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65
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Overview

Paul D. Hastings is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a substantial number of publications addressing clinical psychology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, education, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work spans various main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Paul D. Hastings has frequently published in venues such as Psychoneuroendocrinology, UNC Libraries, Current Developments in Nutrition, Developmental Psychology, and Developmental Psychobiology. This range reflects an interdisciplinary approach engaging developmental and neuropsychological aspects of human behavior.

Their research collaborations include recurrent co-authors like Amanda E. Guyer, Karen D. Rudolph, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Matthew K. Nock, and Matteo Giletta.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Interpersonal life stress, inflammation, and depression in adolescence: Testing Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression" (2020), published in Depression and Anxiety
  • "The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long-Term Academic Achievement" (2020), published in Child Development
  • "Right Temporoparietal Junction Involvement in Autonomic Responses to the Suffering of Others: A Preliminary Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study" (2020), published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Assessing unpredictability in caregiver-child relationships: Insights from theoretical and empirical perspectives" (2023), published in Development and Psychopathology
  • "Adiposity, inflammation, and working memory: Evidence for a vicious cycle" (2021), published in Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

The body of work consistently addresses biological and psychological mechanisms underlying stress, development, and mental health across childhood and adolescence, incorporating both empirical data and theoretical frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of socialization : theory and research

    Joan E. Grusec;Paul D. Hastings

  • Stability and Social-Behavioral Consequences of Toddlers' Inhibited Temperament and Parenting Behaviors

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Kim B. Burgess;Paul D. Hastings

  • Child-rearing attitudes and behavioral inhibition in Chinese and Canadian toddlers: A cross-cultural study.

    Xinyin Chen;Paul D. Hastings;Kenneth H. Rubin;Huichang Chen

  • The development of concern for others in children with behavior problems.

    Paul D. Hastings;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;JoAnn Robinson;Barbara Usher

  • Predicting preschoolers' externalizing behaviors from toddler temperament, conflict, and maternal negativity.

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Kim B. Burgess;Kathleen M. Dwyer;Paul D. Hastings

  • The Transaction between Parents' Perceptions of their Children's Shyness and their Parenting Styles

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Larry J. Nelson;Paul Hastings;Jens Asendorpf

  • The Consistency and Concomitants of Inhibition: Some of the Children, All of the Time

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Paul D. Hastings;Shannon L. Stewart;Heather A. Henderson

  • Adrenocortical activity in at-risk and normally developing adolescents: Individual differences in salivary cortisol basal levels, diurnal variation, and responses to social challenges

    Bonnie Klimes-Dougan;Paul D. Hastings;Douglas A. Granger;Barbara A. Usher

  • Parental Emotion Socialization in Adolescence: Differences in Sex, Age and Problem Status.

    Bonnie Klimes-Dougan;Ann E. Brand;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Barbara Usher

  • The Socialization of Prosocial Development.

    Paul D. Hastings;William T. Utendale;Caroline Sullivan

  • Authoritative and Authoritarian Mothers' Parenting Goals, Attributions, and Emotions Across Different Childrearing Contexts

    Robert J. Coplan;Paul D. Hastings;Daniel G. Lagacé-Séguin;Caryn E. Moulton

  • Parenting Goals as Organizers of Responses to Parent-Child Disagreement.

    Paul D. Hastings;Joan E. Grusec

  • Applying the polyvagal theory to children's emotion regulation: Social context, socialization, and adjustment.

    Paul D. Hastings;Jacob N. Nuselovici;William T. Utendale;Julie Coutya

  • Intrapersonal and Maternal Correlates of Aggression, Conflict, and Externalizing Problems in Toddlers.

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Paul Hastings;Xinyin Chen;Shannon Stewart

  • Predicting mothers' beliefs about preschool-aged children's social behavior: evidence for maternal attitudes moderating child effects.

    Paul D. Hastings;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Ready to make nice: parental socialization of young sons' and daughters' prosocial behaviors with peers.

    Paul D. Hastings;Kelly E. McShane;Richard Parker;Farriola Ladha

  • Links Among Gender, Inhibition, and Parental Socialization in the Development of Prosocial Behavior

    Paul D. Hastings;Kenneth H. Rubin;Laura DeRose

  • In Search of HPA Axis Dysregulation in Child and Adolescent Depression

    John D. Guerry;Paul D. Hastings

  • Parental socialization, vagal regulation, and preschoolers' anxious difficulties: direct mothers and moderated fathers.

    Paul D. Hastings;Caroline Sullivan;Kelly E. McShane;Robert J. Coplan

  • Salivary testosterone diurnal variation and psychopathology in adolescent males and females: Individual differences and developmental effects

    Douglas A. Granger;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Barbara Usher

  • Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior.

    Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Paul D. Hastings

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan University of Minnesota
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Mitchell J. Prinstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Karen D. Rudolph
Karen D. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff Iowa State University
Dale M. Stack
Dale M. Stack Concordia University

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