Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Li, X., Frantz, K. M. T., & McElwain, N. L. (Accepted/In press). Interactive Contribution of Observed Mother-Youth Emotional Climate and Youth Physiology: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Youth Coping With Peer Stress. Journal of Early Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316221096079
McElwain, N. L., Hu, Y., Li, X., Fisher, M. C., Baldwin, J. C., & Bodway, J. M. (2022). Zoom, Zoom, Baby! Assessing Mother-Infant Interaction During the Still Face Paradigm and Infant Language Development via a Virtual Visit Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, [734492]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734492
Ravindran, N., McElwain, N. L., Berry, D. J., & Kramer, L. F. (2022). Dynamic Fluctuations in Maternal Cardiac Vagal Tone Moderate Moment-to-Moment Associations Between Children’s Negative Behavior and Maternal Emotional Support. Developmental psychology, 58(2), 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001299
Rogers, C. R., Chen, X., Kwon, S. J., McElwain, N. L., & Telzer, E. H. (2022). The role of early attachment and parental presence in adolescent behavioral and neurobiological regulation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 53, [101046]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101046
Hu, Y., McElwain, N. L., & Berry, D. J. (2021). Mother–child mutually responsive orientation and real-time physiological coordination. Developmental psychobiology, 63(7), [e22200]. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22200