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Susan D. Calkins is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in several subfields including clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The focus of their work includes topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as early childhood education and development. Additional areas of interest involve maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, heart rate variability and autonomic control, attachment and relationship dynamics, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

The researcher has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include UNC Libraries, Developmental Psychology, Current Developments in Nutrition, Nutrients, and the Journal of Numerical Cognition.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Susan D. Calkins include:

  • Maternal socialization of child emotion and adolescent adjustment: Indirect effects through emotion regulation, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Effects of Emotion Regulation, Weight Status and Negative Body Image, 2020, Nutrients
  • Developmental patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia from toddlerhood to adolescence, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Reciprocal associations between executive function and academic achievement: A conceptual replication of Schmitt et al. (2017), 2021, Journal of Numerical Cognition
  • Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during childhood, 2020, Development and Psychopathology

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Susan P. Keane
  • Lilly Shanahan
  • Jessica M. Dollar
  • Laurie Wideman
  • Lenka H. Shriver

Best Publications

  • The role of emotion regulation in children's early academic success.

    Paulo A. Graziano;Rachael D. Reavis;Susan P. Keane;Susan D. Calkins

  • Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life.

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth H. Rubin;Susan D. Calkins

  • Origins and outcomes of individual differences in emotion regulation.

    Susan D. Calkins

  • Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: A multilevel approach to the study of childhood social withdrawal and aggression.

    Susan D. Calkins;Nathan A. Fox

  • Caregiver influences on emerging emotion regulation

    S. Calkins;Ashley Hill

  • The development of self-control of emotion: Intrinsic and extrinsic influences.

    Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • Emotionality, emotion regulation, and preschoolers' social adaptation

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Robert J. Coplan;Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • The double-edged sword: Emotional regulation for children at risk

    Ross A. Thompson;Susan D. Calkins

  • Physiological and behavioral regulation in two-year-old children with aggressive/destructive behavior problems.

    Susan D. Calkins;Susan E. Dedmon

  • Parent involvement and student academic performance: a multiple mediational analysis

    David R. Topor;Susan P. Keane;Terri L. Shelton;Susan D. Calkins

  • Behavioral and Physiological Antecedents of Inhibited and Uninhibited Behavior

    Susan D. Calkins;Nathan A. Fox;Timothy R. Marshall

  • Toddler regulation of distress to frustrating events: Temperamental and maternal correlates.

    Susan D. Calkins;Mary C. Johnson

  • Being alone, playing alone and acting alone: Distinguishing among reticence, and passive- and active-solitude in young children.

    Robert J. Coplan;Kenneth H. Rubin;Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins

  • Profiles of externalizing behavior problems for boys and girls across preschool: the roles of emotion regulation and inattention.

    Ashley L. Hill;Kathryn A. Degnan;Susan D. Calkins;Susan P. Keane

  • Maternal interactive style across contexts: Relations to emotional, behavioral and physiological regulation during toddlerhood.

    Susan D. Calkins;Cynthia L. Smith;Kathryn L. Gill;Mary C. Johnson

  • The Relations among Infant Temperament, Security of Attachment, and Behavioral Inhibition at Twenty-Four Months

    Susan D. Calkins;Nathan A. Fox

  • Regulatory Contributors to Children's Kindergarten Achievement

    Robin B. Howse;Susan D. Calkins;Arthur D. Anastopoulos;Susan P. Keane

  • Cardiac vagal tone indices of temperamental reactivity and behavioral regulation in young children

    Susan D. Calkins

  • Family stress and parental responses to children's negative emotions: tests of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses.

    Jackie A. Nelson;Marion O'Brien;A. Nayena Blankson;Susan D. Calkins

  • Predicting Change in Parenting Stress Across Early Childhood: Child and Maternal Factors

    Amanda P. Williford;Susan D. Calkins;Susan P. Keane

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan P. Keane
Susan P. Keane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Esther M. Leerkes
Esther M. Leerkes University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Marion O'Brien
Marion O'Brien University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lilly Shanahan
Lilly Shanahan University of Zurich
Martha Ann Bell
Martha Ann Bell Virginia Tech
Stuart Marcovitch
Stuart Marcovitch University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Paulo A. Graziano
Paulo A. Graziano Florida International University
Andrew J. Supple
Andrew J. Supple University of North Carolina at Greensboro
W. Roger Mills-Koonce
W. Roger Mills-Koonce University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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