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Samuel P. Putnam

Samuel P. Putnam

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Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
8997
World Ranking
10726
National Ranking
5606

Overview

Samuel P. Putnam is affiliated with Bowdoin College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with contributions across related fields including social sciences and medicine. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields such as clinical psychology, education, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research topics concentrate broadly on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, attachment and relationship dynamics, infant health and development, maternal and perinatal health interventions, and assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy.

Recent publications by Samuel P. Putnam include:

  • The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations., 2024, Developmental Psychology
  • Temperament in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A systematic review, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Early infant temperament shapes the nature of mother-infant bonding in the first postpartum year, 2020, Infant Behavior and Development
  • Social support buffers the effects of maternal prenatal stress on infants' unpredictability, 2021, Early Human Development
  • Using item response theory to evaluate the Children's Behavior Questionnaire: Considerations of general functioning and assessment length., 2020, Psychological Assessment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Samuel P. Putnam include Maria A. Gartstein, Mirjana Majdandžić, Brian F. French, Zhengyan Wang, and Sara Casalin. The scientist has published multiple papers at venues such as Infant Behavior and Development, Frontiers in Psychology, Healthcare, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Developmental Psychology.

Samuel P. Putnam has also contributed to book publications with Frontiers Media, including the 2023 title Integrative Perspectives on The Person-Context Interplay Through The Lens of Temperament.

Best Publications

  • Development of short and very short forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire.

    Samuel P Putnam;Mary K Rothbart

  • Measurement of fine-grained aspects of toddler temperament: The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire.

    Samuel P. Putnam;Maria A. Gartstein;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Development and Assessment of Short and Very Short Forms of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised

    Samuel P Putnam;Amy L Helbig;Maria A Gartstein;Mary K Rothbart

  • What Is Temperament Now? Assessing Progress in Temperament Research on the Twenty‐Fifth Anniversary of Goldsmith et al. ()

    Rebecca L. Shiner;Kristin A. Buss;Sandee G. McClowry;Samuel P. Putnam

  • Child Temperament and Parenting

    Samuel P. Putnam;Ann V. Sanson;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Maternal reports of conscience development and temperament in young children.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Katherine DeVet;Marguerita Goldman;Kathleen Murray

  • Homotypic and heterotypic continuity of fine-grained temperament during infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood

    Samuel P. Putnam;Mary K. Rothbart;Maria A. Gartstein

  • Infant emotionality, parenting, and 3-year inhibition: exploring stability and lawful discontinuity in a male sample.

    Seong-Yeon Park;Jay Belsky;Sam Putnam;Keith Crnic

  • Etiology of preschool behavior problems: Contributions of temperament attributes in early childhood

    Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Coparenting, parenting, and early emotional development.

    Jay Belsky;Sam Putnam;Keith Crnic

  • Maternal and contextual influences and the effect of temperament development during infancy on parenting in toddlerhood.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Talia McKay

  • Behavioral Approach–Inhibition in Toddlers: Prediction From Infancy, Positive and Negative Affective Components, and Relations With Behavior Problems

    Samuel P. Putnam;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Exuberant and inhibited toddlers: Stability of temperament and risk for problem behavior

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Samuel Putnam;Laudan Jahromi

  • Maternal Regulation of Infant Reactivity From 2 to 6 Months

    Laudan B. Jahromi;Samuel P. Putnam;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • Temperament and socialization.

    Mary K. Rothbart;Samuel P. Putnam

  • Emerging effortful control in toddlerhood: the role of infant orienting/regulation, maternal effortful control, and maternal time spent in caregiving activities.

    David J. Bridgett;Maria A. Gartstein;Samuel P. Putnam;Kate Oddi Lance

  • Mother-Child Coregulation During Delay of Gratification at 30 Months.

    Samuel P. Putnam;Becky L. Spritz;Cynthia A. Stifter

  • What is temperament now? Assessing progress in temperament research on the twenty‐fifth anniversary of Goldsmith et al. (1987).

    Rebecca L. Shiner;Kristin A. Buss;Sandee G. McClowry;Samuel P. Putnam

  • Studying cross-cultural differences in temperament in the first year of life: United States and Italy

    Rosario Montirosso;Patrizia Cozzi;Samuel P. Putnam;Maria A. Gartstein

  • Reactivity and regulation: The impact of Mary Rothbart on the study of temperament

    Samuel P. Putnam;Cynthia A. Stifter

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria A. Gartstein
Maria A. Gartstein Washington State University
Mary K. Rothbart
Mary K. Rothbart University of Oregon
Rosario Montirosso
Rosario Montirosso Eugenio Medea
Cynthia A. Stifter
Cynthia A. Stifter Pennsylvania State University
Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares
Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares Universidade de São Paulo
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Carolina de Weerth
Carolina de Weerth Radboud University
Kimberly J. Saudino
Kimberly J. Saudino Boston University
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis

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