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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Marceau, K., Hajal, N., Leve, L. D., Reiss, D., Shaw, D., Ganiban, J. M., Mayes, L. C., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2013). Measurement and associations of pregnancy risk factors with genetic influences, postnatal environmental influences, and toddler behavior. International Journal of Behavior Development, 37, 366–375. PMC: 4018759

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Measuring pregnancy complications is important for developmental studies seeking to clarify genetic and postnatal environmental influences on children’s behavioral development. This study presents a comprehensive measure of pre- and perinatal risk factors, the...