General Research Area: Physiological measures as risk indices of later cognitive and social problems; developmental outcome of low-birth-weight infants; individual differences in preschool emotion regulation.

Areas of Student Supervision: Measures of heart rate variability in infants, children, and college students; preschooler's regulation of behavior and emotions; contigency in mother-child interactions.

Recent Publications:

Doussard-Roosevelt, J.A., & Porges, S.W. (1999). The Role of Neurobehavioral Organization in Stress Responses: A Polyvagal Model. In M. Lewis & D. ramsay (eds.), Stress and coping. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 57-76.

Doussard-Roosevelt, J.A., Porges, S.W., & Scanlon, J.W., Alemi, B., & Scanlon, K. (1997). Vagal regulation of heart rate in the prediction of outcome for very low birth weight preterm infants. Child Development, 68, 173-186.

Laboratory for Developmental Assessment