Lidya Yurdum is in graduate school for social psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently focusing on babies: Lidya's work on whether a parent singing to their baby changes mood was just published in Child Development. Lidya also uses citizen science approaches - game-ified online experiments - to investigate and reach a wide variety of people all over the world.
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Lidya Yurdum studies whether singing helps babies feel good (she's a social psychologist)
Raised in a bilingual household in Istanbul, Lidya had lots of questions. She was keenly interested in people, and, on top of that, wondered things like, does her personality change when she speaks a different language? This led to her pursuing psychology in college to study human behavior in many d...