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Shaping Children’s Emotional Worlds: New Insights from the COPE Study
Neuroimaging Across Disciplines
4/15/26, 11:25 AM
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4/15/26, 12:00 PM
(US/Eastern)
(35 minutes)
Lauren K. White, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Lauren K. White, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Lauren K. White is a developmental psychologist with expertise in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Her research integrates behavioral, clinical, observational, and neuroimaging methods to understand how children’s biology and environments, from early-life adversity to everyday family interactions, shape emotional and cognitive development and confer risk for mental health challenges. A central focus of her work is identifying intergenerational pathways of risk and resilience, with an emphasis on translating this knowledge into strategies that support caregivers and promote healthier developmental outcomes. Dr. White received her M.S. in Psychology from the University of Oregon and her Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.
In this talk, Dr. Lauren White examines how risk for anxiety unfolds across generations, beginning with early-emerging differences in children’s emotional reactivity and regulation. Drawing on the COPE study, a multimodal, intergenerational cohort of young children and their caregivers, she highlights how patterns of emotional responding are shaped by parental anxiety, caregiving behavior, and broader family context. Using an integrated approach that includes behavioral tasks, observational parent–child interactions, and neural measures (EEG), this work characterizes how risk and resilience become embedded within everyday parent–child dynamics. Dr. White presents emerging findings linking caregiver characteristics and interaction patterns to variability in children’s emotional reactivity and regulation, and concludes by discussing how an intergenerational, family-centered framework can inform earlier identification and more effective, developmentally sensitive approaches to prevention and intervention.