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Florina Uzefovsky

@fuzefovsky.bsky.social
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Associate professor, studying the biological basis of empathy in typical and atypical development www.bioempathylab.org

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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So proud of this paper led by Dr. @idoshal.bsky.social Summarizes our initial work on Empathic Disequillibrium and charts future directions
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Ido Shalev @idoshal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Our new preprint is out! We show a replicable relationship between empathic disequilibrium and eating disorders. Led by Dr Laura Renshaw-Vuillier, @fuzefovsky.bsky.social, and Dr Rachel Moseley. So lucky to be working with this brilliant team.
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Feeling more than understanding: empathic disequilibrium and emotional reactivity in eating psychopathology
BackgroundEmotional dysregulation is a core feature of eating disorders, yet research has predominantly focused on intrapersonal emotion processes rather than interpersonal emotional mechanisms. Empat...
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Ido Shalev @idoshal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Empathy
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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 · 27/04/2025
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 · 09/02/2025
Come work with me!
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Florina Uzefovsky @fuzefovsky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCvD55vZDgHD
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