26, 2025 Many parents are probably familiar with a certain type of teen and their...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Was excited to see some of my older work cited in this article/book. Very interesting read. apple.news/AgVMCkHlvRxq...
Reposted by Jennifer Silk
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February 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone:
osf.io/preprints
OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.
osf.io/preprints
OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.
Reposted by Jennifer Silk
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky
Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) tends to emerge during adolescence and is more prevalent among those assigned female at birth. Parental social anxiety c…
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November 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky
My team and I just led our first Youth Research Advisory Board to co-design a social media fMRI task. I was blown away by their insight. They had some strong and unexpected opinions that will really help us make the task more realistic. I’m excited to continue using this approach going forward.
November 20, 2024 at 1:56 AM
My team and I just led our first Youth Research Advisory Board to co-design a social media fMRI task. I was blown away by their insight. They had some strong and unexpected opinions that will really help us make the task more realistic. I’m excited to continue using this approach going forward.