Louis Schmidt, Ph.D.

Affiliation

Associate Professor of Psychology, McMaster University

 

Mailing Address

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

Phone: (905)525-9140, ext. 23028
Fax: (905) 905-529-6225
E-mail: schmidtl@mcmaster.ca

Research Interests

  • socio-emotional development
  • extreme shyness and aggression in childhood
  • developmental psychophysiology
  • neural basis of human emotion in infants and children

Publications

  1. Schmidt, L.A., Fox, N.A., & Hamer, D.H. (in press). Evidence for a gene-gene interaction in children’s behavior problems: Association of 5-HTT short and DRD4 long genotypes with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in seven year-old children. Development and Psychopathology.
  2. Schmidt, L.A., Cunningham, C., & McHolm, A. (2007). Do language skills distinguish children’s shyness, selective mutism, and social phobia? [Abstract]. Canadian Psychology, 48(2a), 204.
  3. Brunet, P.M., & Schmidt, L.A. (2007). Is shyness context specific? Relation between shyness and online self-disclosure with and without a live webcam in young adults. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 938-945.
  4. Beaton, E.A., Schmidt, L.A., Ashbaugh, A.R., Santesso, D.L., Antony, M.M., McCabe, R.E., Segalowitz, S.J., & Schulkin, J. (2006). Low salivary cortisol levels among socially anxious young adults: Preliminary evidence from a selected and a non-selected sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 1217-1228.
  5. Jetha, M.K., Schmidt, L.A., & Goldberg, J.O. (2005). Resting frontal brain activation asymmetry and shyness and sociability in schizophrenia [Abstract]. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31(2), 455.

 

 

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