Amy Byrd

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University of Pittsburgh

United States

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Amy Byrd is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her research focuses on early life adversity, empathy, and emotional regulation, as highlighted in her recent articles exploring the connections between callous-unemotional traits, aggression, and parental responses to youth emotion. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the interplay between biological and environmental factors in the development of emotional and behavioral outcomes in adolescents.

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Neural mechanisms of reactive aggression in adolescence: Altered reactivity during threat and reinforcement conditioning

Open Date: 2019-04-01

Close Date: 2024-03-01

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Risk for Reactive Aggression into Adolescence: Emotional Reactivity and Parenting

Open Date: 2016-09-30

Close Date: 2017-10-27

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Essi Viding

UNITED KINGDOM

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Rebecca Waller

Assistant Professor

University of Pennsylvania

UNITED STATES

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Nicholas Wagner

Assistant Professor

Boston University

UNITED STATES

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Jamie Hanson

Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh

UNITED STATES

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Early Life Adversity and Empathy: A Scoping Review of Past Research and Recommendations for Future Directions

Callous‐unemotional traits, cognitive functioning, and externalizing problems in a propensity‐matched sample from the ABCD study

Evaluating the sensitivity to threat and affiliative reward (STAR) model in relation to the development of conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits across early adolescence

Associations Between Subtypes of Empathy and Aggression in High-Risk Adolescents

Maternal invalidation and child RSA reactivity to frustration interact to predict teacher-reported aggression among at-risk preschoolers

RSA reactivity to parent-child conflict as a predictor of dysregulated emotion and behavior in daily life

A Multi-Method Investigation of Parental Responses to Youth Emotion: Prospective Effects on Emotion Dysregulation and Reactive Aggression in Daily Life

Applying new RDoC dimensions to the development of emotion regulation: Examining the influence of maternal emotion regulation on within-individual change in child emotion regulation

An interaction between early threat exposure and the oxytocin receptor in females: Disorder-specific versus general risk for psychopathology and social–emotional mediators

Collaborators (4)

Essi Viding

Rebecca Waller

Nicholas Wagner

Jamie Hanson

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