My primary research interests are related to how and what we can learn from our relationships with other people and the objects, ideas and institutions around us, and what we can learn from observing the relationships others form in their worlds. While the research has often had an interdisciplinary flavour, the principal ideas come from developmental, clinical, and affective science.

Much of my published work links areas of cognitive science to emotion and related affective processes (developmental social cognition, affective social learning, early learning experiences), culminating in the idea that such process have become so important to our shared understanding of human functioning that we have gone beyond the eras of behaviourism and cognitivism to a new era, the era of affectivism. My research features in international research journals (e.g., Nature Human Behaviour, Psychological Review, and Child Development Perspectives) and I have edited two volumes for Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.