João Daniel

João Daniel main research focus is on the processes that promote social adaptation, particularly in preschool children. In the past years he has mostly studied the mechanisms behind social network dynamics of preschool children to understand what drives the formation of positive and negative relationships between peers. More recently, he started a new line of research to study how people perceive the pattern of interpersonal relationships around them and how individual differences in these perceptions emerge from early social experiences. A small part of his research time is also dedicated to creating computational tools that streamline data wrangling tasks.