Developmental Science Publication Highlights

The following is a list of recent faculty publications:

Dr. Natasha Cabrera

Cabrera, N., Ryan, R., Shannon, J., Brooks-Gunn, J., Vogel, C., Rakies, H., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. (2004). Low income biological fathers' involvement in their toddlers' lives: The Early Head Start National Research and Evaluation Study. Fathering: A Journey of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 2(1), 5-30.
Tamis-LeMonda, C., Shannon, J., Cabrera, N., & Lamb, M. (2004). Fathers' and mothers' play with their 2- and 3-year-olds: Contributions to language and cognitive development. Manuscript (under review with Child Development).

Fox, N.A., Nichols, K.E., Henderson, H.A., Rubin, K.H., Schmidt, L.A., Hamer, D.H., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2005). Evidence for a Gene Environment Interaction in Predicting Behavioral Inhibition in Middle Childhood. Psychological Science,16, 921-926.
Guyer, A.E., Nelson, E.E., Perez-Edgar, K., Hardin, M.G., Roberson-Nay, R., Monk, C.S., Bjork, J.M., Henderson, H.A., Pine, D.S., Fox, N.A., & Ernst, M. (2006). Striatial functional alteration in adolescents characterized by early childhood behavioral inhibition. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(24), 6399-6405

Jones Harden, B. (2004). Safety and stability for children in foster care: A developmental perspective. The Future of Children, 14(1), 31-48.
Jones Harden, B. (Ed.) (2002). Congregate care for infants and toddlers: Shedding new light on an old question. Infant Mental Health Journal, 23(5), 476-495.

Killen, M. (2007). Children’s social and moral reasoning about exclusion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 32-36.
Killen, M., Margie, N.G., & Sinno, S. (2006). Morality in the context of intergroup relationships. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.). Handbook of moral development. (pp. 155-183). Mahwah , NJ : LEA.

Ramani, G.B. & Siegler, R.S. (2007, in press). Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children’s numerical knowledge through playing number board games. To appear in Child Development.
Siegler, R. S., & Ramani, G. B. (2007, in press). Playing board games promotes low-income children's numerical development. To appear in Developmental Science, Special Issue on Mathematical Cognition.

Rubin, K.H., Bukowski, W., & Parker, J. (in press, 2006). Peer interactions, relationships, and groups. In N. Eisenberg (Ed), Handbook of Child Psychology (6th edition): Social, emotional, and personality development. New York : Wiley.
Rubin, K.H., Wojslawowicz, J.C., Burgess, K.B., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth, C.L. (in press). The friendships of socially withdrawn and competent young adolescents, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology .

Torney-Purta, J. (1996). Conceptual change among adolescents using computer networks and peer collaboration in studying international political issues. In S. Vosnidou , E. DeCorte , R. Glaser, & F. Mandl (Eds.). International perspectives on the design of technology supported learning environments. Hillside , NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Torney-Purta, J. (2002). The school's role in developing civic engagement; A study of adolescents in twenty-eight countries. Applied Developmental Science, 6 , 203-12.

Wang, M., Perfetti , C.A. , & Liu, Y. (in press, 2005). Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition: Cross language and writing system transfer. Cognition.
Wang, M., Park, Y., & Lee, K.R. (in press). Korean-English biliteracy acquisition: Cross language and orthography transfer. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Wentzel, K. R., & Looney, L. (2006). Socialization in school settings. In J. Grusec & P. Hastings (Eds.), Handbook of Social Development . New York , NY : Guilford.
Wentzel, K. R., McNamara, C., & Caldwell, K. (2004). Friendships in middle school: Influences on motivation and school adjustment. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96 , 195-203.

Wigfield, A., Tonks, S., & Eccles, J. S. (2004). Expectancy – value theory in cross-cultural perspective. In D. McInerney & S. Van Etten (Eds.), Research on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning volume 4: Big theories revisited. Greenwich , CT : Information Age Press.
Wigfield, A., & Wagner, A. L. (2005). Competence, motivation, and identity development during adolescence. In A. Elliott and C. Dweck (Eds.), Handbook of competence and motivation (pp. 222-239). New York : Guilford Press.