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Nancy L McElwain

Research Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Research Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Recent Publications

Chen, X., McElwain, N. L., Pomerantz, E. M., & Wang, M. (2024). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ agency and defeat. Developmental psychology, 60(6), 1016-1027. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001723

Hu, Y., Chen, H., Li, X., Larsen, R. J., Sutton, B. P., Gao, W., & McElwain, N. L. (2024). Associations between infant amygdala functional connectivity and social engagement following a stressor: A preliminary investigation. Developmental science, 27(1), Article e13418. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13418

Islam, B., McElwain, N. L., Li, J., Davila, M. I., Hu, Y., Hu, K., Bodway, J. M., Dhekne, A., Roy Choudhury, R., & Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (2024). Preliminary Technical Validation of LittleBeats™: A Multimodal Sensing Platform to Capture Cardiac Physiology, Motion, and Vocalizations. Sensors, 24(3), Article 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24030901

Li, X., McElwain, N. L., & Tu, K. M. (Accepted/In press). Early Mother-Child Interaction Flexibility Predicts Adolescent Psychological Adjustment. Journal of youth and adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02059-7

McElwain, N. L., Fisher, M. C., Nebeker, C., Bodway, J. M., Islam, B., & Hasegawa-Johnson, M. (2024). Evaluating Users' Experiences of a Child Multimodal Wearable Device: Mixed Methods Approach. JMIR Human Factors, 11(1), Article e49316. https://doi.org/10.2196/49316

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