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Stephanie M. Carlson

Stephanie M. Carlson

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
27558
World Ranking
3946
National Ranking
2209

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Stephanie M. Carlson is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work centers around early childhood education and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, child and animal learning development, infant development and preterm care, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, and the intersection of neuroscience, education, and cognitive function.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Trends in Neuroscience and Education
  • Child Neuropsychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Their recent papers reflect a focus on executive function, family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of screen use among children, and developmental systems perspectives. Selected recent publications include:

  • The neurodevelopment of executive function skills: Implications for academic achievement gaps (2020, Psychology & Neuroscience)
  • Family resilience and psychological distress in the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study (2021, Developmental Psychology)
  • Children's screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, Child Development)
  • Reconciling the Context-Dependency and Domain-Generality of Executive Function Skills from a Developmental Systems Perspective (2022, Journal of Cognition and Development)
  • Pretending with realistic and fantastical stories facilitates executive function in 3-year-old children (2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include Philip David Zelazo, Ann S. Masten, Rebecca Distefano, Jasmine R. Ernst, and Lauren Eales.

Stephanie M. Carlson was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Individual differences in inhibitory control and children's theory of mind.

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses

  • Developmentally sensitive measures of executive function in preschool children.

    Stephanie M. Carlson

  • From External Regulation to Self‐Regulation: Early Parenting Precursors of Young Children’s Executive Functioning

    Annie Bernier;Stephanie M. Carlson;Natasha Whipple

  • Hot and Cool Executive Function in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Plasticity

    Philip David Zelazo;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children.

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses;Casey Breton

  • Executive function and theory of mind: Stability and prediction from ages 2 to 3

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Dorothy J. Mandell;Luke Williams

  • Inhibitory Control and Emotion Regulation in Preschool Children.

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Tiffany S. Wang

  • The Development of Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind A Comparison of Chinese and U.S. Preschoolers

    Mark A. Sabbagh;Fen Xu;Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses

  • Individual differences in executive functioning and theory of mind: An investigation of inhibitory control and planning ability

    Stephanie M Carlson;Louis J Moses;Laura J Claxton

  • The role of inhibitory processes in young children's difficulties with deception and false belief

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses;Hollie R. Hix

  • Social factors in the development of early executive functioning: a closer look at the caregiving environment

    Annie Bernier;Stephanie M. Carlson;Marie Deschênes;Célia Matte-Gagné

  • The relation between individual differences in fantasy and theory of mind

    Marjorie Taylor;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • The development of executive function in childhood.

    Philip David Zelazo;Stephanie M. Carlson;Amanda Kesek

  • Less Is More Executive Function and Symbolic Representation in Preschool Children

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Angela C. Davis;Jamie G. Leach

  • Preschool Children's Performance in Task Switching on the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task: Separating the Dimensions Aids the Ability to Switch

    Adele Diamond;Stephanie M. Carlson;Danielle M. Beck

  • Executive Function in Context: Development, Measurement, Theory, and Experience

    Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Executive Function in Preschool Children: Test-Retest Reliability.

    Danielle M. Beck;Catherine Schaefer;Karen Pang;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Self-Regulation and School Success

    Angela Lee Duckworth;Stephanie M. Carlson

  • Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Rachel E. White

  • Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology: Culture and Developmental Systems

    Maria D Sera;Michael P Maratsos;Stephanie M Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Marjorie Taylor
Marjorie Taylor University of Oregon
Louis J. Moses
Louis J. Moses University of Oregon
Annie Bernier
Annie Bernier University of Montreal
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Julie Carrier
Julie Carrier University of Montreal
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto

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