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Overview

Tara M. Chaplin is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States, focusing on research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work encompasses diverse subfields including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The research conducted by Tara M. Chaplin centers on key topics such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Early Childhood Education and Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Recent papers published by Tara M. Chaplin and collaborators include:

  • Effects of A Parenting-Focused Mindfulness Intervention on Adolescent Substance Use and Psychopathology (2021), Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Effects of Parenting Environment on Child and Adolescent Social-Emotional Brain Function (2021), Current topics in behavioral neurosciences

In addition to these papers, Tara has contributed to notable publications alongside other researchers, including:

  • Task-based functional connectivity patterns: Links to adolescent emotion regulation and psychopathology (2022), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Getting to the heart of food craving with resting heart rate variability in adolescents (2020), Appetite
  • Neural activation to loss and reward among alcohol naive adolescents who later initiate alcohol use (2021), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tara M. Chaplin include Stefanie F. Gonçalves, Claire E. Niehaus, James C. Thompson, Kelsey L. Mauro, and Mallory A. Kisner.

Research outputs are often published in venues such as The Journal of Early Adolescence, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Best Publications

  • Gender Differences in Emotion Expression in Children: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Tara M. Chaplin;Amelia Aldao

  • Parental socialization of emotion expression : Gender differences and relations to child adjustment

    Tara M. Chaplin;Pamela M. Cole;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

  • Gender and Emotion Expression: A Developmental Contextual Perspective

    Tara M. Chaplin

  • School-Based Prevention of Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effectiveness and Specificity of the Penn Resiliency Program

    Jane E. Gillham;Karen J. Reivich;Derek R. Freres;Tara M. Chaplin

  • Gender Differences in Response to Emotional Stress: An Assessment Across Subjective, Behavioral, and Physiological Domains and Relations to Alcohol Craving

    Tara M. Chaplin;Kwangik Hong;Keri Bergquist;Rajita Sinha

  • From Helplessness to Optimism: The Role of Resilience in Treating and Preventing Depression in Youth

    Karen Reivich;Jane E. Gillham;Tara M. Chaplin;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Severity of childhood trauma is predictive of cocaine relapse outcomes in women but not men

    Scott M. Hyman;Prashni Paliwal;Tara M. Chaplin;Carolyn M. Mazure

  • Depression Prevention for Early Adolescent Girls: A Pilot Study of All Girls Versus Co-Ed Groups.

    Tara M. Chaplin;Jane E. Gillham;Karen Reivich;Andrea G. L. Elkon

  • Gender, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents.

    Tara M. Chaplin;Jane E. Gillham;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Parent–adolescent conflict interactions and adolescent alcohol use

    Tara M. Chaplin;Rajita Sinha;Jessica A. Simmons;Stephen M. Healy

  • Evaluation of a Group Cognitive-Behavioral Depression Prevention Program for Young Adolescents: A Randomized Effectiveness Trial

    Jane E. Gillham;Karen J. Reivich;Steven M. Brunwasser;Derek R. Freres

  • Mindful Parenting and Parents’ Emotion Expression: Effects on Adolescent Risk Behaviors

    Caitlin C. Turpyn;Tara M. Chaplin

  • Anger, Happiness, and Sadness: Associations with Depressive Symptoms in Late Adolescence

    Tara M. Chaplin

  • The role of emotion regulation in the development of psychopathology

    Tara M. Chaplin;Pamela M. Cole

  • Preventing Co-Occurring Depression Symptoms in Adolescents with Conduct Problems The Penn Resiliency Program

    J.J. Cutuli;J.J. Cutuli;Tara M. Chaplin;Jane E. Gillham;Karen J. Reivich

  • Parenting-focused mindfulness intervention reduces stress and improves parenting in highly-stressed mothers of adolescents.

    Tara M Chaplin;Caitlin C Turpyn;Sarah Fischer;Alexandra M Martelli

  • Gender differences in caregiver emotion socialization of low-income toddlers.

    Tara M. Chaplin;James Casey;Rajita Sinha;Linda C. Mayes

  • From Helplessness to Optimism: The Role of Resilience in Treating and Preventing Depression in Youth

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  • A stress-coping profile of opioid dependent individuals entering naltrexone treatment: a comparison with healthy controls.

    Scott M. Hyman;Kwang-Ik A. Hong;Tara M. Chaplin;Zubaida Dabre

  • Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Predict Depressive Symptom Trajectory from Early to Middle Adolescence.

    Stefanie F. Gonçalves;Tara M. Chaplin;Caitlin C. Turpyn;Claire E. Niehaus

  • Prenatal cocaine exposure, gender, and adolescent stress response: a prospective longitudinal study.

    Tara M. Chaplin;Matthew B. Freiburger;Linda C. Mayes;Rajita Sinha

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Jane E. Gillham
Jane E. Gillham Swarthmore College
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
Michael J. Crowley
Michael J. Crowley Yale University
Emily B. Ansell
Emily B. Ansell Pennsylvania State University
Pamela M. Cole
Pamela M. Cole Pennsylvania State University
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Ruth A. Baer
Ruth A. Baer University of Kentucky

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