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Jennifer Silk

@jennifersilk.bsky.social

Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh | emotion regulation | intersection of social (parents, peers, social media) and neurobiological risk factors for affective disorders in adolescence | therapy dog mom

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you are at Society for Affective Science come check out our symposium on digital media use and adolescent, psychopathology bright and early tomorrow morning!

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Our new EMA paper shows that girls worry more about school than anything else in their lives. These worries are linked to lower positive affect and predict depressive symptoms. More attention is needed on school pressures' role in the mental health crisis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

👀 In a live speech with mobile eye-tracking, teens who both delayed looking at and spent less time looking at a critical judge reported higher anxiety symptoms 3 years later. Read about this avoidance-avoidance gaze pattern as a marker of anxiety risk in our new paper 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Digital Media and Developing Minds 2025 Congress. Great meeting so far! @childrenandscreens.bsky.social

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Colleagues who study adolescent emotions— please fill out this survey!

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Was excited to see some of my older work cited in this article/book. Very interesting read. apple.news/AgVMCkHlvRxq...

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The Teen-Disengagement Crisis — The Atlantic

By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff. The ripple effects could last for years. February 26, 2025 Many parents are probably familiar with a certain type of teen and their...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky

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Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) tends to emerge during adolescence and is more prevalent among those assigned female at birth. Parental social anxiety c…

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Jennifer Silk @jennifersilk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My team and I just led our first Youth Research Advisory Board to co-design a social media fMRI task. I was blown away by their insight. They had some strong and unexpected opinions that will really help us make the task more realistic. I’m excited to continue using this approach going forward.

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