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Kimberly J. Saudino

Kimberly J. Saudino

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Psychology

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42
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6679
World Ranking
7607
National Ranking
4085

Overview

Kimberly J. Saudino is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a total of 22 publications in this field. Within psychology, their work spans multiple subfields, including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research explores several main topics:

  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Cognitive abilities and testing
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Bullying, victimization, and aggression
  • Birth, development, and health
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment

Among frequent co-authors are Jody M. Ganiban, I-Tzu Hung, Ariel Knafo-Noam, Lior Abramson, and Karri Silventoinen.

Saudino's publications often appear in specific academic journals. Venues where their work has been published include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Behavior Genetics (2 publications)
  • International Journal of Obesity
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Cognition and Development

Recent papers by Kimberly J. Saudino include:

  • Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Changing genetic architecture of body mass index from infancy to early adulthood: an individual based pooled analysis of 25 twin cohorts, 2022, International Journal of Obesity
  • Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous-unemotional traits in early childhood, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Low social affiliation predicts increases in callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood, 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Lexical Processing of Nouns and Verbs at 36 Months of Age Predicts Concurrent and Later Vocabulary and School Readiness, 2020, Journal of Cognition and Development

Best Publications

  • What Is Temperament Now? Assessing Progress in Temperament Research on the Twenty‐Fifth Anniversary of Goldsmith et al. ()

    Rebecca L. Shiner;Kristin A. Buss;Sandee G. McClowry;Samuel P. Putnam

  • Behavioral genetics and child temperament.

    Kimberly J. Saudino

  • Gender differences in psychological, physical, and sexual aggression among college students using the revised conflict tactics scales.

    Denise A. Hines;Kimberly J. Saudino

  • Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

    Karri Silventoinen;Karri Silventoinen;Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon-Mi Hur

  • Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

    Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon Mi Hur;Yoshie Yokoyama

  • Emotion Regulation and Stress

    Manjie Wang;Kimberly J. Saudino

  • Can personality explain genetic influences on life events

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Nancy L. Pedersen;Paul Lichtenstein;G. E. McClearn

  • Intergenerational Transmission of Intimate Partner Violence: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective

    Denise A. Hines;Kimberly J. Saudino

  • The validity of parent-based assessment of the cognitive abilities of 2-year-olds

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Philip S. Dale;Bonamy R Oliver;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Infant Temperament and Genetics: An Objective Twin Study of Motor Activity Level

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Warren O. Eaton

  • Parent ratings of EAS temperaments in twins, full siblings, half siblings, and step siblings.

    K J Saudino;S McGuire;D Reiss;E M Hetherington

  • Perceived competence and self-worth during adolescence: a longitudinal behavioral genetic study

    Shirley McGuire;Beth Manke;Kimberly J. Saudino;David Reiss

  • Exploring the Relationship Between Autistic-Like Traits and ADHD Behaviors in Early Childhood: Findings from a Community Twin Study of 2-Year-Olds

    Angelica Ronald;Lisa R. Edelson;Philip Asherson;Kimberly J. Saudino

  • The Etiology of Behavior Problems in 7-Year-Old Twins: Substantial Genetic Influence and Negligible Shared Environmental Influence for Parent Ratings and Ratings by Same and Different Teachers

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Angelica Ronald;Robert Plomin

  • Understanding child-based effects on parenting: temperament as a moderator of genetic and environmental contributions to parenting.

    Jody M. Ganiban;Jennifer Ulbricht;Kimberly J. Saudino;David Reiss

  • Night and day: are siblings as different in temperament as parents say they are?

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Annie E. Wertz;Jeffrey R. Gagne;Sonia Chawla

  • Stability and change in temperament during adolescence.

    Jody M. Ganiban;Kimberly J. Saudino;Jennifer Ulbricht;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

  • Parent ratings of temperament in twins: explaining the 'too low' DZ correlations.

    Kimberly J Saudino;Stacey S Cherny;Robert Plomin

  • The Validity of a Parent-based Assessment of Cognitive Abilities in Three-year Olds

    Bonamy Oliver;Philip S. Dale;Kimberly J. Saudino;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Influence of parental stress and social support on the behavioral adjustment of children with transposition of the great arteries.

    Karen J. Visconti;Kimberly J. Saudino;Leonard A. Rappaport;Jane W. Newburger

  • Moving Beyond the Heritability Question: New Directions in Behavioral Genetic Studies of Personality

    Kimberly J. Saudino

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Catherine Tuvblad
Catherine Tuvblad Örebro University
Jeffrey M. Craig
Jeffrey M. Craig Deakin University
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Meike Bartels
Meike Bartels Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kelly L. Klump
Kelly L. Klump Michigan State University
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen

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