Staff profile

• My research explores socialisation and development in people and nonhuman primates.
• I have interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, social learning, sex, and gender.
• I mostly use observational and self-report approaches to better understand varied perspectives on socialisation attitudes and experiences, how children develop across cultures in naturalistic contexts, & experiences living with ADHD. I also compare experience, communication, and development across human & non-human primates.
• I'm currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on a multi cultural project using naturalistic video footage to explore social learning biases in children and adolescents.
• Find me on BlueSky @chimpanzeve

Journal Article

• Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis
  
  Holden, E., & Kobayashi-Wood, H. (2025). Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 20945. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04782-y
• Early empathy development: Concern and comforting in 9- and 18-month-old infants from Uganda and the UK
  
  Vreden, C., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Atim, S., Donnellan, E., Hoffman, M., Holden, E., Jurua, M., Knapper, C. V., Lahiff, N. J., Marshall, S., Paricia, J., Tuncgenc, B., Tusiime, F., Wilke, C., Slocombe, K. E., & Clay, Z. (2025). Early empathy development: Concern and comforting in 9- and 18-month-old infants from Uganda and the UK. PLOS One, 20(5), Article e0320371. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320371