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Shewark, E. A., Ramos, A. M., Ganiban, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., Natsuaki, M. N., Leve, L. D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (submitted March 2022). Teacher-child relationships and child adjustment: The role of child sadness and anger. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Teacher-child relationships can have a profound impact on children’s social and emotional competence. We examined whether preschoolers’ negative emotions were associated with their teacher relationships and adjustment during middle childhood (i.e., evocative effects)....

Chen, T., Liu, C., Molenaar, P. C., Leve, L. D., Ganiban, J. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., Shaw, D. S., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (submitted November 2021). Sensitive periods in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and depressive symptoms: A genetically informed study. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Background: Associations between parent and child anxiety and depressive symptoms are frequently reported and often attributed to environmental processes. However, previous work provides little information on whether the timing of exposure to parent symptoms matters...

Liu, C., Chow, S. M., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D. Natsuaki, M. N., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (submitted May 2021). Identifying early risks for the co-development of externalizing and internalizing behaviors from toddlerhood to middle childhood: An example of integrative data analysis

This study examined the co-development of externalizing and internalizing behaviors from 1.5 to 8 years using integrative data analysis to link distinct but developmentally appropriate measures. The sample included 561 adopted children (42% female; 56% Caucasian, 13%...

Burt, S. A., Johnson, W., Leve, L. D., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (under review, July 2020). Our understanding of environmental influences on academic achievement may not correct. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Adoption studies cleverly leverage a naturally occurring disjoining of parents’ genetic and environmental influences to make causal inferences regarding their effects. Unfortunately, extant studies are typically restricted to examinations of rank-order (dis)similarity...

Wechsler, D. L., Neiderhiser, J. M., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Rijsdijk, F. V., & McAdams, T. A. (under review, 2020). Do parental hostility and warmth mediate associations between early symptoms of ADHD and later ODD and anxiety? A longitudinal adoption-at-birth investigation. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Background: The high rates of comorbid disorders in ADHD may be influenced by evoked negative parenting behaviours, which have been shown to increase risk for externalising and internalising psychopathology in children. Most family research on comorbidity in ADHD is...