Esther Chung
Esther Chung
PhD Student
School of Psychological Sciences
Profile
Esther is a full-time PhD student within the School of Psychology. Throughout her various research and volunteer roles in university and youth spaces, Esther has cultivated a passion for research on emotion beliefs. As such, Esther's research aims to investigate the development of emotion beliefs in children and how parents teach children about these beliefs. Esther is particularly interested in how culture, parental beliefs, and emotion discourse influence children’s developing emotion beliefs. People’s emotion beliefs play a crucial role in influencing perceptions, actions, and emotional responses. Understanding how emotion beliefs develop is important because these beliefs guide how individuals make sense of their emotional experiences, shape their emotion regulation strategies, and impact their social and psychological well-being.
Qualifications
Research Interests
Emotions, Emotion Beliefs, Child Development, Culture
PhD Title
How Children Learn What Emotions Mean: Development of Emotion Beliefs in Early Childhood
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