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JoAnn Robinson is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans various areas within psychology and social sciences, with a predominant focus on clinical psychology. Other fields of study include general health professions, developmental and educational psychology, education, and social psychology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple main topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent health, attachment and relationship dynamics, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by JoAnn Robinson include:

  • The association between toddlerhood empathy deficits and antisocial personality disorder symptoms and psychopathy in adulthood (2020), Development and Psychopathology
  • The Professional Is the Personal: A Qualitative Exploration of Self-Care Practices in Clinical Infant Mental Health Practitioners (2020), Journal of Social Service Research
  • On the complex and dimensional relationship of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder during early childhood and child outcomes at school-age (2023), European Psychiatry
  • Beyond overwhelmed: A new measure of the functional impact of toxic stress on parents of young children (2021), Children and Youth Services Review
  • Promoting reflective practice in an infant and early childhood training program (2023), Infant Mental Health Journal

Frequent co-authors working alongside JoAnn Robinson include Kaela Byers, Emma Kahle Monahan, Julie S. McCrae, Jennifer Dealy, and Tanika Eaves.

The publications of JoAnn Robinson appear often in venues such as the Infant Mental Health Journal, Development and Psychopathology, European Psychiatry, Journal of Social Service Research, and Children and Youth Services Review.

Best Publications

  • Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    David L. Olds;JoAnn Robinson;Ruth O’Brien;Dennis W. Luckey

  • The development of empathy in twins.

    Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;JoAnn L. Robinson;Robert N. Emde

  • The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy: Genetic and environmental contributions

    Ariel Knafo;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Carol Van Hulle;JoAnn L. Robinson

  • Effects of nurse home-visiting on maternal life course and child development: age 6 follow-up results of a randomized trial.

    David L. Olds;Harriet Kitzman;Robert Cole;JoAnn Robinson

  • The development of concern for others in children with behavior problems.

    Paul D. Hastings;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;JoAnn Robinson;Barbara Usher

  • Maternal intrusiveness, maternal warmth, and mother-toddler relationship outcomes: Variations across low-income ethnic and acculturation groups.

    Jean M. Ispa;Mark A. Fine;Linda C. Halgunseth;Scott Harper

  • Effects of home visits by paraprofessionals and by nurses: age 4 follow-up results of a randomized trial.

    David L. Olds;JoAnn Robinson;Lisa Pettitt;Dennis W. Luckey

  • Developmental Trajectories in Toddlers’ Self-restraint Predict Individual Differences in Executive Functions 14 Years Later: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;JoAnn L. Robinson;John K. Hewitt

  • Temperament, emotion, and cognition at fourteen months: the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study.

    Robert N. Emde;Robert Plomin;JoAnn Robinson;Robin Corley

  • Genetic Change and Continuity from Fourteen to Twenty Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study

    Robert Plomin;Jerome Kagan;Robert N. Emde;J. Steven Reznick

  • Emotional availability in mother-child interactions: a reconceptualization for research.

    Zeynep Biringen;JoAnn Robinson

  • The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior: A twin study.

    JoAnn L. Robinson;Jerome Kagan;J. Steven Reznick;Robin Corley

  • Maternal preconceptions about parenting predict child temperament, maternal sensitivity, and children's empathy.

    Lisa Kiang;Amanda J. Moreno;JoAnn L. Robinson

  • THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF A PROGRAM OF HOME VISITATION FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

    David Olds;Harriet Kitzman;Robert Cole;JoAnn Robinson

  • Empathy and guilt: Early origins of feelings of responsibility.

    Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Joann Robinson

  • Patterns of development in early empathic behavior: Environmental and child constitutional influences

    JoAnn L. Robinson

  • Caregiver traumatization adversely impacts young children's mental representations on the MacArthur Story Stem Battery

    Daniel S. Schechter;Annette Zygmunt;Susan W. Coates;Mark Davies

  • Relational and Individual Resources as Predictors of Empathy in Early Childhood

    Amanda J. Moreno;Mary M. Klute;JoAnn L. Robinson

  • Effects of home visits by paraprofessionals and by nurses on children: follow-up of a randomized trial at ages 6 and 9 years

    David L. Olds;John R. Holmberg;Nancy Donelan-McCall;Dennis W. Luckey

  • Gender-specific characteristics of 5-year-olds' play narratives and associations with behavior ratings

    Kai von Klitzing;Kimberly Kelsay;Robert N. Emde;JoANN Robinson

  • Empathy and Prosocial Behavior

    J. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder
Robert N. Emde
Robert N. Emde University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Carol A. Van Hulle
Carol A. Van Hulle University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan Harvard University
Lori A. Roggman
Lori A. Roggman Utah State University
David W. Fulker
David W. Fulker University of Colorado Boulder

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