Publications

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2026

Weng, X., Gao, M., Liu, S., Xu, J., Ren, H., Guo, X., Ren, L., Han, Z. R., Wagner, N., & Rubin, K. H. (2026). Transactional associations of health-related worries among Asian families: Evidence from six-wave longitudinal data during COVID-19. Developmental Psychology.

Broussard, A., Vogel, S.C., Goh, P., Perkins, E.R., Paz, Y., Huth, N., Rosellini, A.J., Willoughby, M., MillsKoonce, R., ^Wagner, N.J., & ^Waller, R. (2026). Identifying Prospective Temperament Predictors of Callous-Unemotional Traits Using Machine. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-026-03012-8

Holochwost, S.J., Coffman, J., Wagner, N.J., Carr, R., & Propper, C. (2026). Associations Between Social Engagement and Parasympathetic Activity in the Early Childhood Education Classroom. Child Development. doi: 10.1093/chidev/aacag039

Huth, N., Vogel, S., Cole, V., Mills-Koonce, R., Willoughby, M., & #Wagner, N.J. (2026). Predictive relations between early adversity, nonlinear trajectories of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning, and later callous-unemotional traits. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-026-01976-x

Huth, N., Vogel, S. C., Goh, P., Broussard, A., Perkins, E., Paz, Y., Rosellini, A., Mills-Koonce, R., Willoughby, M., Waller, R., & #Wagner, N. (2026). Using Machine Learning to Identify Infant and Child Environmental and Biological Predictors of Callous-Unemotional Traits. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-026-01431-4

Paz, Y., Vogel, S., Goh, P. K., Perkins, E. R., Broussard, A., Huth, N., Rosellini, A. J., Mills-Koonce, R., Willoughby, M. T., #^Wagner, N. J., & ^Waller, R. (2026). Using machine learning to identify parenting features prospectively related to callous-unemotional traits from infancy to early adolescence. Psychological Medicine. doi: 10.1017/S0033291726103213

2025

Bui, H.N.T., Novick, D.R., Chad-Friedman, E., Chad-Friedman, S., Danko, C.M, Wagner, N.J., Rubin, K.H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Dougherty, L.R., (2025). Early Interventions for Young Children High in Behavioral Inhibition: Effects on Early Childhood Irritability. Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2025.2562877

Shakiba, N., Bui, H.N.T., Sem, K., Rubin, K.H., Novick, D. R., Danko, C.M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & #Wagner, N.J (2025). Dyadic Physiological Concordance as a Neurobiological Marker of Sensitivity to Parenting Behaviors among Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579425100485

Botello, R., Gandhi, A., Wagner, N.J., Oh, H., Mueser, K., & Fulford, D. (2025). Social adversity and loneliness in first episode psychosis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02958-5

Shalev, I., Waller, R., Wagner, N.J., & Uzefovsky, F. (2025). Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s00787-025-02760-3

Vogel, S. C., Murgueitio, N., Huth, N., Sem, K., Short, S., Knickmeyer, R.C., Mills-Koonce, R., Propper, C., & Wagner, N. J. (2025). Timing-specific longitudinal links between the infant gut microbiome and negative affect in toddlerhood. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z2s8h

2024

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Rubin, K., Novick, D., Druskin, L., Smith, K., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N.J. (2024). Associations Between Dyadic Language Style Matching and Classroom Observations of Behaviorally Inhibited Children’s Sociability. Social Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12781

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Sem, K., Danko, C., Rubin, K., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2024). Children’s vagal flexibility is a predictor and moderator of treatment response to early parenting interventions for inhibited youth. International Journal of Behavioral Development. doi: 10.1177/01650254241306118

Bui, H.N.T., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Perlstein, S., Shakiba, N., Rubin, K.H., Lorenzo, N.E., Novick, D.R., Danko, C.M., Dougherty, L.R., Wagner, N.J. (2024). Individual Differences in Parasympathetic Functioning across Social Stressor Tasks: Relations with Child and Parent Anxiety. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2544

Winebrake, D. A., Huth, N., Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C., Mills-Koonce, R., & Wagner, N. J. (2024). An examination of the relations between effortful control in early childhood and risk for later externalizing psychopathology: A bi-factor structural equation modeling approach. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi/10.1007/s10578-024-01716-z

Fleece, H., Wagner, N.J., Smith, K., Shakiba, N., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Novick, D., Druskin, L., Danko, C., & Rubin, K. (2024). Can Behaviorally Inhibited Preschoolers Make Friends? Developmental Psychology. doi/10.1037/dev0001742

Paz, Y., Perkins, E.R., Colins, O., Perlstein, S., Wagner, N.J., Hawes, S.W., Byrd, A., Viding, E. & Waller, R. (2024). Evaluating the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model in the ABCD Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13976

Lynch, S.F., Perlstein, S., Ordway, C., Jones, C., Lembcke, H., Waller, R., Wagner, N.J. (2024). Parasympathetic nervous system functioning moderates the associations between callous-unemotional traits and emotion understanding difficulties in late-childhood. Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11020184

Plate, R.C., Powell, T., Bedford, R., Smith, T.J., Bamezai, A., Wedderburn, Q., Broussard, A., Soesanto, N., Swetlitz, C., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024). Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search. Developmental Science. http://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13461

2023

Plate, R.C., Powell, T., Bedford, R., Smith, T.J., Bamezai, A., Wedderburn, Q., Broussard, A., Soesanto, N., Swetlitz, C., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2023). Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13461

Wagner, N.J., Perkins, E., Rodriguez, Y., Ordway, C., Flum, M., Hernandez-Pena, L., Perelstein, P., Sem, K., Paz, Y., Plate, R., Popoola, A., Astone, K., Goldstein, E., Njoroge, W.F.M, Raine, A., Pincus, D., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Waller, R. (2023). Promoting Empathy and Affiliation in Relationships (PEAR) Study: Protocol for a Longitudinal Study Investigating the Development of Early Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits. BMJ Open. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072742

Novick, D. R., Meyer, C.T., Wagner, N.J., Danko, C.M., Dougherty, L.R., Druskin, L. R., Smith, K.A., Rubin, K. H., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2023). Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13879

Holochwost, S., Gomes, L., Coffman, J., Wagner, N., & Propper, C. (2023). Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity During Self-Regulatory Tasks Predicts Subsequent School Readiness. Mind, Brain, and Education. doi: 10.1111/mbe.12376

Druskin, L., Novick, D., Smith, K., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Wagner, N., Pham, S., Fleece, H., Danko, C., & Rubin, K. (2023). Comparison of Behaviorally Inhibited and Typically Developing Children’s Play Behaviors in the Preschool Classroom. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1193915

Shakiba, N., Lynch, S.F., Propper, C. B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Wagner, N. J. (2023). Vagal flexibility moderates the links between observed sensitive caregiving in infancy and externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-023-01088-3

Powell, T., Plate, R.C., Miron, C.D., Wagner, N.J., Waller., R. (2023) Callous-unemotional Traits and Emotion Recognition Difficulties: Do Stimulus Characteristics Play a Role? Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01510-3

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Sem, K., Novick, D.R., Danko, C.M., Dougherty, L.R., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. (2023). Examining the Relations Between Children’s Vagal Flexibility Across Social Stressor Tasks and Parent- and Clinician-Rated Anxiety Using Baseline Data from an Early Intervention for Inhibited Preschoolers. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-023-01050-3

Shakiba, N., Doron, G., Gordon-Hacke, A., Egotubo, A., Wagner, N. J., & Gueron-Sela, N. (2023). Mother-infant emotional availability through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining continuity, stability and bidirectional associations. Infancy. doi: 10.1111/infa.12517

Waldman, I., King, C., Poore, H., Luningham, J., Zinbarg, R., Krueger, R., …Wagner, N.J., Watts, A., Wilson, S., Wright, Aidan, & Zald, D. (2023). Recommendations for Adjudicating Among Alternative Structural Models of Psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/bksm7

Holochwost, S.J., Winebrake, D.A., Brown, E., Happaney, K., Wagner, N.J., & Mills-Koonce, R. (2023). An Ecological Systems Perspective on Individual Differences in Children’s Performance on Measures of Executive Function. Journal of Cognition and Development. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2022.2160721

Chester, M., Plate, R.C., Powell, T., Rodriguez, Y., ^Wagner, N.J., & ^Waller, R. (2023). The COVID-19 Pandemic, Mask-Wearing, and Emotion Recognition During Late-Childhood. Social Development. doi: 10.1111/sode.12631

Shakiba, N., Perlstein, S., Powell, T., Rodriguez, Y., Waller, R., &  Wagner, N. J. (2023). Prospective associations between pandemic-related adversity, harsh parenting, and the development of prosociality across middle- to late-childhood. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001475

Perlstein, S., Wagner, N.J., Dominguez, B., Romero, L., Romero, E., & Waller, R. (2023). Psychometric properties, factor structure, and construct validity of the sensitivity to threat and affiliative reward scale (STARS) in children and adults. Assessment. doi: 10.1177/10731911221128946

Levine, R.S., Smith, K.S., & Wagner, N.J. (2023). The impact of callous-unemotional traits on academics, behaviors, and relationships in school: A systematic review. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01344-5

2022

Propper, C., Camerota, M, Tully, K., Gueron-Sela, N., & ^Wagner, N.J. (2022). Parenting and maternal reported child sleep problems in infancy predict school-age aggression and inattention. Sleep Health. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.11.010

Chronis-Tuscano, A., Novick, D.R., Danko, C.M., Smith, K., Wagner, N.J., Wang, C.H., Druskin, L., Dougherty, L.R., & Rubin, K.H. (2022). Early Intervention for Inhibited Young Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing The Turtle Program and Cool Little Kids. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13475

Lynch, S.F., Bedford, R., Propper, C., & Wagner, N.J. (2022). Examining links between infant parasympathetic regulation during the still-face paradigm and later callous-unemotional traits. Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00860-7

2021

Wagner, N.J., Holochwost, S., Lynch, S., Mills-Koonce, R., & Propper, C. (2021). Characterizing change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia in the first three years of life: A systematic Review and empirical examination across two longitudinal samples. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.07.025

Domínguez-Álvarez, B., Romero, E., Lopez-Romero, L., Isdahl-Troye, A., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2021). A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Test of the Low Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model of Callous-Unemotional Traits among Spanish Preschoolers. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00785-1

Swetlitz, C., Lynch, S., Propper, C., Coffman, J., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Examining maternal reminiscing style as a protective factor in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00790-4

Wagner, N.J., Holochwost, S., Danko, C., Propper, C., & Coffman, J. (2021). Observed Peer Competence Moderates Links between Children’s Observed Self-Regulation Skills and Academic Performance. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 54, 286-293. doi: 10.1016/j.ecrces.2020.10.001

Waller, R., Powell, T., Rodriguez, Y., Corbett, N., Perlstein, S., White, L., Barzilay, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01109-y

2020

Wagner, N. J., & Waller, R. (2020). Leveraging parasympathetic nervous system activity to study risk for psychopathology: The special case of callous-unemotional traits. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/vcfx5

Waller, R., Corbett, N., Raine, A, Wagner, N.J., Broussard, A., Edmonds, D., Reardon, S., Jones, C., Itkin-Ofer, M., Schell, T., & Neumann, C.S. (2020). Reduced Sensitivity to Affiliation and the Affective Core of Psychopathy. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. doi: 10.1037/per0000423

^Wagner, N.J., ^Waller, R., Flom, M., Ronfard, S., Fenstermacher, S., & Saudino, K.J. (2020). Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous-unemotional traits in early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13182

Wagner, N.J., Bowker, J., & Rubin, K. (2020). Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Peer-Rated Social Behaviors in Elementary and Middle School. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-020-00636-5

Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Willoughby, M.T., Zvara., B.J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2020). Attachment Quality Assessed from Children’s Family Drawings Predicts to Child Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Attachment and Human Development.  doi: 10.1080/14616734.2020.1714676

Waller, R., Wagner, N.J., Barstead, M.S., Subar, A., Petersen, J.L., Hyde, J.S., & Hyde, L.W. (2019). A Meta-Analysis of the Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Empathy, Prosociality, and Guilt. Clinical Psychology Review. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2019.101809

2019

^Waller, R., ^Wagner, N.J., Flom, M., Ganiban, J., & Saudino, K.J. (2019). Fearlessness and low social affiliation as unique developmental precursors of callous-unemotional behaviors in preschoolers. Psychological Medicine. 1–9. doi: 10.1017/S003329171900374X

Waller, R., & Wagner, N. J. (2019). The Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) model and the development of callous-unemotional traits. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 107, 656–671. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.10.005 

Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Willoughby, M.T., Zvara., B.J., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2019). Attachment Quality Assessed from Children’s Family Drawings Predicts to Child Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Attachment and Human Development. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2020.1714676

Wagner. N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Cox, M. & Family Life Project Key Investigators (2019). Parenting and cortisol in infancy interactively predict conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood. Child Development, 90(1), 279-297. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12900

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 on Educational Effectiveness. Link

2018

Wagner, N.J., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2018). Children’s autonomic functioning moderates links between maternal rejecting attitudes and preschool aggressive behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology. Link

Wagner, N.J., Gueron-Sela, N., Bedford, R., & Propper, C. (2018). Maternal attributions of infant behavior and parenting behaviors predict teacher-rated internalizing problems in childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Link

2017

Wagner, N.J., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2017). Callous-Unemotional Traits and Autonomic Functioning in Toddlerhood Interactively Predict Externalizing Behaviors in Preschool. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Link

Gueron-Sela, N, Bedford, R., Wagner, N.J., & Propper, C. (2017). Children’s Executive Function Buffers the Effects of Maternal Harsh-Intrusiveness on Internalizing Behaviors in the Transition to School. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Link

Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Garrett-Peters, P., & Wagner, N.J.(2017). Emotion recognition deficits among children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors: Differences by child race. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Link

Wagner. N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Cox, M. & Family Life Project Key Investigators (2017). Parenting and cortisol in infancy interactively predict conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood. Child Development. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12900 Link

^Bedford, R., ^Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., & Willoughby, M. (2017). The role of infants’ mother-directed gaze, maternal sensitivity, and emotion recognition in childhood callous unemotional behaviours. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Link

Wagner, N.J., Camerota, M., & Propper, C. (2017). Prevalence and perceptions of electronic cigarette use during pregnancy. Maternal and Child Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10995-016-2257-9 Link

2016

Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C. B., Wagner, N. J., Camerota, M., Tully, K. P., & Moore, G. (2016). Infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia and maternal depressive symptoms predict toddler sleep problems. Developmental Psychobiology. Link

Gueron-Sela, N., Wagner, N.J., Propper, C.B., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Moore, G.A., & Cox, M.J. (2016). The interaction between child respiratory sinus arrhythmia and early sensitive parenting in the prediction of children’s executive functions. Infancy. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12152 Link

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Propper, C., Willoughby, M.T., *Rehder, P.D., Moore, G., & Cox, M. (2016). Associations between infant behaviors during the face-to-face still-face paradigm and oppositional defiant and callous-unemotional behaviors in early childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-016-0141-0 Link

Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Garrett-Peters, Wagner, N.J., P., 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. doi:10.1017/S0954579416000298 Link

2015

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M.T., Propper, C., *Rehder, P.D., & Gueron-Sela, N. (2015). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and heart period in infancy as correlates of later oppositional defiant behaviors and callous-unemotional behaviors. International Journal of Behavioral Development. doi:10.1177/0165025415605391 Link

Wagner, N.J., Propper, C., Gueron-Sela, N., & Mills-Koonce, W.R. (2015). Dimensions of maternal parenting and infants’ autonomic functioning interactively predict early internalizing behavior problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-0039-2 Link

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M.T., Zvara, B., Cox, M., & the Family Life Project Key Investigators (2015). Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors. Developmental Psychology, doi: 10.1037/a0039353 Link

Mills‐Koonce, W. R., Wagner, N. J., Willoughby, M. T., Stifter, C., Blair, C., & Granger, D. A. (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. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12289 Link

2014

Zvara, B.J., Mills-Koonce W.R., Garrett-Peters, P., Wagner, N.J., Vernon-Feagans, L., Cox, M. & the Family Life Project Key Contributors. (2014). The Mediating Role of Parenting in the Associations between Household Chaos and Children’s Representations of Family Dysfunction, Attachment and Human Development, doi: 10.1080/14616734.2014.966124 Link

Willoughby, M. T., Mills-Koonce, W., Gottfredson, N. C., & Wagner, N. J. (2014). Measuring callous unemotional behaviors in early childhood: Factor structure and the prediction of stable aggression in middle childhood. Journal Of Psychopathology And Behavioral Assessment, doi:10.1007/s10862-013-9379-9 Link

BOOK CHAPTERS

Hastings, Pl., Rubin, K.H., Smith, K. & Wagner, N.J. (in press). Parents of behaviorally inhibited and socially withdrawn children. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting. 3rd edition. New York: Routledge.

POPULAR MEDIA

Levine, R. & Wagner, N.J. (2019) Callous-unemotional Traits: Differentiating early risk for aggressive behaviors. International Society for Research on Aggression Blog. Link

MEASURES

Waller, R., Chester, M., Rodriguez, Y., & Wagner, N. J. (2020). Development of the Parenting In a Pandemic Scale (PIPS). PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/vcfx5

Perlstein, S., Wagner, N. J., Domínguez-Álvarez, B., Gómez-Fraguela, J. A., Romero, E., & Waller, R. (2022). Psychometric Properties, Factor Structure, and Validity of the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward Scale (STARS) in Children and Adults. Retrieved from osf.io/5qxv6

SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS

International Meetings

Guedes, M., Ribeiro, O., Santos, A.J., Cassibba, R., Coppola, G., Lococo, A., Ingoglia, S., Inguglia, C., Liga, F., Lo Cricchio, M., Wagner, N.J., Pham, S., & Rubin, K.H. (2024, June). Profiles of maternal perceptions about the Covid-19 crisis, parenting daily hassles and children’s socioemotional problems in Italy and Portugal. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Xu, J., Chen, L., Ren, H., Han, Z.R., Ren, L., Wagner, N., Bowker, J., Closson, L., Pham, S., & Rubin, K.H. (2024, June). Changes in parental restrictiveness matters for child psychosocial functioning during Covid-19: a comparison between American and Chinese families. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Wagner, N.J., Perelstein, P., Pham, S., Ren, L., Han, Z.R., Kim, H.K., Oh, W., Metin, Ö., Boz, M., Veríssimo, M., Santos, A., Guedes, M., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K.L., Coppola, G., LoCoco, A., Lo Cricchio, M.G., Liga, F., & Rubin, K.H. (2024, June). Parenting practices and child emotion regulation over three months of
the pandemic: the moderating role of cultural tightness. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Oh, W., Song, S., Swinney, E., Kim, H.K., Veríssimo, M., Santos, A., Guedes, M., Wagner, N.J., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K.L., Perelstein, P., Pham, S., & Rubin, K.H. (2024, June). Pandemic stressors and changes in parental mental health: a cross-cultural study. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Kim, H.K., Jo, E., Park, M.Y., Lee, J., Oh, W., Veríssimo, M., Santos, A., Guedes, M., Wagner, N.J., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K.L., Perelstein, P., Pham, S., & Rubin, K.H. (2024, June). Parenting daily hassles during Covid-19: a cross-cultural study across 3 countries. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Sem, K., Danko, C., Rubin, K., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2024, June). Examining the role of respiratory sinus arrythmia in response to an early multi-component intervention for inhibited young children. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Huth, N., Vogel, S., Shakiba, N., Perkins, E., Paz, Y., Rosellini, A.J., Mills-Koonce, R., Broussard, A., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, May 15-19). Identifying influential environmental and biological predictors of later callous-unemotional traits across systems and ages: A machine learning approach. Paper presented at the 2024 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Conference, Paphos, Cyprus.

Broussard, A., Rosellini, A.J., Mills-Koonce, R., Willoughby, M.T., Vogel, S., Perkins, E., Paz, Y., Shakiba, N., Huth, N., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2024, May 15-19). A Novel Longitudinal Test of the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward (STAR) Model Using Machine Learning. Paper presented at the 2024 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Conference, Paphos, Cyprus.

Perkins, E., Vogel, S., Rosellini, A.J., Paz, Y., Shakiba, N., Perstein, S., Broussard, A., Huth, N., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2024, May 15-19). Using Machine Learning to Develop a Novel Early Childhood Screening Measure for Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Adolescence. Paper presented at the 2024 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Conference, Paphos, Cyprus.

Lynch, S.F., Plate, R., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, May 15-19). Exploring patterns of affiliation underlying callous-unemotional traits in early childhood via a novel computerized assessment. Paper presented at the 2024 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Conference, Paphos, Cyprus.

Wagner, N.J., Vogel., S., Huth, N., Willoughby, M., & Mills-Koonce, R. (2024, May 15-19). Predictive relations between deprivation and threat exposure in infancy, nonlinear trajectories of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning across the first four years of life, and later callous-unemotional traits. Paper presented at
the 2024 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Conference, Paphos, Cyprus.

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Sem, K., Danko, C., Rubin, K., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2023, June). Examining the role of respiratory sinus arrythmia in response to an early multi-component intervention for inhibited young children. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP). London, England.

Bui, H.N.T, Perlstein, S., Shakiba, N., Rubin, K.H., Sem, K., Lorenzo, N.E., Novick, D.R., Danko, C.M., Wagner, N.J. & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2023, June). Individual and interactive effects of child and parent anxiety on behaviorally inhibited young children’s RSA across social stressor tasks. Oral Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
(ISRCAP). London, England.

Druskin, L. R., Smith, K. A., Novick, D. R., Danko, C. M., Fleece, H. M., Wagner, N. J., Barstead, M. G., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2020, June). A comparison of behaviorally inhibited and typically-developing children’s play behaviors in the preschool classroom. In K. A. Smith & A. J. Santos (Co-chairs), Young Children’s Behavior “In the Wild”: Naturalistic Observations of Children’s Social Engagement and Its Antecedents and Consequences. Symposium to be conducted at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). Rhodes, Greece.

Fleece, H. M., Smith, K. A., Druskin, L. R., Novick, D. R., Wagner, N.J., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2020, June). The development of friendships in behaviorally inhibited preschoolers. In M. G. Lo Cricchio & A. J. Santos (Co-chairs), Children and Early Adolescents’ Peer Relations and Adjustment. Symposium to be conducted at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
(ISSBD). Rhodes, Greece

Wagner, N., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2018) Children’s autonomic functioning moderates links between maternal rejecting attitudes and preschool aggressive behaviors. In Early Childhood Aggression symposium conducted at the International Society for Research on Aggression conference in Paris, France.

Chronis-Tuscano, A., Danko, C.M., Novick, D.R., Wagner, N.J., Barstead, M.G., Wang, C.H., Smith, K.A., Badders, R., O’Brien, K., Dougherty, L.R., Coplan, R., & Rubin, K.H. (2018, June). The Turtle Program: PCIT for Young Children Displaying Behavioral Inhibition. In S. Kurtz (Chair), PCIT Adaptations for Behaviorally Inhibited and Anxious Youth. Symposium conducted at the Inaugural Parent Child Interaction Therapy World Congress. Schweinfurt, Germany

Barstead, M. G., Danko, C. M., Wagner, N. J., Novick, D. R., Teetsel, R. N., Smith, K. A., Wang, C. W., Dougherty, L. R., Rubin, K. H., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. Response to early intervention for behavioral inhibition is moderated by parental anxiety. In C. Danko and N. Wagner (Co-chairs), Innovative interventions for young behaviorally inhibited children. Symposium submitted to present at the meeting of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

National Meetings

Huth, N., Sem, K., Bui, H., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K., & Wagner, N. (2025). Vagal Flexibility as a Protective Factor of Childhood Anxiety: A Lasso Regression Approach. Paper presented at the 58th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, CA, United States.

Huth, N., Vogel, S., Mills-Koonce, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2025, May). Predictive relations between early adversity, non-linear trajectories of HPA functioning, and later callous-unemotional traits. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Rubin, K.H., Novick, D. R., Druskin, L.R., Smith, K., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, March 2). Anxious Parent-Child Language Style Matching (LSM) Predicts Increased Behavioral Inhibition (BI) Post-Intervention. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Vogel, S.C., Murgueitio, N., Huth, N., Sem, K., Knickmeyer, R., Short, S.J., Quinn, R., Mills-Koonce, R., Propper, C., Wagner, N.J. Longitudinal links between the gut microbiome and negative affect in toddlerhood: the impact of developmental timing in gut-behavior associations. Talk to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Vogel, S., Ordway, C., Bui, H.N.T., Novick, D.R., Druskin, L., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K.H., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, October). Parent’s Cross-System Autonomic Regulation (CSAR) Predicts Fewer Restrictive Parenting Behaviors [Flash Talk]. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Chicago, IL.

Shakiba, N., Novick, D. R., Sem, K., Bui, H.N.T., Danko, C. M., Druskin, L., Rubin, K. H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N. J. (2023, March 23-25). RSA synchrony as a neurobiological marker of susceptibility to parenting behaviors among behaviorally inhibited Preschoolers. Flash talk paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K., & Wagner, N. J. (2023, March). Examining Links Between Parent-Child Language Style Matching (LSM) and Observed Social Behaviors Using Pre-treatment Data From an Early Intervention for Inhibited Preschoolers. Presented at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Holochwost, S., Propper, C., Wagner, N., & Coffman, J. (2023, March). Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity in the Early Childhood Education Classroom: Associations with Teacher Behavior. Presented at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Winebrake, D., Rosellini, A., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2023, March). Using Machine Learning to Identify Age- and Domain-Specific Biobehavioral Risk Factors for Callous-Unemotional Traits Across Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood. Presented at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wagner, N. J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H.N.T., Sem, K., Novick, D. R., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2022, November 9-11). Examining the Relations between Preschool Children’s Vagal Flexibility Across Social Stressor Tasks and Parent- and Clinician-Rated Anxiety. Paper presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, United States.

Lynch, S.F., Perlstein, S., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2022, May) Associations between callous-unemotional traits and emotion understanding during a social conflict film: The moderating role of parasympathetic nervous system functioning. In S.F. Lynch & J. Allen (Co-Chairs), Callous-unemotional traits and social-emotional functioning in children and young people. Symposium to be conducted at the 9th Meeting for the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP). Online.

Shakiba, N., Perlstein, S., Powell, T., Rodriguez, Y., Waller, R., & Wagner, N. J. (2022). A Longitudinal association between harsh parenting and childhood prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic. In N Shakiba (Chair), The links between caregiving and cognitive and socioemotional development across infancy and childhood in the context of risk and adversity. Paper presentation at the 2022 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Lynch, S., Propper, C., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Examining Links Between Infant Parasympathetic Regulation During the Still-Face Paradigm and Later Callous-Unemotional Traits. Presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Plate, R., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Emotional Competence from Infancy to Late Childhood. Presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Wagner, N.J., Rodriguez, Y., Corbett, N., Perlstein, S., White, L., Barzilay, R., & Waller, R. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families and children’s externalizing psychopathology. Presented in The Pandemic and the Mental Health of Parents and Children Across Pregnancy, Infancy, and Childhood (Chair Lauren White). Presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Perlstein, S., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2021). The Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward Scale (STARS) in Children and Adults. Presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Wagner, N.J., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Danko, C., Smith, K., Novick, D., Druskin, L., & Rubin, K. (2020). Links between parents’ parasympathetic regulation and children’s observed play behaviors in preschool: The moderating role of anxiety. Presented at the 2020 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

Levine, R. S., Wagner, N. (2020). Callous-unemotional traits in school: A systematic review and future directions for SEL. Submission accepted for the 2020 SEL Exchange Research Publication.

Novick, D. R., Smith, K.A., Danko, C.M., Druskin, L.R., Wagner, N.J., O’Brien, K., Rubin, K.H., Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2020, November). The Turtle Program: PCIT for Young Children Displaying Behavioral Inhibition. In C. Lieneman & C.B. McNeil (Co-chairs), Reaching Beyond Disruptive Behavior Disorders: New Directions for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Research. Symposium to be presented at the
annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Philadelphia, PA.

Wagner, N.J., Waller, R., Flom, M., Ronfard, S., Fenstermacher, S., & Saudino, K. (2020). Less imitation of arbitrary actions is a specific developmental precursor to callous-unemotional traits in early childhood. Symposium presented at the 2020 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston, MA.

Wagner, N.J., & Mills-Koonce, R. (2019). The role of maternal social support and depression in the emergence of CU traits across infancy and early childhood: A test of intergenerational moderation by polymorphisms of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor gene. In Development of psychopathic traits and Early Interventions. Symposium presented at the 2019 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting in Las Vegas, NV.

Wagner, N.J., Danko, C., Coffman, J., & Propper, C. (2019). Observed Peer Problems Moderate Links between Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement in Preschool. In S. Holochwost (Chair), Self-Regulation and Early School Success: New Perspectives and Methodologies. Symposium presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Wagner, N.J. & Rubin, K. (2019). Associations between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Peer-Rated Social Behaviors in Elementary and Middle School. In M. Flom (Chair), Elucidating the Correlates, Course, and Consequences of Early Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Developmental Science Perspective. Symposium presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Danko, C.M., Felton, J.W., Woods, K.E.,Wagner, N.J., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2018, November). Integrated parenting intervention for mothers of children with ADHD: Moderating effects of maternal psychopathology. In A. Garcia (Chair), As if parenting wasn’t hard enough: The attenuating role of parental psychopathology on behavioral parent training. Symposium presented at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Washington, DC.

Wagner, N., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2018) Children’s autonomic functioning moderates links between maternal rejecting attitudes and preschool aggressive behaviors. In Early Childhood Aggression symposium conducted at the International Society for Research on Aggression conference in Paris, France.

Chronis-Tuscano, A., Danko, C.M., Wagner, N.J.,   Barstead,   M.G., Novick, D.R., Smith, K.A., Teetsel, R.N., Dougherty, L.R.,  O’Brien, K.A., & Rubin, K.H.(2017, November).   Multi-Modal Early Intervention Program for Behaviorally Inhibited Preschoolers. In D. Sloan (Chair), New advances in Group CBT: Expanding the reach and context of interventions. Symposium conducted at the annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. San Diego, CA.

Barstead, M. G., Danko, C. M., Wagner, N. J., Novick, D. R., Teetsel, R. N., Smith, K. A., Wang, C. W., Dougherty, L. R., Rubin, K. H., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. Response to early intervention for behavioral inhibition is moderated by parental anxiety. In C. Danko and N. Wagner (Co-chairs), Innovative interventions for young behaviorally inhibited children. Symposium submitted to present at the meeting of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W., Willoughby, M., & Cox, M (2017) Caregiving and HPA axis functioning interactively predict conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors in childhood. In N. Wagner and W.R. Mills-Koonce (Co-Chairs), Biopsychosocial Examinations of Emerging Conduct Problems and Callous Unemotional Behaviors: Multi-method, multi-system analyses. Symposium presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX.

Wagner, N.J. (2016). Early Biopsychosocial Correlates of Later Externalizing Behavior Problems. Invited presentation at the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture, Developmental Science Field Committee Co-Sponsored Colloquium Series, University of Maryland, College Park.

Wagner, N.J. (2015). Biopsychosocial Correlates of Early Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Invited presentation given at Developmental Psychology’s Lunch Consortium, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Waschbusch, D., Zvara, B., & Cox, M (2015). Parenting and children’s representations of family predictor disruptive behaviors and callous-unemotional traits. Paper presented at symposium entitled “Genetic and environment factors associated with early callous-unemotional behaviors and their associations with later development” at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Wagner, N.J., Cole, V., Propper, C., & Mills-Koonce, W.R. (2015). Longitudinal Latent Profile Analysis: An Innovative Approach to Modeling Trajectories of RSA in Early Childhood. Paper presented at symposium entitled “Innovative Approaches to Unresolved Questions in the Study of Early Psychophysiological Development” at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Cox, M.J., Wagner, N.J., & Mills-Koonce, W.R. (2015). Moderating pathways in the Associations between Maternal Support, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Child Psychopathology. Paper presented at symposium entitled “Development of Developmental Psychopathology: The Legacy of Susan B. Campbell” at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Wagner, N.J. (2010). Differences in Parenting Behaviors across Family Structures among African American Mothers of Young Children. Paper presented at the 2010 Lantina(o) Graduate Student Alliance’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Symposium, Tempe, AZ.

Garrett-Peters, P.T., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Cox, M.J., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators (2009).  Contextual correlates of parenting behaviors among poor, rural, African American mothers.  Paper presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Bailey, M., Sem, K., Rubin, K.H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N.J. (2026, February 28). Association between Parenting and Parents’ Physiology Regulation. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association 2026 Conference, Boston, MA.

Khullar, S., Huth, N., Waller, R., & Wagner, N. J. Examining parasympathetic reactivity to fearful stimuli in children with callous-unemotional traits. Poster presented at the 2026 Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA.

Sem, K., Vogel, S., Huth, N., Waller, R., & Wagner, N. (2025). Examining Second-by-Second RSA and Observed Fear Behaviors in the Prediction of Child Anxiety. Poster presented at the 58th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, CA, United States.

Huth, N., Vogel, S., Kncikmeyer, R., Short, S., Mills-Koonce, R., Propper, C., & Wagner, N. (2025). Exploring Links Between Prenatal Experiences of Racial Discrimination, Inflammation, and Infant Psychosocial Outcomes. Poster presented at the 58th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, CA, United States.

Shakiba, N., Sem, K., Rubin, K.H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N.J. (2025). Using Latent Change Score Modeling to Characterize Autonomic Coordination Among Parents of Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Poster presented at the 58th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, CA, United States.

Huth, N., Bedford R., & Wagner N.J. (2025, May). Exploring the relationship between conduct problems, callous-unemotional traits, and executive function in middle childhood. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2025 biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Broussard, A., Vogel, S., Goh, P., Perkins, E., Paz, Y., Huth, N., Rosellini, A.J., Holmes, J., Mills-Koonce, R., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2025, May). Testing the Sensitivity to Threat and Affiliative Reward Model of Callous-Unemotional Traits with Machine Learning. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2025 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Sem, K., Ordway, C., Shakiba, N., Novick, D. R., Druskin, L.R., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K.H., & Wagner, N.J. (2025, May). Anxious-Parent & Child Language Style Matching (LSM) on Child Intervention Anxiety Outcomes. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2025 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, MN.

Uzefovsky, F., Shalev, I., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, June). Development of empathic disequilibrium and its relationship with behavior problems. Poster presented at the biennial meeting for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Lisbon, Portugal.

Perelstein, P., Shakiba, N., Sem, K., Aslan, O.M., Boz, M., Verissimo, M., Closson, L., Oh, W., Bowker, J., McDonald, K., Coppola, G., Liga, F., LoCoco, A., Kim, H.K., Ren., L, Rubin, K., Wagner, N.J. (2024, March 2). Parenting practices and child emotion regulation over three months of the pandemic; the moderating role of cultural tightness. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association 2024 Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Huth, N., Winebrake, D., Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C., Mills-Koonce, R., Bedford, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, March 1). Links between childhood effortful control and externalizing psychopathology: A bi-factor modeling approach. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association 2024 Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Swartz, A., Vogel, S., Huth, N., Andrews, K., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, March 2). Secure attachment and child self-regulation: unraveling dynamics in conflict discussions. Poster presented at the 2024 Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Huth, N., Vogel, S., Shakiba, N., Perkins, E., Paz, Y., Rosellini, A.J., Mills-Koonce, R., Broussard, A., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2024, October). A machine learning approach to understand the influence of early adversity and stress-related neurophysiology on the prediction of later callous-unemotional traits. Poster accepted to be presented at the 2024 International Society of Developmental Psychobiology Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Sem, K., Danko, C., Rubin, K., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2023, June). Neurophysiological correlates of parents’ anxiety. Poster Presentation at the biennial meeting for the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP). London, England.

Lynch, S.F., Rodriguez, Y., Plate, R., Waller, R., Wagner, N.J. (2023, March). Exploring Patterns of Affiliation Underlying Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood Utilizing a Novel Computerized Assessment. Poster presentation at the 2023 Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting (Salt Lake City, Utah).

Winebrake, D. A., Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K., & Wagner, N. J. (2023, March). Using machine learning to identify linguistic markers of parents’ anxiety using baseline data from an early intervention for inhibited preschoolers. Presented at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wagner, N. J., Shakiba, N., Sem, K., Bui, H.N.T., Novick, D. R., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H., (2023, March 23-25). Neurophysiological correlates of parents’ anxiety. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Guedes, M., Ribeiro, O., Pham, S., Smith, K., Wagner, N.J., Rubin, K., Verissimo, M., & Santos, A. (2023, March 23-25). Parenting distress, hassles and practices during COVID-19 lockdown and preschoolers’ socioemotional adjustment during reopening phase. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Fleece, H., Wagner, N.J., Smith, K., Shakiba, N., Chornis-Tuscano, A., Novick, D., & Rubin, K. (2023, March 23-25). Can Behaviorally Inhibited Preschoolers Make Friends?. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Doron, G., Shakiba, N., Gordon-Hacker, A., Egotubov, A., Wagner, N. J., & Gueron-Sela, N. (2023, March). Mother-infant emotional availability through the COVID19 pandemic: Examining continuity, stability, and bidirectional associations. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Keefauver, T., Winebrake, D., Sem, K., Perelstein, P., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2022). Linguistic markers of child respiratory sinus arrhythmia during an emotional memory task. Poster presented at the 55th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, San Diego, California.

Andrews, K., Powell, T., Lynch, S., Shakiba, N., Waller, R., Wagner, N.J. (2022). The Emotional Valence of a Film Clip is Associated with Dynamic Changes in Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Across the Clip. Poster presented at the 55th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, San Diego, California.

Shakiba, N., Lynch, S.F., Propper, C. B., Mills-Koonce, W. R., & Wagner, N. J. (2022, November 9-11). Child’s vagal flexibility moderates the links between observed sensitive parenting in infancy and later externalizing problems. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, United States.

Shakiba, N., Sem, K., Bui, H.N.T., Novick, D. R., Danko, C. M., Druskin, L., Dougherty, L. R., Rubin, K. H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N. J. (2022, November 9-11). Examination of moderators of treatment response in the context of early intervention for behaviorally inhibited young children. Poster presented at
the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, United States.

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D. R., Danko, C.M., Druskin, L., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K. H., & Wagner, N. J. (2022). Associations between Parent-Child Language Style Matching (LSM) And Parent Skin Conductance Response (SCR). Poster presented at the 55th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, San Diego, California.

Sem, K., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Novick, D. R., Danko, C.M., Druskin, L., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K. H., & Wagner, N. J. (2022). Less Restrictive Parenting Protects Against Anxiety for Children with High Resting RSA. Poster presented at the 55th annual International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, San Diego, California.

Wagner, N.J., Shakiba, N., Bui, H., Sem, K., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. (2022) Links between preschool children’s dynamic respiratory sinus arrythmia flexibility across social stressor tasks and anxiety across multiple informants. Poster presented at the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development.

Lynch, S.F., Rodriguez, Y., Plate, R., Waller, R., Wagner., N.J. (2022, November 9-11). Validating a novel computerized assessment of affiliative mechanisms underlying social functioning in early childhood. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, United States.

Bui, H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K., & Wagner N.J. (2021). RSA Synchrony and anxiety in parents and preschoolers. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

Lynch. S. & Wagner N.J. (2021). The role of parasympathetic nervous system functioning in the links between callous-unemotional traits and deficits in affective perspective taking. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

Lynch. S. & Wagner N.J. (2021). Parasympathetic nervous system functioning as a biological risk factor for callous-unemotional trait development: a meta-analytic review and empirical investigation. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Event (online).

Soesanto, N., Smith, K., Lynch., S., Powell, T., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Augmentation During Social Stress Predicts Elevated Callous-Unemotional Traits in Males. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Event (online).

Winebrake, D., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Children’s effortful control moderates the predictive relations between observed sensitive caregiving in early childhood and later callous-unemotional traits. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Event (online).

Powell, T., Plate, R., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Emotion recognition deficits associated with callous-unemotional traits in children across static and dynamic stimuli. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Event (online).

Swetlitz, C., Lynch., S., Propper, C., Coffman, J., & Wagner, N.J. (2021). Examining Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing as a Protective Factor in the Intergenerational Transmission of Psychopathology. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Winebrake, D., Wagner, N.J., & Hastings, P. (2021). Examining Sex Differences in the Longitudinal Relations Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Social Problems Across Childhood. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online). **received a special designation at
the Biennial as a Strategic Poster, reflecting important contributions in one of the areas prioritized in SRCD’s mission and goals**

Powell, T., Plate, R., Wagner, N.J., & Waller, R. (2021). Stimulus characteristics influence emotion recognition performance. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Flom, M., Wagner, N.J., & Saudino, K. (2021). Do Early Callous-Unemotional Traits and Low Prosociality Differentially Predict Externalizing and Relational Adolescent Outcomes? Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (online).

Lynch, S., Propper, C., & Wagner, N.J. (2020, October). Examining links between parasympathetic regulation across the still-face paradigm and later callous-unemotional traits. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

Swetlitz, C., Lynch, S.F., Propper C., Coffman, J., Wagner, N.J. (2020, November). Examining maternal reminiscing style as a protective factor in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Druskin, L. R., Smith, K. A., Novick, D. R., Wagner, N. J., Danko, C. M., Dougherty, L. R., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2020, November). Multi-method predictors of treatment response in the Turtle Program for children high in behavioral inhibition. Poster to be presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Philadelphia, PA.

Novick, D.R., Smith, K. A., Druskin, L. R., Wagner, N. J., Barstead, M. G., Danko, C.M., Badders, R., Dougherty, L. Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (June 2020). Associations between social anxiety, selective mutism, and observed play behaviors in behaviorally inhibited preschoolers. Poster accepted to be presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). Rhodes, Greece.

Levine, R., Bowker, J., Rubin, K., & Wagner, N.J. (2020, March). Implications of Callous-Unemotional Traits for Academic, Social, and Behavioral Functioning in Schools. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2020 Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Boston, MA.

Nelson Darling, L., Holochwost, S.J., Coffman, J., Propper, C.B., & Wagner, N.J. (2020, March). Physiological Regulation During Classroom Activities Differentially Predicts Children’s Social Behaviors. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2020 Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Boston, MA.

Druskin, L. R., Smith, K. A., Novick, D. R., Barstead, M. G., Danko, C. M., Badders, R., Wagner, N. J., Dougherty, L. R., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2019, November). The moderating effects of parent and child anxiety on the association between physiological regulation and parental accommodation. Poster presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Atlanta, GA.

Soesanto, N., Levine, R., Darling, L.N., & Wagner, N.J. (October, 2019). An investigation into the relations between peer-to-peer interactions and parasympathetic activity in pre-kindergarten classrooms. Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program research symposium, Boston, MA.

Novick, D.R., Barstead, M.G., Smith, K.A., Danko, C.M., Rubin, K.H., Badders, R.N., Druskin, L., Wagner, N.J., Dougherty, L., Coplan, R.J., Chronis-Tuscano, A. (November, 2019). Predictors and moderators of parent engagement in early intervention programs for behaviorally inhibited preschool age children. Poster
to be presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Atlanta, GA.

Antonides-Jensen, N., Levine, R., Soesanto, N., & Wagner, N.J. (2019, August). Methods of Computing Physiological Data. Poster presented at the RISE program research day, Boston, MA.

Druskin, L. R., Smith, K. A., Novick, D. R., Barstead, M. G., Danko, C. M., Badders, R., Wagner, N. J., Dougherty, L. R., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2019, November). The moderating effects of parent and child anxiety on the association between physiological regulation and parental accommodation. Poster to be presented at the 53rd Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Druskin, L. R., Barstead, M. G., Novick, D. R., Smith, K. A., Fleece, H. M., Wagner, N. J., Danko, C. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. H. (2019, May). Parasympathetic control moderates inhibited children’s susceptibility to parental influences on play behaviors. Poster to be presented at the 31st Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Rehder, P. D., Mills-Koonce, W. R., Wagner, N. J., Willoughby, M. T., & The Family Life Project Key Investigators (2019). Profiles of Infant Behavioral Reactivity, Cortisol Reactivity, and Emotion Regulation and Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in 1^st Grade. Poster to be presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

Delinski, E., Smith, K., Rubin, K., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Wagner, N.J. (2019).  Parenting of Behaviorally Inhibited Children: A Comparison of Perceived Parenting Values and Observed Parenting Behaviors. Poster presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Novick, D.R., Danko, C.M., Barstead, M.G., Badders, R.N., Clinton, R., Wang, C.H., Smith, K.A., Wagner, N.J., Dougherty, L., Coplan, R.J., Rubin, K.H., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2018). Predictors and Moderators of Treatment Attendance in Early Intervention Programs for Behaviorally Inhibited Preschool Children. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Washington, DC.

Wang, C.H., Danko, C., Teetsel, R.N., Clinton, R., Novick, D.R., Andrea, A., Feeney, K., Miller, K., Barstead, M.G., Wagner, N.J., PhD, Smith, K.A., Dougherty, L., Rubin, K.H., and Chronis-Tuscano, A. (November, 2018) Maternal and Paternal Anxiety Disorders and Early Intervention Outcomes for Behaviorally Inhibited Preschool Children. Poster submitted to the 51st  annual meeting of Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Meeting of the Parenting and Families Special Interest Group (SIG), San Diego, CA.

Wagner, N.J., Gueron-Sela, N., Bedford, R., & Propper, C. (2018) Parental Attributions of Infant Behavior and Internalizing Problems in Toddlerhood. Poster presented at the 2018 International Conference for Infant Studies Biennial Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Clinton, R. & Wagner, N.J. (2018) Associations between Changes in Maternal Restrictiveness and Children’s Anxiety across the Transition to High School. Poster presented at the 2018 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Wagner, N.J.,  & Rubin, K. (2017) Callous-Unemotional Features and Autonomic Functioning in Toddlerhood Interactively Predict Externalizing Behaviors in Preschool. Poster presented at the 2017 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Future Directions Forum in College Park, MD.

Danko, C. M., Wagner, N. J., Barstead, M., Novick, D. R., Teetsel, R. N., Smith, K. A., Wang, C. W., Dougherty, L. R., Rubin, K. H., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. Response to early intervention for behavioral inhibition is moderated by parental anxiety. Poster presented at the 2017 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Future Directions Forum in College Park, MD.

*Hamburger, S., Barstead, M., Smith, K., Wagner, N.J., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Rubin, K. (2017, May). Influence of baseline physiology of behaviorally inhibited preschool children involved in early intervention. Poster to be presented at the 29th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention. Boston, MA.

Wagner, N.J., Danko, C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Rubin, K., Coffman, J., & Propper, C. (2017) Observed Peer Problems Moderate Links between Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement in Preschool. Poster presented at the 2017 American Psychological Annual Convention in Washington D.C.

Wagner, N.J., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2017) Callous-Unemotional Features and Autonomic Functioning in Toddlerhood Interactively Predict Externalizing Behaviors in Preschool. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX.

Wagner, N.J., Hastings, P., & Rubin, K. (2017) Children’s Autonomic Suppression Moderates Links between Maternal Rejecting Attitudes and Preschool Aggression. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX.

Gueron-Sela, N., Propper, C., Wagner, N.J., Camerota, M., Tully, K, & Moore, G. (2017) Infant Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Maternal Depressive Symptoms Predict Toddler Sleep Problems. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX.

*Novick, D., Wagner, N.J., Gueron-Sela, N., Bedford, R., & Propper, C. (2017) Parental Attributions of Infant Behavior, Intrusive Parenting and Internalizing in Toddlerhood. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX.

Wagner, N.J., Propper, C., *Camerota, M., & Gueron-Sela, N. (2016). Low Birth Weight, Parenting in Infancy, and Trajectories of Children’s Sleep Problems Predict Teacher-Rated Attention and Aggression Problems. Poster presented at the 2016 International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M.T., & Cole, V. (2016). Non-linear trajectories of psychobiological functioning across infancy and later externalizing psychopathology. Poster presented at the 2016 International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.

*Camerota, M., Wagner, N.J., & Propper, C. (2016). Electronic Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women: Prevalence, Perceptions, and Implications for Infant Birth Weight. Poster presented at the 2016 International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Cole, V., & *Rehder P. (2015) Associations Between Developmental Patterns of Psychobiological Functioning and Later Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Propper, C., Willoughby, M., Moore, G., & *Rehder P. (2015). Associations Between Infant Behaviors During the Face-To-Face Still-Face Paradigm and Behavioral and Emotional Deviancy in Early Childhood. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting in Chicago, IL.

*Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Garrett-Peters, P., & Willoughby, M. (2015). Lower Emotion Identification Accuracy among Young Children with Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting in Chicago, IL.

*Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., & Willoughby, M. (2015). Atypical Maternal Behaviors in Infancy Predict Early Measures of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors and Callous- Unemotional Behaviors at 3 years of Age. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Wagner, N.J., & Camerota, M. (2015). Prevalence, patterns, and perceptions of electronic cigarette use in pregnant women. Poster presented at the 2015 Center for Regulatory Research on Tobacco Communication Retreat, Chapel Hill, NC.

Propper, C., Chardon, M., Palmer, K., Poteat, J., Thomas, M., Wagner, N.J., & Coffman, J. (2015) Relations among child regulation, the Pre-K classroom, and aspects of kindergarten readiness. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

*Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Garrett-Peters, P., & Willoughby, M. (2015) Lower Emotion Identification Accuracy among Young Children with Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

*Rehder, P., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Wagner, N.J., Zvara, B., & Willoughby, M. (2015) Attachment Quality Assessed from Children’s Family Drawings Predicts Child Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Behaviors. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Propper, C., Lewis, G., Iannotte, L., Murphy, M., Feeny, V., Wagner, N.J., & Coffman, L. (2015). School readiness associated with child RSA patterns during emotion and cognitive regulation tasks in preschool. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Willoughby, M., Propper, C., Moore, G., & Rehder, P., (2014). Infant regulatory behaviors inform conduct problem and callous-unemotional symptomology in early childhood. Poster presented at the 2014 International Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.

Wagner, N.J., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Propper, C., & Cox, M.J. (2013). The Emergence of Physiological Differences in Youth High on Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.  Poster presented at the 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Wagner, N.J., & Mills-Koonce, W.R., (2013). Patterns of Infant Autonomic and HPA Functioning among Children with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits in 1st Grade..  Poster presented at the 2013 Society of the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting, Washington, DC.

Willoughby, M., Mills-Koonce, W.R., & Wagner, N.J., (2013) The Structure and Stability of Parent-Reported Callous Unemotional, Oppositional Defiant/Conduct, and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Behaviors from Age 4 Years to 1st Grade. Poster presented at the 2013 Society of the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Biennial Meeting, Washington, DC.

Wagner, N.J. (2009) Differences in Parenting Behaviors across Family Structures among African American Mothers of Young Children. Poster presented at the 2009 UNC Honor’s in Psychology Poster Day, Chapel Hill, NC.