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16450
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5118
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Theodore D. Wachs is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research contributions include work on epidemiologic studies related to neurodevelopmental effects, focusing on the impact of in utero chemical exposure.

Their recent published work includes the paper titled Hershey Medical Center Technical Workshop Report: Optimizing the design and interpretation of epidemiologic studies for assessing neurodevelopmental effects from in utero chemical exposure, published in 2020 in UNC Libraries.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kathleen S. Gorman
  • Robert W. Amler
  • Stanley Barone
  • Ayşenil Belger
  • Cheston M. Berlin

Their publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries

Theodore D. Wachs was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1985, reflecting a formal acknowledgment of their professional standing.

Best Publications

  • Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

    Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Julie Meeks Gardner;Betsy Lozoff

  • Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

    Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Sally Grantham-McGregor;Maureen M Black

  • Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

    Pia R Britto;Stephen J Lye;Kerrie Proulx;Aisha K Yousafzai

  • Bringing order out of chaos: Psychometric characteristics of the confusion, hubbub, and order scale

    Adam P. Matheny;Theodore D. Wachs;Jennifer L. Ludwig;Kay Phillips

  • Maternal Depression: A Global Threat to Children’s Health, Development, and Behavior and to Human Rights

    Theodore D. Wachs;Maureen M. Black;Patrice L. Engle

  • Temperament: Individual differences at the interface of biology and behavior.

    John E. Bates;Theodore D. Wachs

  • Early Experience and Human Development

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  • Necessary but not sufficient: The respective roles of single and multiple influences on individual development.

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  • The Study of Early Temperament: Measurement and Conceptual Issues

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  • Issues in the timing of integrated early interventions: contributions from nutrition, neuroscience, and psychological research

    Theodore D. Wachs;Michael K Georgieff;Sarah Cusick;Bruce S. Mcewen

  • Chaos and its influence on children's development : an ecological perspective

    Gary W. Evans;Theodore D. Wachs

  • Proximal Experience and Early Cognitive-Intellectual Development: The Physical Environment.

    Theodore D. Wachs

  • The use and abuse of environment in behavior-genetic research.

    Theodore D. Wachs

  • Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development

    Heather A. Henderson;Theodore D. Wachs

  • Temperament, environment, and six-month cognitive-intellectual development: A test of the organismic specificity hypothesis.

    Theodore D. Wachs;Mary Jane Gandour

  • Relation of maternal zinc nutriture to pregnancy outcome and infant development in an Egyptian village.

    Avanelle Kirksey;Theodore D. Wachs;F. Yunis;U. Srinath

  • Does Parental Mood or Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Environmental Chaos Upon Parenting Behavior

    Feyza Corapci;Theodore D. Wachs

  • Cognitive Development in Infants of Different Age Levels and from Different Environmental Backgrounds: An Explanatory Investigation.

    Theodore D. Wachs

  • Chaos in context.

    Theodore D. Wachs;Gary W. Evans

  • Environmental Moderators of Genetic Influence on Verbal and Nonverbal Abilities in Early Childhood.

    Kathryn Asbury;Theodore D. Wachs;Robert Plomin

  • Relation of mild-to-moderate malnutrition to human development: correlational studies.

    Theodore D. Wachs

  • Relation of neonatal iron status to individual variability in neonatal temperament.

    Theodore D. Wachs;Ernesto Pollitt;Santiago Cueto;Enrique Jacoby

  • Child development in developing countries 2 Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

    Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Julie Meeks Gardner;Betsy Lozoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Silvia Helena Koller
Silvia Helena Koller Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Heather A. Henderson
Heather A. Henderson University of Waterloo
Robert N. Emde
Robert N. Emde University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Stephen R. Hooper
Stephen R. Hooper University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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