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D-Index
144
Citations
71641
World Ranking
98
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nathan A. Fox is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a concentration of 197 publications. Within this domain, notable subfields include Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Recent notable papers by Nathan A. Fox include:

  • "The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Single-cell RNA sequencing of developing maize ears facilitates functional analysis and trait candidate gene discovery" (2021), published in Developmental Cell
  • "Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 1: a systematic and integrative review of evidence regarding effects on development" (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "The Maryland analysis of developmental EEG (MADE) pipeline" (2020), published in Psychophysiology
  • "Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Nathan A. Fox include:

  • Charles A. Nelson
  • Charles H. Zeanah
  • Santiago Morales
  • Daniel S. Pine
  • George A. Buzzell

Their publications appear frequently in several academic venues, including:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (14 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (12 publications)
  • Development and Psychopathology (9 publications)
  • Developmental Science (9 publications)
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (9 publications)

Nathan A. Fox has a book published with Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development (2020), which has been cited in academic literature.

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox

    Sandra Weintraub;Sureyya S. Dikmen;Robert K. Heaton;David S. Tulsky

  • Behavioral Inhibition: Linking Biology and Behavior within a Developmental Framework

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Peter J. Marshall;Kate E. Nichols

  • Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project

    Charles A. Nelson;Charles H. Zeanah;Nathan A. Fox;Peter J. Marshall

  • Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life.

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth H. Rubin;Susan D. Calkins

  • Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

    Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

  • Asymmetrical brain activity discriminates between positive and negative affective stimuli in human infants

    Richard J. Davidson;Nathan A. Fox

  • NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function

    Richard C. Gershon;Molly V. Wagster;Hugh C. Hendrie;Nathan A. Fox

  • Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: A multilevel approach to the study of childhood social withdrawal and aggression.

    Susan D. Calkins;Nathan A. Fox

  • Guidelines for the recording and quantitative analysis of electroencephalographic activity in research contexts.

    R. T. Pivik;R. J. Broughton;R. Coppola;R. J. Davidson

  • The development of self-control of emotion: Intrinsic and extrinsic influences.

    Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • Attachment to mother/attachment to father: A meta-analysis.

    Nathan A. Fox;Nancy L. Kimmerly;William D. Schafer

  • Social Perception in Infants

    Tiffany Field;Nathan A. Fox

  • Development of the EEG from 5 months to 4 years of age

    Peter J Marshall;Yair Bar-Haim;Nathan A Fox

  • Frontal brain asymmetry predicts infants' response to maternal separation.

    Richard J. Davidson;Nathan A. Fox

  • If it's not left, it's right. Electroencephalograph asymmetry and the development of emotion.

    Nathan A. Fox

  • Emotionality, emotion regulation, and preschoolers' social adaptation

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Robert J. Coplan;Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kathryn Amey Degnan;Daniel S. Pine;Koraly Perez-Edgar

  • Behavioral and Physiological Antecedents of Inhibited and Uninhibited Behavior

    Susan D. Calkins;Nathan A. Fox;Timothy R. Marshall

  • Being alone, playing alone and acting alone: Distinguishing among reticence, and passive- and active-solitude in young children.

    Robert J. Coplan;Kenneth H. Rubin;Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • The development of emotion regulation : biological and behavioral considerations

    Nathan A. Fox;Joseph J. Campos

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Heather A. Henderson
Heather A. Henderson University of Waterloo
Kathryn A. Degnan
Kathryn A. Degnan Catholic University of America
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Peter J. Marshall
Peter J. Marshall Temple University
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University

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