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Kimberly Andrews Espy

Kimberly Andrews Espy

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
14873
World Ranking
5566
National Ranking
3037

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kimberly Andrews Espy is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, education, experimental and cognitive psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, obesity, physical activity, diet, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cognitive abilities and testing, eating disorders and behaviors, and behavioral health and interventions.

Kimberly Andrews Espy has published research in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • Developmental Psychology

Collaboration is evident in their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Timothy D. Nelson
  • Tiffany D. James
  • Jennifer Mize Nelson
  • W. Alex Mason
  • Cara C. Tomaso

Selected recent papers by Kimberly Andrews Espy include:

  • "Empirical support for a dual process model of the p-factor: Interaction effects between preschool executive control and preschool negative emotionality on general psychopathology," 2022, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • "Executive control throughout elementary school: Factor structure and associations with early childhood executive control," 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • "Preschool executive control predicts social information processing in early elementary school," 2020, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • "Associations between specific components of executive control and eating behaviors in adolescence: A study using objective and subjective measures," 2020, Appetite
  • "Executive Control in Early Childhood as an Antecedent of Adolescent Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Study with Performance-based Measures of Early Childhood Cognitive Processes," 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

The scientist has been recognized with professional distinctions including being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2005 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Short-Term Memory, Working Memory, and Executive Functioning in Preschoolers: Longitudinal Predictors of Mathematical Achievement at Age 7 Years

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Sandra A. Wiebe

  • Using confirmatory factor analysis to understand executive control in preschool children: I. Latent structure.

    Sandra A. Wiebe;Kimberly Andrews Espy;David Charak

  • The Contribution of Executive Functions to Emergent Mathematic Skills in Preschool Children.

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Melanie M. McDiarmid;Mary F. Cwik;Melissa Meade Stalets

  • The structure of executive function in 3-year-olds

    Sandra A. Wiebe;Tiffany Sheffield;Jennifer Mize Nelson;Caron A.C. Clark

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) in a Clinical Sample

    Gerard A. Gioia;Peter K. Isquith;Paul D. Retzlaff;Kimberly A. Espy

  • The Shape School: Assessing executive function in preschool children

    Kimberly Andrews Espy

  • Executive function in preschool children: examination through everyday behavior.

    Peter K. Isquith;Gerard A. Gioia;Kimberly Andrews Espy

  • Assessment of executive function in preschool-aged children.

    Peter K. Isquith;Jennifer S. Crawford;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Gerard A. Gioia

  • Executive functioning in preschool children: performance on A-not-B and other delayed response format tasks.

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Paul M. Kaufmann;Melanie D. McDiarmid;Martha L. Glisky

  • Using path analysis to understand executive function organization in preschool children.

    Theresa E. Senn;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Paul M. Kaufmann

  • Executive function deficits in preschool children with ADHD and DBD

    Kim Schoemaker;Tessa Bunte;Sandra A. Wiebe;Sandra A. Wiebe;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Kimberly Andrews Espy

  • A comparison of performance on the Towers of London and Hanoi in young children.

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Theresa E. Senn

  • New procedures to assess executive functions in preschool children.

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Paul M. Kaufmann;Martha L. Glisky;Melanie D. McDiarmid

  • Executive control and dimensions of problem behaviors in preschool children.

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Tiffany D. Sheffield;Sandra A. Wiebe;Caron A.C. Clark

  • Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Understand Executive Control in Preschool Children: Sources of Variation in Emergent Mathematic Achievement.

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Sandra A. Wiebe;Tiffany D. Sheffield

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Executive Control and Developing Mathematical Competence in Preschool Boys and Girls

    Caron A.C. Clark;Tiffany D. Sheffield;Sandra A. Wiebe;Kimberly Andrews Espy

  • Separating the fish from the sharks: a longitudinal study of preschool response inhibition.

    Sandra A. Wiebe;Tiffany D. Sheffield;Kimberly Andrews Espy

  • Behavior disorders in extremely preterm/extremely low birth weight children in kindergarten.

    Megan N. Scott;H. Gerry Taylor;Mary A. Fristad;Nancy Klein

  • Inhibitory Processes in Young Children and Individual Variation in Short-Term Memory

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Rebecca Bull

  • Using developmental, cognitive, and neuroscience approaches to understand executive control in young children.

    Kimberly Andrews Espy

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra A. Wiebe
Sandra A. Wiebe University of Alberta
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Rebecca Bull
Rebecca Bull Macquarie University
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Walter Matthys
Walter Matthys Utrecht University
Maja Deković
Maja Deković Utrecht University
Victoria J. Molfese
Victoria J. Molfese University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Peter K. Isquith
Peter K. Isquith Dartmouth College
David J. Francis
David J. Francis University of Houston
Katherine K. Matthay
Katherine K. Matthay University of California, San Francisco

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