Applied Mind and Health – Child Attachment, Relationships and Emotion Lab
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
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
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.
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.