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1973
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Kevin Durkin is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. The research focus encompasses developmental and educational psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, education, developmental neuroscience, and genetics.

Their research topics include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Williams Syndrome Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Family Business Performance and Succession

Recent papers published by Kevin Durkin are:

  • Play and prosociality are associated with fewer externalizing problems in children with developmental language disorder: The role of early language and communication environment, 2020, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
  • Pathways from the early language and communication environment to literacy outcomes at the end of primary school; the roles of language development and social development, 2020, Oxford Review of Education
  • Peer Relationships in Children with Williams Syndrome: Parent and Teacher Insights, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Friendships in Children with Williams Syndrome: Parent and Child Perspectives, 2022, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Frequent coauthors in their research include Umar Toseeb, Jenny L. Gibson, Dianne F. Newbury, Andrew Pickles, and Gina Conti-Ramsden.

Kevin Durkin has published work in various academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
  • Oxford Review of Education

Among book publications, Kevin Durkin is credited with "Developmental Social Psychology: From Infancy to Old Age," published in 2020 by the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, which has received significant citations.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands

    David P. Schmitt

  • Not so doomed: computer game play and positive adolescent development

    Kevin Durkin;Bonnie Barber

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • A longitudinal study of behavioral, emotional and social difficulties in individuals with a history of specific language impairment (SLI)

    Michelle C. St Clair;Andrew Pickles;Kevin Durkin;Gina Conti-Ramsden

  • Language, social behavior, and the quality of friendships in adolescents with and without a history of Specific Language Impairment

    Kevin Durkin;Gina Conti-Ramsden

  • Abnormal global processing along the dorsal visual pathway in autism: A possible mechanism for weak visuospatial coherence?

    Elizabeth Pellicano;Lisa Gibson;Murray Maybery;Kevin Durkin

  • Friendship, loneliness and depression in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome.

    Andrew J.O. Whitehouse;Andrew J.O. Whitehouse;Kevin Durkin;Emma Jaquet;Kathryn Ziatas

  • Multiple cognitive capabilities/deficits in children with an autism spectrum disorder: 'Weak' central coherence and its relationship to theory of mind and executive control

    Elizabeth Pellicano;Murray Maybery;Kevin Durkin;Alana Maley

  • Developmental Social Psychology: From Infancy to Old Age

    Kevin Durkin

  • Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Lara Ault

  • Group Norms, Threat, and Children's Racial Prejudice

    Drew Nesdale;Anne Maass;Kevin Durkin;Judith Griffiths

  • Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner

    David P. Schmitt

  • Specific language impairment and school outcomes. I: Identifying and explaining variability at the end of compulsory education

    Gina Conti-Ramsden;Kevin Durkin;Zoë Simkin;Emma Knox

  • Weak central coherence, poor joint attention, and low verbal ability: independent deficits in early autism.

    Bronwyn Morgan;Murray Maybery;Kevin Durkin

  • First-time mothers' expectations of parenthood: What happens when optimistic expectations are not matched by later experiences?

    Kate Harwood;Neil McLean;Kevin Durkin

  • Education and employment outcomes of young adults with a history of developmental language disorder

    Gina Conti-Ramsden;Kevin Durkin;Umar Toseeb;Nicola Botting

  • Shyness and Computer-Mediated Communication: A Self-Presentational Theory Perspective

    Werner G. K. Stritzke;Anh Nguyen;Kevin Durkin

  • Adolescents with a history of specific language impairment (SLI) : strengths and difficulties in social, emotional and behavioral functioning

    Gina Conti-Ramsden;Pearl L. H. Mok;Andrew Pickles;Kevin Durkin

  • Threat, Group Identification, and Children's Ethnic Prejudice

    Drew Nesdale;Kevin Durkin;Anne Maass;Judith Anne Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Stephen Houghton
Stephen Houghton University of Western Australia
Annemaree Carroll
Annemaree Carroll University of Queensland
John Hattie
John Hattie University of Melbourne
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Drew Nesdale
Drew Nesdale Griffith University
Nicola Botting
Nicola Botting City, University of London
Murray T. Maybery
Murray T. Maybery University of Western Australia
Simon C. Hunter
Simon C. Hunter Glasgow Caledonian University
Anne Maass
Anne Maass University of Padua

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