Research
Dr. Lahat graduated from the University of Toronto with a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology and a Ph.D. in School & Clinical Child Psychology. She held research positions at McMaster University, the University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is particularly interested in the link between children's shyness and social anxiety.
Publications
Journal Articles
Lahat, A., Lou, Z., Perlman, M., Howe, N., Santo, J. B., Recchia, H. E., Bukowski, W. M., & Ross, H. (2022). Positive and negative actions early in the relationship predict later interactions among toddlers. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276932
Lahat, A., Perlman, M., Howe, N., Recchia, H. E., Bukowski, W. M., Luo, Z., & Ross, H. (2022). Change over time in interactions among unfamiliar toddlers. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 47(1), 21-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221121854
Lou, Z., Lahat, A., Perlman, M., Howe, N., Recchia, H. E., Bukowski, W. M., & Ross, H. (2022). Changes in social pretend play as toddlers form relationships with peers. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 68(4), 401-436.doi 10.1353/mpq.2022.a905091
Tang, A., Lahat, A., Wu, J. Crowley, M. J., & Schmidt, L. A. (2021). Children’s shyness and neural responses to social exclusion: Patterns of midfrontal theta power usually not observed until adolescence. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(6),1262-1275. doi: 10.3758/s13415-021-00916-7
Hassan, R., Rowa, K., McCabe, R.E., Lahat, A., & Schmidt, L.A. (2021). Shyness and anxiety: Protective role of extraversion. Personality and Individual Differences, 178, 110859. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110859
Hassan, R., Poole, K.L., Lahat, A., Willoughby, T., & Schmidt, L.A. (2021). Approach-avoidance conflict and shyness: A developmental investigation. Developmental Psychology, 57, 814-823. doi: 10.1037/dev0001175
Brooker, R. J., Bates, J. E., Buss, K. A., Canen, M. J., Dennis-Tiwary, T. A., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Hoyniak, C., Klein, D. N., Kujawa, A., Lahat, A., Lamm, C., Moser, J. S., Petersen, I. T., Tang, A., Woltering, S., Schmidt, L. A. (2020). Conducting Event-Related Potential (ERP) research with young children: A review of components, special considerations, and recommendations for research on cognition and emotion. Journal of Psychophysiology, 34(3), 137–158.
Tang, A., Lahat, A., Wu, J., Crowley, M. J., & Schmidt, L. A. (2019). Neurodevelopmental differences to social exclusion: An event-related neural oscillation study of children, adolescents, and adults. Emotion, 19(3), 520-532.
Lahat, A., Tang, A., Tanaka, M., Van Lieshout, R. J., MacMillan, H. L., & Schmidt, L. A. (2018). Longitudinal associations among child maltreatment, resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry, and adolescent shyness. Child Development, 89(3), 746-757.
Tang, A., Miskovic, V., Lahat, A., Tanaka, M., MacMillan, H. L., Van Lieshout, R. J., & Schmidt, L. A. (2018). Trajectories of resting frontal brain activity and psychopathology in female adolescents exposed to child maltreatment. Developmental Psychobiology, 60(1), 67-77.
Lahat, A., Van Lieshout, R. J., Mathewson, K. J., MacKillop, J., Saigal, S., Morrison, K. M., Boyle, M. H., & Schmidt, L. A. (2017). Extremely low birth weight babies grown up: Gene-environment interaction predicts internalizing problems in the third and fourth decades of life. Development and Psychopathology,29, 837-843.
Gao, X., Lahat, A., Maurer, D., Savoy, C., Van Lieshout, R. J., Boyle, M. H., Saigal, S., & Schmidt, L. A. (2017). Sensitivity to facial expressions among extremely low birth weight survivors in their 30s. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 1051-1057.
Schmidt, L. A., Fortier, P., Lahat, A., Tang, A., Mathewson, K. J., Saigal, S., Boyle, M. H., & Van Lieshout, R. J. (2017). Developmental programming of happiness. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 715-722.
Tang, A., Van Lieshout, R. J., Lahat, A., Duku, E., Boyle, M. H., Saigal, S., & Schmidt, L.A. (2017). Shyness trajectories across the first four decades predict mental health outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 1621-1633.
Tsui, T. Y. L., Lahat, A., & Schmidt, L. A. (2017). Linking temperamental shyness and social anxiety in childhood and adolescence: Moderating influences of sex and age. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 48, 778-785.
Schmidt, L. A., Tang, A., Day, K. L., Lahat, A., Boyle, M. H., Saigal, S., & Van Lieshout, R. J. (2017). Personality development within a generational context: Life course outcomes of shy children. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 632-641.
Lahat, A., Benson, B., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A. & Ernst, M. (2016). Neural responses to reward in childhood: Relations to early behavioral inhibition and social anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsw122.
Lahat, A., Van Lieshout, R. J., Saigal, S., Boyle, M. H., & Schmidt, L. A. (2015). Small for gestational age and poor fluid intelligence in childhood predict externalizing behaviors among young adults born at extremely low birth weight. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 181-188.
Lahat, A., Gummerum, M., Mackay, L., & Hanoch, Y. (2015). Cognitive processing of moral and social judgments: A comparison of offenders and control participants. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(2), 350-362.
Lahat, A., Lamm, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2014). Early behavioral inhibition and increased error monitoring predict later social phobia symptoms in childhood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(4), 447-455.
Lahat, A., Van Lieshout, R. J., Saigal, S., Boyle, M. H., & Schmidt, L. A. (2014). ADHD among individuals born at extremely low birth weight: The role of executive function. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:446, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00446
Lahat, A., Walker, O., Lamm, C., Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2014). Cognitive conflict links behavioral inhibition and social problem solving during social exclusion in childhood. Infant and Child Development, 23, 273–282.
Lahat, A., Helwig, C. C., & Zelazo, P. D. (2013). An ERP study of adolescents’ and young adults' judgments of moral and social conventional violations. Child Development, 84, 955-969.
Lahat, A., & Schmidt, L. A. (2013). Early violence exposure and executive function: Implications for psychopathology and other cautionary points. Human Development, 56, 274-279.
Lahat, A., Degnan, K. A., White, L. K., McDermott, J. M., Henderson, H. A, Lejuez, C. W., & Fox, N. A. (2012). Temperamental exuberance and executive function predict propensity for risk-taking in childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 847-856.
Lahat, A., Pérez-Edgar, K., Degnan, K. A., Guyer, A. E., Lejuez, C. W., Ernst, M., Pine, D. S., & Fox N. A. (2012). Early childhood temperament predicts substance use in young adults. Translational Psychiatry, 2, e157.
Lahat, A., Helwig, C. C., & Zelazo, P. D. (2012). Age-related changes in cognitive processing of moral and social conventional violations. Cognitive Development, 27, 181-194.
Lahat, A., & Zelazo, P. D. (2012). Towards a process model of children’s reasoning about social domains. Human Development, 55, 26-29.
Lahat, A., Hong, M., & Fox, N. A. (2011). Behavioral inhibition: Is it a risk factor for anxiety? International Review of Psychiatry, 23(3), 248-257.
Lahat, A., Todd, R. M., Mahy, C. E. V., Lau, K., & Zelazo, P. D. (2010). Neurophysiological correlates of executive function: A comparison of European-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian 5-year-old children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,3:72, doi:10.3389/neuro.09.072.2009
Cohn, M., Moscovitch, M., Lahat, A., & McAndrews M. P. (2009). Recollection versus strength as the primary determinant of hippocampal engagement at retrieval. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(52), 22451–22455.
Lahat, A., Helwig, C. C., Yang, S., Dingliang, T., & Liu, C. (2009). Mainland Chinese adolescents' judgments and reasoning about self-determination and nurturance rights, Social Development, 18(3), 690-710.
Book Chapters
Buzzell, G. A., Lahat, A., Fox, N. A. (2020). The neural correlates of cognitive control and the development of social behavior. In J. Rubenstein and P. Rakic (Eds.), Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience: Neural Circuit and Cognitive Development (Second Edition, Vol 2). Amsterdam: Elsevier
Lahat, A. (2015). The neurocognitive development of moral judgments: The role of executive function. In J. Decety and T. Wheatley (Eds.), The Moral Brain – A Multidisciplinary Perspective, pp.143-155. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lahat, A., & Fox, N. A. (2013). The neural correlates of cognitive control and the development of social behavior. In J. Rubenstein and P. Rakic (Eds.), Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience: Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Brain (Vol 3). Amsterdam: Elsevier.