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Rebecca Waller is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and specializes predominantly in psychology, with a primary focus on clinical psychology. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, cognitive neuroscience, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers various main topics such as:

  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Personality disorders and psychopathology
  • Child abuse and trauma
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Bullying, victimization, and aggression

Rebecca Waller has published extensively in leading journals related to child psychology and psychiatry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Waller include:

  • "The Disproportionate Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Pregnant Black Women" (2020, Psychiatry Research)
  • "Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses." (2022, Psychological Bulletin)
  • "Treatment of childhood disruptive behavior disorders and callous-unemotional traits: a systematic review and two multilevel meta-analyses" (2023, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • "Interactive relations between maternal prenatal stress, fetal brain connectivity, and gestational age at delivery" (2021, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "Neighborhood poverty predicts altered neural and behavioral response inhibition" (2020, NeuroImage)

Collaborations have been an important part of Waller's research output, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Samantha Perlstein
  • Ran Barzilay
  • Nicholas J. Wagner
  • Raquel E. Gur
  • Wanjikũ Njoroge

Best Publications

  • What are the associations between parenting, callous–unemotional traits, and antisocial behavior in youth? A systematic review of evidence.

    Rebecca Waller;Frances Gardner;Luke W. Hyde

  • Do harsh and positive parenting predict parent reports of deceitful-callous behavior in early childhood?

    Rebecca Waller;Frances Gardner;Luke W. Hyde;Daniel S. Shaw

  • The Disproportionate Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Pregnant Black Women.

    Raquel E. Gur;Lauren K. White;Rebecca Waller;Ran Barzilay

  • Bidirectional associations between parental warmth, callous unemotional behavior, and behavior problems in high-risk preschoolers.

    Rebecca Waller;Frances Gardner;Essi Viding;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Heritable and Nonheritable Pathways to Early Callous-Unemotional Behaviors.

    Luke W. Hyde;Rebecca Waller;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Practitioner Review: Involving young people with callous unemotional traits in treatment – does it work? A systematic review

    Simon Wilkinson;Rebecca Waller;Essi Viding

  • A meta-analysis of the associations between callous-unemotional traits and empathy, prosociality, and guilt.

    Rebecca Waller;Nicholas J. Wagner;Matthew G. Barstead;Anni Subar

  • Differential associations of early callous‐unemotional, oppositional, and ADHD behaviors: multiple domains within early‐starting conduct problems?

    Rebecca Waller;Luke W. Hyde;Adam S. Grabell;Martha L. Alves

  • White-matter tract abnormalities and antisocial behavior: A systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging studies across development

    Rebecca Waller;Hailey L. Dotterer;Laura Murray;Andrea M. Maxwell

  • Callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood: the development of empathy and prosociality gone awry.

    Rebecca Waller;Luke W Hyde

  • The Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) model and the development of callous-unemotional traits

    Rebecca Waller;Nicholas Wagner

  • Interactions between Callous Unemotional Behaviors and Executive Function in Early Childhood Predict later Aggression and Lower Peer-liking in Late-childhood

    Rebecca Waller;Luke W. Hyde;Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers;Sheryl L. Olson

  • Heritable temperament pathways to early callous–unemotional behaviour

    Rebecca Waller;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

  • Callous-Unemotional Traits Trajectories Interact with Earlier Conduct Problems and Executive Control to Predict Violence and Substance Use Among High Risk Male Adolescents

    Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers;Rebecca Waller;Ari M. Fish;Luke W. Hyde

  • Parenting Is an Environmental Predictor of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Aggression: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study

    Rebecca Waller;Luke W. Hyde;Kelly L. Klump;S. Alexandra Burt

  • Callous-Unemotional Behavior and Early-Childhood Onset of Behavior Problems: The Role of Parental Harshness and Warmth

    Rebecca Waller;Frances Gardner;Daniel S. Shaw;Thomas J. Dishion

  • Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Parent-Reported Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits Among High-Risk 9-Year-Olds

    Rebecca Waller;Aidan G. C. Wright;Daniel S. Shaw;Frances Gardner

  • Parenting and the Family Check-Up: Changes in Observed Parent-Child Interaction Following Early Childhood Intervention

    Stephanie L. Sitnick;Daniel S. Shaw;Anne Gill;Thomas Dishion

  • Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses.

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  • 13 Familial Influences on the Development of Serious Conduct Problems and Delinquency

    Dustin A. Pardini;Rebecca Waller;Samuel W. Hawes

  • Toward an Understanding of the Role of the Environment in the Development of Early Callous Behavior.

    Rebecca Waller;Daniel S. Shaw;Jenae M. Neiderhiser;Jody M. Ganiban

  • Callous–Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood: Measurement, Meaning, and the Influence of Parenting

    Rebecca Waller;Luke W. Hyde

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke W. Hyde
Luke W. Hyde University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Frances Gardner
Frances Gardner University of Oxford
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh
Melvin N. Wilson
Melvin N. Wilson University of Virginia
Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University
Samuel W. Hawes
Samuel W. Hawes Florida International University
Sheryl L. Olson
Sheryl L. Olson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania

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