Publications
Connectedness in the lives of children and adolescents: a call for greater conceptual clarity." J Adolesc Health. 43.3 (2008): 209-16.
"Annual Research Review: The experience of youth with political conflict--challenging notions of resilience and encouraging research refinement." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 54.4 (2013): 461-73.
"Political violence, social integration, and youth functioning: Palestinian youth from the Intifada." Journal of Community Psychology. 29.3 (2001): 259-280.
"Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Violence. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Demographic, physical and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Rationale and description." Developmental cognitive neuroscience. 32 (2018): 55-66.
"Children's physiological and emotional reactions to witnessing bullying predict bystander intervention." Child Dev. 84.1 (2013): 375-90.
"Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers: Current Theoretical Issues in Ecology and Social Organization." Annual Review of Anthropology. 12.1 (1983): 193-214.
"Maternal responsiveness and cognitive development in children." Maternal Responsiveness: Characteristics and consequences. Ed. M. H. Bornstein. San Francisco: Jassey-Bass, 1989.
Developmental origins of non-communicable disease: implications for research and public health." Environ Health. 11 (2012): 42.
"Contributions of nonmaternal caregivers to infant feeding in a low-income African-American sample." Maternal & Child Nutrition (2018): e12610.
"Early childhood development: a new challenge for the SDG era." Lancet Glob Health. 4 (2016): e873-e874.
"A review of electrophysiology in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: I. Qualitative and quantitative electroencephalography." Clin Neurophysiol. 114.2 (2003): 171-83.
" Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter." Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.). 15.7 (2011): 301-9.
"Oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy." Psychol Sci. 21.10 (2010): 1426-8.
"Effects of oxytocin on recollections of maternal care and closeness." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 107.50 (2010): 21371-5.
"Prosocial Behavior and Altruism." The Handbook of Social Psychology. Ed. Gilbert et D. al. New York: McGraw-HIll, 1998. 282-316.
Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans." Neuron. 58.4 (2008): 639-50.
"The Discipline Controversy Revisited." Family Relations. 45 (1996): 405-414.
"Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse." Neuron. 67.5 (2010): 692-701.
"Three-year-old outcomes of a brief universal parenting intervention to prevent behaviour problems: randomised controlled trial." Arch. Dis. Child.. 95.3 (2010): 187-92.
"Parenting in a pandemic. BBC Parentland, 2020.
Toxic Stress in Children." MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 44.1 (2019): 53.
"Appetitive motivation predicts the neural response to facial signals of aggression." J. Neurosci.. 28.11 (2008): 2719-25.
"Impact of an educational intervention on caregivers' beliefs about infant crying and knowledge of shaken baby syndrome." Acad Pediatr. 11.6 (2011): 481-6.
"Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat." Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 8.6 (2013): 670-7.
"Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala." Am. J. Clin. Nutr.. 90.5 (2009): 1372-9.
"Population Quantity, Quality and Mobility." Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. Ed. J.R. Behrman. OUP Oxford, 2014.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA Anti-Poverty and Human Resource Investment Conditional Cash." World Dev. 38 (2010): 1473-1485.
"Methodologies to Evaluate Early Childhood Development Programs. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2007.
Teaching Contested Narratives. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Converging on child mental health - toward shared global action for child development." Glob Ment Health (Camb). 4 (2017): e20.
"Building, Imagining, and Experiencing Europe: Institutions and Identities in the European Union." An Anthropology of the European Union. Eds. I. Bellier, and T. Wilson. Oxford: Berg, 2000. 1-27.
The intergenerational transmission of parenting: introduction to the special section." Developmental psychology. 45 (2009): 1201-4.
"War, trauma and children's development: Observations from a modern evolutionary perspective." Int J Behav Dev. 32 (2008): 260-271.
"Variation in Susceptibility to Environmental Influence: An Evolutionary Argument." Psychological Inquiry. 8 (1997): 182-186.
"Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment." Nature Human Behaviour (2019).
"Childhood experience, interpersonal development, and reproductive strategy: and evolutionary theory of socialization." Child Dev. 62.4 (1991): 647-70.
"Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross sectional study." BMJ. 332.7556 (2006): 1476.
"Beyond risk, resilience, and dysregulation: phenotypic plasticity and human development." Dev. Psychopathol.. 25.4 Pt 2 (2013): 1243-61.
"For better and for worse: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences." Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 16 (2007): 300-304.
"An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon." Confl Health. 9 (2015): 8.
"Gene variants associated with antisocial behaviour: a latent variable approach." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 54 (2013): 1074-85.
"Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.
Genetic syndromes caused by mutations in epigenetic genes." Hum. Genet.. 132.4 (2013): 359-83.
"The science of early adversity: is there a role for large institutions in the care of vulnerable children?" Lancet. 386 (2015): 388-98.
"Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive ability and fearfulness in infancy." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 46.11 (2007): 1454-63.
"Enhancing attachment organization among maltreated children: results of a randomized clinical trial." Child Dev. 83.2 (2012): 623-36.
"Early Childhood Matters Magazine . The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2018.
Early Childhood Matters | Special Issue "A good start: Advances in early childhood development". The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2015.
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