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Overview

Jennifer S. Silk is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and education as subfields of study.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Jennifer S. Silk has contributed to publications in a variety of venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Parents still matter! Parental warmth predicts adolescent brain function and anxiety and depressive symptoms 2 years later," 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • "A review of associations between parental emotion socialization behaviors and the neural substrates of emotional reactivity and regulation in youth," 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • "Longitudinal links between maternal and peer emotion socialization and adolescent girls' socioemotional adjustment," 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • "Storm Clouds and Silver Linings: Day-to-Day Life in COVID-19 Lockdown and Emotional Health in Adolescent Girls," 2021, Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • "Associations between brain structure and sleep patterns across adolescent development," 2021, SLEEP

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Cecile D. Ladouceur
  • Erika E. Forbes
  • Neal D. Ryan
  • Ronald E. Dahl
  • Stefanie Sequeira

Best Publications

  • The Role of the Family Context in the Development of Emotion Regulation

    Amanda Sheffield Morris;Jennifer S. Silk;Laurence Steinberg;Sonya S. Myers

  • Adolescents' emotion regulation in daily life: links to depressive symptoms and problem behavior.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Laurence Steinberg;and Amanda Sheffield Morris

  • The Impact of Parenting on Emotion Regulation During Childhood and Adolescence

    Amanda S. Morris;Michael M. Criss;Jennifer S. Silk;Benjamin J. Houltberg

  • Psychological Control and Autonomy Granting: Opposite Ends of a Continuum or Distinct Constructs?

    Jennifer S. Silk;Amanda S. Morris;Tomoe Kanaya;Laurence Steinberg

  • Altered Striatal Activation Predicting Real-World Positive Affect in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder

    Erika E. Forbes;Ahmad R. Hariri;B.A. Samantha L. Martin;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Temperamental Vulnerability and Negative Parenting as Interacting Predictors of Child Adjustment

    Amanda Sheffield Morris;Jennifer S. Silk;Laurence Steinberg;Frances M. Sessa

  • Emotion regulation strategies in offspring of childhood-onset depressed mothers

    Jennifer S. Silk;Daniel S. Shaw;Emily M. Skuban;Alyssa A. Oland

  • Empirical recommendations for improving the stability of the dot-probe task in clinical research.

    Rebecca B. Price;Jennie M. Kuckertz;Greg J. Siegle;Cecile D. Ladouceur

  • The influence of mother-child emotion regulation strategies on children's expression of anger and sadness.

    Amanda Sheffield Morris;Jennifer S. Silk;Michael D. S. Morris;Laurence Steinberg

  • The neurobiology of the emotional adolescent: From the inside out.

    Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer S. Silk;Eric E. Nelson

  • Developmental Trajectories of Anxiety Symptoms Among Boys Across Early and Middle Childhood

    Xin Feng;Daniel S. Shaw;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Adolescent Emotion Regulation.

    Lixian Cui;Amanda Sheffield Morris;Michael M. Criss;Benjamin J. Houltberg

  • Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contexts

    Jennifer S. Silk;Ella Vanderbilt-Adriance;Daniel S. Shaw;Erika E. Forbes

  • Maternal depression and child internalizing: the moderating role of child emotion regulation.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Daniel S. Shaw;Erika E. Forbes;Tonya L. Lane

  • Daily Emotional Dynamics in Depressed Youth: A Cell Phone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Erika E. Forbes;Diana J. Whalen;Jennifer L. Jakubcak

  • Increased Neural Response to Peer Rejection associated with Adolescent Depression and Pubertal Development

    Jennifer S. Silk;Greg J. Siegle;Kyung Hwa Lee;Eric E. Nelson

  • A Longitudinal Study of Childhood Depression and Anxiety in Relation to Weight Gain

    Dana L. Rofey;Rachel P. Kolko;Ana-Maria Iosif;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Peer acceptance and rejection through the eyes of youth: pupillary, eyetracking and ecological data from the Chatroom Interact task

    Jennifer S. Silk;Laura R. Stroud;Greg J. Siegle;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Mobile technology boosts the effectiveness of psychotherapy and behavioral interventions: a meta-analysis

    Oliver Lindhiem;Charles B. Bennett;Dana Rosen;Jennifer Silk

  • Vagal tone and temperament as predictors of emotion regulation strategies in young children.

    Aimee K. Santucci;Jennifer S. Silk;Daniel S. Shaw;Amy Gentzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh
Cecile D. Ladouceur
Cecile D. Ladouceur University of Pittsburgh
Greg J. Siegle
Greg J. Siegle University of Pittsburgh
Dana L. McMakin
Dana L. McMakin Florida International University
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Amanda Sheffield Morris Oklahoma State University
Rebecca B. Price
Rebecca B. Price University of Pittsburgh
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall Temple University
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh

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