Welcome to the Developmental Stress and Prevention Lab!
The Developmental Stress and Prevention Lab is a research group based in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University. We are interested in how early experiences influence children’s behavioral, socioemotional, and neurobiological development. In our lab, we primarily focus on children from birth to five years old and their families.
Latest Publications
Dozier, M., & Bernard, K. (In press). Intervening early: Socioemotional interventions targeting the parent–infant relationship. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.
Kitagawa, Y., Thorpe, D., & Bernard, K. (In press). Ecological predictors of maternal nurturance to distress and beliefs about infant crying: Examining the roles of household and neighborhood resources. Parenting: Science and Practice.
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Perrone, L., Thorpe, D., Shariat Panahi, G., Kitagawa, Y., Lindhiem, O., Bernard, Kristin. (In press). Meta-analysis of associations between childhood adversity and diurnal cortisol regulation. Development and Psychopathology.
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Lee, A. H., Mirhashem, R., Bernard, K., & Dozier, M. (2023). Longitudinal examination of early childhood intimate partner violence exposure and internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in middle childhood. Child Maltreatment, 28, 232-242.
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Frost, A., Kuzava, S., & Bernard, K. (2022). The physiology of maternal sensitivity: Interactive effects of mothers’ neural and sympathetic nervous system reactivity in predicting parenting behavior. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22328.
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Thorpe, D., Silver, J., Perrone, P., DeSantis, N., Dash, A., Rodriguez, M., Beras-Monticciolo, E., & Bernard, K. (2022). Ecological predictors of parental beliefs about infant crying in a randomized clinical trial of ABC. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51, 780-795.