Dr Danhua Zhu: Aspiring to a full understanding of emotion-related parenting and culture
| Hello! My name is Danhua Zhu and I am a cultural developmental psychologist with interests in how emotions get addressed (or not!) between parents and children in the family systems. I grew up in a rural town in China and went to the United States in 2017 for my doctoral training. After receiving my PhD in the field of Developmental Psychology from Virginia Tech in 2021, I worked as a postdoctoral scholar firstly at the University of Houston then at the University of California, Irvine until December 2024. This year, I am thrilled to live in Münster and work with Prof. Dr. Joscha Kärtner at the University of Münster as the scientific host for my WiRe fellowship. My WiRe project, titled “A comprehensive understanding of Chinese parental emotion socialization during middle childhood”, is aimed to unravel emotion-related parenting practices in rural China in association with cultural beliefs. To reach the goal, I will be working with video recordings of Chinese parents and children participating in different interaction tasks. My hometown Wenxian is the birthplace of the Chen-style tai chi and we Wenxianers learn it at a young age. I sometimes still play it for exercise and fun. |
Host Institute: Institute for Psychology – Department for Developmental Psychology
Scientific Host: Prof. Dr. Joscha Kärtner