IDPD

Personality is defined as a pattern of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics through which individuals respond to their environment.
What temperamental and environmental factors contribute to these individual differences? What kinds of person–environment and emotion–cognition interactions shape changes in personality? What are the defining features of adaptive personality, how does it develop, and what interventions can address maladaptive personality traits?
To answer these questions, our lab has conducted—and continues to expand—research on personality sensitivity, emotion regulation, empathy toward self and others, prosociality, and aggression.
Currently, we are carrying out validation studies of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale for adults (Pluess et al., 2020) and the Socio-Emotional Responding Task for infants and young children (Malti et al., 2021) in the Korean context.