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Margaret Wolan Sullivan is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on psychology, with particular emphases on clinical psychology, education, developmental and educational psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The research topics covered by Sullivan include early childhood education and development, child and animal learning development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, infant development and preterm care, pesticide exposure and toxicity, and heavy metal exposure and toxicity.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Developmental Perspectives on "How Emotions Are Made", 2020, Human Development
  • Predictors of executive function among 2 year olds from a Thai birth cohort, 2023, Infant Behavior and Development
  • A birth cohort observational study to assess the association of prenatal biomarkers of organophosphates with visual attention, recognition memory and information processing among Thai infants, 2025, Environmental Research
  • Neglect and Behavior Problems in Early Childhood: A Test of Indirect Effects Through Emotion Knowledge, 2025, Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Frequent collaborators of Sullivan include Pimjuta Nimmapirat, Nancy Fiedler, Panrapee Suttiwan, Pamela Ohman-Strickland, and Parinya Panuwet.

Their work appears in venues such as Human Development, Infant Behavior and Development, Environmental Research, and Child Psychiatry & Human Development.

Best Publications

  • Self development and self-conscious emotions.

    Michael Lewis;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Catherine Stanger;Maya Weiss

  • Deception in 3-Year-Olds

    Michael Lewis;Catherine Stanger;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Reactivation of infant memory.

    Carolyn K. Rovee-Collier;Margaret W. Sullivan;Mary Enright;Debora Lucas

  • Differences in shame and pride as a function of children's gender and task difficulty.

    Michael Lewis;Steven M. Alessandri;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Violation of Expectancy, Loss of Control, and Anger Expressions in Young Infants.

    Michael Lewis;Steven M. Alessandri;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Young children's adjustment as a function of maltreatment, shame, and anger.

    David S. Bennett;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Michael Lewis

  • Neglected children, shame-proneness, and depressive symptoms

    David S. Bennett;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Michael Lewis

  • Organization of infant memory.

    Carolyn K. Rovee-Collier;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Emotional Development in Atypical Children

    Michael Lewis;Margaret Wolan Sullivan

  • Relations of Parental Report and Observation of Parenting to Maltreatment History

    David S. Bennett;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Michael Lewis

  • Individual differences in anger and sad expressions during extinction: Antecedents and consequences.

    Michael Lewis;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Douglas S. Ramsay;Steven M. Alessandri

  • A Conditioning Analysis of Infant Long-Term Memory.

    Margaret W. Sullivan;Carolyn Kent Rovee-Collier;Derek M. Tynes

  • Learning and emotional responsivity in cocaine-exposed infants.

    Steven M. Alessandri;Margaret W. Sullivan;Sonia Imaizumi;Michael Lewis

  • Contextual Determinants of Anger and Other Negative Expressions in Young Infants.

    Margaret W. Sullivan;Michael Lewis

  • The relation of ANS and HPA activation to infant anger and sadness response to goal blockage.

    Michael Lewis;Douglas S. Ramsay;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Emotions and the Development of Childhood Depression: Bridging the Gap

    Pamela M. Cole;Joan Luby;Margaret Wolan Sullivan

  • Brief Report: Fostering Environmental Control in a Young Child with Rett Syndrome: A Case Study^

    Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Despina H. Laverick;Michael Lewis

  • THE COGNITIVE-EMOTIONAL FUGUE

    Michael Lewis;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Linda Michalson

  • The Relation between Abuse and Violent Delinquency: The Conversion of Shame to Blame in Juvenile Offenders.

    Jason Gold;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Michael Lewis

  • Emotional Expressions of Young Infants and Children A Practitioner's Primer

    Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Michael Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David S. Bennett
David S. Bennett Drexel University
Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Carolyn Rovee-Collier Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Catherine Stanger
Catherine Stanger Dartmouth College

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