Publications
Effects of political and military traumas on children: the Palestinian case." Clin Psychol Rev. 19.8 (1999): 935-50.
"Reducing maternal intimate partner violence after the birth of a child: a randomized controlled trial of the Hawaii Healthy Start Home Visitation Program." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 164.1 (2010): 16-23.
"Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: Monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior." Dev Psychol. 45 (2009): 1214-1226.
"Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior." Developmental psychology. 45 (2009): 1214-26.
"Cortical sources of EEG rhythms are abnormal in down syndrome." Clin Neurophysiol. 121.8 (2010): 1205-12.
"Threshold Externalities in Economic Development." The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 105.2 (1990): 501.
"THE CULTURE QUESTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION." Peace & Change. 16.1 (1991): 22-45.
"Culture and Conflict Resolution. United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998.
A Generic Theory of Conflict Resolutions A Critique." Negotiation Journal. 3.1 (1987): 87-96.
"Ready to engage. Perspectives of teachers and parents on social and emotional learning and service-learning in America’s public schools. Allstate Foundation, 2021.
Prevalence of mental disorders among children exposed to war: a systematic review of 7,920 children." Med Confl Surviv. 25.1 (2009): 4-19.
"Early Childhood as a Foundation for Civic Engagement." Handbook of Research of Civic Engagement in Youth. Ed. Sherrod et L. al. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010. 249-275.
The emotional costs of parents' conditional regard: a self-determination theory analysis." J Pers. 72.1 (2004): 47-88.
"Approaches to conflict and conflict resolution in toddler relationships." Journal of Early Childhood Research. 10.2 (2012): 145-161.
"Evaluation of the Responsible, Engaged, and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative on Physical Child Punishment and Intimate Partner Violence in Northern Uganda." Prevention Science. 18.7 (2017): 854-864.
"The Jigsaw Classroom: Building Cooperation in the Classroom. Longman, 1997.
Neurobiology of executive functions: catecholamine influences on prefrontal cortical functions." Biol. Psychiatry. 57.11 (2005): 1377-84.
"Emotional, physical, and social needs among 0-5-year-old children displaced by the 2010 Chilean earthquake: associated characteristics and exposures." Disasters. 41 (2017): 365-387.
"The Safe Kindergarten: Promotion of Communication and Social Skills Among Kindergartners." Early Education & Development. 19.6 (2008): 865-884.
"A cost-effectiveness evaluation of a home visit program for adolescent mothers." J Health Psychol. 14.7 (2009): 878-87.
"Delineating the maladaptive pathways of child maltreatment: a mediated moderation analysis of the roles of self-perception and social support." Dev. Psychopathol.. 22.2 (2010): 337-52.
"The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. W. W. Norton, 2011.
Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers." Nature. 481.7382 (2012): 497-501.
"Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Vol. 7. American Psychological Association, Division 48, 2021.
Journal of Peace Psychology., 2021.
Improving Mental Health Outcomes of Burmese Migrant and Displaced Children in Thailand: a Community-Based Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting and Family Skills Intervention." Prev Sci. 18 (2017): 793-803.
"A systematic policy analysis of Early Childhood Development and peacebuilding in fourteen conflict-affected and post-conflict countries. UCL Insitute of Education, 2016.
The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood. A convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology." Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 256.3 (2006): 174-86.
"Heredity, environment, and the question how?" Psychol Rev. 65.4 (1958): 197-208.
"Life in groups: the roles of oxytocin in mammalian sociality." Front Behav Neurosci. 7 (2013): 185.
"The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools: Teaching Responsibility, Creating Caring Climates. Good Books, 2005.
Acute effects of intranasal oxytocin on subjective and behavioral responses to social rejection." Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 18.4 (2010): 316-21.
"Parent education by maternity nurses and prevention of abusive head trauma." Pediatrics. 128.5 (2011): e1164-72.
"We are here: An integrated approach to youth-inclusive peace processes. Finland: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2019.
Global policy paper “We Are Here: An integrated approach to youth-inclusive peace processes”. Youth, Peace and Security, 2019.
Effects of early intervention and the moderating effects of brain activity on institutionalized children's social skills at age 8." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 109 Suppl 2 (2012): 17228-31.
"The Nature of Prejudice. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1958.
Enabling the implementation of the 2030 agenda through SDG 16+: Anchoring peace, justice and inclusion. New York City, New York: United Nations, 2019.
A Study of a Violence Prevention Program in Prekindergarten Classrooms." Children & Schools. 31.3 (2009): 177-187.
"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.
"The Refugee Crisis and the Rights of Children: Perspectives on Community-Based Resettlement Programs." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2018 (2018): 91-98.
"Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition." Oxford Economic Papers. 58.3 (2006): 450-474.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition." Lancet Glob Health. 2 (2014): e500.
"Promoting mother‐infant relationships and underlying neural correlates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of a home‐visiting program for adolescent mothers in Brazil." Developmental Science (2021).
"Tomorrow's players under occupation: an analysis of the association of political violent with psychological functioning and domestic violence, among Palestinian youth." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 77.3 (2007): 427-33.
"Evaluation of the Better Parenting Programme in Jordan." Early Child Dev Care. 181.5 (2011): 587-598.
"An ethological approach to personality development." American Psychologist. 46.4 (1991): 333-341.
"Infant Development and Mother-Infant Interaction among Ganda and American Families." Culture and Infancy: Variations in the Human Experience. Ed. P. H. Leiderm al. New York: Academic Press, 1977. 119-149.
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