Brooker, R. J., Neiderhiser, J. M., Ganiban, J. M., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., & Reiss, D. (2014). Birth and adoptive parent anxiety symptoms moderate the link between infant attention control and internalizing problems in toddlerhood. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 347–359. PMC: 3981904

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Attention control plays an important role in the development of internalizing symptoms in children. We explored the degree to which infant genetic- and environmentally-based risk moderated the link between attention control and internalizing problems during...

Reiss, D. Leve, L. D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2013). How genes and the social environment moderate each other. American Journal of Public Health, 103, S111–S121. PMC: 3778406

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Recent research suggests that the social environment can moderate the expression of genetic influences on health and that genetic influences can shape an individual’s sensitivity to the social environment. Evidence supports four major mechanisms: genes can influence...

Natsuaki, M. N., Leve, L. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Scaramella, L. V., Ge, X., & Reiss, D. (2013). Intergenerational transmission of risk for social inhibition: The interplay between parental responsiveness and genetic influences. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 261– 274. PMC: 3576856

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

To better understand mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of social anxiety, we used a prospective adoption design to examine the roles of genetic influences (inferred from birth mothers’ social phobia) and rearing environment (adoptive mothers’...

Natsuaki, M. N., Leve, L. D., Harold, G. T., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J., Scaramella, L. V., & Reiss, D. (2013). Transactions between child social wariness and observed structured parenting: Evidence from a prospective adoption study. Child Development, 84, 1750– 1765. PMC: 3675176

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

This investigation examined the mutual influences between structured parenting and child social wariness during toddlerhood using a longitudinal adoption design. The sample consisted of 361 adoption-linked families, each including an adopted child, adoptive parents,...

Marceau, K., Ram, N., Neiderhiser, J. M., Laurent, H. K., Shaw, D. S., Fisher, P. A., Natsuaki, M. & Leve, L. D. (2013). Disentangling the effects of genetic, prenatal, and parenting influences on children’s cortisol. Stress, 16, 607–615. PMC: 3928628

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Developmental plasticity models hypothesize the role of genetic and prenatal environmental influences of the development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and highlight the potential for the organizational influences of genes and the prenatal...