Publications
"Pathways to a more peaceful and sustainable world: The transformative power of children in families." Development and Psychopathology (2020): 1-12.
"Provisions of learning experiences in the home and early childhood school readiness are clearly linked." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev (2001): 1-6.
Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy. New York, NY USA: Oxford University Press, 2013.
"Child development in the multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS): Child rights and policy implications." Child Development (2012).
"Strengthening systems for integrated early childhood development services: a cross-national analysis of governance." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1308 (2014): 245-55.
"Child development in developing countries: child rights and policy implications." Child Dev. 83.1 (2012): 92-103.
"The Future of Parenting Programs: III Uptake and Scale." Parenting. 22.3 (2022): 258-275.
"Beyond shared book reading: dimensions of home literacy and low-income African American preschoolers' skills." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev (2001): 73-89; discussion 91-8.
"Beyond shared book reading: dimensions of home literacy and low-income African American preschoolers' skills." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev.92 (2001): 73-89; discussion 91-8.
"What implementation evidence matters: scaling-up nurturing interventions that promote early childhood development." Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1419 (2018): 5-16.
Creating effective programs and policies to reduce violence and promote peace." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. The MIT Press, 2014. 361-384.
"Who am I? Ethnic identity formation of Arab Muslim children in contemporary U.S. society." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 47 (2008): 853-7.
"No second chances? Early critical periods in human development. Introduction." Soc Sci Med. 97 (2013): 238-40.
"Placental protection of the fetal brain during short-term food deprivation." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 108.37 (2011): 15237-41.
Child online safety: Minimizing the risk of violence, abuse and exploitation online. October 2019 report. Geneva, Switzerland: Broadband Commission, 2019.
"Conflict resolution and children’s behaviour: observing and understanding social and cooperative play in early years educational settings." Early Years. 29.2 (2009): 105-118.
The Bioecological Model of Human Development (6th edition)." Handbook of Child Psychology, Theoretical Models of Human Development. Eds. W. Damon, and R.M. Lerner. Vol. 1. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006. 793-828.
The Ecology of Human Development: experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Ecological Systems Theory." Making Human Beings Human: Bioecological Perspectives on Human Development. SAGE Publications, 2005. 106-173.
The Ecology of Human Development. Harvard University Press, 1979.
"Is parental emotional reliability predictive of toddlers' learning and helping?" Infant Behav Dev. 36.3 (2013): 403-18.
Managing Differences in Conflict Resolution: The Role of Relational Empathy." Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice: Integration and Application. Eds. D. J. Sandole, and H. van der Merwe. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1993. 95-111.
"The neural basis of primate social communication." Motivation and Emotion. 14 (1990): 81-91.
Prejudice: Its Social Psychology. Wiley, 2011.
"Social class, psychiatric disorder of mother, and accidents to children." Lancet. 1.8060 (1978): 378-81.
"Annual Research Review: Breaking cycles of violence - a systematic review and common practice elements analysis of psychosocial interventions for children and youth affected by armed conflict." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 58 (2017): 507-524.
Evaluation Report of the Better Parenting Project: National multisectoral collaboration on behalf of young children. Amman: UNICEF, 2000.
"Prenatal Maternal Smoking and Increased Risk for Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tic Disorders." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 55 (2016): 784-91.
"To share or not to share: When do toddlers respond to another’s needs?" Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesInfancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 14 (2009): 117-130.
"Fathers’ experiences during the first postnatal week at home after early discharge of mother and baby from the maternity unit: A meta-synthesis." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2018): 140349481880985.
"Neuroendocrine control of maternal stress responses and fetal programming by stress in pregnancy." Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry. 35.5 (2011): 1178-91.
Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals. Springer Netherlands, 2012.
"Informal social support interventions and their role in violence prevention: an agenda for future evaluation." J Interpers Violence. 19.3 (2004): 341-55.
"Adaptive calibration of children's physiological responses to family stress: the utility of evolutionary developmental theory: comment on Del Giudice et al. (2012) and Sturge-Apple et al. (2012)." Dev Psychol. 48.3 (2012): 806-9.
"A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention." J Fam Psychol. 16.3 (2002): 243-58.
"Individual differences underlying susceptibility to addiction: Role for the endogenous oxytocin system." Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav.. 119 (2014): 22-38.
"Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition." Lancet. 391 (2018): 687-699.
"‘What about the fathers?’ Bringing ‘Dads on Board™’ with their infants and toddlers following violence." Journal of Family Studies. 19 (2013): 70-79.
"Early Intervention and Mediating Processes in Cognitive Performance of Children of Low-Income African American Families." Child Development. 68 (1997): 935-954.
Fathers and Parenting Interventions: What works?. Abergavenny: Fatherhod Institute, 2009.
"Some neo-Darwinian decision rules for altruism: Weighing cues for inclusive fitness as a function of the biological importance of the decision." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 67 (1994): 773-789.
Conflict: Readings in Management and Resolution. Macmillan, 1990.
Conflict: Practices in Management, Settlement, and Resolution. Macmillan, 1990.
Youth Violence: What We Need to Know. Report of the Subcommittee on Youth Violence of the Advisory Committee to the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate. Arlington: National Science Foundation, 2013.
Promoting Forcibly Displaced Children’s Mental Health Through Educational Intervention. New: Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, 2025.
"The ontogeny of the motivation that underlies in-group bias." Psychol Sci. 25.4 (2014): 921-7.
Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2021. New York: United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), 2021.
Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Taylor & Francis, 2012.
"A quantitative meta-analysis of functional imaging studies of social rejection." Sci Rep. 3 (2013): 2027.
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