New insights into the relationship between parent-child language and child callous-unemotional traits come from our latest paper from the EDEN lab and our wonderful collaborators, Dr. Julia Parish-Morris and Dr. John Harrington, at CHOP: “Objective Linguistic Markers Associated with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood” (Waller et al., 2024) published last week! This novel study used a computational linguistic approach to code natural speech patterns between parent and child interactions, finding that higher CU traits were linked with fewer positive emotion words and expressions of anger between parent and child. Click here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-024-01219-4 to read the full article and learn more about how parent-child conversational patterns are linked with CU traits in early childhood.