/ en /celebrates/tina-malti-awarded-alexander-von-humboldt-professorship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Tina Malti awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/academic-achievement" hreflang="en">Academic Achievement</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-12-16T11:42:30-05:00" title="Friday, December 16, 2022 - 11:42" class="datetime">Fri, 12/16/2022 - 11:42</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6866" hreflang="en">Alexander von Humboldt Professorship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-psychology" hreflang="en">Department of Psychology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">portrait</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Malti-headshot-2022-crop.jpg" width="500" height="750" alt="Tina Malti"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>University of Toronto Mississauga psychology professor <strong>Tina Malti</strong> has been awarded <a href="https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/newsroom/dossier-alexander-von-humboldt-professorship/tina-malti">the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship </a>for 2023 to 2027 at Leipzig University.</p> <p>The €5 million research award will allow Malti to develop and lead a multidisciplinary research team to uncover the roots of child empathy and positive development.</p> <p>Malti has been at ����ֱ�� Mississauga since 2017. She is the director of the <a href="http://www.tinamalti.com/">Laboratory for Social-Emotional Development and Intervention</a>, and the founding director of the <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/ccdmp/">Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy</a>. Her previous research has focused on the psychological effects of war and violence on children and the social-emotional development and mental health of children.</p> <p>With her new research funding, Malti wants to identify the root causes of empathy in children, as well as methods to encourage healthy and positive development in children.</p> <p>“The potential for empathy with others is infinite, even in young children, and we are able to overcome trauma even very severe trauma,” Malti says. “We can become even stronger and even more caring as a result, which sounds paradoxical. But that is very much what also our data shows.”</p> <p>Malti hopes to work collaboratively between ����ֱ�� Mississauga and Leipzig to develop research-based knowledge to share with institutions, organizations, and the general public.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/utm-psychology-professor-wants-uncover-roots-child-empathy">Read the ����ֱ�� Mississauga story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTM</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:42:30 +0000 lanthierj 178581 at