Christian Jerry 🇵🇷

PhD student @ UGA (Cohort: Fall ‘22) || Indiana University ‘21

[daniel messinger @danielmessinger]

A law of human proxemics? Children align side to side at closer distances and face-to-face when distances are greater than .65 m. #PreschoolPhysics https://t.co/bdVCFho7Hf

[UMiami-Psychology @UMiamiPsych]

Repost from Dr. Lynn Perry:

My graduate student Celia Romero was interviewed by Radio Health Journal about her master's thesis work on multilingualism and executive function in autism spectrum disorder, and the segment aired today!

https://t.co/nnL0k1psjK

[UMiami-Psychology @UMiamiPsych]

Dr. Daniel Messinger is hoping to accept a doctoral student for fall 2026 admission. If you are interested in working with Dr. Messinger, please visit https://t.co/sBahATGCg7 for more information.

For more information, see https://t.co/fJOsY6P0F8

[IU Psychological and Brain Sciences @IUPsychBrain]

😴🛏️ Sleeping like a baby: 2025 Eliot S. Hearst Memorial Lecturer, psychobiologist Mark Blumberg, presents on the mystery of sleep and infant development.
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🔗 Read more at the link in our bio.⁠
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#iubloomington #iub #sleep #research

[ASHA Journals @ASHAJournals]

Using automated, digital data collection -- e.g., daylong audio recordings of children's language environments -- is yielding important insights for research in CSD. But ethical issues have yet to be thoroughly explored. This #JSLHR study does just that. https://t.co/PbhhRVJvon

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

.@lanakarasik et al. (2025): in Tajikistan, infants explore objects across home spaces despite few toys, interacting with items distributed indoors and outdoors. Object play remains crucial for learning and infant development. #EarlyYears #infancypapers https://t.co/nZeGpgKvWN

[Michael Goldstein @MikeHGoldstein]

Our new theory paper in @ActaPsych shows that babies change how we see the world! In our lab, we use virtual environments to study parenting. We are finding that babies actively reshape our perception in ways that help protect them. Read more at https://t.co/R8ZPMmammT

[IU Psychological and Brain Sciences @IUPsychBrain]

🔗 Read PBS Professor Linda Smith's story at https://t.co/JJbfywpikS

#psychology #iub #iubloomington #research

[Georgia Soccer @UGASoccer]

Left no doubt 🤫

@CroixBethune is the @NWSL Rookie of the Year!

#GoDawgs 🐾

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

.@CriColonnesi @ElialaSalvadori, Oort & @DanielMessinger (2024): infant positive & non-positive expressions of shyness influenced pointing production across differently valenced stimuli at 12 & 15 mos @UvA_Amsterdam @UMiamiPsych @NWOFunding #infancypapers https://t.co/7IcBa98Emz

[Pablo Arias Sarah @pablo_arias_sar]

This is finally out, after so many years in the making! 🥹🥹

We have a new paper out in PNAS today! "Aligning the smiles of dating dyads causally increases attraction" ❤️ @PNASNews

A thread...

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[IU Psychological and Brain Sciences @IUPsychBrain]

🥳🎉 Congrats to Professor Linda Smith, recipient of the inaugural Irving J. Saltzman Mentorship Award. Linda's rich history of mentoring students and faculty has been instrumental in developing generations of junior scientists!

#psychology #iub #iubloomington #congrats

[daniel messinger @danielmessinger]

Also in Nature Research Highlights (https://t.co/E77pR4e0a6)

[daniel messinger @danielmessinger]

Identifying Phases in Low-Speed Human Movement. https://t.co/EzyYzyZCNM. Interdisciplinary work on preschool social aggregation in motion from @ur_nature_culture, @miamiphysics, @lynnperry

[Georgia Soccer @UGASoccer]

Our Olympian. Our Gold Medalist. Our Dawg 🐶

#GoDawgs 🐾

[Eliala A. Salvadori @ElialaSalvadori]

New publication alert! 🚨
By @CriColonnesi, @ElialaSalvadori, Oort, @danielmessinger
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year:
https://t.co/p5GsS719n3

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

Using a paradigm that synchronizes head-mounted eye-tracking and motion capture, @drewhabney, @Cmj6767, Linda Smith & @Chen_Yu_CY (2023) found that 22mo toddlers’ pre-reach phase of an action sequence determines subsequent reaching behavior. #infancypapers https://t.co/qQx8IztaCa

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

.@yeojin_amy_ahn, @DanielMessinger et al. (2023): Face-to-Face/Still-Face effects are driven by facial expressions of strong positive & negative affect characterized by eye constriction that intensifies both positive & negative expressions #infancypapers https://t.co/c5I2Mxu62J

[UMiami-Psychology @UMiamiPsych]

Psychology professor and team awarded $750,000 grant for autism research @danielmessinger @lynnkperry
https://t.co/lqOClsKkLW