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Overview

Stephen A. Petrill is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research contributions span the field of Psychology, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work covers several main topics including Reading and Literacy Development, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, and the Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism.

Key recent publications include:

  • Genetic factors underlie the association between anxiety, attitudes and performance in mathematics, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Left posterior prefrontal regions support domain-general executive processes needed for both reading and math, 2020, Journal of Neuropsychology
  • The Angular Gyrus as a Hub for Modulation of Language-related Cortex by Distinct Prefrontal Executive Control Regions, 2022, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in a Community Sample: Implications for Academic, Social, and Neuropsychological Functioning, 2023, Mind Brain and Education
  • Measuring CHAOS? Evaluating the Short-form Confusion, Hubbub and Order Scale, 2023, Collabra Psychology

Frequent coauthors of Stephen A. Petrill include:

  • Erik G. Willcutt
  • Lee A. Thompson
  • Marie T. Banich
  • Daniel R. Leopold
  • Laurie E. Cutting

Stephen A. Petrill has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • Mind Brain and Education
  • UNC Libraries
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neuropsychology
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old

    Gerald E. McClearn;Boo Johansson;Stig Berg;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Math Disability Concurrent Psychopathology, Functional Impairment, and Neuropsychological Functioning

    Erik G. Willcutt;Stephen A. Petrill;Sarah Wu;Richard Boada

  • Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data

    Thomas S Price;Bernard Freeman;Ian Craig;Stephen A Petrill

  • Genetics and Intelligence: What's New?.

    Robert Plomin;Stephen A. Petrill

  • One-year use and cost of inpatient and outpatient services among Female and male patients with an eating disorder: Evidence from a national database of health insurance claims

    Ruth H. Striegel-Moore;Douglas Leslie;Douglas Leslie;Stephen A. Petrill;Vicki Garvin

  • Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation

    Zhe Wang;Sarah L. Lukowski;Sara A. Hart;Ian M. Lyons

  • Parent-Child Dyadic Mutuality and Child Behavior Problems: An Investigation of Gene-Environment Processes.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Conduct problems, IQ, and household chaos: a longitudinal multi-informant study.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Paula Y. Mullineaux;Charles Beekman;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link Between Physical Punishment and Child Externalizing Problems: A Parent - Offspring Behavior Genetic Analysis

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Linda Ivy;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Chaos in the home and socioeconomic status are associated with cognitive development in early childhood: Environmental mediators identified in a genetic design.

    Stephen A. Petrill;Alison Pike;Tom Price;Robert Plomin

  • Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety.

    Zhe Wang;Sara Ann Hart;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Sarah Lukowski

  • Maternal Working Memory and Reactive Negativity in Parenting

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Michael D. Sewell;Stephen A. Petrill;Lee A. Thompson

  • The ABCs of Math: A Genetic Analysis of Mathematics and Its Links With Reading Ability and General Cognitive Ability.

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Lee A. Thompson;Robert Plomin

  • Order in the House! Associations among Household Chaos, the Home Literacy Environment, Maternal Reading Ability, and Children's Early Reading

    Anna D. Johnson;Anne Martin;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Stephen A. Petrill

  • The Dimensionality of Language Ability in Young Children

    Laura M. Justice;Richard Lomax;Ann O'Connell;Jill Pentimonti

  • Mothers’ Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Socialization of Transracially Adopted Asian Children

    Kristen E. Johnston;Janet Kay Swim;Brian M. Saltsman;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • The validity of parent-based assessment of the cognitive abilities of 2-year-olds

    Kimberly J. Saudino;Philip S. Dale;Bonamy R Oliver;Stephen A. Petrill

  • Reading Skills in Early Readers: Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences

    Stephen A. Petrill;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Lee Anne Thompson;Laura Segebart DeThorne

  • Nonshared environmental processes in social‐emotional development: an observational study of identical twin differences in the preschool period

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Alison Pike;Stephen A Petrill;Alexandra L Cutting

  • Quantitative genetics and mathematical abilities/disabilities: Why is math so hard for some children? The nature and origins of mathematical learning difficulties and disabilities

    S. Petrill;R. Plomin

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Lee A. Thompson
Lee A. Thompson Case Western Reserve University
Yulia Kovas
Yulia Kovas Goldsmiths University of London
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sara A. Hart
Sara A. Hart University of Waterloo
Nicole Harlaar
Nicole Harlaar University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Philip S. Dale
Philip S. Dale University of New Mexico
Christopher Schatschneider
Christopher Schatschneider Florida State University
Laurie E. Cutting
Laurie E. Cutting Vanderbilt University
Claire M. A. Haworth
Claire M. A. Haworth University of Bristol

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