Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Since 01/2025
WiRe Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Münster, Germany
08/2023 – 12/2024
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California-Irvine, USA
10/2021 – 07/2023
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Houston, USA
Education
12/2021
Ph.D. (Developmental Science, Psychology) Virginia Tech, USA
07/2019
M.Sc. (Developmental Science, Psychology) Virginia Tech, USA
06/2017
B.Sc. (Psychology) Beijing Normal University, China
Research
Child social, emotional, and academic development & Parental emotion socialization
- Child gender and parent gender differences
- Cross-cultural differences
- Influences of culture-informed factors (e.g., socialization goals, self-construals)
Developmental stages
- Early childhood, middle childhood, and early adolescence
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Zhu, D., Lozada, F. T., Smith, C. L., Bell, M. A., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2025). Maternal emotion socialization and child regulation: Within-interaction sequences in early childhood. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7
Peplak, J., Klemfuss, J. Z., Zhu, D., Kamliot, D. Z., & Yates, T. M. (2025). Parent–adolescent conversations about mental health and well-being shaped adolescents’ anxiety/depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001895
Zhu, D., Miller-Slough, R., Garner, P. W., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2024). Adolescent peer relations difficulties, prosociality, and parental emotion socialization: Moderating roles of adolescent gender. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 186(1), 39–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2024.2386012
Zhu, D., Terry, J. B., Talley, K. E., Bell, M. A., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2024). Etch the emotional life: Mother-child emotion socialization from age 3 to 6 years. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33, 1571–1589. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02799-x
Zhu, D., Chen, Y., Li, L., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2023). Family functioning, emotion socialization, and children’s social competence: Gender-specific effects in Chinese families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32, 257–271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02480-1
Miller-Slough, R., Zhu., D., Garner, P. W., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2023). Parents’ and friends’ responses to discrete negative emotions: Associations with adolescent emotional experiences. Social Development, 32(1), 283–298. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12639
Zhu, D. & Dunsmore, J. C. (2023). Family functioning and emotion socialization in Chinese two-parent households: A person-centered approach. In Zhu, D. & Dunsmore, J. C. (Eds.) Unfolding emotion socialization in Asian-heritage families, Quartet. Social Development, 32(2), 463–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12605
Book chapter
Shaffer, A., Zhu, D., Terry, J. B., Navarro, S., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2025). Emotion socialization in the family context: Current research directions and applications to intervention. In N. C. Overall, J. A. Simpson, & J. A. Lavner (Eds.), The Research Handbook on Couple and Family Relationships (pp. 186–201). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309269.00022
Teaching
05/2024
Guest Lecturer on emotional competence for graduate seminar Childhood, University of California-Irvine, USA
Summer 2022
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Leaning Associate Level Certificate, University of Houston, USA
Spring 2019
Cognitive Psychology Lab, Virginia Tech, USA
Fall 2018
Developmental Psychology Lab, Virginia Tech, USA