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Susanne A. Denham is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a specialized focus on Education, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Denham's scholarly work addresses key topics including Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Parental Involvement in Education, Educational and Psychological Assessments, Child Development and Digital Technology, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, and Reading and Literacy Development.

Their recent publications encompass the following papers:

  • Preschool teachers' socialization of emotion knowledge: Considering socioeconomic Risk (2020, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology)
  • Teachers' Emotional Expressiveness and Coping Reactions to Students' Emotions: Associations with Students' Social-Emotional Competences and School Adjustment (2022, Early Education and Development)
  • Preschool Teachers' Emotion Socialization and Child Social-Emotional Behavior in Two Countries (2021, Early Education and Development)
  • Promoting Preschoolers' Social and Emotional Competencies Through Emotion-Focused Teaching (2022, Early Education and Development)
  • Psychometric Properties of the Book Readings for An Affective Classroom Education (BRACE) Coding System (2020, Reading Psychology)

Denham frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Early Education and Development
  • Early Child Development and Care
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Environment and Social Psychology
  • Reading Psychology

The scientist has collaborated with various co-authors including Hideko H. Bassett, Timothy W. Curby, David E. Ferrier, Katherine M. Zinsser, and Μαρία Πούλου.

Best Publications

  • Preschool emotional competence: Pathway to social competence.

    Susanne A. Denham;Kimberly A. Blair;Elizabeth DeMulder;Jennifer Levitas

  • Emotional development in young children

    Susanne A. Denham

  • Social Cognition, Prosocial Behavior and Emotion in Preschoolers: Contextual Validation.

    Susanne A. Denham

  • Affective Social Competence.

    Amy G. Halberstadt;Susanne A. Denham;Julie C. Dunsmore

  • Social-Emotional Competence as Support for School Readiness: What Is It and How Do We Assess It?

    Susanne A. Denham

  • Socialization of Preschoolers' Emotion Understanding.

    Susanne A. Denham;Daniel Zoller;Elizabeth A. Couchoud

  • Emotional and Behavioral Predictors of Preschool Peer Ratings

    Susanne A. Denham;Marcia McKinley;Elizabeth A. Couchoud;Robert Holt

  • Parental Contributions to Preschoolers' Emotional Competence: Direct and Indirect Effects

    Susanne A. Denham;Jennifer Mitchell-Copeland;Katherine Strandberg;Sharon Auerbach

  • Prediction of externalizing behavior problems from early to middle childhood: The role of parental socialization and emotion expression

    Susanne A. Denham;Elizabeth Workman;Pamela Marie Cole;Carol Weissbrod

  • “Plays Nice With Others”: Social–Emotional Learning and Academic Success

    Susanne A. Denham;Chavaughn Brown

  • Early Childhood Teachers as Socializers of Young Children’s Emotional Competence

    Susanne A. Denham;Hideko H. Bassett;Katherine Zinsser

  • Definitional issues in emotion regulation research.

    Lisa J. Bridges;Susanne A. Denham;Jody M. Ganiban

  • The socialization of emotional competence.

    Susanne A. Denham;Hideko H. Bassett;Todd Wyatt

  • Dealing with feelings: How children negotiate the worlds of emotions and social relationships.

    Susanne A. Denham

  • Playing it cool: Temperament, emotion regulation, and social behavior in preschoolers

    Kimberly A. Blair;Susanne A. Denham;Anita Kochanoff;Beth Whipple

  • Parental Contributions to Preschoolers' Understanding of Emotion

    Susanne Denham;Anita T. Kochanoff

  • Preschool understanding of emotions: contributions to classroom anger and aggression.

    Susanne A. Denham;Sarah Caverly;Michelle Schmidt;Kimberly Blair

  • Antecedents of problem behaviors in children of depressed mothers

    Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Ronald J. Iannotti;E. Mark Cummings;Susan Denham

  • Assessing social-emotional development in children from a longitudinal perspective.

    S A Denham;T M Wyatt;H H Bassett;D Echeverria

  • Social and Emotional Prevention and Intervention Programming for Preschoolers

    Rosemary Burton;Susanne A. Denham

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy W. Curby
Timothy W. Curby George Mason University
Amy G. Halberstadt
Amy G. Halberstadt North Carolina State University
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison
E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Stephanie M. Jones
Stephanie M. Jones Harvard University
Pamela M. Cole
Pamela M. Cole Pennsylvania State University
Jody M. Ganiban
Jody M. Ganiban George Washington University
Linda Rose-Krasnor
Linda Rose-Krasnor Brock University
Christine Howe
Christine Howe University of Cambridge
Hildy S. Ross
Hildy S. Ross University of Waterloo

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