Publications by authors named "F Uzefovsky"
Children with specific psychophysiological profiles may be more strongly affected by adverse environmental experiences. Guided by a biopsychosocial perspective, we examined whether infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of parasympathetic functioning, moderates the associations between paternal postpartum depression (PPD) symptoms and infants' observed empathy-related responses. Participants were 142 families with infants (51% female) assessed at two time points.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSchizophrenia involves substantial social difficulties, yet their nature remains unclear. Although empathy has been considered a promising social cognition construct, inconsistent findings have undermined its usefulness as a stable index for schizophrenia. This may be because previous studies overlooked the interdependency between the emotional and cognitive components of empathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluations based on third-party interactions emerges within the first year of life: infants preferred a character who helped, over hindered, another who tried but failed to climb a hill. This sparked a new line of inquiry into the origins of social evaluations; however, replication attempts have yielded mixed results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study examined how a firstborn child's empathy interacts with maternal emotional availability (EA) to predict later positive sibling relationships. The study included 108 families expecting a second child who also had a 10- to 45-month-old firstborn child ( = 24.6 months, = 7.
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- Most research has concentrated on how people empathize with negative emotions, leaving a gap in understanding empathy towards positive emotions.
- The study involved three different age groups of Jewish-Israeli infants and children to investigate their responses to both distress and happiness, distinguishing between cognitive and emotional empathy.
- Results indicated that while cognitive empathy was similar for both positive and negative emotions, emotional empathy varied depending on whether the emotion was positive or negative, highlighting that understanding emotions is different from sharing them.