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Ruth Speidel
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Latest papers
Developing kind emotions in caring environments.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026 · first author
Nurturing child social-emotional development: evaluation of a pre-post and 2-month follow-up uncontrolled pilot training for caregivers and educators.
Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023 · first author
Prosocial cascades: Understanding and nurturing the potential for positive developmental trajectories.
Advances in child development and behavior · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $93,767
Longitudinal Links between Early Adversity and Prosocial Behaviour in Childhood: Exploring the Impact of Social-Emotional Capacities and Parenting
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $87,281
Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
9 publications.
Developing kind emotions in caring environments.
Speidel R, Orlitsky T, Schulz MS, Malti T
Nurturing child social-emotional development: evaluation of a pre-post and 2-month follow-up uncontrolled pilot training for caregivers and educators.
Speidel R, Wong TKY, Al-Janaideh R, Colasante T, Malti T
Prosocial cascades: Understanding and nurturing the potential for positive developmental trajectories.
Malti T, Speidel R
Towards a community-driven definition of community wellbeing: A qualitative study of residents.
Michalski C, Ragunathan A, Foster A, Pagalan L, Chu C, Diemert LM, Helliwell JF, Urajnik D, Speidel R, Malti T, Fierheller D, Fusca L, Zenlea I, McKean S, Rosella LC
Evaluating a Social-Emotional Training Program for Refugee Families and Service Providers: Pilot Study
Redab Al‐Janaideh, Ruth Speidel, Tyler Colasante, Tina Malti
Autonomic Arousal, Ethical Guilt, and Externalizing Behavior in Childhood: A Clinical Extension and Replication.
Colasante T, Galarneau E, Speidel R, Suri A, Acland E, Jambon M, Andrade BF, Malti T
Latent classes in preschoolers' internal working models of attachment and emotional security: Roles of family risk.
Speidel R, Behrens B, Lawson M, Mark Cummings E, Valentino K
Kindhearted: Ethical guilt and ethical heart rate reactivity codevelop with aggression across childhood.
Colasante T, Speidel R, Malti T
Refugee Children's Social-Emotional Capacities: Links to Mental Health upon Resettlement and Buffering Effects on Pre-Migratory Adversity.
Speidel R, Galarneau E, Elsayed D, Mahhouk S, Filippelli J, Colasante T, Malti T
Longitudinal Links between Early Adversity and Prosocial Behaviour in Childhood: Exploring the Impact of Social-Emotional Capacities and Parenting
Principal investigators: Malti, Tina
Keywords: prosocial development; adversity; social-emotional development; parenting; child development; longitudinal study
Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan A.J.
Keywords: social-emotional competence; social cognition; social cognitive biases; cognitive biases; social perspective taking; education; behavioral intervention; social emotional development; quality of life; research methods
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Tina Malti and Tyler Colasante: 25 shared papers
- Ian Zenlea and Dianne Fierheller: 15 shared papers
- Tina Malti and Marc Jambon: 12 shared papers
- Tina Malti and Ruth Speidel: 8 shared papers
- Marc Jambon and Tyler Colasante: 5 shared papers
- Ruth Speidel and Tyler Colasante: 4 shared papers
- Laura Rosella and John Helliwell: 3 shared papers
- Laura Rosella and Ian Zenlea: 2 shared papers
- Laura Rosella and Dianne Fierheller: 2 shared papers
- Brendan Andrade and Tina Malti: 2 shared papers
- Brendan Andrade and Marc Jambon: 2 shared papers
- Brendan Andrade and Tyler Colasante: 2 shared papers
- Laura Rosella and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- Brendan Andrade and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- Tina Malti and Ian Zenlea: 1 shared paper
- Tina Malti and Dianne Fierheller: 1 shared paper
- Tina Malti and John Helliwell: 1 shared paper
- Ian Zenlea and John Helliwell: 1 shared paper
- Ian Zenlea and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- Dianne Fierheller and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- John Helliwell and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- Marc Jambon and Ruth Speidel: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy
- Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Pediatrics
- Vancouver School of Economics
- Centre for Urban Health Solutions
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Tina Malti
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
8 shared papers, latest 2026
Tyler Colasante
Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy
4 shared papers, latest 2023
Brendan Andrade
Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Diana Urajnik
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Ian Zenlea
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Dianne Fierheller
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2023
John Helliwell
Vancouver School of Economics
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Laura Rosella
Centre for Urban Health Solutions
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Marc Jambon
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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