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Paul Hastings, PhD (University of Toronto)
Associate Professor, Center for Mind and Brain
Office: 202 Cousteau Pl, Room 244
Office: 202 Cousteau Pl, Room 244
| Email: | pdhastings | @ | ucdavis.edu |
My research interests are centred on examinations of biological and environmental contributors to competent and maladaptive functioning and development. Within this framework, my current and ongoing work focuses on four areas of investigation. (1) Dispositional characteristics that put children at risk for maladaptive social behaviours, and the environmental factors which shape those predispositions; this includes examinations of physiological (autonomic, neuroendocrine) and temperamental (easy, inhibited, reactive/difficult) contributors to behaviour, and how these interact with the forces of parental and cultural socialization. (2) The experience, expression, and regulation of emotion in children and adolescents with and without emotional and behavioural problems; this work takes a functional perspective on emotion, and includes consideration of the physiological, cognitive, behavioural, and social components of emotion. (3) The development of empathy, concern for others, and prosocial behaviour in children at risk for the development of disruptive behaviour disorders, and behaviour genetics analyses using the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study. (4) The determinants and effects of the affective, behavioural, and cognitive components of child-rearing; this work is done within a transactional framework, recognizing that parents and children are mutually influential partners within the context of their relationship.
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