ABS
Altruism Born of Suffering: Development of prosociality in the context of early adversity
How do experiences of adversity in childhood influence human development?
What is needed for children to grow, even in difficult environments, into resilient individuals and prosocial members of society?
Research has shown that there are individual differences in how children adapt to stressful experiences. This project aims to understand the variability, resilience, and developmental mechanisms that link childhood stress experiences to prosociality in early adulthood.
Furthermore, by examining how individual sensitivity and emotion regulation strategies moderate the impact of adversity, we seek to provide directions for interventions that foster growth after adversity and offer important empirical evidence for nurturing prosocial members of society.