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Overview

Cynthia A. Stifter is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant work in clinical psychology, social psychology, and education. Additional expertise includes public health, environmental and occupational health, and pharmacy.

Their research topics span several areas related to child development and health, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Their scholarly output features multiple peer-reviewed papers, including the following selected recent publications:

  • Improving Toddlers' Healthy Eating Habits and Self-regulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • It takes two: Infants' moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years., 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Estimation of nonlinear mixed-effects continuous-time models using the continuous-discrete extended Kalman filter, 2023, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
  • Promoting toddlers' self-regulation and healthy eating habits among families living in poverty: A randomized controlled trial of Recipe 4 Success, 2023, Child Development
  • Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament, 2022, PLoS ONE

Cynthia A. Stifter has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, particularly:

  • Kameron J. Moding
  • Lori A. Francis
  • Mark E. Feinberg
  • Sukhdeep Gill
  • Michelle L. Hostetler

Their published work appears prominently in several academic venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • PLoS ONE
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • PEDIATRICS
  • Developmental Psychology

This research profile indicates a sustained engagement with topics related to early childhood development, self-regulation, nutrition, and behavioral psychology, supported by collaboration with multiple colleagues and consistent publication in specialized journals and repositories.

Best Publications

  • Self-expressiveness within the family context: psychometric support for a new measure

    Amy G. Halberstadt;Jude Cassidy;Cynthia A. Stifter;Ross D. Parke

  • The regulation of negative reactivity in infancy: function and development

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Julia M. Braungart

  • Infant Reactivity: Physiological Correlates of Newborn and 5-Month Temperament.

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Nathan A. Fox

  • Toward a Developmental Model of Child Compliance: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Infancy

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Tracy L. Spinrad;Julia M. Braungart-Rieker

  • Mothers’ Regulation Strategies in Response to Toddlers’ Affect: Links to Later Emotion Self-Regulation

    Tracy L. Spinrad;Cynthia A. Stifter;Nancy Donelan-McCall;Nancy Donelan-McCall;Laura Turner;Laura Turner

  • Regulation of negative reactivity during the strange situation: Temperament and attachment in 12-month-old infants☆

    Julia M. Braungart;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Behavioral Approach–Inhibition in Toddlers: Prediction From Infancy, Positive and Negative Affective Components, and Relations With Behavior Problems

    Samuel P. Putnam;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Exuberant and inhibited toddlers: Stability of temperament and risk for problem behavior

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Samuel Putnam;Laudan Jahromi

  • Parent use of food to soothe infant/toddler distress and child weight status. An exploratory study.

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Stephanie Anzman-Frasca;Leann L. Birch;Kristin Voegtline

  • Infants' responses to frustrating situations: continuity and change in reactivity and regulation.

    Julia M. Braungart-Rieker;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Emotional reactivity and regulation in infancy interact to predict executive functioning in early childhood.

    Alexandra Ursache;Clancy Blair;Cynthia Stifter;Kristin Voegtline

  • Compliance and Noncompliance: The Roles of Maternal Control and Child Temperament

    Julia Braungart-Rieker;Molly Murphy Garwood;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Maternal Regulation of Infant Reactivity From 2 to 6 Months

    Laudan B. Jahromi;Samuel P. Putnam;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Vagal Regulation and Observed Social Behavior in Infancy

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Janet M. Corey

  • The regulation of positive affect: Gaze aversion activity during mother-infant interaction

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Deborah Moyer

  • Toddlers' Empathy-Related Responding to Distress: Predictions From Negative Emotionality and Maternal Behavior in Infancy

    Tracy L. Spinrad;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Conditions of continuity and discontinuity in infant negative emotionality: newborn to five months.

    Margaret Fish;Cynthia A. Stifter;Jay Belsky

  • Individual Differences in Preschoolers' Self-Regulation and Theory of Mind

    Laudan B. Jahromi;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Facial expressivity and vagal tone in 5- and 10-month-old infants

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Nathan A. Fox;Stephen W. Porges

  • Temperament and childhood obesity risk: a review of the literature.

    Stephanie Anzman-Frasca;Cynthia A. Stifter;Leann L. Birch

Frequent Co-Authors

Clancy Blair
Clancy Blair New York University
Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College
Michael T. Willoughby
Michael T. Willoughby RTI International
Tracy L. Spinrad
Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University
Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Kristin A. Buss
Kristin A. Buss Pennsylvania State University
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis

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