Publications
Papers
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2026
Where Risk Lives: Neighborhood Deprivation and Developmental Concerns Across Early Childhood
JAMA Network Open, in press.
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2026
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2026
Using Machine Learning to Identify Infant and Child Environmental and Biological Predictors of Callous-Unemotional Traits
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54, 25.
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2026
Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preschoolers: Psychosocial Profiles in a Brazilian Birth Cohort
Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, online ahead of print
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2026
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2026
Applying a Network Approach to Characterize Gender Differences in Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits among Children from Two Countries
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54, 10
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2026
Detecting Social Cues Conveyed by Laughter and Associations with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 262, 106395
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2026
Stop Right Now, Thank You Very Much: Psychopathic Traits, Externalizing Dimensions, and Interpersonal Proximity
Journal of Personality Disorders, online ahead of print
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2025
Identifying Prospective Temperament Predictors of Callous-Unemotional Traits Using Machine Learning
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 2167-2178.
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2025
What’s in a Name (or Face)? Anthropomorphic Feature Preference and Associations with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood
Developmental Psychology, online ahead of print
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2025
Hearing a Feeling: Music Emotion Recognition and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood
Child Development, 96, 2247–2256
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2025
Cognitive Control Difficulties Differentiate Callous-Unemotional Traits from Conduct Problems: A Pre-registered Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial Analysis
Child Psychiatry and Human Development, online ahead of print
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2025
Change in Empathic Disequilibrium Across Childhood and Associations with Socioemotional Difficulties
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, 3655–3664
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2025
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2025
Reward-related Neural Pathways in Children with Conduct Disorder and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Psychological Medicine, 55, e333
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2025
Evidence for Missed Cases of Postpartum Depression Based on Pediatric Clinical Care Screenings
British Journal of Psychiatry, 226, 421-423.
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2025
Characterizing Social Communication Difficulties in Young Children within a Longitudinal Ecological Systems Framework
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53, 485-497
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2025
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2025
Longitudinal Analysis of the ABCD® Study
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 72, 101518
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2025
Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Black Birthing Individuals: A Systematic Review
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 13, 1013–1027
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2025
Who, How, and When? New Perspectives on Longstanding Issues in the Study of Externalizing Psychopathology
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 16, 1-7
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2025
Oxytocin Receptor Epigenetics: From Biomarker to Potential Therapeutic Target
Pediatric Research, 97, 1255-1257
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2025
Callous-Unemotional Traits, Cognitive Functioning, and Risk for Externalizing Problems in a Propensity-Matched Sample from the ABCD Study
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 66, 333-346
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2025
The Hierarchical Structure and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of Externalizing Symptoms in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 16, 18-30
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2024
Learning and Generalizing Associations Between Social Cues and Outcomes
In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1277-1283). Cognitive Science Society
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2024
How Can (or Could) Biology Inform More Effective Parenting Interventions for Childhood Aggression?
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 78, 101985
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2024
Neural Correlates of Strategic and Dynamic Social Decision-Making in Real-Time Sibling Interactions
Human Brain Mapping, 45, e26788
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2024
Context Specific Use of Emotion Words and Links to Child Behavior Problems
Affective Science, 5(43)
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2024
Objective Linguistic Markers Associated with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 1565-1576
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2024
Unique Versus Shared Neural Correlates of Externalizing Psychopathology in Late-Childhood
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133, 477-488
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2024
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2024
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2024
Evaluating the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model in Relation to the Development of Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits Across Early Adolescence
Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 64, 1327-1339
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
Why should I? Examining how childhood callous-unemotional traits relate to prosocial and affiliative behaviors and motivations
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 1075-1087
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2024
Neonatal Brain Function and Early Emerging Callous-Unemotional Traits
JAMA Psychiatry, 81, 303-311.
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2024
Children’s Knowledge and Feelings Align in Response to Emotional Music
Developmental Psychology, 60, 265–270.
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2024
Social threat processing in adults and children: faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search
Developmental Science, 27, e13461.
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2023
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2023
The Influence of Pandemic-Related Worries During Pregnancy on Child Development at 12 Months
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, in press
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2023
The role of dominance in sibling relationships: differences in interactive cooperative and competitive behavior
Scientific Reports, 13, 11863
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2023
Concerns About Data in Study Reporting an Association Between Abortion Restrictions and Suicide—Reply
JAMA Psychiatry, 80, 855-856
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2023
The Impact of Postpartum Social Support on Postpartum Mental Health Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 26, 531-541
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2023
“But Not the Music”: Psychopathic Traits and Difficulties Recognizing and Resonating with the Emotion in Music
Cognition and Emotion, 37, 748-762
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2023
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Mask-Wearing, and Emotion Recognition During Late-Childhood
Social Development, 32, 315-328
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2023
Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotion Recognition Difficulties: Do Stimulus Characteristics Play a Role?
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 55, 1453-1462
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2023
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2023
Treatment of Childhood Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Systematic Review and Two Multilevel Meta-Analyses
Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 64, 1372-1387
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2023
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2023
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2023
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2023
Maternal Emotional Intelligence and Negative Parenting Affect Independently Predict Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preschoolers
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 2303-2311
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2022
Clinician-Reported Childbirth Outcomes, Patient-Reported Childbirth Trauma, And Risk for Postpartum Depression
Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 25, 985-993
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2022
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2022
Genetic Versus Environmental Influences on Callous-Unemotional Traits in Preadolescence: The Role of Parenting and Parental Psychopathology
Development and Psychopathology, 34, 1686–1701
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2022
Alignment of Knowing Versus Feeling the Emotion in Music During Middle-Childhood
In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., & Ramenzoni, V. (Eds .), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
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2022
Engagement in And Benefits of a Short-Term, Brief Psychotherapy Intervention for PTSD During Pregnancy
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 882429
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2022
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2022
Gross Motor Impairment and Its Relation to Social Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Two Meta-Analyses
Psychological Bulletin 148, 273–300
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2022
Are You Laughing with Me or At Me? Psychopathic Traits and The Ability to Distinguish Between Affiliation and Dominance Laughter Cues
Journal of Personality, 90, 631–644
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2022
The Cognitive, Affective and Somatic Empathy Scales for adults
Personality and Individual Differences, 185, 111238
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2022
Integrating the Study of Personality and Psychopathology in the Context of Gene-Environment Correlations Across Development
Journal of Personality, 90, 47-60
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2022
Autonomic Nervous System Inflexibility During Parent-Child Interactions Is Related to Callous-Unemotional Traits During Early Adolescence
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 1581-1592
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2022
Low Social Affiliation Predicts Increases in Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63, 109-117
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2022
Longitudinal Associations Between Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits and School-Based Affiliative Relationships Among South Korean Children
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51, 556-565
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2021
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2021
Risk and Resilience Factors Influencing Postpartum Depression and Mother-Infant Bonding During COVID-19
Health Affairs, 40, 1566-1574
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2021
Maternal Prenatal Stress and Environment: Effects on Fetal Brain and Timing of Delivery
Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 1839-1847
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2021
Evaluation of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medications, Externalizing Symptoms, and Suicidality in Children
JAMA Network Open, 4, e2111342-e2111342
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2021
The Influence of Antisocial Behavior and Callous-Unemotional Traits on Trajectories of School Engagement and Achievement in South Korean Children
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50, 788-802
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2021
A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Test of The Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model of Callous-Unemotional Traits Among Spanish Preschoolers
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 877-889
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2021
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits
Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1012-1023
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2021
Reward Processing Among Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders and Callous-Unemotional Traits in the ABCD Study
American Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 333-342
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2021
Fearlessness and Low Social Affiliation as Unique Developmental Precursors of Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Preschoolers
Psychological Medicine, 51, 777-785
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2020
Leveraging Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity to Study Risk for Psychopathology: The Special Case of Callous-Unemotional Traits
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 175-185
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2020
Callous-Unemotional Traits and Antisocial Behavior in South Korean Children: Links with Academic Motivation, School Engagement, and Teachers’ Use of Reward and Discipline
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, 1183–1195
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2020
Divergent Amygdala Volume Asymmetries for Male and Female Youth with High and Low Callous-Unemotional Traits
Crime & Delinquency, 66, 1419-1437
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2020
Reduced Sensitivity to Affiliation and Psychopathic Traits
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, 12, 437–447
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2020
The Disproportionate Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Pregnant Black Women
Psychiatry Research, 293, 113475
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2020
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2020
Neighborhood Poverty Predicts Altered Neural and Behavioral Response Inhibition
Neuroimage, 209, 116536
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2020
Conduct Problems, Callous-Unemotional Traits, and Regional Gray Matter Volume in the ABCD Study
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5, 481-489
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2020
Less Imitation of Arbitrary Actions is a Specific Developmental Precursor to Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61, 818-825.
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2020
Longitudinal Association Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Friendship Quality Among Adjudicated Adolescents
Journal of Adolescence, 81, 19-26
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2020
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2020
A Meta-Analysis of the Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Empathy, Prosociality, and Guilt
Clinical Psychology Review, 75, 101809
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2020
Assessing Callous Unemotional Traits: Development of A Brief, Reliable Measure in a Large and Diverse Sample of Preadolescent Youth
Psychological Medicine, 50, 456-464
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2019
The System for Coding Interactions and Family Functioning (SCIFF) in Low-Income and Urban Adolescents
Psychological Assessment, 31, 974-984
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2019
Emotion Versus Cognition: Differential Developmental Pathways to Theory of Mind for Children with High Versus Low Callous-Unemotional Traits
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60, 1300-1308
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2019
The Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model and the Development of Callous-Unemotional Traits
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 656-671
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2019
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2019
Exploring Key Ingredients of An Evidenced-Based Computer Brief Intervention for Reducing Marijuana Use Among Adults in The Emergency Department
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 99, 67-72
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2019
Effects of Parenting and Community Violence on Aggression-Related Social Goals: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study
. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1001-1012
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2019
Trajectories of Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Primary Versus Secondary Psychopathy Variants Within an Adjudicated Adolescent Male Sample
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 10, 87-96
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2019
Alcohol Use Severity and Age Moderate the Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Interventions in an Emergency Department
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 194, 386-394
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2019
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2019
Callous-Unemotional Behaviors and Harsh Parenting Across Early Childhood: Reciprocal Associations and Moderation by Inherited Risk
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 5, 811-823
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2019
Accelerated Alcohol Use Across Adolescence Predicts Early Adult Symptoms of Alcohol Use Disorder Via Reward-Related Neural Function
Psychological Medicine, 49, 675-684
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2018
Parenting Is an Environmental Predictor of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Aggression: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57, 955-963
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2018
Prenatal Neural Origins of Infant Motor Development: Associations Between Fetal Brain and Infant Behavioral Development
Development and Psychopathology, 30, 763-772
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2018
A Systematic Review Examining the Link Between Antisocial Behavior and Neural Reactivity During Reward and Loss Processing
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 497-509
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2018
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2018
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2018
Deflections from Adolescent Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior: Contextual and Neural Moderators of Antisocial Behavior Stability into Emerging Adulthood
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59, 1073-1082.
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2018
Body Mass Index Trajectories Across Adolescence Predict Substance Use Problems in Young Adulthood
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 309-319
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2018
Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood: The Development of Empathy and Prosociality Gone Awry
Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 11-16
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2018
Examining Predictors of Callous Unemotional Traits Trajectories Across Adolescence Among High-Risk Males
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 444-457
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2017
Developmental Precursors of Psychopathy Using a Personality-Derived Triarchic Approach
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126, 859-876
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2017
The Long Reach of Early Adversity: Parenting, Stress, And Neural Pathways to Antisocial Behavior in Adulthood
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2, 582-590
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2017
Unique and Interactive Associations Between Maltreatment and Complex Emotion Recognition Deficits and Psychopathic Traits In An Undergraduate Sample
Journal of Personality Disorders, 31, 314-333
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2017
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2017
Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood: Measurement, Meaning, and the Influence of Parenting
Child Development Perspectives, 11, 120-126
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2017
Observed Fearlessness and Positive Parenting Interact to Predict Childhood Callous-Unemotional Behaviors Among Low-Income Boys
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 282-291
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2017
Interactions Between Callous Unemotional Behaviors and Executive Function in Early Childhood Predict Aggression and Lower Peer-Liking in Late-Childhood
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 597-609
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2017
Towards an Understanding of the Role of the Environment in the Development of Early Callous Behavior
Journal of Personality, 85, 90-103
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2017
Late Childhood Interpersonal Callousness and Conduct Problem Trajectories Interact to Predict Adult Psychopathy
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 55-63
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2017
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2016
Does Early Childhood Callous-Unemotional Behavior Uniquely Predict Behavior Problems or Callous-Unemotional Behavior in Late Childhood?
Developmental Psychology, 52, 1805-1819
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2016
Heritable Temperamental Precursors of Early Callous-Unemotional Behavior
British Journal of Psychiatry, 209, 475-482
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2016
An Oxytocin Receptor Polymorphism Predicts Amygdala Reactivity and Antisocial Behavior in Men
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1218-1226
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2016
Heritable and Non-Heritable Pathways to Early Callous Unemotional Behavior
American Journal of Psychiatry, 173, 903-910
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2016
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2016
Early Callous-Unemotional Behavior, Theory-Of-Mind, And Anxious Temperament Predict Externalizing Problems in Middle and Late Childhood
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1205-1215
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2016
Involving Young People with Callous Unemotional Traits in Treatment: Does It Work? A Systematic and Narrative Review
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 552-565
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2015
Callous-Unemotional Traits Trajectories Interact with Earlier Conduct Problems and Executive Control to Predict Violence and Substance Use Among High Risk Male Adolescents
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1529-1541.
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2015
What Are the Risk Factors for Antisocial Behavior Among Low-Income Youth in Cape Town?
Social Development, 24, 798-814
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2015
Parenting and The Family Check-Up: Development and Changes in Observed Parent-Child Interaction Following Early Childhood Intervention
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 970-984
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2015
Callous-Unemotional Behavior and Early-Childhood Onset of Behavior Problems: The Role of Parental Harshness and Warmth
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 655-667
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2015
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2015
Understanding Early Contextual and Parental Risk Factors for the Development of Limited Prosocial Emotions
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1025-1039
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2015
Differential Associations of Early Callous-Unemotional, ODD, and ADHD Behaviors: Multiple Domains Within Early-Starting Conduct Problems?
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56, 657–666
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2015
Early Parental Positive Behavior Support and Childhood Adjustment: Addressing Enduring Questions with New Methods
Social Development, 24, 302-322
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2014
Shared and Unique Predictors of Antisocial and Substance Use Behavior Among High Risk South African Youth
Aggressive and Violent Behavior, 19, 629-636
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2014
Bidirectional Associations Between Parental Warmth, Callous Unemotional Behavior and Conduct Problems in High-Risk Preschoolers
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 1275-1285
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2014
Centre-Based Day Care for Children Under Five in High-Income Countries
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 9
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2014
Day Care for Children Under Five in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 9
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2014
Improving Treatment for Youth with Callous-Unemotional Traits Through the Intersection of Basic and Applied Science: Commentary on Dadds et al., (2014)
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55, 781-783
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2013
What Are the Associations Between Parenting, Callous-Unemotional Traits, And Antisocial Behavior in Youth? A Systematic Review of Evidence
Clinical Psychology Review, 33, 593-608
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2012
Do Harsh and Positive Parenting Predict Parent Reports of Deceitful-Callous Behavior in Early Childhood?
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 946-953
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2012
Validity of a Brief Measure of Parental Affective Attitudes in High-Risk Preschoolers
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 945-955