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David Reiss is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed to multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields such as clinical psychology, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research primarily focuses on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, cognitive abilities and testing, child welfare and adoption, birth, development, and health, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "The role of child negative emotionality in parenting and child adjustment: Gene-environment interplay" (2021) in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "The role of negative emotionality in the development of child executive function and language abilities from toddlerhood to first grade: An adoption study." (2021) in Developmental Psychology
  • "Examining reciprocal associations between parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing symptoms on subsequent psychiatric disorders: An adoption study" (2021) in Depression and Anxiety
  • "Child Effects on Parental Negativity: The Role of Heritable and Prenatal Factors" (2020) in Child Development
  • "Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes" (2022) in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Reiss include:

  • Jody M. Ganiban
  • Daniel S. Shaw
  • Leslie D. Leve
  • Jenae M. Neiderhiser
  • Misaki N. Natsuaki

The main publication venues for their work comprise:

  • Child Development
  • Behavior Genetics
  • Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • PLoS ONE
  • Development and Psychopathology

Best Publications

  • The Family's Construction of Reality

    David Reiss

  • The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development

    David Reiss;Jenae M. Neiderhiser;E. Mavis Hetherington;Robert Plomin

  • Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1a gene (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans

    Hasse Walum;Lars Westberg;Susanne Henningsson;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

  • Genetic Questions for Environmental Studies: Differential Parenting and Psychopathology in Adolescence

    David Reiss;E. Mavis Hetherington;Robert Plomin;George W. Howe

  • Associations among family relationships, antisocial peers, and adolescents' externalizing behaviors: gender and family type differences.

    Jungmeen E. Kim;E. Mavis Hetherington;David Reiss

  • Family Environment and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Antisocial Behavior: A Multivariate Genetic Analysis.

    Alison Pike;Shirley McGuire;E. Mavis Hetherington;David Reiss

  • Parental Religiosity, Parenting Style, and Adolescent Social Responsibility

    Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe;E. Mavis Hetherington;David Reiss

  • Putting the illness in its place: discussion groups for families with chronic medical illnesses.

    Sandra Gonzalez;Peter Steinglass;David Reiss

  • Nature and nurture: genetic contributions to measures of the family environment

    Robert Plomin;David Reiss;E. Mavis Hetherington;George W. Howe

  • Separate Social Worlds of Siblings : The Impact of Nonshared Environment on Development

    E. Mavis Hetherington;David Reiss;Robert Plomin

  • Co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and antisocial behavior in adolescence: a common genetic liability.

    O'Connor Tg;McGuire S;Reiss D;Hetherington Em

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety: A Children-of-Twins Study.

    Thalia C. Eley;Tom A. McAdams;Fruhling V. Rijsdijk;Paul Lichtenstein

  • Cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems among school-age children of alcoholic parents

    L. A. Bennett;S. J. Wolin;D. Reiss

  • Depression, Perception of Illness and Mortality in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease

    Rolf A. Peterson;Paul L. Kimmel;Carol R. Sacks;Mary Louise Mesquita

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Mothering of Adolescents: A Comparison of Two Samples

    Jenae M Neiderhiser;David Reiss;Nancy L Pedersen;Paul Lichtenstein

  • Couples at Risk for Transmission of Alcoholism: Protective Influences

    Linda A. Bennett;Steven J. Wolin;David Reiss;Martha A. Teitelbaum

  • Biological and rearing mother influences on child ADHD symptoms: revisiting the developmental interface between nature and nurture

    Gordon Thomas Harold;Gordon Thomas Harold;Leslie D. Leve;Douglas Barrett;Kit Elam

  • Variation in the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Is Associated with Pair-Bonding and Social Behavior

    Hasse Walum;Paul Lichtenstein;Jenae M. Neiderhiser;David Reiss

  • Family Paradigm and Family Coping: A Proposal for Linking the Family's Intrinsic Adaptive Capacities to Its Responses to Stress.

    David Reiss;Mary Ellen Oliveri

  • Personality disorders and relational disorders: A research agenda for addressing crucial gaps in DSM.

    Michael B. First;Carl C. Bell;Bruce Cuthbert;John H. Krystal

  • The Family's Construction of Reality

    C. C. Harris;David Reiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
Leslie D. Leve
Leslie D. Leve University of Oregon
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Jody M. Ganiban
Jody M. Ganiban George Washington University
Misaki N. Natsuaki
Misaki N. Natsuaki University of California, Riverside
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
E. Mavis Hetherington
E. Mavis Hetherington University of Virginia
Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Laura V. Scaramella
Laura V. Scaramella University of Arizona
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute

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