Recent Publications

2006

Bierman, K.L., Nix, R.L., Maples, J.J., and Murphy , S.A. (2006).  Examining clinical judgement in an adaptive intervention design: The Fast Track program.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 74(3), 468 - 481.

Bierman, K.L., and Erath , S.A. (2006).  Promoting social competence in early childhood: classroom curricula and social skills coaching programs.  In K. McCartney and D. Phillips (Eds.), Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology (pp. 595 - 615).  Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishing.

Cole, P.M, Tamang, B.L., Shrestha, S. (2006).  Cultural variations in the socialization of young children's anger and shame.    Child Development, 77(5), 1237 - 1251.

Erath , S.A. , and Bierman, K.L. (2006).  Aggressive marital conflict, maternal harsh punishment, and child aggressive-disruptive behavior: evidence for direct and mediated relations.  Journal of Family Psychology, 20(2), 217 - 226.

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Nigg, J.T., and Halperin, J.M. (2006).  Single dissociation findings of ADHD deficits in vigilance but not anterior or posterior attention systems.  Neuropsychology, 20(4), 420 - 429.

Kaufman, J., Gilmore, R.O., and Johnson, M.H. (2006).  Frames of reference for anticipatory action in 4-month-old infants.  Infant Behavior & Development, 29(3), 322 - 333.

Kiel , E.J., and Buss, K.A. (2006).  Maternal accuracy in predicting toddlers' behaviors and associations with toddlers' fearful temperament.  Child Development , 77(2), 355 - 370

Nigg, J.T., Hinshaw, S., Huang-Pollock, C.L. (2006). Disorders of Attention and Impulse Regulation. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds), Developmental Psychopathology -2nd Ed.

Propper, C., and Moore, G.A. (2006).  The influence of parenting on infant emotionality: a multi-level psychobiological perspective.    Developmental Review, 26(4), 427 - 460.

Thomas, D.E., and Bierman, K.L. (2006).  The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children.  Development and Psychopathology , 18(2), 471 - 487.

Weiss, D.J. & Newport E. (2006)  Mechanisms Underlying Language Acquisition: Benefits From a Comparative Approach.  Infancy 9(2), 241-257.

Weiss, D.J. & Santos, L. (2006) Introduction to Thematic Collection:  Why Primates?: The Importance of Non-Human Primates for Understanding Human Infancy. Infancy 9(2), 133-146.

2005

Aikins, J.W., Bierman, K.L., and Parker, J.G. (2005).  Navigating the transition to junior high school: the influence of pre-transition friendship and self-system characteristics.  Social Development , 14(1), 42 - 60.

Buss, K.A., Goldsmith, H.H., and Davidson, R.J. (2005).  Cardiac reactivity is associated with changes in negative emotion in 24-month-olds.  Developmental Psychobiology , 46(2), 118 - 132.

Chaplin, T. M., & Cole, P. M. (2005). The role of emotion regulation in the development of psychopathology. In B. L. Hankin & J. R. Z. Abela (Eds.), Development of psychopathology: A vulnerability-stress perspective (pp. 49-74). Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications.

Chaplin, T. M., Cole, P. M., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (2005). Parental socialization of emotion expression: Gender differences and relation to child adjustment. Emotion, 5(1), 80-88.

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Nigg, J.T., & Carr, T.H. (2005). Deficient Attention is Hard to Find: Applying the Perceptual Load Model of Selective Attention to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 46, 1211-1218.

Lavallee, K.L., Bierman, K.L., and Nix, R.L. (2005).  The impact of first-grade "friendship group" experiences on child social outcomes in the Fast Track program.  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33(3), 307 - 324.

Nix, R.L., Pinderhughes, E.E., Bierman, K.L., and Maples, J.J. (2005).  Decoupling the relation between risk factors for conduct problems and the receipt of intervention services: participation across multiple components of a prevention program.  American Journal of Community Psychology, 36(3-4), 307 - 325.

Park, L., Nigg, J.T., Waldman, I. ,  Nummy, K.A.,  Huang-Pollock, C., Rappley, M., &  Friderici, K. (2005). Association and linkage of a-2A adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms with childhood ADHD. Molecular Psychiatry, 10, 572-580.

2004

Buss, K.A., and Kiel, E.J. (2004). Comparison of sadness, anger, and fear facial expressions when toddlers look at their mothers. Child Development , 75(6), 1761 - 1773.

Buss, K.A., Davidson, R.J., Kalin, N.H., and Goldsmith, H.H. (2004). Context-specific freezing and associated physiological reactivity as a dysregulated fear response. Developmental Psychology , 40(4), 583 - 594.

Cole, P.M., Martin, S.E., & Dennis, T.A. (2004). Emotion Regulation as a Scientific Construct: Methodological Challenges and Directions for Child Development Research. Child Development, 75, 317-333.

Gilmore, R.O., Baker, T.J., & Grobman, K.H. (2004). Stability in Young Infants' Discrimination of Optic Flow.  Developmental Psychology, 40, 259-270.

Greenberg, M.T. (2004). Current and Future Challenges in School-Based Prevention: The Researcher Perspective. Prevention Science, 5, 5-13.

Spinrad, T.L., Stifter, C.A., Donelan-McCall, N., & Turner, L. (2004). Mothers' regulation strategies in response to toddlers' affect: Links to later emotion self-regulation. Social Development, 13, 40-55.

Spoth, R., Greenberg, M., Bierman, K., & Redmond, C. (2004). P ROSPER Community-University Partnership Model for Public Education Systems: Capacity-Building for Evidence-Based, Competence-Building Prevention. Prevention Science, 5, 31-39.

Thomas, H. & Gilmore, R.O. (2004). Habituation Assessment in Infancy. Psychological Methods, 9, 70-92.

2003

Bierman, K.L. (2003). Commentary: New Models for School-Based Mental Health Services. School Psychology Review, 32, 525-529.

Blair, C., Peters, R., & Lawrence, F. (2003). Family dynamics and child outcomes in early intervention: The role of developmental theory in the specialization of effects. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18, 446-467.

Buss, K.A., Schumacher, J.R.M., Dolski, I., Kalin, N.H., Goldsmith, H.H., Davidson, R.J. (2003). Right frontal brain activity, cortisol, and withdrawal behavior in 6-month-old infants. Behavioral Neuroscience , 117(1), 11 - 20.

Feinberg , M.E. , McHale, S.M., Crouter, A.C., & Cumsille, P. (2003). Sibling differentiation: Sibling and parent relationship trajectories in adolescence. Child Development, 74, 1261-1274.

Flanagan, K.S., Bierman, K.L., Kam, C.M., Coie, J.D., Dodge, K.A., Foster, E.M., Greenberg, M.T., Lochman, J.E., McMahon, R.J., & Pinderhughes, E. (2003 ). Identifying At-Risk Children at School Entry: The Usefulness of Multibehavioral Problem Profiles. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32, 396-407.

Gilmore, R.O., & Rettke, H.J. (2003). Four-month-olds' discrimination of optic flow patterns depicting different directions of observer motion. Infancy, 4,177-200.

Greenberg, M.T., Weissberg, R.P., O’Brien, M.U., Zins, J.E., Fredericks, L., Resnik, H., & Elias, M.J. (2003). Enhancing school-based prevention and youth development through coordinated social, emotional, and academic learning. American Psychologist, 58, 466-474.

Lawrence, F.R., & Blair, C. (2003). Factorial invariance in preventive intervention: Modeling the development of intelligence in low birth weight, preterm infants. Prevention Science, 4, 249-261.

Leonard, L.B., Deevy, P., Miller, C.A., Charest, M., Kurtz, R., & Rauf, L. (2003). The use of grammatical morphemes reflecting aspect and modality by children with specific language impairment. Journal of Child Language, 30, 769 795.

Liben, L.S., & Downs, R.M. (2003). Investigating and facilitating children's graphic, geographic, and spatial development: An illustration of Rodney R. Cocking's legacy. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24, 663-679.

Nix, R. L.  (2003).  Preschool intervention programs and the process of changing children’s lives:  Commentary.  Prevention and Treatment, 6, Article 33.  Available on the World Wide Web:
 http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume6/pre0060033c.html.

Razza, R.P., & Blair, C. (2003). False-Belief Understanding in a Low-Income Population. Early Education and Development,14, 425-439.

Riggs, N.R., Blair, C.B., & Greenberg, M.T. (2003). Concurrent and 2-year longitudinal relations between executive function and the behavior of 1st and 2nd grade children. Child Neuropsychology, 9, 267-276.

Stifter, C.A., Bono, M., & Spinrad, T. (2003). Parent characteristics and conceptualizations associated with the emergence of infant colic. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 21, 309-322.

Thomas, D.E., Townsend, T.G., & Belgrave, F.Z. (2003). The influence of cultural and racial identification on the psychosocial adjustment of inner-city African American children in school. American Journal of Community Psychology, 32, 217-228.

Welsh, J., Domitrovich, C.E., Bierman, K., & Lang, J. (2003). Promoting Safe Schools and Healthy Students in rural Pennsylvania. Psychology in the Schools, 40, 457-472.