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7235
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4560

Overview

Daphne Blunt Bugental was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields within the social sciences, with a particular focus on psychology.

The primary fields of study for this researcher included:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their work covered specific subfields such as:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Gender Studies

The main topics addressed in their research involved:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Daphne Blunt Bugental published research in the following venues:

  • Hormones and Behavior

A notable paper authored with Randy Corpuz in 2020 was titled Life history and individual differences in male testosterone: Mixed evidence for early environmental calibration of testosterone response to first-time fatherhood, published in Hormones and Behavior. This study explored hormonal responses related to paternal experiences and individual variability.

Throughout their career, Daphne Blunt Bugental collaborated frequently with Randy Corpuz.

Best Publications

  • Acquisition of the algorithms of social life: a domain-based approach.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental

  • Perceived Control over Caregiving Outcomes: Implications for Child Abuse.

    Daphne B. Bugental;Jay Blue;Michael Cruzcosa

  • Parental and child cognitions in the context of the family.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Charlotte Johnston

  • "Difficult" children as elicitors and targets of adult communication patterns: an attributional-behavioral transactional analysis.

    Daphne B. Bugental;William A. Shennum

  • A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Patricia Crane Ellerson;Eta K. Lin;Bonnie Rainey

  • Perception of contradictory meanings conveyed by verbal and nonverbal channels.

    Daphne E. Bugental;Jaques W. Kaswan;Leonore R. Love

  • The hormonal costs of subtle forms of infant maltreatment.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Gabriela A Martorell;Veronica Barraza

  • Measuring parental attributions: Conceptual and methodological issues.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Charlotte Johnston;Michelle New;Joanne Silvester

  • Predicting infant maltreatment in low-income families: the interactive effects of maternal attributions and child status at birth.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Keith Happaney

  • Caregiver beliefs and dysphoric affect directed to difficult children.

    Daphne B. Bugental;Jay Blue;Jeffrey Lewis

  • Maternal variations in stress reactivity: Implications for harsh parenting practices with very young children

    Gabriela A. Martorell;Daphne Blunt Bugental

  • Causal Attributions of Hyperactive Children and Motivational Assumptions of Two Behavior-Change Approaches: Evidence for an Interactionist Position.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Carol K. Whalen;Barbara Henker

  • Ageism: A Review of Research and Policy Implications

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Jessica A. Hehman

  • Social cognitions as organizers of autonomic and affective responses to social challenge.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Jay Blue;Victoria Cortez;Karen Fleck

  • The Paradoxical Misuse of Power by Those Who See Themselves as Powerless: How Does It Happen?

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Jeffrey Clayton Lewis

  • Perfidious Feminine Faces.

    Daphne E. Bugental;Leonore R. Love;Robert M. Gianetto

  • Physiological reactivity to responsive and unresponsive children as moderated by perceived control.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Victoria L. Cortez

  • Verbal-nonverbal conflict in parental messages to normal and disturbed children.

    Daphne E. Bugental;Leonore R. Love;Jacques W. Kaswan;Carol April

  • Child Versus Adult Perception of Evaluative Messages in Verbal, Vocal, and Visual Channels.

    Daphne E. Bugental;Jacques W. Kaswan;Leonore R. Love;Michael N. Fox

  • Contingent parental investment: an evolutionary framework for understanding early interaction between mothers and children

    David A. Beaulieu;Daphne Bugental

  • Who's the boss? Differential accessibility of dominance ideation in parent–child relationships.

    Daphne Blunt Bugental;Judith E. Lyon;Jennifer Krantz;Victoria Cortez

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol K. Whalen
Carol K. Whalen University of California, Irvine
Barbara Henker
Barbara Henker University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco

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