Social Cognition Lab, University of Miami

09/03/2026

08/26/2026

Introducing... the fall '26 team! Back: Jayden, Danita, Liz, Shuo. Front: Alyssa, Nashmia, Arushi. Not pictured: Georgia.

06/26/2026

Congrats to Shuo, for defending her master's thesis! She discovered infants may have stable levels of social attention, a trait linked to empathy in adults. Cheers!

06/17/2026

Join us to CONGRATULATE Arushi Malik on receiving the American Psychological Association's 2026 Dissertation Research Grant in Developmental Psychology!

This award will support follow-up studies extending her dissertation research, which explores whether infant well-being can serve as a predictor of later health and well-being throughout childhood.

We are excited to see this important work continue and are proud that Arushi will be recognized as an award recipient at the 2026 APA Conference.

Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement!

For more about this award visit: https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/research-grant

05/28/2026

Are you a sibling of someone with autism and starting your own family — or have you recently welcomed a baby?

You may be eligible for ASF’s Next Gen Sibs Project, a landmark study examining autism heritability and the factors that shape autism risk.

Participating families receive expert developmental evaluations, clinical feedback, and multi-year guidance.

Learn more or refer a family: https://nextgensibs.org

04/28/2026

Our research team—Nashmia, Danita, Georgia, & Anastassia—presented some of our lab's new findings on newborn social attention development at the RCIF conference (https://ugr.miami.edu/rcif/)! Warm thanks to Arushi, Shuo, & Tiffany for their mentorship of this amazing crew. And big thanks to all of the families who participated. We look forward to sharing the paper with you when it's accepted - stay tuned!