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Overview

Tracy L. Spinrad is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a substantial focus on Education and Clinical Psychology. Spinrad's work contributes notably to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to multiple areas within early childhood and adolescent development. Main topics covered in Spinrad's publications include Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Parental Involvement in Education, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, as well as Family and Disability Support Research.

Spinrad has published in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Developmental Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, Child Development, and Social Development.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Spinrad are:

  • "Longitudinal relations among household chaos, SES, and effortful control in the prediction of language skills in early childhood." (2020), Developmental Psychology
  • "Introduction to the special issue: Socialization of emotion and self-regulation: Understanding processes and application." (2020), Developmental Psychology
  • "Perceptual Access Reasoning (PAR) in Developing a Representational Theory of Mind" (2021), Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • "Second-by-second infant and mother emotion regulation and coregulation processes" (2021), Development and Psychopathology
  • "Homeschooling: What do we know and what do we need to learn?" (2022), Child Development Perspectives

Spinrad collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Nancy Eisenberg, Rebecca H. Berger, Diana E. Gal-Szabo, Carlos Valiente, and Maciel M. Hernández. These frequent coauthorships reflect sustained research partnerships in advancing understanding within their fields.

Best Publications

  • Parental socialization of emotion.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior

    Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Tracy L. Spinrad;Richard A. Fabes

  • Emotion-Related Self-Regulation and Its Relation to Children's Maladjustment

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad;Natalie D. Eggum

  • Emotion-related regulation: Sharpening the definition

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Relations Among Positive Parenting, Children's Effortful Control, and Externalizing Problems: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Qing Zhou;Tracy L. Spinrad;Carlos Valiente

  • Effortful control: Relations with emotion regulation, adjustment, and socialization in childhood.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Cynthia L. Smith;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Longitudinal Relations of Children’s Effortful Control, Impulsivity, and Negative Emotionality to Their Externalizing, Internalizing, and Co-Occurring Behavior Problems

    Nancy Eisenberg;Carlos Valiente;Tracy L. Spinrad;Amanda Cumberland

  • Empathy-Related Responding in Children

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad;Amanda Morris

  • The Relations of Effortful Control and Impulsivity to Children's Resiliency and Adjustment

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad;Richard A. Fabes;Mark Reiser

  • The Development of Prosocial Behavior

    Nancy Eisenberg;Natalie D. Eggum;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • The relations of problem behavior status to children's negative emotionality, effortful control, and impulsivity: concurrent relations and prediction of change.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Adrienne Sadovsky;Tracy L. Spinrad;Richard A. Fabes

  • Relations of Maternal Socialization and Toddlers' Effortful Control to Children's Adjustment and Social Competence

    Tracy L. Spinrad;Nancy Eisenberg;Bridget Gaertner;Tierney Popp

  • Relation of Emotion-Related Regulation to Children's Social Competence: A Longitudinal Study

    Tracy L. Spinrad;Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Richard A. Fabes

  • Associations of emotion-related regulation with language skills, emotion knowledge, and academic outcomes

    Nancy Eisenberg;Adrienne Sadovsky;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Toward a Developmental Model of Child Compliance: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Infancy

    Cynthia A. Stifter;Tracy L. Spinrad;Julia M. Braungart-Rieker

  • 15 Prosocial Development

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad;Ariel Knafo-Noam

  • Mothers’ Regulation Strategies in Response to Toddlers’ Affect: Links to Later Emotion Self-Regulation

    Tracy L. Spinrad;Cynthia A. Stifter;Nancy Donelan-McCall;Nancy Donelan-McCall;Laura Turner;Laura Turner

  • Moral Cognitions and Prosocial Responding in Adolescence

    Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Sheffield Morris;Brenda McDaniel;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Conscientiousness: Origins in Childhood?.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Angela L. Duckworth;Tracy L. Spinrad;Carlos Valiente

  • The expression and regulation of negative emotions: risk factors for young children's peer victimization.

    Laura D. Hanish;Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Tracy L. Spinrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Carlos Valiente
Carlos Valiente Arizona State University
Mark Reiser
Mark Reiser Arizona State University
Jeffrey Liew
Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University
Richard A. Fabes
Richard A. Fabes Arizona State University
Sandra H. Losoya
Sandra H. Losoya Arizona State University
Susan H. Landry
Susan H. Landry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Amanda Sheffield Morris Oklahoma State University
Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University
Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University

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