Publications
Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self : 18 to 36 Months. Goddard Press, 1999.
Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Penn University Press, 2015.
Monitoring Child Well-being: A South African Rights-based Approach. HSRC Publishers, 2007.
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. Basic Books, 2012.
The Moral Psychology Handbook. OUP Oxford, 2010.
Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives. Wiley, 2009.
My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19 (available in 24 languages). Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2020.
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.
Maternal responsiveness and cognitive development in children." Maternal Responsiveness: Characteristics and consequences. Ed. M. H. Bornstein. San Francisco: Jassey-Bass, 1989.
Mental health and development among children living in violent conditions: Underlying processes for promoting peace." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. Vol. 15. The MIT Press, 2014. 213-232.
Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals." Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives (7th edition). Eds. J. A. Banks, and C. A. M. Banks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. 3-30.
Male involvement interventions and improved couples’ emotional relationships in Tanzania and Zimbabwe: ‘When we are walking together, I feel happy’." Culture, Health & Sexuality (2019): 1-18.
"The mass media and the prevention of child behavior problems: the evaluation of a television series to promote positive outcomes for parents and their children." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 41.7 (2000): 939-48.
"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.
"Maternal behavior and developmental psychopathology." Biol. Psychiatry. 51.1 (2002): 27-43.
"Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 1042-52.
"Maternal care as a model for experience-dependent chromatin plasticity?" Trends Neurosci.. 28.9 (2005): 456-63.
"Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries." Lancet Psychiatry. 3 (2016): 983-992.
"Maternal depression and parental distress among families in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Risk factors within the family setting." Infant Ment Health J. 31 (2010): 543-569.
"Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors." Child Dev. 84 (2013): 198-208.
"Maternal history of autoimmune disease and later development of tourette syndrome in offspring." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 54 (2015): 495-501.e1.
"Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders." Science (New York, N.Y.). 353 (2016): 772-7.
"Maternal Inflammation and Neurodevelopmental Programming: A Review of Preclinical Outcomes and Implications for Translational Psychiatry." Biological psychiatry. 85 (2019): 107-121.
"Maternal Interpersonal Trauma and Child Social-Emotional Development: An Intergenerational Effect." Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 31 (2017): 99-107.
"Maternal perceptions of father involvement among refugee and disadvantaged families in Beirut, Lebanon." PLOS ONE. 15.3 (2020): e0229670.
"Maternal perceptions of paternal investment are associated with relationship satisfaction and breastfeeding duration in humans." Journal of Family Psychology. 32.8 (2018): 1025-1035.
"Maternal posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in pediatric primary care: association with child maltreatment and frequency of child exposure to traumatic events." JAMA Pediatr. 167.11 (2013): 1011-8.
"Maternal programming of reproductive function and behavior in the female rat." Front Evol Neurosci. 3 (2011): 10.
"Maternal responsiveness moderates the relationship between allostatic load and working memory." Development and psychopathology. 23 (2011): 873-80.
"Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive ability and fearfulness in infancy." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 46.11 (2007): 1454-63.
"Maximizing the potential of early childhood education to prevent externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis." J Sch Psychol. 53 (2015): 243-63.
"Measuring the cost of investing in early childhood interventions and applications of a standardized costing tool." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 74-89.
"Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia." Child Development. 93.1 (2022): 254-268.
"On the mechanics of economic development." Journal of Monetary Economics. 22.1 (1988): 3-42.
"Mechanisms in the cycle of violence." Science. 250 (1990): 1678-83.
"Media and technology use predicts ill-being among children, preteens and teenagers independent of the negative health impacts of exercise and eating habits." Computers in Human Behavior. 35 (2014): 364-375.
"Mediating effects of parental psychological distress and individual-level social capital on the association between child poverty and maltreatment in Japan." Child abuse & neglect. 83 (2018): 142-150.
"Mediation as a method of parent intervention in children's disputes." J Fam Psychol. 18.1 (2004): 147-59.
"Mediation in the schools: Self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-discipline." Mediation Quarterly. 7 (1989): 149-155.
"Medical humanitarianism: anthropologists speak out on policy and practice." Med Anthropol Q. 29.1 (2015): 1-23.
"Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice Introduction." Soc Sci Med. 120 (2014): 311-316.
"Men and maternal health: The dilemma of short-lived male involvement strategies in Uganda." Health Care for Women International (2018): 1-13.
"Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 19.1 (2019).
"Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50.4 (2011): 349-63.
"Mental health and psychosocial support in crisis and conflict: report of the Mental Health Working Group." Prehosp Disaster Med. 24 Suppl 2 (2009): s217-27.
"Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: linking practice and research." Lancet. 378 (2011): 1581-91.
"Mental health and wellbeing during the transition to fatherhood." JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports. 16.11 (2018): 2118-2191.
"Mental health in postwar afghanistan." JAMA. 292 (2004): 626-8.
"The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: protective processes and pathways to resilience." Int Rev Psychiatry. 20 (2008): 317-28.
"Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors." Lancet. 379.9812 (2012): 266-82.
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