Recent LIFE-Related Publications
A Selection of Recent Articles, Books, and Chapters by LIFE Fellows and Alumni
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2027 and in press
Arjouch, K. J., Al Bcherraoui, M., & Antonucci, T. C. (2027). Migration, displacement, and aging. In D. Gerstorf & C. Hoppmann (Eds.), The handbook of the psychology of aging (10th ed., pp. 351–368). Academic Press.
Buchberger, E. S., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered report]. Developmental Science.
Kelly, D. P., Outhwaite, L., & Ahmed, S. (in press). Childhood spatial skills and adolescent STEM achievement in maths and science: The role of visuospatial working memory. Learning and Instruction.
McClary, T. M., Ciranka, S., Buchberger, E. S., Spitzer, B., Lindenberger, U., Ngo, C. T., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (in press). Generalization from early to middle childhood. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n5zm9_v1 (Preprint)
2026 and advance online
Aalders, E. M., Daum, M. M., & Wermelinger, S. (2025). Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100758
Adams, S., & Ybarra, O. (2026) Separate and unequal: Moral domains differ in corresponding social judgments of others. PLoS One, 21(1), Article e0338026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338026
Adolf, J. K., & Ceulemans, E. (2025). Improved estimation of autoregressive models through contextual impulses and robust modeling. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000761
Andrae, R., Krämer, M. D., Hopwood, C. J., Denissen, J. J. A., Scholz, U., Bocklet, V., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Transactions between the Big Five personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 40(4), 1074–1092. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070261425608
Babu, H. J., Jantz, T. K., Xie, K., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2026). Strategy effects and value-directed recall of sub-and supra-span word lists. Memory & Cognition, 54, 1609–1631. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01828-4
Bailey, N. A., Field, N. H., Uchino, B. N., & Allen, J. P. (2026). From friends to physiology: Understanding pathways between positive adolescent relationship characteristics and adult stress reactivity. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.0.a994355
Bailey, N. A., Golino, H. F., & Allen, J. P. (2026). Autonomy and relatedness in mother-adolescent interactions: An investigation using exploratory graph analysis. Family Process, 65(1), Article e70116. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70116
Bechtiger, L., Bürgin, D., Vasconcelos, G. F., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Shanahan, L. (2026). Physical aggression toward parents from ages 11 to 24: Prevalence trajectory and risk and protective factors. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1545–1553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02953-w
Bell, S. A., Womack, S. R., Kam, A., Gonnene, M., Beam, C. R., Giangrande, E. J., Finkel, D., Turkheimer, E., & Davis, D. W. (2026). Nonlinear decline in the association between birth weight and cognitive ability from infancy to midlife in a community sample of twins. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(2), Article gbaf247. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf247
Bezek, J. L., Shewark, E., Suarez, G. L., Klump, K. L., Burt, S. A., & Hyde, L. W. (2026). A person-centered and genetically-informed approach toward characterizing profiles of multi-domain resilience to neighborhood disadvantage in youth. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(6), 804–815. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70068
Borbás, R., Dimanova, P., Saikkonen, D., Federici, E., Scatolin, S., & Raschle, N. M. (2026). Evolving brain function and connectivity patterns during mentalizing in children and adults. Communications Biology, 9, Article 282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09562-6
Brunner, M., Preckel, F., Götz, T., Lüdtke, O., & Keller, L. (2026). High math anxiety is associated with lower math achievement across 90 countries: An individual participant data meta-analysis of representative student and adult samples. Psychological Bulletin, 152(2), 207–253. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000514
Cull, S. L., Ertman, B., Coston, B. E., Lee, M., & Perrin, P. B. (2026). Healthcare discrimination and medical mistrust among transgender and gender nonbinary disabled adults. International Journal of Transgender Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2026.2642266
D'Angelo, A., Ahmadi, S., Daum, M. M., & Wermelinger, S. (2026). Code-switching detection in multilingual child speech with SwissBERT. In Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (pp. 171–178). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Davis, C. A., Tong, X., & Nuttall, A. K. (2026). Bias of retrospective reporting to combat missingness in longitudinal research. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251404753
Dobolyi, D. G., Greenspan, R. L., Grabman, J. H., Abbasi, A., & Dodson, C. S. (2026). The influence of face recognition ability and race on the relationship between psychological and algorithmic similarity. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 15(2), 225–237. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000264
Ehret, F., Doludda, B., Liu, H., Nexhipi, S., Huang, H., Rost, F., Overall, R. W., Barde, W., Rünker, A. E., Sieweke, M., Dahl, A., Schmidt, M. H. H., & Kempermann, G. (2026). Lifestyle shapes preclinical social and microglial deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Molecular Psychiatry, 31, 2391–2401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03368-4
Ehrler, M., Fervença Ramos, J., Wehrle, F. M., Valsangiacomo Buechel, E. R., Beck, I., Latal, B., & Landolt, M. A. (2026). Longitudinal behaviour of children with complex congenital heart disease from preschool to adolescence. Pediatric Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-026-04839-2
Eisen, S., & Jirout, J. J. (2026). Digital and physical play contexts influence mother-child spatial language and maternal questions. Developmental Psychology, 62(8), 1541–1555. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002179
Entringer, T. M., Buchinger, L., Heckhausen, J., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2026). Historical changes in control belief trajectories. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890207026145466
Entringer, T. M., Halbmeier, C., Buchinger, L., & Reitz, A. K. (2026). Within-nation variation in war exposure and psychological and physical adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 131(2), 355–379. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000601
Ertman, B., Xia, B., Malhotra, B., Christ, B. R., Cull, S., & Perrin, P. B. (2026). The Disability Identity Development Scale–Short Form: Development and validation in general and TGNB disability samples. Rehabilitation Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000655
Ertman, B., Xia, B., Sloane, M., Hartvigsen, T., & Perrin, Paul B. (2026). Disability portrayals in artificial intelligence text-to-image generation: Influence of context and the medicalization of disability. Rehabilitation Psychology, 71(2), 272–282. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000634
Field, N. H., Bailey, N. A., Hunt, G. L., & Allen, J. P. (2026). Susceptibility to peer influence as a value-neutral phenomenon: Preliminary validation of a novel self-report measure. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002230
Fraemke, D. (2026). The end of cognitive meritocracy. AI & Society, 41, 4177–4178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02856-7
Frank, C. C., & Seaman, K. L. (2026). The preserved role of emotion prediction errors across adulthood. Journals of Gerontology, Series B, 81(8), Article gbag096. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag096
Frei, V., Lighthall, N. R., Faulkner, R., El-Shafie, D., Lin, T., ten Brinke, L., Wilson, R. C., & Ebner, N. C. (2026). The Social Iowa Gambling Task: A promising tool for assessing deception detection in real-world contexts in adulthood. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(6), Article gbag046. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag046
Gallagher, V., Sheehan S., Ahmad, A., Ansari, S., Arp, A., Bell, S., Brown, D., Cruise, A., Greth, Z., Greer, S., Hagos, S., Patterson, A., Reilly, S., Rossetti, M. A., Thompson, R., Yildirim, N., Shaffer, K., & Manning, C. (2026). Scoping review of AI-chatbots to support family caregivers. The Gerontologist, 66(7), Article gnag028. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag028
Ghose, U., Krämer, M., Richter, D., Wagner, G. G., Infurna, F., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2026). How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time. European Journal of Personality, 40(2), 268–285. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251336534
Gordon, A. M., Thorson, K., Jolink, T., From, A., Diamond, E., & Segal, N. (2026). Toward a science of relationship forecasting: Considerations and recommendations. American Psychologist, 80(9), 1431–1443. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001632
Grammer, E. E., Stahl, M. E., Ortiz de Zevallos, J., Paterson, C., Weltman, A., & Allen, J. D. (2026). Influence of metformin on exercise metabolism and capacity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 330(6), E842–E859. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00012.2026
Grossmann, T., Miller, H., & Allison, O. (2026). Predicting positive affect in infancy. Developmental Science, 29(3), Article e70192. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70192
Haehner, P., Andrae, R., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). A systematic review and theoretical framework of stress generation in daily life. Clinical Psychology Review, 126, Article 102729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2026.102729
Haehner, P., Hopwood, C. J., Schellenberg, L., Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Individual differences in personality trait changes across the lifespan: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 152(4), 420–447. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000525
Haehner, P., Schellenberg, L., Krämer, M., Wright, A. J., Bleidorn, W., & Hopwood, C. J. (2026). Stress generation across hours, days, and 1 month. Clinical Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/216770262614717
Haehner, P., Wright, A. J., Lubczyk, T., Andrae, R., Asselmann, E., Buecker, S., Hopwood, C. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Tailoring personality interventions: How timing, context, and strategies influence proximal intervention outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000597
Hall-McMaster, S., Wittkuhn, L., Verra, L., Hedrich, N. L., Irie, K., Dayan, P., Gershman, S. J., & Schuck, N. W. (2026). Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(7), Article e1492252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025
Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (2026). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition (pp. 158–168). Routledge/Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003411741-17
Hepp, J., Heine, C., Schliebener, M., & Dufner, M. (2026). The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 80, 231–236. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224589
Hu, R. X., & Lou, Y. (2026). Self-perceptions of aging and advance care planning: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Journals of Gerontology: Series B. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag174
Huo, M., Hu, R. X., & Skoblow, H. F. (2026). Aging and perceiving aging together: Couple synchrony in self-perceptions of aging and health. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(12), Article gbaf199. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf199
Hutchins, N., & Jirout, J. (2026). Understanding motivation in early childhood: Disentangling the links among curiosity, mindset, and goals. Behavioral Sciences, 16(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16010054
Hyde, L. W., Trentacosta, C., & Bezek, J. L. (2026). Annual research review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(4), 524–545. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70031
Isaacowitz, D. M., Ebright-Jones, B. D., & Polk, R. J. (2026). A new frame on emotion regulation in aging: The adaptive positive tactic shift. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 35(1), 10–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251349777
Janousch, C., Vock, F., Winter, B. L., Hässler, T., Eggenberger, L., Bechtiger, L., Loher, M., Binz, T. M., Baumgartner, M. R., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., Quednow, B. B., & Shanahan, L. (2026). How do substance and polysubstance use trajectories differ by sexual attraction from ages 17 to 24? A community-based longitudinal cohort study in Switzerland. BMJ Public Health, 4(1), Article e003583. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-003583
Kelly, D. P., Dzera, J., Demidenko, M. I., Weigard, A., Foster, K. T., & Beltz, A. M. (2025). Pubertal timing and daily alcohol use in adulthood: Insights into the experiences of late maturers. Applied Developmental Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2025.2468254
Khosravi, P., Poe, A. D., Malone, E. P., Bezek, J. L., Meyer, M., Siegal, O., Cardinale, E. M., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., Haller, S. P., & Pine, D. S. (2026). Neural responses to error in youth: the impact of social context, anxiety, and worry. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1899–1910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02957-6
Krämer, M. D., Asselmann, E., Harzer, C., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Psychological traits predict who uses self-help products but usage is not associated with two-year personality change. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 8393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39468-6
Krämer, M. D., Kretzschmar, A., Hopwood, C. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2025). A replication attempt of personality change through randomized peer groups. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251331355
Krämer, M. D., Schaefer, B., Roos, Y., Richter, D., & Wrzus, C. (2026). Dynamic networks of social contact, social desire, and affect across time scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 131(1), 183–206. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000592
Krämer, M. D., Stern, J., Buchinger, L., MacDonald, G., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressivity in consistently single young adults in Germany and the UK. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000595
Lassetter, B., Hutchins, N., Butler, L. P., & Cimpian, A. (2026). Investigating the origins of partisanship: What motivates children to preferentially endorse their ingroups’ claims? Cognition, 275, Article 106629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106629
Lin, J., Moore, J., Field, N., Stern, J., Allen, J., & Coan, J. (2026). Adolescent empathy predicts reduced neural responses to social rejection in adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 38(3), 1484–1496. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942610131X
Liu, C. X., Blair, B. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2026). Registered report: Can agentic Black women get ahead? An experiment revisited. Psychological Science, 37(5), 347–364. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976261436988
Loher, M., Jang, J. B., Quednow, B. B., Shanahan, L., & Patrick, M. E. (2025). Concurrent alcohol and marijuana use patterns among high school seniors in the United States. Journal of Drug Issues. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426251394640
Lu, Y., Ghose, U., Gerstorf, D., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (2026). Age, preceding health changes, and the temporal structure of self-continuity. Psychology and Aging, 41(6), 751–768. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000989
Luo, M., Weber, E., Pauly, T., Kolodziejczak-Krupp, K., Gerstorf, D., Hoppmann, C. A., Ram, N., Hülür, G., & Röcke, C. (2026). Leisure activities and working memory in older age: The mediating roles of affect and cortisol. Psychology and Aging, 41(1), 36–50. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000935
Manfredi, M., Iliopoulos, F., Hehl, N. L., Walitza, S., & Giroud, N. (2026). Neural correlates of language dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: A developmental perspective. Journal of Neural Transmission, 133, 1917–1936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-026-03232-x
Marzoratti, A., Eames, A. Y., Lipscomb, D. W., Lyons, I. M., Ullman, M. T., & Evans, T. M. (2026). Individual differences in brain systems supporting declarative and procedural memory during grammatical error processing in children. Cerebral Cortex, 36(6), Article bhag061. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag061
Marzoratti, A., Lipscomb, D. W., Newman, B. T., Van Horn, J. D., & Evans, T. M. (2026). Contextualizing socioeconomic status effects on adolescent brain structure and cognitive skills: Evidence from the ABCD Study. Developmental Science, 29(3), Article e70190. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70190
Merrell, W. N., & Ackerman, J. M. (2026). Flaunting Porsches or Paris? Comparing the social signaling value of experiential and material conspicuous consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(7), 2065–2078. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251331658
Merrell, W. N., Vossoughi, N., Kteily, N. S., & Ho, A. K. (2026). Looking White but feeling Asian: The role of physical permeability and perceived discrimination in multiracial-monoracial alliances. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(1), 141–160. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241267332
Metzner, O., Wang, Y., de Melo, G., Symes, W., Huang, Y., & Lazarides, R. (2026). The potential and limitations of large language models for automatic classification of teachers' motivational messages in educational research. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(1), 14–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.70013
Mintz, E. H., Toner, E. R., Skolnik, A. M., Pan, A., Frumkin, M. R., Baker, A. W., Simon, N. M., & Robinaugh, D. J. (2026). Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity. Death Studies, 50(3), 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2433109
Naganuma, S., & Xu, R. (2026). Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles. International Journal of Science Education, 48(1), 24–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2394706
Nigro, L., & Ward-Seidel, A. (2026). Reimagining early childhood education and school readiness through the perspectives of historically marginalized families living in a rural community. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 27(3), 442–460. https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491241293479
Niharika, M. K., Ockelmann, J., Meyer, M., & Giroud, N. (2026). Identifying predictors of speech-in-noise perception in older adults with hearing impairment: The key role of working memory. BMC Geriatrics, 26, Article 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-06841-5
Ockelmann, J., Elmer, S., Reuter-Lorenz, P., & Giroud, N. (2026). Auditory-cognitive training is associated with selective reorganization of alpha-band connectivity during speech-in-noise comprehension. NeuroImage, 339, Article 122174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.122174
Osborne, J. B., Sellers, J., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Liberatore, S., Sripada, C., Shah, P., & Jonides, J. (2026). Delayed goal-directed processing underlies inhibitory control challenges in adult ADHD. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 13706. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42307-3
Petz, K., Toner, E., Rucker, M., Leventhal, E., Livermon, S., Davidson, B., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L., & Teachman, B. A. (2025). Examining state affective and cognitive outcomes following brief mobile phone-based training sessions to reduce anxious interpretations. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 50, 96–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-025-10623-z
Polk, S. E., Fandakova, Y., Berron, D., Düzel, S., Brandmaier, A. M., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., & Wenger, E. (2026). Beneficial effects of foreign language learning and aerobic exercise on dentate gyrus volume and mnemonic discrimination in healthy older adults: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, Article IMAG.a.1306. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1306
Raffington, L., Willems, Y. E., Sperber, J. F., Zarandooz, S. Z., Costanzo, M. A., Notterman, D. A., Mitchell, C., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Gennetian, L. A., Fox, N. A., Yoshikawa, H., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Binder, E. B., Harden, K. P., & Noble, K. G. (2026). Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02568-4
Rilla, R., Werner, T., Yakura, H., Rahwan, I., & Nussberger, A.-M. (2026). Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research. Nature Communications, 17, Article 5578. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74621-9
Rottman, J., Favilla, Z., Ramaswamy, N., Geller, C., Rilla, R., Kegelman, N., Coble, S., Lane, J. D., Metz, S. E., Harris, P. L., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2026). Children and adults think truth-seeking should prevail over partisanship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 155(1), 177–196. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001865
Scatolin, S., Federici, E., Dimanova, P., Borbás, R., Habegger, M., & Raschle, N. M. (2026). Multimodal correlates of socioemotional movie-watching and their associations with internalizing symptoms in childhood and adulthood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 21(1), Article nsag050. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsag050
Schellenberg, L., Altorfer, M. J., & Haehner, P. (2026). Individual differences in self-esteem trajectories after negative life events: The role of the Big Five personality traits and perceived event characteristics. European Journal of Personality, 40(3), 527–544. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251383960
Schellenberg, L., Bleidorn, W., & Haehner, P. (2026). Identifying robust longitudinal transactions between loneliness and the big five personality traits. Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70084
Shah, L., Marzoratti, A., Hofkens, T. L., Nevill, R., Pianta, R. C., Pelphrey, K. A., Krafnick, A. J., & Evans, T. M. (2025). Child-parent interaction quality shows opposite relationships with language comprehension skill and autism symptomatology. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07095-1
Soland, J., Rispoli, M. J., Saina, C., Omollo, M., Mwendwa, E., Boke, C., Xu, R., McNally Keehn, R., Pearson, J. N., Hassinger, T., Stauffer, C., & McHenry, M. S. (2026). Developing culturally responsive surveys on neurodevelopmental disabilities: Lessons from the Kenyan context. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 10, 270–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-025-00468-8
Sudimac, S., Drewelies, J., de Weerth, C., & Kühn, S. (2026). Effects of a walk in a residential natural vs. urban environment on objective and subjective stress indicators in mothers and their infants. Environmental Research, 306, Article 125125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.125125
Susperreguy, M. I., Aldoney, D. & Narea, M. (2026). Conducting parenting research in Chile. Developmental Psychology, 62(1), 108–115. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001873
Tenney, E. R., Rochford, K., Stillwell, A., Liu, C. X., Tannenbaum, D., Hennecke, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Blair, B. A., Graham, J., & Bonner, B. L. (2026). Registered report: A replication examining occupational experience and performance on the water-level task. Psychological Science, 37(2), 125–135. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251412721
Verra, L., Spitzer, B., Schuck, N. W., & Zika, O. (2026). Increased generalisation in trait anxiety is driven by aversive value transfer. Communications Psychology, 4, Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00415-w
Vitiello, V. E., Hutchins, N., Krissinger, A., Jirout, J., & Scoville, J. (2026). How early educators make emergent curricula work: A qualitative analysis with an eye toward scale. Early Education and Development, 37(1), 44–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2025.2517401
Wang, Y. R., & Warneken, F. (2026). Trusting wisely? Developmental changes in how children learn and adapt to partner trustworthiness. Developmental Science, 29(3), Article e70205. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70205
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