Liu, C. Ji, L., Chow, S., Kang, B., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2020). Child effects on parental negativity: The role of heritable and prenatal factors. Child Development, 91, e1064-e1081.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

The current study examined two possible mechanisms, evocative gene-environment correlation and prenatal factors, in accounting for child effects on parental negativity. Participants included 561 children adopted at birth, their adoptive parents and birth parents...

Halpern-Manners, A., Marahrens, H., Neiderhiser, J. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., & Leve, L. D. (2020). The intergenerational transmission of early educational advantages: New results based on an adoption study. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 67, 100486.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Sociological research has traditionally emphasized the importance of post-birth factors (i.e., social, economic, and cultural capital) in the intergenerational transmission of educational advantages, to the neglect of potentially consequential pre-birth endowments...

Field, A., Lester, K. J., Cartwright-Hatton, S., Harold, G. T., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Neiderhiser, J. M. & Leve, L. D. (2020). Maternal and paternal influences on the developmental trajectories of childhood anxiety symptoms: A genetically sensitive comparison. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 68, 101123.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

One theory suggests that anxious fathers may pose a greater environmental influence on childhood anxiety than anxious mothers. This study uses the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) to test rearing parent anxiety influences from mothers and fathers on child...

Cioffi, C. C., Tavalire, H. F., Neiderhiser, J. M., Bohannan, B., & Level L. D. (2020). History of breastfeeding but not model of delivery shapes the gut microbiome in childhood. PLoS ONE, 15(7): e0235223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235223

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Background: The naïve neonatal gut is sensitive to early life experiences. Events during this critical developmental window may have life-long impacts on the gut microbiota. Two experiences that have been associated with variation in the gut microbiome in infancy are...

Cioffi, C. C., Leve, L. D., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J. N. (2020). Does parental warmth moderate longitudinal associations between infant attention control and children’s inhibitory control? Infant and Child Development, 29, e2147.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Attention control (AC) plays an important role in the development of inhibitory control (IC) in children, yet there are few longitudinal studies of this association. This research tested whether maternal warmth at child age 27 months moderated the link between AC...