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Joan E. Grusec

Joan E. Grusec

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Psychology

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51
Citations
20380
World Ranking
5103
National Ranking
343

Overview

Joan E. Grusec is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology, with specific expertise in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Grusec's work addresses several main topics including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Prosocial motivation as a mediator between dispositional mindfulness and prosocial behavior, 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Links among Mothers' Dispositional Mindfulness, Stress, Perspective-Taking, and Mother-Child Interactions, 2020, Mindfulness
  • Mindful Parents, Mindful Children? Exploring the Role of Mindful Parenting, 2022, Parenting
  • Two forms of mother-child reciprocity and their links to children's cooperativeness, 2021, Social Development
  • Dual process in parent-adolescent moral socialization: The moderating role of maternal warmth and involvement, 2023, Journal of Adolescence

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Grusec include:

  • Hali Kil
  • Maayan Davidov
  • D.H. O'Neill
  • Elizabeth Lee
  • Rebecca Antonacci

Grusec's research has been published in venues such as:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Parenting
  • Social Development
  • Mindfulness
  • Journal of Adolescence

In addition to journal articles, Grusec has contributed to academic books. One notable publication is the book Socializing Children, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. This book has been cited in the research community as part of their scholarly output.

Best Publications

  • Impact of parental discipline methods on the child's internalization of values: A reconceptualization of current points of view.

    Joan E. Grusec;Jacqueline J. Goodnow

  • Handbook of socialization : theory and research

    Joan E. Grusec;Paul D. Hastings

  • Untangling the Links of Parental Responsiveness to Distress and Warmth to Child Outcomes

    Maayan Davidov;Joan E. Grusec

  • Integrating Different Perspectives on Socialization Theory and Research: A Domain-Specific Approach.

    Joan E. Grusec;Maayan Davidov

  • New directions in analyses of parenting contributions to children's acquisition of values.

    Joan E. Grusec;Jacqueline J. Goodnow;Leon Kuczynski

  • Parenting and children's internalization of values : a handbook of contemporary theory

    Joan E. Grusec;Leon Kuczynski

  • Authoritarian parenting in individualist and collectivist groups: Associations with maternal emotion and cognition and children's self-esteem.

    Duane Rudy;Joan E. Grusec

  • Social cognition in parents: inferential and affective reactions to children of three age levels.

    Theodore Dix;Diane N. Ruble;Joan E. Grusec;Sara Nixon

  • Social Learning Theory and Developmental Psychology: The Legacies of Robert Sears and Albert Bandura

    J. E. Grusec

  • Socialization Processes in the Family: Social and Emotional Development

    Joan E. Grusec

  • Correlates of Authoritarian Parenting in Individualist and Collectivist Cultures and Implications for Understanding the Transmission of Values

    Duane Rudy;Joan E. Grusec

  • Vicarious extinction of avoidance behavior.

    Albert Bandura;Joan E. Grusec;Frances L. Menlove

  • Direction of effect in socialization: A comparison of the parent's versus the child's behavior as determinants of disciplinary techniques.

    Joan E. Grusec;Leon Kuczynski

  • Parenting Goals as Organizers of Responses to Parent-Child Disagreement.

    Paul D. Hastings;Joan E. Grusec

  • Attribution, reinforcement, and altruism: A developmental analysis.

    Joan E. Grusec;Erica Redler

  • Confidence in Protection: Arguments for a Narrow Definition of Attachment

    Susan Goldberg;Joan E. Grusec;Jennifer M. Jenkins

  • Waiting for rewards and punishments: effects of time and probability on choice.

    Walter Mischel;Joan Grusec

  • Observational learning as a function of symbolization and incentive set.

    Albert Bandura;Joan E. Grusec;Frances L. Menlove

  • Social Development: History, Theory, and Research

    Joan E. Grusec;Hugh Lytton

  • Parenting cognitions and child outcomes: An overview and implications for children's internalization of values.

    Joan E. Grusec;Duane Rudy;Tanya Martini

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon Kuczynski
Leon Kuczynski University of Guelph
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel Columbia University
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura Stanford University
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins University of Toronto
Diane N. Ruble
Diane N. Ruble New York University
Alison S. Fleming
Alison S. Fleming University of Toronto
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University
Sara Jo Nixon
Sara Jo Nixon University of Florida

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