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Michael Pluess is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions to the subfields of clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, social psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Pluess are:

  • "Genetic architecture of Environmental Sensitivity reflects multiple heritable components: a twin study with adolescents," 2020, published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "The role of epigenetics in psychological resilience," 2021, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence," 2023, published in Journal of Research in Personality
  • "Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings: reflections on research funded through R2HC," 2020, published in Conflict and Health
  • "Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: research priorities for 2021-30," 2023, published in The Lancet Global Health

Frequent publication venues for Michael Pluess include:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Current Psychology
  • Journal of Family Psychology

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Francesca Lionetti
  • Elie G. Karam
  • Fiona McEwen
  • Maria Spinelli
  • Mirco Fasolo

Best Publications

  • Beyond Diathesis Stress: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences.

    Jay Belsky;Michael Pluess

  • Vulnerability genes or plasticity genes

    Jay Belsky;C. Jonassaint;Michael Pluess;M. Stanton

  • Vantage sensitivity: individual differences in response to positive experiences.

    Michael Pluess;Jay Belsky

  • Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity

    Michael Pluess

  • Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda.

    Corina U. Greven;Corina U. Greven;Francesca Lionetti;Charlotte Booth;Elaine N. Aron

  • Beyond risk, resilience, and dysregulation: Phenotypic plasticity and human development

    Jay Belsky;Michael Pluess

  • Differential susceptibility to parenting and quality child care.

    Michael Pluess;Jay Belsky

  • Differential susceptibility to rearing experience: the case of childcare

    Michael Pluess;Jay Belsky

  • Environmental sensitivity in children: development of the highly sensitive child scale and identification of sensitivity groups

    Michael Pluess;Elham Assary;Francesca Lionetti;Kathryn J. Lester

  • Dandelions, tulips and orchids: evidence for the existence of low-sensitive, medium-sensitive and high-sensitive individuals.

    Francesca Lionetti;Arthur Aron;Elaine N Aron;G Leonard Burns

  • The Nature (and Nurture?) of Plasticity in Early Human Development.

    Jay Belsky;Michael Pluess

  • Heritability estimates of the Big Five personality traits based on common genetic variants

    R A Power;M Pluess

  • Prenatal programming of postnatal plasticity

    Michael Pluess;Jay Belsky

  • Sensory-Processing Sensitivity predicts treatment response to a school-based depression prevention program: Evidence of Vantage Sensitivity

    Michael Pluess;Ilona Boniwell

  • Distinguishing ordinal and disordinal interactions.

    Keith F. Widaman;Jonathan L. Helm;Laura Castro-Schilo;Michael Pluess

  • Gene-environment interaction and psychiatric disorders: Review and future directions

    Elham Assary;John Paul Vincent;Robert Keers;Michael Pluess

  • Serotonin transporter polymorphism moderates effects of prenatal maternal anxiety on infant negative emotionality

    Michael Pluess;Fleur P. Velders;Jay Belsky;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Confirmatory and competitive evaluation of alternative gene‐environment interaction hypotheses

    Jay Belsky;Jay Belsky;Jay Belsky;Michael Pluess;Keith F. Widaman

  • Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its association with personality traits and affect: A meta-analysis

    Francesca Lionetti;Massimiliano Pastore;Ughetta Moscardino;Annalaura Nocentini

  • 5-HTTLPR moderates effects of current life events on neuroticism: differential susceptibility to environmental influences

    Michael Pluess;Jay Belsky;Baldwin M. Way;Shelley E. Taylor

  • The Personality Trait of Environmental Sensitivity Predicts Children’s Positive Response to School-Based Antibullying Intervention:

    Annalaura Nocentini;Ersilia Menesini;Michael Pluess;Michael Pluess

  • Prenatal Programming of Postnatal Plasticity

    Michael Pluess

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Luc Goossens
Luc Goossens KU Leuven
Arthur Aron
Arthur Aron Stony Brook University
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside
Robert Keers
Robert Keers Queen Mary University of London
Filip De Fruyt
Filip De Fruyt Ghent University
Frank H. Wilhelm
Frank H. Wilhelm University of Salzburg

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