Publications
Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors." Child Dev. 84 (2013): 198-208.
"Education for a Civil Society: How Guidance Teaches Young Children Democratic Life Skills. NAEYC, 2012.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 2011.
Infant Language Production and Parenting Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Behavior Therapy. 50.3 (2019): 544-557.
"Boosting Intergenerational Mobility: The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Skills and Social Mobility . Heckman, 2022.
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program." Journal of Political Economy (2020): 000.
"Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice." Nat. Neurosci.. 17.5 (2014): 667-9.
"Violence, Peace, and Peace Research." Journal of Peace Research. 6 (1969): 167-191.
"Violence, peace and peace research." J Peace ResJ Peace Res. 6 (1969): 167-191.
"Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization. SAGE Publications, 1996.
Parenting Matters. Eds. Vivian L. Gadsden, Morgan Ford, and Heather Breiner. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2016.
Webinar Tiempo de cuidarnos: volver a ser niños y niñas.. Fundación CINDE, 2020.
Group identity as an obstacle and catalyst of peace." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. J. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. 15th ed. MIT Press, 2014. 79-92.
"We would never forget who we are": resettlement, cultural negotiation, and family relationships among Somali Bantu refugees." Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 26 (2017): 1387-1400.
"Experiences of Community Youth Leaders in a Youth-Led Early Childhood Education Program in Rural Pakistan." Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 227.2 (2019): 113-120.
"How the timing and quality of early experiences influence the development of brain architecture." Child Dev. 81.1 (2010): 28-40.
"The problem of institutionalization of young children and its consequences for efforts to build peaceful societies." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. The MIT Press, 2014. 145-160.
Education and Social Cohesion Country Report: South Africa. Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE)Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)UNICEFAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of AmsterdamCentre for International Education, University of Suss, 2016.
UK Chief Medical Officers' Physical Activity Guidelines. Gov.UK, 2019.
Violence against children in the time of COVID-19: What we have learned, what remains unknown and the opportunities that lie ahead." Child Abuse & Neglect. 116 (2021): 104776.
" Maternal Interpersonal Trauma and Child Social-Emotional Development: An Intergenerational Effect." Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 31 (2017): 99-107.
"Prenatal attachment: using measurement invariance to test the validity of comparisons across eight culturally diverse countriesAbstract." Archives of Women's Mental Health (2021).
"Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking. Lexington Books, 2005.
Interactive Conflict Resolution. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.
G Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. Taylor & Francis, 2014.
Nine country profiles highlight the need for greater attention to early childhood development across Europe. First Years First Priority, 2021.
Violence, crime, and abuse exposure in a national sample of children and youth: an update." JAMA Pediatr. 167.7 (2013): 614-21.
"Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth." Pediatrics. 124.5 (2009): 1411-23.
"A Theory of Social Comparison Processes." Human Relations. 7 (1954): 117-140.
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the neurobiology of vasopressin and oxytocin." Prog Brain ResUnderstanding Emotions. 170 (2008): 305-20.
"Randomized trial of the Early Start program of home visitation: parent and family outcomes." Pediatrics. 117.3 (2006): 781-6.
"Comparing the reliability and predictive power of child, teacher, and guardian reports of noncognitive skills." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119.6 (2022).
"Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study." Am J Prev Med. 14 (1998): 245-58.
"Evidence for a neuroendocrinological foundation of human affiliation: plasma oxytocin levels across pregnancy and the postpartum period predict mother-infant bonding." Psychol Sci. 18.11 (2007): 965-70.
"Parental oxytocin and early caregiving jointly shape children's oxytocin response and social reciprocity." Neuropsychopharmacology. 38.7 (2013): 1154-62.
"The nature of the mother's tie to her infant: maternal bonding under conditions of proximity, separation, and potential loss." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 40 (1999): 929-39.
"The cross-generation transmission of oxytocin in humans." Horm Behav. 58.4 (2010): 669-76.
"Conflict resolution in the parent-child, marital, and peer contexts and children's aggression in the peer group: a process-oriented cultural perspective." Dev Psychol. 46.2 (2010): 310-25.
"Direct and indirect effects of breast milk on the neurobehavioral and cognitive development of premature infants." Dev Psychobiol. 43.2 (2003): 109-19.
"Affiliation buffers stress: cumulative genetic risk in oxytocin-vasopressin genes combines with early caregiving to predict PTSD in war-exposed young children." Transl Psychiatry. 4 (2014): e370.
"Parent-child and triadic antecedents of children's social competence: cultural specificity, shared process." Dev Psychol. 46.2 (2010): 455-67.
"Oxytocin and social affiliation in humans." Horm Behav. 61 (2012): 380-91.
"Natural variations in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic changes in oxytocin following parent-infant contact." Psychoneuroendocrinology. 35.8 (2010): 1133-41.
"Sensitive parenting is associated with plasma oxytocin and polymorphisms in the OXTR and CD38 genes." Biol. Psychiatry. 72.3 (2012): 175-81.
"Maternal and paternal plasma, salivary, and urinary oxytocin and parent-infant synchrony: considering stress and affiliation components of human bonding." Dev Sci. 14.4 (2011): 752-61.
"Effects of family foundations on parents and children: 3.5 years after baseline." Journal of Family Psychology. 24.5 (2010): 532-542.
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