LIFE Fellow since 2023, University of Zurich
I am a PhD student
at the chair of Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood and the
Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of
Zurich. I received my master’s degree at the University of Vienna in
Austria and wrote my thesis about the development of children’s
prosocial behavior and the significance of mother-child interactions
with a particular focus on the children’s helping behavior towards
mothers and strangers. In my dissertation, I will investigate the
influence of maturation and experience by studying the consequences of
premature birth and the resulting extended exposition with respect to a
broad range of developing skills. Furthermore, I will examine the
social-emotional development of children born preterm, determining
potential risk and protective factors. For this purpose, I will be using
the kleineWeltentdecker app, which is developed by researchers from the
Department of Developmental Psychology at the University of Zurich. By
using the kleineWeltentdecker app, caregivers can document the
development of their children in a diary. The kleineWeltentdecker app
allows us to measure development in children longitudinally and
continuously to capture the dynamic of developmental change over time
and age.
Dissertation project:
Effects of maturation
and experience: The consequences of premature birth and the resulting
extended exposition to the extra-uterine environment
Publications
Lucca,
K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., … Loeffler, M. T., … ,
Stutz, S., … Hamlin, K. (in press). Infants’ social evaluation of
helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication
study [Registered report].
Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qhxkm (Preprint)
