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Biography
Dr. Mindy Brown is a full-time visiting faculty member in the School of Family Life. She completed her graduate degrees in Developmental Psychology at the University of Utah. She has spent the last six years teaching at the University of Utah in the Department of Psychology and researching mother-infant dyadic relationships and the intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation. She is married to Jason Brown, and they have five children (ages 12-24) and one son-in-law.
Research Interests
Dr. Brown has a scientific interest in identifying factors that predict emotion dysregulation in childhood. Emotion dysregulation as a scientific construct that portends problems with social and cognitive development, academic difficulties, maladaptive behavior such as aggression or withdrawal, and psychopathology later in life. Since emotion dysregulation is a multidimensional process, studying it using only one level of analysis does not capture its complexity. Few studies use multiple methods of assessing emotion dysregulation, especially in infancy. Dr. Brown strives to determine which infant emotion dysregulation indicators predict emotion dysregulation later in childhood. Because of the coregulation that occurs between mother and infant during this time, it is also important to explore the moderating effect of maternal sensitivity. To answer these important questions, Dr. Brown examines physiological, temperamental, behavioral, and environmental factors (including maternal sensitivity) in her exploration of infants’ development of emotion dysregulation. Using a more dynamic dataset allows us to capture a more complete picture and personalize interventions to specific contexts and individuals.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Brown teaches Infant and Adolescent Development, Parenting and Child Guidance, and Writing and Presenting.
