Publications
A complete list of publications published by the laboratory through the year 2022, including pending and in press publications ordered by publication date.
Li. X., Curran, M.A., Butler, E., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Cao, H. (in press). Sexual minority stressors and intimate partner violence among same-sex couples: Commitment as a resource. Archives of Sexual Behaviors.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Marraccini, M., (in press). Parenting LGBTQ Children and Adolescents. In A. Morris & J. Smith (Eds.) Handbook of Parenting: Interdisciplinary Research and Application. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Towe-Goodman, N., (in press). Biosocial Theories in Family Research. In K. Adamsons, A. Few-Demo, C. Proulx, and K. Roy (Eds.) Sourcebook of Family Theory and Methods. New York: Springer.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, M. T., Short, S., & Propper, C. B. (in press). The Brain and Early Experience Study: Protocol for a prospective observational study. JMIR Research Protocols.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Towe-Goodman, N., Swingler, M., & Willoughby, M. T. (2022). Profiles of Family-Based Social Experiences in the First Three Years Predict Early Cognitive, Behavioral, and Socioemotional Competencies. Developmental Psychology, 58(2), 297-310. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001287
Propper, C. B., McLaughlin, K., Goldblum, J., Camerota, M., Gueron-Sela, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Wagner, N. J. (2022). Parenting and maternal reported child sleep problems in infancy predict school-age aggression and inattention. Sleep Health, 8(1), 62-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.11.010
Carlson, A., Xia, K., Azcarate-Peril, A., Rosin, S., Fine, J., Mu, W., Zopp, J., Kimmel, M., Styner, M., Thompson, A., Propper, C., & Knickmeyer, R. (2021). Infant gut microbiome composition is associated with non-social fear behavior in a pilot study. Nature Communications, 12, 3294 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23281-y
Holochwost, S., Gomes, L., Propper, C., Brown, E., & Iruka, I. (2021). Child Care Policy as an Anti-Poverty Strategy: The Need to Address Neurophysiological Self-Regulation. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322211031579
Holochwost, S. J., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Gariepy, J.-L., & Kolacz, J. (2021). Towards an Understanding of Neurophysiological Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: A Heuristic and a New Approach. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(4), 734-752. DOI: 10.1002/dev.22044; PMID: 33164204
Holochwost, S. J., Wang, G., Kolacz, J., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Klika, J. B., & Jaffee, S. (2021). The neurophysiological embedding of child maltreatment. Development and Psychopathology, 33(3) 1107-1137. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579420000383; PMID: 32624073
Li, X., Cao, H., Zhou, N., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2021). Internalized homophobia and relationship quality among same-sex couples: The mediating role of intimate partner violence. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(11), 1749-1773. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1705671; PMID: 31860388; PMCID: PMC7305039
Lynch, S.F., Bedford, R., Propper, C. & Wagner, N. (2021). Examining Links Between Infant Parasympathetic Regulation during the Still-Face Paradigm and Later Callous-Unemotional Traits. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00860-7
Propper, C., Gustafsson, H., Holochwost, S., & Coffman, J. (2021). Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry. Developmental Psychobiology, https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22170
Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Wagner, N., Zvara, B., Willoughby, M. T., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2021). Attachment representations assessed from family drawings in middle childhood differentiate children with conduct problems and callous unemotional traits. Attachment and Human Development, 23(3), 239-256. DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2020.1714676
Rosin, S., Xia, K., Azcarate-Peril, A., Carlson, A., Propper, C., Thompson, A., Grewen, K., Knickmeyer, R. (2021). A preliminary study of gut microbiome variation and HPA axis reactivity in healthy infants. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 124, 105046, ISSN 0306-4530, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105046
Swetlitz, S., Lynch, S., Propper, C., Coffman, C., & Wagner, N. (2021). Examining maternal elaborative reminiscing as a protective factor in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 989–999.
Wagner, N., Holochwost, S., Lynch, S., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Propper, C. (2021). Characterizing change in resting vagal tone during the first three years of life: A systematic review and empirical examination across two longitudinal samples. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 129, 282-295.
Wagner, N.J., Holochwost, S., Danko, C., Propper, C., Coffman, J.L. (2021). Observed peer competence moderates links between children’s self-regulation skills and academic performance. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 54, 286-293.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2021). Intimate partner violence, parenting, and children’s representations of caregivers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(21-22), NP11759-NP11779. DOI: 10.1177/0886260519888527; PMID: 31782343
Camerota, M., Propper, C., & Teti, D. (2020) Intrinsic and extrinsic factors predicting infant sleep: Moving beyond main effects. Developmental Review, 53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2019.100871
Hodges, E.A., Propper, C.B., Estrem, H. & Schultz, M.B. (2020). Feeding During Infancy: Interpersonal Behavior, Physiology, and Obesity Risk. Child Development Perspectives, 14, 185-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12376
Holochwost, S. J., Towe-Goodman, N., Rehder, P., Wang, G., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2020). Poverty, caregiving, and HPA-axis activity in early childhood. Developmental Review, 56. 100898. DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2020.100898
Holochwost, S. J., Volpe, V. V., Iruka, I., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2020). Maternal warmth, intrusiveness, and executive functions in early childhood: Tracing developmental processes among African American children. Early Child Development and Care, 19(2), 210-219. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2018.1461096.
Kopp, L., Willoughby, M. T., Warkentien, S., Petrie, D., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Blair, C. (2020). Association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure across the first four years of life and manifestation of externalizing behavior problems in school-aged children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(11), 1243-1252. DOI:10.1111/jcpp.13157; PMID: 31797389; PMCID: PMC7350288
Lerner, R., Camerota, C., Tully, K., & Propper, C. (2020). Associations between mother-infant bed-sharing practices and infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm. Infant Behavior and Development, 60, doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101464
Whitley, J., Wouk, K., Bauer, A., Grewen, K., Gottfredson, N., Meltzer-Brody, S., Propper, C., Mills-Koonce, R., Pearson, B., & Stuebe, A. (2020). Oxytocin during breastfeeding and maternal mood symptoms. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104581
Willoughby M.T., Williams, J. Mills-Koonce, W. R., Blair, C.B., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2020). Early life predictors of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptomatology profiles from early through middle childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 32(3), 791-802. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579419001135; PMID: 31439070 PMCID: PMC7036029
Zvara, B., Lathren, C., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2020). Maternal and Paternal Attachment Style and Chaos as Risk Factors for Parenting Behavior. Family Relations, 69(2). 233-246. DOI: 10.1111/fare.12423
Groh, A. M., Propper, C., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Moore, G. A., Calkins, S., Cox, M. J. (2019). Mothers’ physiological and affective responding to infant distress: Unique antecedents of avoidant and resistant attachment. Child Development, 90(2), 489-505. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12912
Haltigan, J., Madigan, S., Bronfman, E., Bailey, H., Borland-Kerr, C., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2019). Refining the assessment of disrupted maternal communication: Using item response models to identify central indicators of disrupted behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 31(1), 261-277. DOI:10.1017/S0954579417001778; PMID: 29248019; NIHMSID: 1671830
Holochwost, S. J., Propper, C. B., Rehder, P. D., Wang, G., Wagner, N. J., & Coffman, J. L. (2019). Parasympathetic function: Relevance and methodology for early education research. Journal of Research in Educational Effectiveness, 12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2019.1631422
Stuebe, A., Meltzer-Brody, S., Propper, C., Pearson, B., Beiler, P., Elam, M., Walker, C., Mills-Koonce, R., & Grewen, K. (2019). The mood, mother, and infant study: Associations between maternal mood in pregnancy and breastfeeding outcome. Breastfeeding Medicine, 14(8). https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2019.0079
Volpe, V., Holochwost, S., Cole, V., & Propper, C. (2019). Early growth in expressive communication and behavior problems: Differential relations by ethnicity. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.10.002
Wagner, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2019). Parenting and cortisol in infancy interactively predict conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors in childhood. Child Development, 90(1), 279-297. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12900; PMID: 28737836; PMCID: PMC5783800
Holochwost, S., Volpe, V., Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C.B., & Mills-Koonce, W.R. (2018). Sociodemographic Risk, Parenting, and Inhibitory Control in Early Childhood: The Role of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(9), 973-981. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12889
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Rehder, P. D., & McCurdy, A. L. (2018). The significance of parenting and parent-child relationships for sexual and gender minority youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28(3), 637-649. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12404; PMID: 30515946; PMCID: PMC7087348
Wagner, N., Bedford, R., & Gueron-Sela, N., & Propper, C. (2018). Maternal attributions of infant behavior and parenting in toddlerhood predict teacher-rated internalizing problems in childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 47(sup1):S569-S577. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1477050
Zvara, B. J., Macfie, J., Cox, M., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2018). Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex. Developmental Psychology, 54(10), 1891–1903. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000556; PMID: 30148372 PMCID: PMC6196728
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.
Gustafsson, H. C., Brown, G. L., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2017). Intimate partner violence and children’s attachment representations during middle childhood. Journal of marriage and family, 79(3), 865-878.
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.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Carmody, K. A., Cox, M. J. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2017). Maternal childhood sexual trauma and child conduct problems in offspring: Multiple pathways of influence. Journal of Family Violence, 32(2), 231-242.
Finegood, E., Blair, C., Granger, D. A., Hibel, L. C., Mills-Koonce, W. R. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2016). Psychobiological influences on maternal sensitivity in the context of adversity. Developmental Psychology, 52(7), 1073-1087. PMCID: PMC4934602
Holochwost, S. J., Propper, C. B., Garner-Neblett, N., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2016). Risk, parenting, and executive functions in early childhood: Exploring the role of ethnicity. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 36, 537-549.
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.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, M. W., Garrett-Peters, P., Wagner, N., Vernon-Feagans, L., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2016). The interplay among socioeconomic status, household chaos, and parenting in the prediction of child conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors. Development and Psychopathology, 28(3), 757-771.
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
Wang, F., Willoughby, M. T., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Cox, M. J., (2016). Infant attachment disorganization and moderation pathways to level and change in externalizing behavior during preschool ages. Attachment and Human Development, 18(6), 534-553.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Cox, M. J. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2016). Intimate partner violence, maternal gatekeeping and child conduct problems. Family Relations, 65(5), 647-660.
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., Willoughby, M. T., Zvara, B., Barnett, M., Gustafsson, H., Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Direct and indirect effects of mothers’ and fathers’ positive engagement on children’s early cognitive development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 38, 1-10. PMCID: PMC4418032
Sulik, M. Blair, C., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Berry, D., Greenberg, M., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Early parenting and the development of externalizing behaviors problems: Longitudinal mediation through children’s executive functioning. Child Development, 86, 1588-1603. PMCID: PMC4567899
Wagner, N., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Willoughby, M. T., Zvara, B., Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Parenting and children’s representations of family predictor disruptive behaviors and callous-unemotional traits. Developmental Psychology, 51(7). 935-948.
Wang, F., Cox, M. J., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Patricia Snyder (2015). Parental behaviors and beliefs, child temperament, and attachment disorganization. Family Relations: An International Journal of Applied Family Studies, 64(2), 191-204.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Carmody, K., Cox, M. J. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. Child Abuse and Neglect, 44, 87-97.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Clincy, A., Cox, M. J. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). The interdependence of adult relationship quality and parenting behaviors among African American and European American couples in rural, low-income communities. Infant and Child Development, 24(3), 343-363.
Towe-Goodman, N., Willoughby, M., Blair, C., Gustafsson, H., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Cox, M., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2014). Fathers’ parenting and the development of early executive functioning. Journal of Family Psychology, 28(6), 867-876.
Zvara, B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Garrett-Peters, P., Wagner, N., Vernon-Feagans, L., Cox, M. J. & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2014). The mediating role of parenting in the associations between household chaos and children’s representations of family dysfunction. Attachment and Human Development, 16(6), 633-655.
Newland, R. P., Crnic, K. A., Cox, M. J, & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2013). The family stress model and maternal psychological symptoms: Mediated pathways from economic hardship to parenting across the infancy to preschool period. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(1), 96-105.
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.
Wang, F., Christ, S., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Garrett-Peters, P., & Cox, M. J. (2013). Association between Maternal Sensitivity and Externalizing Behavior from Preschool to Preadolescence. Applied Developmental Psychology, 34(2). 89-100.
Willoughby, M. T., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C. B. & Waschbusch, D. A. (2013). Observed Parenting Behaviors Interact with a Polymorphism of the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene to Predict the Emergence of Oppositional Defiant and Callous Unemotional Behaviors at Age 3 Years. Development & Psychopathology, 25(4), 903-917.
Barnett, M., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Gustafsson, H., Cox, M. J., & the Family Life Key Investigators (2012). Mother-grandmother conflict, negative parenting and young children’s social development in multigenerational families. Family Relations, 61(5), 843-877.
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.
Propper, C. B., Shanahan, M. J., Russo, R., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (2012) Evocative gene-parenting correlations and academic performance at first grade: An exploratory study. Development and Psychopathology, 24(4), 1265-1282.
Vernon-Feagans, L., Garrett-Peters, P., Willoughby, W., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Cox, M. (2012). Chaos, poverty, and parenting: Predictors of early language development. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 339-351.
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., Appleyard, K., Barnett, M., Deng, M. Putallaz, M., & Cox, M. (2011). Adult attachment style and stress as risk factors for early maternal sensitivity and negativity. Infant Mental Health Journal, 32(3), 277-285. PMCID: PMC4026358
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
Cox, M. J., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C. B., & Gariépy, J. L. (2010). Systems theories and cascades in developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 497-506.
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.
Pungello, E. P., Iruka, I. P., Dotterer, A. M., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Reznick, J. S. (2009). The effects of income, race, and parenting practices on language development in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 45(2), 544-557.
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.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Gariépy, J.-L., Sutton, K., Cox, M. (2008). Changes in maternal sensitivity across the first three years: Are mothers from different attachment dyads differentially influenced by depressive symptomatology? Attachment and Human Development, 10(3), 299-318.
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.
Mills-Koonce, W. R., Propper, C., Gariépy, J. L., Blair, C., Garrett-Peters, P., & Cox, M. J. (2007). Bi-Directional genetic and environmental influence on mother and child behavior: The family system as the unit of analyses. Development and Psychopathology, 19(4), 1073-87.