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Louis SchmidtLouis A. Schmidt, Ph.D. (Maryland)

Professor & Director, Child Emotion Laboratory
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

con_address.pngDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

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Research Interests & Expertise

  • temperament, affect processing and regulation

  • developmental and individual differences

  • brain and affective development in clinical and non-clinical populations

  • developmental psychophysiology and psychopathology
 

Selected Representative Publications:

  • Miskovic, V., & Schmidt, L.A. (2012). Social fearfulness in the human brain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 459-478.

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  • Jetha, M.K., Zheng, X., Schmidt, L.A., & Segalowitz, S.J. (2012). Shyness and the first 100 milliseconds of emotional face processing. Social Neuroscience, 7, 74-89.

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  • Miskovic, V. Moscovitch, D.A., Santesso, D.L., McCabe, R.E., Antony, M.M., & Schmidt, L.A. (2011). Changes in EEG cross-frequency coupling during cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder. Psychological Science, 22, 507-516.

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  • Schmidt, L.A., Fox, N.A., Perez-Edgar, K., & Hamer, D.H. (2009). Linking gene, brain, and behavior: DRD4, frontal asymmetry, and temperament. Psychological Science, 20, 831-837.

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  • Beaton, E.A., Schmidt, L.A., Schulkin, J., Antony, M.M., Swinson, R.P., & Hall, G.B. (2008). Different neural responses to stranger and personally familiar faces in shy and bold adults. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 704-709.

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  • Schmidt, L.A., Cote, K.A., Santesso, D.L., & Milner, C.E. (2003). Frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha asymmetry during sleep: Stability and its relation to affective style. Emotion, 3, 401-407.

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  • Schmidt, L.A. (1999). Frontal brain electrical activity in shyness and sociability. Psychological Science, 10, 316-320.