Dr Elena Geangu
Lecturer
Fylde College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YF
Office Hours
Monday (10:00 - 13:00)
Career Details
I have done all my university degrees at 'Babes-Bolyai University' in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. During my PhD training, I had the chance to work with Dr. Tricia Striano in the 'Neurocognition and Development Group' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. As a postdoctoral fellow I worked first with Dr. Petra Hauf at St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), and then with Dr. Chiara Turati at Milano-Bicocca University (Italy). In November 2012, I joined the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University as a lecturer.
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in socio-emotional development, with a current focus on two main topics. First, I am investigating how empathy develops during the first years of life. For this I use various methods (behavioural, eye-tracking, psychophisiology) in an attempt to identify some of the mechanisms that are involved in infant affects sharing, and how this shared affect is related to empathic responses or predicts later developing empathic responses. Second, but not last, I am researching how infants develop an understanding of others' actions for which, again, I use a variety of methods and techniques (behavioral, eye-tracking, ERP).
Elena Geangu's Publications
2013
The neural correlates of passively viewed sequences of true and false beliefs
Geangu, E., Gibson, A., Kaduk, K. & Reid, V. M. 2013 In : Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. 8, 4, p. 432-437, 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
Infant Pupil Diameter Changes in Response to Others' Positive and Negative Emotions.
Geangu, E., Hauf, P., Bhardwaj, R. & Bentz, W. F. 16/11/2011 In : PLoS ONE. 6, 11, 10 p., e27132
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Individual differences in infant’s emotional resonance to a peer in distress: self-other awareness and emotion regulation
Geangu, E., Benga, O., Stahl, D. & Striano, T. 08/2011 In : Social Development. 20, 3, p. 450-470, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Emotions and social development in childhood
Denham, S., Warren, H., Salisch, M., Benga, O., Chin, J-C. & Geangu, E. 2011 The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of childhood social development. Smith, P. K. & Hart, C. H. (eds.). 2nd ed. ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 413-433 21 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2010
Contagious crying beyond the first days of life
Geangu, E., Benga, O., Stahl, D. & Striano, T. 06/2010 In : Infant Behavior and Development. 33, 3, p. 279-288, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Empathy Development - Insights from Early Years
Geangu, E. (ed.) 12/2009 In : Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary journal.13, 4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue
Empathy development - insights from early years: Introduction to the special issue
Geangu, E. 12/2009 In : Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary journal.13, 4, p. 363-366, 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Research methodology and social cognition
Reid, V. & Geangu, E. 2009 Social cognition: development, neuroscience and autism. Striano, T. & Reid, V. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 17-34 17 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Elena Geangu's Activities
2012
Biological Psychology
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2012 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
Emotion
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Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
Experimental Brain Research
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Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2012 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
PLoS ONE
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2012 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
2011
Infancy
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2011 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
Social Development
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2011 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review
2009
Early Education and Development
Dr Elena Geangu (Peer reviewer), 2009 → …
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer-review