Ju-Hyun Song

(Dr)

Expertise

My main research expertise is on the development of emotion regulation and individual differences in resilience.

In approaching this research, I focus on person (i.e., intrapersonal characteristics) x environment (e.g., family interactions, traumatic life stress) interaction as well as within-personal interactions between emotional characteristics (e.g., callous-unemotional characteristics, fearful temperament, physiological measures of stress sensitivity) and social-cognitive characteristics (e.g., trust, ToM, emotion regulation strategies).

My next research goal is to understand the mediating and moderating role of environmental sensitivity in the link between adversity and social-emotional adjustment outcomes, and to examine whether there are differentially effective emotion regulation strategies for highly sensitive versus less sensitive individual in coping with high stress or adversity.