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Overview

Elaine Reese is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand and has made contributions across multiple domains within the social sciences and psychology. Their research expertise spans developmental and educational psychology, with a focus on key areas such as identity, memory, therapy, and early childhood education and development.

Reese's work frequently explores the intersections of child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, family support in illness, and the impact of digital technology on child development.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Preschool screen media exposure, executive functions and symptoms of inattention/hyperactivity," 2021, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • "The Development of Identity Fusion," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Mother, father, and I: A cross-cultural investigation of adolescents' intergenerational narratives and well-being," 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "Growing Up in New Zealand: A longitudinal study of New Zealand children and their families. Report 1: Before we are born," 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Reese are Elizabeth Schaughency, Susan Morton, Karen Salmon, Elizabeth R. Peterson, and Karen E. Waldie.

Their publications commonly appear in venues such as:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Development and Psychopathology

Reese has authored a book titled How Stories Change Us published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Their research contributions position them predominantly within the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a substantial number of publications focused on developmental and educational psychology alongside related subfields such as clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Elaborating on elaborations: role of maternal reminiscing style in cognitive and socioemotional development.

    Robyn Fivush;Catherine A. Haden;Elaine Reese

  • Mother-child conversations about the past: Relationships of style and memory over time

    Elaine Reese;Catherine A. Haden;Robyn Fivush

  • Parental Styles of Talking About the Past

    Elaine Reese;Robyn Fivush

  • Quality of adult book reading affects children's emergent literacy

    Elaine Reese;Adell Cox

  • Picture book reading with young children: A conceptual framework

    Kathryn L. Fletcher;Elaine Reese

  • Coherence of Personal Narratives Across the Lifespan: A Multidimensional Model and Coding Method

    Elaine Reese;Catherine A. Haden;Lynne Baker-Ward;Patricia Bauer

  • Mothers' extratextual comments during storybook reading: Stylistic differences over time and across texts

    Catherine A. Haden;Elaine Reese;Robyn Fivush

  • Training mothers in elaborative reminiscing enhances children's autobiographical memory and narrative.

    Elaine Reese;Rhiannon Newcombe

  • Origins of autobiographical memory.

    Keryn Harley;Elaine Reese

  • A Review of parent interventions for preschool children’s language and emergent literacy

    Elaine Reese;Alison Sparks;Diana Leyva

  • Maternal Style and Children's Participation in Reminiscing: Stepping Stones in Children's Autobiographical Memory Development

    Kate Farrant;Elaine Reese

  • Social Factors in the Development of Autobiographical Memory: The State of the Art

    Elaine Reese

  • Emotional Reminiscing and the Development of an Autobiographical Self

    Amy L Bird;Elaine Reese

  • Predicting children's literacy from mother-child conversations

    Elaine Reese

  • From infancy to adolescence: The longitudinal links between vocabulary, early literacy skills, oral narrative, and reading comprehension

    Sebastian Suggate;Elizabeth Schaughency;Helena McAnally;Elaine Reese

  • Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing Increases Low-Income Children's Narrative Skills Relative to Dialogic Reading

    Elaine Reese;Diana Leyva;Alison Sparks;Wendy Grolnick

  • Mothers, Fathers, Daughters, Sons: Gender Differences in Autobiographical Reminiscing.

    Elaine Reese;Catherine A. Haden;Robyn Fivush

  • Cohort Profile: Growing Up in New Zealand

    Susan M B Morton;Polly E Atatoa Carr;Cameron C Grant;Elizabeth M Robinson

  • Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence

    Elaine Reese;Chen Yan;Fiona Jack;Harlene Hayne

  • Maternal structure and autonomy support in conversations about the past: contributions to children's autobiographical memory.

    Emily Sutcliffe Cleveland;Elaine Reese

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Karen E. Waldie
Karen E. Waldie University of Auckland
Harlene Hayne
Harlene Hayne Curtin University
Catherine A. Haden
Catherine A. Haden Loyola University Chicago
Karen Salmon
Karen Salmon Victoria University of Wellington
Qi Wang
Qi Wang Cornell University
Wendy S. Grolnick
Wendy S. Grolnick Clark University
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford
Paul E. Jose
Paul E. Jose Victoria University of Wellington
Amanda J. Barnier
Amanda J. Barnier Macquarie University

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