Child Stress Reactivity and Emotional Development

Berry, D., Vernon-Feagans, L. Mills-Koonce, W. R., Blair, C., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators. (in press) Otitis media and parasympathetic response across infancy and early childhood: Polyvagal processes? Developmental Psychology.

Holochwost, S. J., Volpe, V. V., Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C. B., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (in press). Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: The role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Wagner, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, Cox, M. J., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators (in press). Parenting and cortisol in infancy interactively predict conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors in childhood. Child Development.

Berry, D., Blair, C., Willoughby, M., Granger, D. A., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2017). Maternal sensitivity and adrenocortiocal functioning across infancy and toddlerhood: Physiological adaptation to context?. Development and Psychopathology, 29(1), 303-317

Bedford. R., Wagner, N., Rehder, P. D., Propper, C. B., Willoughby, M. T., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2017).  The role of infants’ mother-directed gaze, maternal sensitivity and emotion recognition in childhood callous unemotional behaviors. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 26, 947-956.

Gueron‐Sela, N., Wagner, N. J., Propper, C. B., Mills‐Koonce, W. R., Moore, G. A., & Cox, M. J. (2017). The interaction between child respiratory sinus arrhythmia and early sensitive parenting in the prediction of children’s executive functions. Infancy, 22(2), 171-189.         

Holochwost, S. J., Gariepy, J.-L., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C. B., Kolacz, J., & Granger, D. (2017). Individual differences in the activity of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis:  Relations to age and cumulative risk in early childhood. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 36-45.

Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, Willoughby, M. W., Garrett-Peters, P., and the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2017). High and low levels of conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors predict emotion recognition accuracy in White but not African American children.  Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 41, 174-183.

Wagner, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper. C. B., & Willoughby, M. T. (2017). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and heart period in infancy as correlates of later oppositional defiant behaviors and callous-unemotional behaviors. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41(1), 127-135.

Kolacz, J., Holochwost, S., Gariepy, J-L., Mills-Koonce W. R. (2016). Patterns of joint parasympathetic, sympathetic, and adrenocortical activity and their associations with temperament in early childhood.  Developmental Psychobiology, 58(8), 990-1001.

*Wagner, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper. C. B., Willoughby, M. T., Rehder, P., Moore, G., & Cox, M. J., (2016). Associations between infant behavior during the Face-to-Face Still Face Paradigm and conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits in early childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(8), 1439-1453.

Wagner, N., Propper. C. B., Gueron-Sela, N., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2016). Dimensions of early parenting and infants’ autonomic functioning interactively predict later internalizing behavior problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(3), 4569-470.  PMCID: PMC4676742

Blair, C., Ursache, A., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Stifter, C., Voegtline, K., Granger, D. A., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015).  Emotional reactivity and parenting sensitivity interact to predict cortisol output in toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 51(9), 1271-1277.

Hill-Soderlund, A. L., Holochwost, S. J., Willoughby, M. T., Granger, D. A., Gariepy, J.-L., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Cox, M. J. (2015). The developmental course of salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol from 12 to 36 months: Relations with early poverty and later behavior problems. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 52, 311-323.

Mills-Koonce, W. R., Wagner, N. Willoughby, M. T., Stifter, C., Blair, C., Granger, D. A., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Greater fear reactivity and psychophysiological hyperactivity among infants with later conduct problems and callous unemotional traits. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56(2), 147-154.  PMCID: PMC4282840

Berry, D., Blair, C., Ursache, A., Willoughby, M., Granger, D. A., Cox, M., Garrett-Peters, P., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Vernon-Feagans, L., Bratsch, M., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2014). Child care and resting cortisol across early childhood: Context matters. Developmental Psychology, 50(2), 514-525.

Holochwost, S. J., Gariepy, J.-L., Propper, C. B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Calkins, S., Moore, G., & Wang, F. (2014). Parenting behaviors and vagal tone at six months predict attachment disorganization at twelve months.  Developmental Psychobiology, 56(6), 1423-1430.

Blair, C., Berry, D., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Granger, D. (2013). Cumulative effects of early poverty on cortisol in young children: Moderation by autonomic nervous system activity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(11), 2666-2675.

Calkins, S. D., Propper, C.B., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2013).  A biopsychosocial perspective on parenting and psychopathology.  Development and Psychopathology, 25(4, pt 2), 1399-1414.

Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C. B., & Barnett, M. (2012).  Poor infant soothability and later insecure-ambivalent attachment: Developmental change in phenotypic markers of risk or two measures of the same construct?  Infant Behavior & Development, 35(2), 215-225.

Blair, C., Granger, D. A., Willoughby, M., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Cox, M. J., Greenberg, M. T., Kivlighan, K., Fortunato, C. & the Family Life Project Investigators (2011). Salivary cortisol mediates effects of poverty and parenting on executive functions in early childhood. Child Development, 82(6), 1970-1984.  PMCID: PMC3218241

Blair, C., Raver, C., Granger, D.A., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Hibel, L. (2011). Allostasis and allostatic load in the context of poverty in early childhood.  Development and Psychopathology, 23(3), 845-857.

Garrett-Peters, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Vernon-Feagans, L., & Cox, M.J. (2011). Fathers’ early emotion talk: Associations with income, ethnicity, and family factors. Journal of Marriage and Family, 73(2), 335-353.

Mills-Koonce, W. R., Garrett-Peters, P., Barnett, M., Granger, D. A., Blair, C, Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2011). Father contributions to cortisol responses in infancy and toddlerhood. Developmental Psychology, 47(2), 388-395. PMCID: PMC4428321

Moore, G. A., Hill, A. L., Propper, C. B., Calkins, S. D., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Cox, M. J. (2009). Mother-infant vagal regulation in the face-to-face still-face paradigm is moderated by maternal sensitivity. Child Development, 82(1), 209-223.

Blair, C., Granger, D., Kivlighan, K., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, M., Greenberg, M. T., Hibel, L., Fortunato, C., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2008).  Maternal and Child Contributions to Cortisol Response to Emotional Arousal in Young Children from Low-Income, Rural Communities. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 1095-1109.

Garrett-Peters, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Vernon-Feagans, L., Willoughby, M.W., Cox, M.J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2008). Early environmental correlates of maternal emotion talk. Parenting: Science and Practice, 8(2), 117-152.

Hill-Soderlund, A. L., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C. B., Calkins, S. D., Granger, D., Moore, G., Gariepy, J.-L., & Cox, M. (2008). Parasympathetic and sympathetic response to the Strange Situation in infants and mothers from avoidant and securely attached dyads.  Developmental Psychobiology, 50, 361-376.

Propper, C., Moore, G.A., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Halpern, C.T., Hill-Soderlund, A.L., Calkins, S.D., Carbone, M., & Cox, M. (2008). Gene-environment contributions to the development of infant vagal reactivity: The interaction of dopamine and maternal sensitivity.  Child Development, 79, 1378-1395.