Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Socialization

  1. Performance Over Pedagogy: The Psychosocial Price of Child Influencing
    Study examines how child influencing causes identity fragmentation, academic disruption, and social isolation, calling for legal protections prioritizing development over commercial objectives.
  2. Legal compliance depends on cognition, emotion, and motivation
    Triadic model integrating cognition, emotion, and motivation to explain how legal socialization produces internalized compliance across Chinese and Western contexts.
  3. Independence norms were not globally linked to anxiety
    Study of 70 countries over 33 years reveals cultural shifts toward independence linked to higher childhood anxiety in Western nations, while religious faith emphasis correlates with lower anxiety.
  4. Parents’ invalidation profiles linked to lower child prosocial behavior
    Study examines how parents' childhood invalidation experiences affect children's prosocial behavior through emotion coping styles, identifying three distinct family profiles in 837 Shanghai families.