Press & Publications

Pandemic Research

  • COMET: COVID-19 on Maternal Experience and Temperament 
    • The study focuses on the risk and resilience factors for families in the midst of the pandemic
  • Sleep, Resilience, and Health
    • The current investigation examines how sleep is associated with the cost of resilience in ethnic minority youth.
  • ARCH: Advancing Research on College Health
    • in this study, we seek to understand the factors that influence successful adaptation in college students
  • Mechanism of Health Disparities 
    • In this project, we examine racial and ethnic difference in health disparities as well as their mechanisms.
  • ERCS: Emotion Regulation as a Complex System
    • Are there cultural differences in children’s self-control? Do children from different cultures respond to stress different? Understanding these cultural differences may help to further our understanding of cultural sensitive interventions to improve children’s well-being.

Selected Publications

  • Borelli, J.L., Stern, J.A.*, Marvin, M.J.*, Smiley, P.A., Petit, C., & Samudio, M. (2020). Mentalizing and empathy among mothers of school-aged children: Charting the space between. Emotion. doi: 10.1037/emo0000747
  • Somers, J.A.*, Kerr, M.L., McNeish, D., Smiley, P.A., Buttitta, K.V., Rasmussen, H.F.*, & Borelli, J.L. (2020). Quantitatively representing the emotional dynamics of attachment: attachment-based differences in mothers’ daily emotion. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 480-489. doi: 10.1037/fam0000617
  • Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P.A., Kerr, M.L., Hong, K.*, Hecht, H.K.*, Blackard, M.B., Falasiri, E., Cervantes, B.R., & Bond, D.K. (2020). Relational savoring: An attachment-based approach to promoting interpersonal flourishing. Psychotherapy, 57, 340-351. doi: 10.1037/pst0000284
  • Doan, S.N. & Evans, G.W. (2020). Chaos and unpredictability from birth to age three. The Future of Children, 20(2), 93-114
  • Doan,  S.N. , Venkatesh, S.*, Pedroza, M.*, Tarullo, A. & Meyer, J. (2020). Maternal suppression moderates the relations between maternal and child hair cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology, 62, 1150-1157.
  • Lee, H.* & Doan, S.N. (2020). Culture moderates the association between respiratory sinus arrhythmia and childhood temperament. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 181(2-3): 181-190. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2020.1751044.
  • Curtis, D.*, Fuller-Rowell, T., Hinnant, J.B., Kaeppler, A.K., Doan, S.N. (2020). Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(7), 953-963. doi: 1177/1359105317739964
  • Gaither, S.G., Perlin, J.D.* & Doan, S.N. (2020). Race, gender, and the development of cross-race prosociality. Frontiers in Psychology.  11:1525. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01525
  • Otto, M., Rosenfield, D., Gorin, E*.I., Hoyt, D.L.*, Patten, E.J., Bickel, W.K., Zvolensky, M.J. & Doan, S.N. (2020). Targeting cognitive and emotional regulatory skills for smoking prevention in low-SES youth: A randomized trial of mindfulness and working memory interventions. Addiction Research. 104:106262. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.10626
  • Liu, C.L+. & Doan, S.N. + (2020). Psychosocial stress contagion in children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Pediatrics, 59, 9-10. +equal contribution
  • Dich, N., Hulvej, Kivimäki, M. & Doan, S.N. (2020). Both high and low levels of negative emotions, depressive symptoms and anxiety are associated with higher blood pressure. Evidence from Whitehall II cohort study. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-019-09844-w
  • Dich, N., Rozing, MP., Kivimäki, M. & Doan, S.N. (2020). Life events, emotions and immune function: Evidence from Whitehall II Cohort Study.  Behavioral Medicine, 46(2), 153-160. Doi: 10.1080/08964289.2019.1570072
  • Harris, A., Young, A.*, Hughson, E., Green, O., Doan, S.N. & Reed, C. (2020). Perceived relative social status and cognitive load influence acceptance of unfair offers in the ultimatum game. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227717. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227717
  • Yang, Y., Song, Q., Doan, S.N., & Wang, Q. (2020). Maternal reactions to children’s negative emotions: The relations to psychological adjustment, emotion knowledge and coping in cultural contexts.Transcultural Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461520905997
  • Son, H.*, Young, A.E., Ahn, D.H., Doan, S.N., HA, E.H., & Choi, Y.S. (2020). Antecedents of maternal rejection across cultures: An examination of child characteristics. SAGE Open, 10(2):215824402092704
  • Natarajan, R. Aljaber, D. Au, D., Thai, C., Sanchez, A., Nunez, A., Resto, C. Chavez, T., Jankowska, M., Benmarhnia, T., Yang, J., Jones, V., Tomsic, J., McCune, J.S., Sistrunk, C., Doan, S.N., Serrano, M., Cardiff, R.D., Dietze, E.C., Seewaldt, V. (2020). Environmental exposures during puberty: window of breast cancer risk and epigenetic damage. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(2), e493. Doi: 3390/ijerph17020493
  • Borelli, J.L., Shai, D., Smiley, P.A., Boparai, S.*, Rasmussen, H.F.*, & Granger, D.A. (2019). Mother-child adrenocortical synchrony:  Roles of maternal overcontrol and child developmental phase. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 1120-1134. doi:10.1002/dev.21845
  • Kerr, M. L., Buttitta, K. V., Smiley, P. A., Rasmussen, H. F.*, & Borelli, J. L. (2019). Mothers’ real-time emotion as a function of attachment and proximity to their children. Journal of Family Psychology. doi: 10.1037/fam0000515
  • Doan, S.N. Marcela, A. & Yates, T.M. (2019). Ethnic-racial discrimination, family ethnic socialization and Latinx children’s emotion competence. Culture and Brain, 7(2), 190-211.
  • Doan, S.N., Dich, N., Fuller-Rowell, T., & Evans, G.W. (2019). Externalizing behaviors protect against the physiological consequences of cumulative risk. Nature: Scientific Reports, 9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49461-x
  • Dich, N. & Doan, S.N. (2019). Moderate emotional reactions to stressful life events are associated with lowest risk of increased alcohol consumption. European Journal of Public Health, 4, 754-758.
  • Buttitta, K. V., Smiley, P. A., Kerr, M., L., Rasmussen, H. F.*, Querdasi, F. R.*, & Borelli, J. L. (2019). In a father’s mind: Paternal reflective functioning, sensitive parenting, and protection against socioeconomic risk. Attachment and Human Development, 21, 455-466. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2019.1582596
  • Borelli, J. L., Smiley, P. A., Gaskin, G., Pham, P. T., Kussman, M., & Shahar, B. (2019). Children’s and parents’ perceptions of vulnerability as weakness: Associations with children’s well-being. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 2727-2741. doi: 10.1007/s10826-019-01453-1
  • Wang, Q. Koh, B., Santacrose, D., Song, Q., Klemfluss, J. & Doan, S.N. (2019). Child-centered memory conversations facilitate children’s episodic thinking. Cognitive Development, 58-66.
  • Doan, S.N. Lee, H.* & Wang, Q. (2019). Maternal mental state language is associated with trajectories of Chinese immigrant children’s emotion situation knowledge. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43, 43-52.
  • Rudd, K.L., Doan, S.N. & Yates, T.M. (2019). The physical health costs of positive adaptation to childhood adversity. Journal of Health Psychology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319873961
  • Liu, C. & Doan, S.N. (2019). Innovations in biological assessments of chronic stress through hair and nail cortisol: Conceptual, developmental, and methodological issues. Developmental Psychobiology, 61,(3), 465-476.
  • Song, Q., Yang, Y. Doan, S.N. & Wang, Q. (2019). Savoring or dampening? Maternal reactions to children’s positive emotions in cultural contexts. Culture and Brain, 7(2), 172-189.
  • Borelli, J., Smiley, P.A., Kerr, M.B., Hong, K.*, Rasmussen, H.F.*, Buttitta, K.V., & West, J.L. (2019). A multimethod assessment of associations between parental attachment style and school-aged children’s emotion. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 152-167. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1241-y
  • Doan, S.N. & Wang, Q. (2018). Children’s emotion knowledge and internalizing problems: The moderating role of culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55, 689-709.
  • Doan, S.N. & DeYoung, G.*, Fuller-Rowell, T., Liu, C. & Meyer, J. (2018). Investigating the association among nail cortisol, nail DHEA, sleep, stress and self-regulation. Stress: International Journal of Stress Biology, 21(2), 1-6.
  • Doan, S.N., Son, H.*, & Kim, L.* (2018). Maternal and paternal emotional contributions to distress tolerance: Relations to child depressive symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 267, 215-220.
  • Sichko, S.*, Borelli, J., Smiley, P.A., Goldstein, A.*, & Rasmussen, H.* (2018). Child and maternal attachment predict school‐aged children’s psychobiological convergence. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 913-926. doi: 10.1002/dev.21748
  • Borelli, J. L., Pedroza, M., Gaskin, G. E., Smiley, P. A., Kernick, C. A.*, Brachman, A.*, & Mehl, M. R. (2018). School-aged children’s cognitive interdependence as a prospective link between their depressive symptoms and physiological stress reactivity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37(5), 325–355. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2018.37.5.325
  • Kao,K.* Nayak, S.*, Doan, S.N., Tarullo, A. (2018). Relations between parent executive function and child executive function: The role of socioeconomic status and caregiving on executive functioning in early childhood. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(2), 122-137.
  •  Kao, K.* Doan, S.N., St. John, A.*, Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2018). Salivary cortisol reactivity in preschoolers is associated with hair cortisol and behavioral problems. Stress, 1, 28-35.
  • Otto, M., Gorlin, E.*, Rosenfield, D., Patten, E., Bickel, W., Zvolensky, M. & Doan, S.N. (2018). Rescuing cognitive and emotional regulatory skills to aid smoking prevention in at-risk youth: A randomized trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 70, 1-7.
  • Liu, C., Phan, J., Yasui, M., & Doan, S. N. (2018). Prenatal life events, maternal employment, and postpartum depression across a diverse population in new york city. Community Mental Health Journal, 54(4), 410-419. doi:10.1007/s10597-017-0171-2
  • Partington, L., Borelli, J., Smiley, P. A., Jarvik, E., Rasmussen, H., Seaman, L., & Nurmi, E. (2018). Parental overcontrol x oPRM1 genotype interaction predicts school-aged children’s sympathetic nervous system activation in response to performance challenge. Research in Developmental Disabilities. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2018.04.011
  • Boparai, S., Borelli, J., Partington, L., Smiley, P. A., Jarvik, E., Rasmussen, H., . . . Nurmi, E. (2018). Interaction between the opioid receptor oPRM1 gene and mother-Child language style matching prospectively predicts children’s separation anxiety disorder symptoms. Research in Developmental Disabilities. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2018.03.002
  • Borelli, J. L., Burkhart, M.L., Rasmussen, H. F., Smiley, P. A., & Hellemann, G. (2018). Children’s and mothers’ cardiovascular reactivity to a standardized laboratory stressor: Unique relations with maternal anxiety and overcontrol. Emotion, 18(3), 369-385. doi:10.1037/emo0000320
  • Barthel, A.L.,* Hay, A.*, Doan, S.N. & Hofmann, S.G. (2018). Interpersonal emotion regulation: A review of social and developmental components. Behavior Change, 35, 203-216.
  • Tarullo, A., Nayak, S.*, St. John, A.M.*, & Doan, S.N. (2018). Performance effects of reward related feedback on the dimensional change card sort task. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 179, 171-175.
  • River, L.M.*, Borelli, J.L., Vasquez, L.C.*, & Smiley, P.A. (2018). Learning helplessness in the family: Maternal agency and the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(8), 1109–1119. doi: 10.1037/fam0000479
  • Muscalu, L., & Smiley, P. (2018). The illusory benefit of cognates: Facilitation followed by interference in a word typing task. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi: 10.1017/S1366728918000792
  • Curtis, D. S., Fuller-Rowel, T. E., Hinnant, B. J., Kaeppler, A. K. , & Doan, S. N. (2017). Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity. Journal of Health Psychology, (11/2017). doi:10.1177/1359105317739964
  • Kao, K., Doan, S. N., St John, A. M., Meyer, J. S., & Tarullo, A. R. (2017). Salivary cortisol reactivity in preschoolers is associated with hair cortisol and behavioral problems. Stress, 21(1) , 28-35.  doi: 10.1080/10253890.2017.1391210.
  • Son, H., Lee, Y., Ahn, D., & Doan, S. N. (2017). Maternal understanding of child discipline and maltreatment in the united states, south korea, and japan. Children & Youth Services Review, 82.
  • Hong, F.*, Doan, S.N., Lopez, A.* & Evans, G. (2017). The effects of temperament and gender on children’s self-regulatory strategies. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01925
  • Doan, S.N., Tardif, T., Olson, S. et al. (2017). Consequences of “Tiger Parenting”: Maternal psychological control and children’s cortisol stress response. Developmental Science, 20(3),1-9.
  • Dich, N.*, Doan, S.N. & Evans, G. (2017). In risky environments, emotional children have more behavioral problems but lower allostatic load. Health Psychology, 36(5), 468-476. 11.
  • Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J. Doan, S.N., & Love, H. (2017). Getting some space: Infants’ and caregivers’ containment and support spatial constructions during play. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 110-128.
  • Borelli, J. L., Hong, K., Smiley, P. A., & Rasmussen, H. F. (2017). Reflective functioning, physiological reactivity, and overcontrol in mothers: Links with school-aged children’s reflective functioning. Developmental Psychology, 53(9), 1680-1693. doi:10.1037/dev0000371
  • Rasmussen, H., Borelli, J., Smiley, P., Cohen, C., Cheung, R., Fox, S., Marvin, M. & Blackard, B.* (2017). Mother-child language style matching predicts children’s and mothers’ emotion reactivity. Behavioural Brain Research, 325, 203-213. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2016.12.036
  • Borelli, J., Ramsook, K., Smiley, P., Kyle Bond, D., West, J., & Buttitta, K. (2017). Language matching among mother-child dyads: Associations with child attachment and emotion reactivity: Mother-child lSM. Social Development, 26(3), 610-629. doi:10.1111/sode.12200
  • Otto, M.W. Eastman, A.* Lo, S., Hearon, B.A., Zvolensky, M., Smits, J. & Doan, S.N. (2016). Anxiety sensitive and working memory capacity: Risk factors and targets for health behavior promotion. Clinical Psychology Review, 49, 67-78.
  • Doan, S.N., Dich, N*, & Evans, G.W. (2016). Stress of stoicism: High persistence in the context of low emotionality leads to higher allostatic load. Applied Developmental Science, 20, 310-317.
  • Curtis, D.*, Fuller-Rowell, T., Doan, S.N., Zgierska, A. & Ryff, C. (2016). Racial and socioeconomic disparities in body mass index among college students: Understanding the role of early life adversity. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 39, 866-875.
  • Hofmann, S., Doan, S.N., Sprung, M., Wilson, A., Ebesutani, C. et al, (2016). Training children’s theory – of – mind: A meta-analysis of controlled studies. Cognition, 150, 200-212.
  • Corriveau, K., Min., G.*, Chin, J*. & Doan, S.N. (2016). Do as I do, not as I say: Actions speak louder than words in preschoolers learning from others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 143, 179-187. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.006.
  • Liu, C.H. , Giallo, R., Doan, S.N., Seidman, L.J., & Tronick, E. (2016). Racial and ethnic differences in prenatal life stress and postpartum depression symptoms. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 30, 7-12.201
  • Smiley, P., Buttitta, K., Chung, S., Coffey, J., Wang, B., & Borelli, J. (2016). Anger in response to challenge: Children’s emotion socialization predicts approach versus avoidance. Motivation and Emotion, 40(6), 923-935. doi:10.1007/s11031-016-9583-5
  • Perrone, L., Borelli, J., Smiley, P., Rasmussen, H., & Hilt, L. (2016). Do Children’s Attributions Mediate the Link Between Parental Conditional Regard and Child Depression and Emotion? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(11), 3387-3402. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0495-5
  • Smiley, P., Buttitta, K., Chung, S., Dubon, V., & Chang, L. (2016). Mediation models of implicit theories and achievement goals predict planning and withdrawal after failure. Motivation and Emotion, 40(6), 878-894. doi:10.1007/s11031-016-9575-5
  • Borelli, J., Smiley, P., Rasmussen, H., Gomez, H., Seaman, L., & Nurmi, E. (2016)  Interactive Effects of Attachment and Genotype on School-aged Children’s Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms, Behavioural Brain Research, doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.035
  • Borelli, J., Smiley, P., Rasmussen, H., & Gomez, A. (2016). Is it About Me, You, or Us? Stress Reactivity Correlates of Discrepancies in We-Talk Among Parents and Preadolescent Children. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(10), 1996-2010. doi:10.1007/s10964-016-0459-5
  • Smiley, P., Borelli, J., Teachanarong, L., Rasmussen, H., & Vazquez, L. (2016). Attachment and Maternal Sensitivity in Middle Childhood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33(8), 1031-1053. doi:10.1177/0265407515616280
  • Smiley, P., Tan, S., Goldstein, A., & Sweda, J. (2016). Mother Emotion, Child Temperament, and Young Children’s Helpless Responses to Failure. Social Development, 25(2), 285-303. doi:10.1111/sode.12153
  • Sichko, S., Borelli, J., Rasmussen, H., & Smiley, P. (2016). Relational Closeness Moderates the Association Between Maternal Overcontrol and Children’s Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology : Jfp : Journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (division 43),30(2), 266-75. doi:10.1037/fam0000155
  • Doan, S.N.+, Dich, N.+ & Evans, G.W. (2015). Children’s emotionality moderates the association between maternal responsiveness and allostatic load: Investigation into Differential Susceptibility. Child Development, 86(3):936-44. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12346. +equal contribution
  • Somers, J., Borelli, J., Smiley, P., West, J., & Hilt, L. (2015). Concurrent and Prospective Associations Between Emotion Reactivity and Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37(4), 692-704. doi:10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0
  • Borelli, J., Smiley, P., Bond, D., Buttitta, K., DeMeules, M., Perrone, L., Welindt, N, Rasmussen, H., West, J. (2015). Parental Anxiety Prospectively Predicts Fearful Children’s Physiological Recovery from Stress. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 46(5), 774-785. doi:10.1007/s10578-014-0519-6
  • Dich, N.*, Doan, S.N., Evans, G.W. (2015). Children’s negative emotionality combined with poor self-regulation affects allostatic load in adolescence. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(4) doi: 10.1177/0165025414544232.
  • Fuller-Rowell, T.E, Curtis, D.S. Doan, S.N., & Coe, C. (2015). Racial disparities in the health benefits of education attainment: study of inflammatory trajectories among African American and White adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77(1), doi: 10.1097/PSY.00000000000000128.

In Press:

  • Doan, S.N. (in press). Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi-system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure. Developmental Psychobiology
  • Lee, H.*, Kao, K.*, Doan, S.N. (in press). Exploring the relationship between self-regulation dimensions and cardiac autonomic functioning in preschoolers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 
  •  Curtis, D.*, Fuller-Rowell, T., Hinnant, J.B. Kaeppler, M.S., Doan, S.N. (in press). Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity. Journal of Health Psychology.
  • Kerr, M. L., Rasmussen, H. F., Borelli, J. L., Buttitta, K. V., & Smiley, P. A. (In press). Exploring the complexity of mothers’ real-time emotions while caregiving. Emotion. doi: 10.1037/emo0000719
  • Smiley, P.A., Partington, L., Cochran, C.*, & Borelli, J.L. (In press). Autonomy-restrictive emotion socialization:  associations with school-aged children’s physiology, trait and state anxiety, and relationship closeness. Developmental Psychobiology.
  • Kerr, M. L., Rasmussen, H. F.*, Smiley, P. A., Fanning, K. A., Buttitta, K. V., Benson, L. & Borelli, J. L. (In press). Within- and between-family differences in mothers’ guilt and shame: Caregiving, coparenting, and attachment. Journal of Family Psychology.
  • Smiley, P.A., Thaddeus, H.R.*, Buttitta, K.V., Hecht, H.*, Scharlach, K.*, & Borelli, L.J. (In press). Parent control and child shame: Associations with task persistence and depressive symptoms in middle childhood. Parenting: Science and Practice.