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Pérez-Edgar studies the temperament and emotional development of young children. She has taken a variety of approaches to find explanations for social anxiety and other behavioral difficulties that children encounter, and how such difficulties may be related to differences in parenting styles and
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Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany C.; McDermott, Jennifer Martin; White, Lauren K.; Henderson, Heather A.; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Hane, Amie A.; Pine, Daniel S.; Fox, Nathan A. (August 2011).
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Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. (June 2003). "Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: A behavioral and electrophysiological study".
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Chronis-Tuscano, Andrea; Degnan, Kathryn Amey; Pine, Daniel S.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Henderson, Heather A.; Diaz, Yamalis; Raggi, Veronica L.; Fox, Nathan A. (September 2009).
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Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. (February 2005). "A Behavioral and
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is a developmental psychologist who studies the temperament of young children and connections between temperament, anxiety disorders, and other forms of
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who tend to withdraw from social situations. These children are at heightened risk of developing chronic anxiety and other forms of psychopathology.
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Eldar, Sharon; Apter, Alan; Lotan, Daniel; Edgar, Koraly Perez; Naim, Reut; Fox, Nathan A.; Pine, Daniel S.; Bar-Haim, Yair (February 2012).
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other external factors. Pérez-Edgar and her colleagues have documented atypical attentional biases in young children with
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LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K. A. (Eds.). (2019).
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