Office: McGuinn 428
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Email: mary.kayyal.1@bc.edu
Primary Advisor: James Russell
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Academic Interests: Mary’s main research interest focuses on the cultural component of emotion development and how the social environment—including the presence or absence of war and conflict—affects children’s perception of emotion and the breadth of their emotion categories. She is specifically interested in how Palestinian children living in the West Bank and Israel versus American children understand emotion (particularly fear)—its causes, consequences, and associated facial expressions. How do young Palestinian and American children initially understand fear (e.g., in terms of reality-based themes or fantasy-based themes?) and how does this understanding develop during and subsequent to the preschool years?
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Posters
Kayyal, M.H., Russell, J.A., Widen, S.C. (2007). Comparing Palestinian and American Children’s Understanding of Fear. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society’s 2007 Conference, Santa Fe, NM.
Kayyal, M.H., Naab, P., Russell, J.A. (2008). Palestinian and American Judgments of Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 20th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.