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Overview

Matthew D. Lerner is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on specialized subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, education, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as autism spectrum disorder research, behavioral and psychological studies, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child development and digital technology, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism Research
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Autism
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew D. Lerner include:

  • Suspicious and fraudulent online survey participation: Introducing the REAL framework (2021), Methodological Innovations
  • Multi-informant International Perspectives on the Facilitators and Barriers to Employment for Autistic Adults (2020), Autism Research
  • The Operations Triad Model and Youth Mental Health Assessments: Catalyzing a Paradigm Shift in Measurement Validation (2022), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Camouflaging in Autism: Examining Sex-Based and Compensatory Models in Social Cognition and Communication (2020), Autism Research
  • A Systematic Review of Passing as Non-autistic in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021), Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Alan S. Gerber, Erin Kang, Talena C. Day, Morgan L. McNair, and Amy Drahota.

Best Publications

  • The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence.

    Angeline S. Lillard;Matthew D. Lerner;Emily J. Hopkins;Rebecca A. Dore

  • Efficacy of group social skills interventions for youth with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Jacquelyn A. Gates;Erin Kang;Matthew D. Lerner

  • Co-occurring psychiatric conditions in autism spectrum disorder.

    Tamara E Rosen;Carla A Mazefsky;Roma A Vasa;Matthew D Lerner

  • Factors impacting employment for people with autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review:

    Melissa Scott;Ben Milbourn;Marita Falkmer;Marita Falkmer;Marita Falkmer;Melissa Black;Melissa Black

  • Considering ERP difference scores as individual difference measures: Issues with subtraction and alternative approaches.

    Alexandria Meyer;Matthew D. Lerner;Andres De Los Reyes;Robert D. Laird

  • A randomized trial of a classroom intervention to increase peers' social inclusion of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Amori Yee Mikami;Marissa Swaim Griggs;Matthew D. Lerner;Christina C. Emeh

  • Social Context Influences on Children's Rejection by Their Peers

    Amori Yee Mikami;Matthew D. Lerner;Janetta Lun

  • Parental Influence on Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: II. Results of a Pilot Intervention Training Parents as Friendship Coaches for Children

    Amori Yee Mikami;Matthew D. Lerner;Marissa Swaim Griggs;Alison McGrath

  • Friendship in school-age boys with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analytic summary and developmental, process-based model.

    Jenna L Mendelson;Jacquelyn A Gates;Matthew D Lerner

  • Assessment of Preschool Early Literacy Skills: Linking Children’s Educational Needs with Empirically Supported Instructional Activities

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Nicholas P. Allan;Matthew D. Lerner

  • Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children.

    Thalia R. Goldstein;Matthew D. Lerner

  • Group-based social skills interventions for adolescents with higher-functioning autism spectrum disorder: a review and looking to the future

    Camilla M McMahon;Matthew D Lerner;Noah Britton

  • Socio-Dramatic Affective-Relational Intervention for Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome & High Functioning Autism: Pilot Study:

    Matthew Daniel Lerner;Amori Y. Mikami;Karen Levine

  • Atypicality of the N170 Event-Related Potential in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analysis.

    Erin Kang;Cara M. Keifer;Emily J. Levy;Jennifer H. Foss-Feig

  • A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Social Skills Interventions for Youth With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Matthew D. Lerner;Amori Y. Mikami

  • Understanding parent-child social informant discrepancy in youth with high functioning autism spectrum disorders.

    Matthew D. Lerner;Casey D. Calhoun;Amori Yee Mikami;Andres De Los Reyes

  • Intervention and support for siblings of youth with developmental disabilities: a systematic review.

    Megan E. Tudor;Matthew D. Lerner

  • Anxiety in youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: examination of factorial equivalence.

    Susan W. White;Matthew D. Lerner;Bryce D. McLeod;Jeffrey J. Wood

  • Emerging perspectives on adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, violence, and criminal law.

    Matthew D Lerner;Omar Sultan Haque;Eli C Northrup;Lindsay Lawer

  • Multimodal emotion processing in autism spectrum disorders: an event-related potential study.

    Matthew D. Lerner;Matthew D. Lerner;James C. McPartland;James P. Morris

  • Social Competence Intervention Program (SCIP): A pilot study of a creative drama program for youth with social difficulties

    Laura A. Guli;Margaret E Semrud-Clikeman;Matthew D. Lerner;Noah Britton

Frequent Co-Authors

Amori Yee Mikami
Amori Yee Mikami University of British Columbia
Andres De Los Reyes
Andres De Los Reyes University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth D. Gadow
Kenneth D. Gadow Stony Brook University
Angeline S. Lillard
Angeline S. Lillard University of Virginia
Eric A. Youngstrom
Eric A. Youngstrom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University
Deborah A. G. Drabick
Deborah A. G. Drabick Temple University
James C. McPartland
James C. McPartland Yale University
Connor M. Kerns
Connor M. Kerns University of British Columbia
Susan W. White
Susan W. White University of Alabama

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