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Jamie DeCoster is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily intersects social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education and developmental studies.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including education, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology. Their main research interests concentrate on early childhood education and development, reading and literacy development, parental involvement in education, educational and psychological assessments, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, and catalytic processes in materials science.

The research output includes publications in a range of venues, with frequent contributions to Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Learning and Individual Differences. Other publication venues include the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, and Molecular Catalysis.

Major recent papers by Jamie DeCoster include:

  • Impacts of an Early Childhood Mathematics and Science Intervention on Teaching Practices and Child Outcomes, 2020, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
  • Can service-learning boost science achievement, civic engagement, and social skills? A randomized controlled trial of Connect Science, 2021, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Influence of oxidizing and reducing pretreatment on the catalytic performance of CeO2 for CO oxidation, 2022, Molecular Catalysis
  • Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures, 2022, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Validation of an instrument for assessing elementary-grade educators' knowledge to teach reading, 2023, Reading and Writing

Collaborations form an important aspect of Jamie DeCoster's research. Frequent co-authors include Emily J. Solari, Katlynn Dahl-Leonard, Carlin Conner, Delaram A. Totonchi, and Chris S. Hulleman.

Best Publications

  • Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Alexander A. Aarts;Joanna E. Anderson;Christopher J. Anderson;Peter R. Attridge;Peter R. Attridge

  • Dual-Process Models in Social and Cognitive Psychology: Conceptual Integration and Links to Underlying Memory Systems

    Eliot R. Smith;Jamie DeCoster

  • Overview of Factor Analysis

    Jamie DeCoster

  • A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis Relating the Hare Measures of Psychopathy to Antisocial Conduct

    Anne-Marie R. Leistico;Randall T. Salekin;Jamie DeCoster;Richard Rogers

  • Teaching through Interactions: Testing a Developmental Framework of Teacher Effectiveness in over 4,000 Classrooms

    Bridget K. Hamre;Robert C. Pianta;Jason T. Downer;Jamie DeCoster

  • A Conceptual and Empirical Examination of Justifications for Dichotomization

    Jamie DeCoster;Anne-Marie R. Iselin;Marcello Gallucci

  • A Meta-Analysis of Priming Effects on Impression Formation Supporting a General Model of Informational Biases:

    Jamie Decoster;Heather M. Claypool

  • Best Practices for Using Median Splits, Artificial Categorization, and their Continuous Alternatives

    Jamie DeCoster;Marcello Gallucci;Anne-Marie R. Iselin

  • Effect of playing violent video games cooperatively or competitively on subsequent cooperative behavior.

    David R. Ewoldsen;Cassie A. Eno;Bradley M. Okdie;John A. Velez

  • Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents: A meta-analysis

    Tiarney D. Ritchwood;Haley Ford;Jamie DeCoster;Marnie Sutton

  • Enhancing caregiver health: findings from the resources for enhancing Alzheimer's caregiver health II intervention.

    Amanda F. Elliott;Louis D. Burgio;Jamie DeCoster

  • Teacher-child conversations in preschool classrooms: Contributions to children's vocabulary development

    Sonia Q. Cabell;Laura M. Justice;Anita S. McGinty;Jamie DeCoster

  • Normal sleep in African-Americans and Caucasian-Americans: A meta-analysis.

    Megan E. Ruiter;Jamie DeCoster;Lindsey Jacobs;Kenneth L. Lichstein

  • Positive aspects of caregiving as a moderator of treatment outcome over 12 months.

    Michelle M. Hilgeman;Rebecca S. Allen;Jamie DeCoster;Louis D. Burgio

  • Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach Results From a 3-Year, Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman;Ross A. A. Larsen;Alison E. Baroody;Timothy W. Curby

  • Knowledge acquisition, accessibility, and use in person perception and stereotyping: simulation with a recurrent connectionist network.

    Eliot R. Smith;Jamie DeCoster

  • Variation in the effectiveness of instructional interactions across preschool classroom settings and learning activities

    Sonia Q. Cabell;Jamie DeCoster;Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch;Bridget K. Hamre

  • A new classification system for grading the severity of onychomycosis: Onychomycosis Severity Index.

    Caitlin Carney;Antonella Tosti;Ralph Daniel;Ralph Daniel;Ralph Daniel;Richard Scher

  • Characterizing the magnitude of the relation between self-reported childhood parentification and adult psychopathology: a meta-analysis.

    Lisa M. Hooper;Jamie DeCoster;Nyshetia White;Mukesha L. Voltz

  • Associative and rule-based processing: A connectionist interpretation of dual-process models.

    Eliot R. Smith;Jamie DeCoster

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca S. Allen
Rebecca S. Allen University of Alabama
Bridget K. Hamre
Bridget K. Hamre University of Virginia
Giyeon Kim
Giyeon Kim Chung-Ang University
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia
Eliot R. Smith
Eliot R. Smith Indiana University
Patricia A. Parmelee
Patricia A. Parmelee University of Alabama
Jason T. Downer
Jason T. Downer University of Virginia
Randall T. Salekin
Randall T. Salekin University of Alabama
David A. Chiriboga
David A. Chiriboga University of South Florida
Marcello Gallucci
Marcello Gallucci University of Milano-Bicocca

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