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Heather A. Henderson

Heather A. Henderson

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Psychology

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Overview

Heather A. Henderson is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Heather A. Henderson's research centers on various main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Spinal Cord Injury Research

Recent publications by Henderson reflect a consistent focus on developmental and clinical psychology themes. Selected papers include:

  • Understanding the Emergence of Social Anxiety in Children With Behavioral Inhibition (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety (2022), published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Transactional Associations Between Parent and Late Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping (2021), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Infant temperament prospectively predicts general psychopathology in childhood (2021), published in Development and Psychopathology
  • A Developmental Pathway From Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults' Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Henderson frequently publishes in specific venues, notably:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Development
  • Developmental Science

The collaboration history of Henderson includes multiple co-authors who appear repeatedly across their works. These co-authors are:

  • Nathan A. Fox
  • Santiago Morales
  • Kathryn A. Degnan
  • Andrea Chronis-Tuscano
  • Selin Zeytinoglu

Best Publications

  • Behavioral Inhibition: Linking Biology and Behavior within a Developmental Framework

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Peter J. Marshall;Kate E. Nichols

  • Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life.

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth H. Rubin;Susan D. Calkins

  • Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kathryn Amey Degnan;Daniel S. Pine;Koraly Perez-Edgar

  • Impact of Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Style on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood through Adolescence

    Lela Rankin Williams;Kathryn A. Degnan;Koraly E. Perez-Edgar;Heather A. Henderson

  • The Consistency and Concomitants of Inhibition: Some of the Children, All of the Time

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Paul D. Hastings;Shannon L. Stewart;Heather A. Henderson

  • Evidence for a Gene-Environment Interaction in Predicting Behavioral Inhibition in Middle Childhood

    Nathan A. Fox;Kate E. Nichols;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth Rubin

  • Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety: The Moderating Roles of Inhibitory Control and Attention Shifting

    Lauren K. White;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Kathryn A. Degnan;Heather A. Henderson

  • Attention biases to threat link behavioral inhibition to social withdrawal over time in very young children.

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Lauren K. White

  • A history of childhood behavioral inhibition and enhanced response monitoring in adolescence are linked to clinical anxiety.

    Jennifer M. McDermott;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Heather A. Henderson;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano

  • Striatal Functional Alteration in Adolescents Characterized by Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition

    Amanda E. Guyer;Eric E. Nelson;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Michael G. Hardin;Michael G. Hardin

  • Psychophysiological and Behavioral Evidence for Varying Forms and Functions of Nonsocial Behavior in Preschoolers.

    Heather A. Henderson;Heather A. Henderson;Peter J. Marshall;Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Predicting Social Wariness in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Roles of Childcare History, Maternal Personality and Maternal Behavior

    Kathryn Amey Degnan;Heather A. Henderson;Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Behavioral reactivity and approach-withdrawal bias in infancy.

    Amie Ashley Hane;Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Peter J. Marshall

  • Attention Alters Neural Responses to Evocative Faces in Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Roxann Roberson-Nay;Michael G. Hardin;Michael G. Hardin;Kaitlin Poeth

  • Temperamental contributions to social behavior: the moderating roles of frontal EEG asymmetry and gender.

    Heather A. Henderson;Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Behavioral inhibition and developmental risk: a dual-processing perspective.

    Heather A Henderson;Daniel S Pine;Nathan A Fox

  • Longitudinal stability of temperamental exuberance and social-emotional outcomes in early childhood.

    Kathryn A. Degnan;Amie Ashley Hane;Heather A. Henderson;Olga Lydia Moas

  • Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development

    Heather A. Henderson;Theodore D. Wachs

  • Response monitoring, the error-related negativity, and differences in social behavior in autism

    Heather Henderson;Caley Schwartz;Peter Clive Mundy;Courtney Burnette

  • Developmental and Individual Differences on the P1 and N170 ERP Components in Children With and Without Autism

    Camilla M. Hileman;Heather Henderson;Peter Clive Mundy;Lisa Newell

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn A. Degnan
Kathryn A. Degnan Catholic University of America
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Peter Clive Mundy
Peter Clive Mundy University of California, Davis
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Peter J. Marshall
Peter J. Marshall Temple University
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami

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