Amy Halberstadt

Who is Amy Halberstadt?

Amy Gene Halberstadt is an American psychologist specializing in the social development of emotion. She is currently Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina and is an editor of the journal Social Development.

She developed questionnaires on emotional expression in the family that are used internationally to address a wide variety of social developmental questions. To date she has authored or co-authored more than forty articles and book chapters and two readers for graduate and undergraduate courses in social psychology. Her research has been presented at national and international conferences including the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science and the International Society for Research on Emotion.

She has been awarded several research grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and is currently working on a NSF-funded project examining children’s understanding of emotion in the family.