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Overview

Claire Hughes is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio focused on psychology, social sciences, and medicine. Their work predominantly spans clinical psychology, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The primary areas of study for this researcher involve child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, early childhood education and development, attachment and relationship dynamics, child and animal learning development, child development and digital technology, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Claire Hughes include:

  • Couples becoming parents: Trajectories for psychological distress and buffering effects of social support (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Infant screen exposure links to toddlers' inhibition, but not other EF constructs: A propensity score study (2020), Infancy
  • Screen Time and Executive Function in Toddlerhood: A Longitudinal Study (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • A Longitudinal and Gender Invariance Analysis of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire Across Ages 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, and 17 in a Large U.K.-Representative Sample (2021), Assessment
  • Teacher Versus Parent Informant Measurement Invariance of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (2021), Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rory T. Devine
  • Sarah Foley
  • Aja Louise Murray
  • Elian Fink
  • Sara Valdebenito

Frequently publishing venues for Hughes are:

  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Cognitive Development
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
  • Infancy
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

  • Executive function in preschoolers: Links with theory of mind and verbal ability

    Claire Hughes

  • Evidence for executive dysfunction in autism.

    Claire Hughes;James Russell;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Executive Function Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Examining Profiles across Domains and Ages.

    Francesca Happé;Rhonda Booth;Rebecca A Charlton;Claire Hughes

  • Understanding mind and emotion : Longitudinal associations with mental-state talk between young friends

    Claire Hughes;Judy Dunn

  • What are the Links Between Theory of Mind and Social Relations? Review, Reflections and New Directions for Studies of Typical and Atypical Development

    Claire Hughes;Sue Leekam

  • Autistic children's difficulty with mental disengagement from an object: Its implications for theories of autism.

    Claire Hughes;James A. Russell

  • Trick or Treat?: Uneven Understanding of Mind and Emotion and Executive Dysfunction in “Hard‐to‐manage” Preschoolers

    Claire Hughes;Judy Dunn;Adele White

  • The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bryony Sheaves;Bryony Sheaves;Guy M Goodwin;Guy M Goodwin;Ly-Mee Yu

  • Executive function and theory of mind: Predictive relations from ages 2 to 4.

    Claire Hughes;Rosie Ensor

  • Tracking Executive Function Across the Transition to School: A Latent Variable Approach

    Claire Hughes;Rosie Ensor;Anji Wilson;Andrew Graham

  • Relations Between False Belief Understanding and Executive Function in Early Childhood: A Meta-Analysis

    Rory T. Devine;Claire Hughes

  • Finding your marbles: does preschoolers' strategic behavior predict later understanding of mind?

    Claire Hughes

  • Antisocial, angry, and unsympathetic: "hard-to-manage" preschoolers' peer problems and possible cognitive influences.

    Claire Hughes;Adele White;Joanna Sharpen;Judy Dunn

  • Measuring executive functions in childhood: Problems and solutions?

    Claire Hughes;Andrew Graham

  • Executive Function and Theory of Mind in 2 Year Olds: A Family Affair?

    Claire Hughes;Rosie Ensor

  • Origins of Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: From Nature to Nurture?

    Claire Hughes;Sara R. Jaffee;Francesca Happé;Alan Taylor

  • Changes and challenges in 20 years of research into the development of executive functions

    Claire Hughes

  • Silent films and strange stories: theory of mind, gender, and social experiences in middle childhood.

    Rory T. Devine;Claire Hughes

  • How do families help or hinder the emergence of early executive function

    Claire H. Hughes;Rosie A. Ensor;Rosie A. Ensor

  • Conversation and theory of mind: Do children talk their way to socio-cognitive understanding?

    Marc de Rosnay;Claire Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Serena Lecce
Serena Lecce University of Pavia
Judy Dunn
Judy Dunn King's College London
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Aja Louise Murray
Aja Louise Murray University of Edinburgh
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Peter Clive Mundy
Peter Clive Mundy University of California, Davis
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Manuel Eisner
Manuel Eisner University of Cambridge
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London

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