My main interests focus on child psychopathology, child anxiety, child conduct problems and psychopathy (callous-unemotional traits), parenting and observation methods (e.g., parent-child interaction). My research focuses on how parenting practices and child temperament interact; and how findings in this area can be translated into more effective early intervention and prevention strategies.
Jennifer Allen
UCL Institute of Education
London, Lecturer, UK
www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/PHDT/75409.html
Clinical, Research
My interest in Temperament began during my doctoral graduate studies which led me to the Temperament Conference at the University of Oregon where I met many of the leaders in the forefront. It was quite an honor and a great influence in my effort to continue learning and sharing information in my practice with adults and children.
Patricia Armstrong
Interface I P.C/ Patricia Armstrong Ph.D
waterford, Michigan, USA
Clinical, Education, Teaching
The study of high sensitivity (sensory-processing sensitivity), including genetics and fMRI. A recent review: Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2012 (on website under research). Public education about the trait, as well as public education about temperament in general. (see books on website above, including The Highly Sensitive Person and Highly Sensitive Child.)
Elaine Aron
Stony Brook University
Tiburon, California, USA
Clinical, Research, Education
Development of early self-regulation including temperament, emotion regulation, and executive functions.
MarthaAnn Bell
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Research, Teaching
We use our workbook to help parents and professionals document their day to day observations of the child/children in their care. With this temperament snapshot, we offer tools and strategies for reframing the language used to describe the child's behaviour as well as how to plan and predict a child's behaviour based on the nine temperament traits they observe.
Nanci Burns
Public School Board
Ottawa, ON Ontario, Canada
Clinical, Education, Teaching
Interests include the nine NYLS dimensions of temperament and their application to the lives of children and their families. I also teach developmental-behavioral pediatrics to medical students, fellows, residents and community practitioners at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
William Carey
Children's Hospital, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
www.chop.edu/doctors/carey-william#.VQGwiij0tsQ
Clinical, Research, Education
My interest is mainly in social and cultural contexts for temperament development. I have been conducting a number of large-scale longitudinal projects in different countries on children's temperamental characteristics (e.g., shyness-inhibition, self-control) and social and psychological adjustment.
Xinyin Chen
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Research, Teaching
I am interested in the interaction between child temperament and environmental factors, specifically parenting, in the development of child psychopathology.
Celine Chhoa
UCL Institute of Education
London, State/Province, Great Britain
Research, Teaching, Student
My interests in temperament include investigating the influence of parenting and temperament on children's cognition, academic achievement and health outcomes using longitudinal, population-based data from the UK and Australia.
Shiau Chong
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Research
Structure of temperament; Measurement of temperament; Temperament-personality relations
Jan Cieciuch
Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
Warsaw, State/Province, Poland
scholar.google.pl/citations?user=U-_1pMYAAAAJ&hl=pl
Research, Education
Links between temperament and socio-emotional functioning - with a particular focus on the development and implications of childhood shyness.
Robert Coplan
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Research
I conduct research on child, adolescent and adult temperament, and its connections with individual and family-level development and functioning with a particular emphasis on biological-environmental transactions (e.g., genetics, neural activity, physiological functioning)
Kirby Deater-Deckard
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Clinical, Research, Teaching
I want to understand how the temperament-parenting interplay affects typical and atypical development.rnMy research focuses on the developing structure of temperament; the role of need-supportive parenting to promote goodness-of-fit; and how the temperament-parenting interplay explains behavioural heterogeneity in and across developmental disorders (ADHD, autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy).
Sarah DePauw
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
www.vopspsy.ugent.be/en/developmental-psychology/sarah-de-pauw.html
Clinical, Research, Teaching
1) Behavioral and psychophysiological aspects of executive functioning and its association with individual differences in emotion regulation and reactivity 2) relations between sleep, emotions, and academic competence 3) whether emotions relate to social competence and subsequent problem behavior as well as 4) investigating the role of ethnicity in these relations
Anjolii Diaz
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Research
I am a researcher who focuses on the links between temperament and such cognitive developmental areas as language acquisition and executive function. I also study how temperament moderates environmental influences on children's development.
Wallace Dixon
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
Research, Education
Teaching Psychology and topics related to temperament and its relations to pedagogical communication.
Sevdzhihan Eyubova
Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
Shumen, State/Province, Bulgaria
Clinical, Research, Education, Teaching
I’m a Child Psychologist, with an interest in Peace Psychology. My passion is PeaceLearning Parenting and The Integration Of Temperament Research and Tools For Parents and Educators in Cultivating Peace & Empathy At Home and In School✌️
Nelly Farnoody-Zahiri
University Of Palo Alto, APA, Curtis School, MomTalk TV Media
Encino, California, USA
Clinical, Education, Teaching
Children's Temperament
Marilia Fernandes
ISPA-IU
lisbon, New york, Portugal
www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=5371012978103928
Research, Education
parenting
Marie Foley
Seton Hall University
South Orange, New jersey, USA
Clinical, Student
I currently am collaborating with Dr. Sandee McClowry on an ongoing trial of INSIGHTS Into Children's Temperament with a sample of PreK and K teachers in a rural, Southeastern school district. We are examining INSIGHTS' effects on teacher and student outcomes and are planning to deliver the program to a group of rural parents in the same school district.
Sandra Gagnon
Appalachian State University
Boone, North carolina, USA
Research, Education, Teaching
I am primarily interested in early temperament development, links to parent-child interactions and later behavior problems, as well as cross-cultural differences in temperament development.
Maria Gartstein
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington, USA
labs.wsu.edu/infant-temperament/
Clinical, Research, Teaching
Children's temperament in connection with individual differences in executive functions and family environment. The contribution of temperament to school functioning and behavioral problems. Cross-cultural differences in temperament.
Carmen Gonzalez-Salinas
Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Research, Education, Teaching
I am interested in whether there are positive traits that underlie temperamental difficultness in infants and young children and whether it possible that the negative aspects of a challenging temperament are merely expressions of early intelligence, creativity, sensitivity, and perceptiveness? I also examine how temperamental intensity/sensitivity affect children's sleep and parental experiences.
Macall Gordon, M.A.
Antioch University, Seattle
Seattle, WA, USA
www.researchgate.net/profile/Macall_Gordon
Research, Teaching
Schools' Attuned Profile Advisor utilizing Research Validated/ Scientifically Based Instructional Practice inspiring Student Success with Strengths, Temperament, Mindset & Stylistic/ Entrepreneurial Talents fostering Goal Directed Persistence applying Habits of the Mind.
Ira Hancock
Certified Life Bound Academic Coach
Denver, Colorado, USA
Education, Teaching
Cross-cultural studies of child temperament and "goodness of fit" at home and at school.
Sara Harkness
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Research, Teaching
Application of temperament theory in daily life. Education for parents and caregivers, child care providers, teachers and administrators. Workshops on team building, working relationships and employee stress.
Lori Hayungs
Iowa State University Exension and Outreach Human Sciences
ORANGE CITY, Iowa, USA
www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/
Education
I am interested in (a) the role of early temperament on children�s social development, (b) affective and cognitive influences on self-regulation in typically- and atypically-developing children, and (c) developmental psychophysiology.
Heather Henderson
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
www.uwaterloo.ca/social-development-lab/
Research, Teaching
I strive to conceptualize the whole individual with focus on strengths and assets as well as the interplay with sensory issues, executive functioning, and emotionality on overall functioning. As a psychologist, I do diagnose clinical conditions; however, I am more interested in identification of core areas for intervention especially for complex cases and those with autism spectrum diso
Michelle Hintz
Cadenza Center for Psychotherapy & the Arts
Hollywood, Florida, USA
Clinical
Private practice helping parents understand and manage their children who exhibit behavioral &/or learning problems, including ADHD. Co-Director for the Center for Resilience and Development, which does clinical research.
Robert Hudson
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Tulsa, CoDirector for the Center for Resilience
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Clinical, Research, Education
I consult with parents about children's behavioral challenges using temperament as a baseline for understanding those behaviors and work to develop behavioral strategies that are consistent with their child's temperament.
Ruth Jaeger
Psychotherapy Practice and Clinical Health Educator Kaiser Permanente Dept of Pediatrics
San Rafael, California, USA
Clinical, Teaching
My interest is in how people's emotional predilections come to be: through the confluence of nature and nurture (epigenetics). Parallel interests are in Ernest Hartmann's concept of thick and thin boundaries, the neurobiology of highly sensitive people, and connections between personality and health.
Michael Jawer
Emotion Gateway Research Center
Vienna, Virginia, USA
www.youremotionaltype.com/boundaries/spectrum.html
Research, Education, Teaching
Dissertation concerning the effects of the interaction of temperament variables on family functioning, parental stress, and adoption satisfaction within an adoption population.
Jason Jordan
Trevecca Nazarene University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
Clinical, Research, Education, Student
Temperament has been extremely important in my clinical practice, especially in child neuropsychological assessment. My focus is not only adapting conditions to better suite the child, but also developing strategies (Playful Ploys) parents can use to temper problematic extremes of temperament. Another interest is using temperament to determine most effective form of therapeutic intervention.
Wayne Klein
Family Neuropsychology, Telepsychology of Massachusetts, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
Clinical
I work with parents and professionals living and working with spirited children. I provide one -one private consultations in-person and via phone and Skype. I also lead classes and workshops. I am a frequent keynote speaker for conferences
Mary Kurcinka
ParentChildHelp
Bozeman, Montana, USA
Education, Teaching
Areas of interest:Temperament and personality assessement, Association between traits and psychopathology (especially personality disorders and antisocial behavior)
Yann Le Corff
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
www.usherbrooke.ca/recherche/fr/specialistes/details/yann.le.corff
Research, Teaching
I am primarily interested in temperament development and trajectories, links to parent-child interactions, behavior problems and school readiness/achievement/adaptation
JeanPascal Lemelin
Departement de psychoeducation, Universite de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Research, Teaching
My research focuses on children's resilient and vulnerable responses to experiences of economic disadvantage and adversity, identifying protective factors that promote children's social, emotional and academic competence in the face of adversity, or vulnerabilities that increase the risk of psychopathology. These factors include parenting, and child characteristics such as temperament and copin
Liliana Lengua
University of Washington, Psychology, Center for Child and Family Well-being
Seattle, Washington, USA
Clinical, Research, Teaching
I am interested in how individual differences in temperament (beginning in infancy) interact with parenting behaviors to predict child emotion regulation development with mothers and fathers.
Diane Lickenbrock
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
www.wku.edu/psychological-sciences/labs/cfl/index.php
Research
(1) Contributions of temperament to development of regulation and emerging behavior problems, especially of surgency/approach/impulsivity; (2) influence of prenatal stress on temperament in young children; (3) temperamental reactivity as a susceptibility/protective factor for later adjustment
Betty Lin
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Clinical, Research
Emotion that is inappropriate for the context, for example anger in positive contexts, and associations with psychobiology, emotional understanding, social experiences, and maladaptive behavior.
Robin Locke
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Research, Education, Teaching
Temperament and parenting; measurement of temperament (observations and questionnaires); (inhibited) temperament as a predictor of psychopathology (anxiety); cross-cultural aspects of temperament.
Mirjana Majdandzic
University of Amsterdam, Research Institute Child Development and Education
Amsterdam, State/Province, Netherlands
www.uva.nl/en/contact/staff/item/m.majdandzic.html?f=majdandzic
Research, Teaching
At this time I am most focused on cross-cultural, multi-method approaches to studying the implications of maternal temperament for coping and well-being in the postpartum period.
Caroline Mavridis
University of Connecticut - Center for the Study of Culture, Health and Human Development
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Research
I am the developer of INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament and was the principal investigator of the three randomized clinical trials that tested its efficacy. Publications are available on our website. I also have a small private practice in New Fairfield, CT.
Sandee McClowry
New York University
New York, New York, USA
Clinical, Research, Education, Teaching
My interests include measurement of temperament, clinical applications and the relationship between temperament and psychopathology.
Sean McDevitt
AZ Behavioral Health Specialists, LLC
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Clinical, Research, Education
My interests are in temperament with parenting, mental health, and it's affect on learning and cognitive processing.
Patricia McGuire
Patricia McGuire MD FAAP
Cadott, WI, USA
Clinical, Education, Teaching
My research interests relate to understanding environmental, interpersonal and biological processes that influence emotion reactivity and self-regulation during childhood and adolescence, interactions between these aspects of temperament, and in the role that these processes play in vulnerability or resiliency to the onset of mental health problems.
Lyndsey Moran
McLean Hospital/Harvard Med School; Boston Child Study Center
Boston, MA, USA
www.bostonchildstudycenter.com
Clinical, Research
My goal is to help parents understand and work with their child’s inborn traits. As a registered nurse, I’ve worked as a pediatric Temperament Counselor at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California 25 years. Books include: Temperament Tools—Working with Your Child’s Inborn Traits; Is this a Phase? and Baby-Friendly Sleep Lessons. I also volunteer with The Preventive Ounce: www.preventiveo
Helen Neville
pediatric clinical practice, author
Oakland, California, USA
Clinical, Research, Education, Teaching
I am an assistant professor in child development.
Pamela Norcross
Meredith College
Raleigh, NC, USA
Clinical, Research, Education, Teaching
Interested in the role of temperament and attachment in relational interventions for preschool children and their families.
Kare Olafsen
Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, East and South (RBUP East and South)
Oslo, East and south, Norway
Clinical, Research
I am involved in a large longitudinal study called Growing Up in New Zealand ( N = 6500 approx). We started collecting data at 9 months using IBQ-R-VSF. I am interested in the development of temperament and its relationship to other socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes as children grow. I am also interested in cultural differences in temperament.
Elizabeth Peterson
University of Auckland
Auckland, State/Province, New Zealand
www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/people/e-peterson
Research, Education, Teaching
I am interested in the structure, stability and measurement of child temperament, highly reactive children, and the interaction of children's temperament and parenting practices and beliefs.
Amanda Prokasky
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Research, Education
Theoretical and empirical connections between temperament, socioemotional behavior, and personality traits within a 42-year longitudinal study. Individual differences are discussed in my upcoming book on human development from middle childhood to middle adulthood.
Lea Pulkkinen
Professor of Psychology, Emerita, University of Jyväskylä
Helsinki, State/Province, Finland
Research
Three primary themes characterize my scholarship. First, with Mary Rothbart and others, I have developed and refined questionnaires to efficiently measure fine and broad aspects of temperament. Second, with Masha Gartstein and our colleagues, I have explored variability between individuals from different countries. Finally, I am intrigued by interactions between parenting and temperament.
Sam Putnam
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine, USA
Research, Teaching
I enjoy sharing the topic of temperament with early childhood professionals and parents.
Malisa Rader
Iowa State University Extension & Outreach
Jewell, Iowa, USA
blogs.extension.iastate.edu/childcare/
Education, Teaching
I'm a temperament specialist and parenting coach in the S.F. Bay area and via skype or phone. I'm the author of "Is That Me Yelling?" It's a book for parents with a focus on temperament, discipline, and mindfulness. I do trainings for parents, teachers, childcare providers, and other professionals, on parenting challenges, temperament, discipline, and ADHD. I'm also a radio show host
Rona Renner
Private practice
Berkeley, California, USA
Clinical, Education, Teaching
Hi. I'm interested especially in the interface and boundaries between temperament traits and psychiatric disorders/symptoms as well as relations between temperament and parenting.
David Rettew
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Burlington, Vermont, USA
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/abcs-child-psychiatry
Clinical, Research, Education, Teaching
I study the development of temperament and personality during adolescence and early adulthood, with an emphasis on risk and resilience factors associated with depression, self-esteem, academic failure, antisocial behavior, and substance use. I am the director of the California Families Project, an ongoing 12-year longitudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin youth (age 10-21) and their parents.
Richard Robins
Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Davis, California, USA
psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/robins
Research, Teaching
My involvement with temperament has been both theoretical and empirical. I and my colleagues have done work with parent and self-report temperament questionnaires, laboratory observations, and studies linking temperament to brain development. I have also attempted to integrate our current knowledge about temperament in the book, Becoming Who We Are: Temperament and Personality in Development.
Mary Rothbart
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, USA
research.bowdoin.edu/rothbart-temperament-questionnaires/
Research, Education, Teaching
Behavioral inhibition; social withdrawal; child/adolescent temperament & personality; longitudinal and cross-cultural research re: temperament; peer relations; parenting; early intervention.
Kenneth Rubin
Professor Emeritus, Department of Human Development & Quantitative Methodology, U. Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA
Research, Education
I study children's temperament, particularly as it unfolds in school and classroom settings and is related to children's social and academic success. This work includes a primary focus on the roles of support at school (e.g., teacher-child relationships, classroom quality) in understanding the ways in which children with different temperaments adapt to the demands of the classroom environment.
Kathleen Rudasill
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Research, Teaching
My primary research area is the etiology of individual differences in temperament and developmental change in temperament with a particular focus on activity level. As director of the Boston University Twin Project, I use twins to tease apart genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in temperament and related behaviors.
Kimberly Saudino
Boston University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Research
Working with groups of parents of difficult preschoolers, the temperament approach makes a lot a sense to me
Maria Seabra
Faculty of Psychology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Clinical, Research, Teaching
Measurement, Developmental Psychopathology
Ronald Seifer
Brown University/E. P. Bradley Hospital
East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
vivo.brown.edu/display/rseiferp
Research, Teaching
Temperament as a vital influence and resource for parents, teachers, couples, families and individuals of all ages. Blog: http://www.listeningtotemperament.com
Alice Shannon
Private Practice
Arcata, California, USA
Clinical, Education
My research centers on temperament and personality development in youth and young adults, including structure, stability and change, and the influence of traits on positive life outcomes and the emergence of psychopathology. I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and serve as Executive Officer for the Association for Research in Personality.
Rebecca Shiner
Colgate University
Hamilton, New York, USA
www.colgate.edu/facultysearch/facultydirectory/rshiner
Research, Teaching
Development of emotion regulation considering temperament and socialization and the interaction of the two.
Cynthia Smith
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Research
I am a Senior Research Fellow in paediatrics and public health. My interests are around how temperament in infancy and parenting combine to influence the health of children. My research involves large-scale population-level (not clinical) research on temperament.
Lisa Smithers
University of Adelaide, School of Population Health
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/lisa.smithers
Research
My interests are in understanding the role of effortful and reactive control to young children's social and emotional outcomes. I also emphasize the role of socialization in these relations.
Tracy Spinrad
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Research
I am currently undertaking a PhD investigating the role of temperament in intergenerational cycles of mental health. Specifically, I am examining the prospective associations of maternal preconception mental disorder from adolescence to young adulthood, with offspring reactivity in infancy.
Liz Spry
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Deakin University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth_Spry
Research, Student
My primary interests concern the cultural shaping of human development. Temperament is an essential construct in that regard and how it plays out in various cultural contexts provides an excellent example of "goodness of fit."
Charles Super
University of Connecticut
Woodstock, CT, USA
Education, Teaching, Student
My interests include the measurement of temperament as well as contributions of temperament to the development of mental models for understanding self, others, and the world (e.g. understanding emotions), to experiencing and coping with stress, and more generally, to mental health.
Hedwig Teglasi
University of Maryland, College Park
Potomac, Maryland, USA
Research, Education, Teaching
My interests are in adult temperament and neurochemical basis of temperament traits. We developed a Compact version of the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire (STQ-77) based on neurochemical model Functional Ensemble of Temperament (FET). FET has 12 components: 3 emotionality scales and 9 activity-related scales, assessing endurance, speed of integration and orientational aspects of behavior.
Irina Trofimova
McMaster University, Department of Psychiatry and Beh.Neurosciences
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/cilab/ira/ira.html
Clinical, Research, Teaching
Temperament is the key to learning. What you know is what you know, how you feel and how you are defines what you do with what you know.
Mark Turner
Hiiye'yu Lelum (House of Friendship) Society, Aboriginal Friendship Centre
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
Education, Student
Temperament development (stability and change). Relation temperament - personality. Relation temperament or personality with relationships and psychosocial functioning.
Marcel van Aken
Utrecht University, Dept of Developmental Psychology
Utrecht, Netherlands
Research
It is a great way to a better understanding of each other!
Annie Vance
Psychotherapy Practice
Simi Valley, California, USA
Clinical
Inhibited child
PeiLing Wang
University of Taipei
Taipei, Republic of China, Taiwan
Research, Education
I been using temperament assessments since being trained by Jan Krystal many years ago. The information obtained through an assessment and consultation is very beneficial for parents, the child / families / teachers.
Barbara Werre
Essentials of Life Counseling Services
Moorhead, Minnesota, USA
Clinical
Temperament and its role in early excess weight gain, e.g., low activity level, sensory threshold and food finickiness
John Worobey
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
www.nutrition.rutgers.edu/faculty/worobey.html
Research, Teaching
I am interested in the interrelations and interactions among child temperament, family environment, and socio-cultural contexts in shaping children's socio-emotional and mental health adjustment.
Qing Zhou
Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
psychology.berkeley.edu/people/qing-zhou
Research, Education, Teaching
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