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Florina Uzefovsky
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Associate professor, studying the biological basis of empathy in typical and atypical development www.bioempathylab.org
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Ido Shalev @idoshal.bsky.social · Jun 27
Excited to share our new study tracking how empathic disequilibrium develops in children aged 3–12!
With @fuzefovsky.bsky.social, Prof Rebecca Waller & Dr Nicholas Wagner, we found that both forms of empathic disequilibrium are common across development.

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Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Empathy, a socioemotional capacity with emotional and cognitive components, develops from infancy onward. An imbalance between these components, termed empathic disequilibrium, is related to socioemot...
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Apr 27
Finally published! In a longitudinal study (N=250) we show that empathy development is a dynamic, bidirectional process. We found that children's cognitive empathy buffered maternal personal distress for mothers at high risk for maltreatment journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @idoshal.bsky.social
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Feb 9
Come work with me!
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Tal Yatziv @talyatziv.bsky.social · Feb 7
We are delighted to invite applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position at the developmental psychology track within the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

For more information, follow the link:
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Dec 11
Why does this matter? Beyond understanding social difficulties, empathic disequilibrium could be a stable behavioral marker for schizophrenia—helping advance diagnosis, treatment, and stigma reduction.
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Dec 11
This effect is highly consistent across studies, much more than empathy.
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Dec 11
In a meta-analysis of 10 studies (N=1,080 participants), we found:

Emotional empathy dominance (feeling more than understanding) strongly predicts schizophrenia.
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Dec 11
Empathic disequilibrium refers to the imbalance between emotional empathy (feeling others' emotions) and cognitive empathy (understanding others' emotions) and was previously related to autism, depression, and self-harm.
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · Dec 11
Schizophrenia is complex, but empathic disequilibrium may hold the key to understanding some of the related social challenges. Check out our newest paper, led by the stellar @idoshal.bsky.social
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