@NICHD NRSA F31 Predoctoral Candidate in Dev Pysch @TeachersCollege @Columbia | Stress, 🧠 development, epigenetics, ECE, early intervention
New York, NY
Joined March 2022
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Proud to share that I am officially an NIH-funded PI! My F31 predoctoral application has been funded by NICHD. My dissertation will examine the associations b/w maternal stress, epigenetics, and development over the first few years of life.
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Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills.
Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills.
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I am excited to share our new paper on the effects of Baby’s First Years unconditional cash transfers on maternal reports of child language & socioemotional development across the first three years of life! Check it out in Developmental Psychology: doi.org/10.1037/dev0001824
Check out our work on the Marshmallow Test, recently featured in this article!
A new study revisits the famed Marshmallow Test, raising questions about its long-held reputation as a predictor of future success. Could this iconic experiment be less reliable than we've believed? dlvr.it/TBznxm
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Important insight in @Nature on how helpful mothers from low-income households find various individual and structural parenting interventions to be. Their perspectives are nuanced, vast, and belong at the center of early childhood research.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Would Dev Psych be better off focusing on interventions that target structures & resources instead of parents? We asked 281 moms with low incomes. The answer: Moms saw both types of interventions as potentially very helpful for supporting early child dev. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Does a monthly, unconditional cash transfer given to mothers residing in poverty for 1 year have a causal impact on child-directed speech? The first paper from my postdoctoral work with @Gen_Pov asks this question, out now in Child Development! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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The infamous Marshmallow Test study continues to be debunked. Marshmallow-indicated delay of gratification at age 4.5 was NOT associated with most age 26 adulthood outcomes, like debt, depression, & impulsive behavior
doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14129
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🚨 New paper out in Child Development! “Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The marshmallow test does not reliably predict adult functioning” 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14129
We also challenge researchers to be mindful of construct clarity and measurement! It’s tempting to lump seemingly similar constructs (like delay of gratification) with other skills (e.g., self-control, which has been rigorously tested but uses vastly different methods)
Overall, we find little evidence of a causal link b/w delay of gratification and broad measures of adult success. Our hypotheses & analyses were preregistered, and our analytic code is publicly available at osf.io/67XFN
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Thrilled to share my *first* senior-authored manuscript, expertly led by Eryn Adams and w/Chanel, Melina, @mscott6399, @KimberlyGNoble, and @ProfRowley. We aim to foster inclusivity in pediatric EEG (1/2). nature.com/articles/s41539-0…
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Have you read this from 2023? Cautious optimism for pandemic babies: @Jess_Sperber & @KimberlyGNoble found amt of time an infant spent during pandemic in 1st year of life was unrelated to language or socioemotional outcomes at 12 or 24 mos #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.12511
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Online in @biolpsychology "Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S." doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.… @STRscience @Jess_Sperber @EmmaRoseHart @CostanzoMolly @Gen_Pov @KimberlyGNoble
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Thank you so much, @PMorrisPerez!!
Thanks to @tw_watts & @henrikdz for a great session on new work interrogating whether fadeout is of broad concern and the underlying mechanisms!
What a PHENOMENAL presentation by @EmmaRoseHart #SREE2023 SO clear and engaging, so methodologically strong, and a major advance in the field of ECE on fadeout (or not) of skills. Can't wait to see where your work leads you next...@tw_watts
