This review examines mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of self-
regulation. To provide an integrated account of how self-regulation is transmitted across …

Why are children of poor parents more likely to be poor as adults than other children? Early-
childhood adversities resulting from social structures and relationships impact children's …

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family
forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single …

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown that temperament is strongly
influenced by more than 700 genes that modulate associative conditioning by molecular …

Background Identifying low‐cost and easy to implement measures of infant markers of later
psychopathology may improve targeting of early intervention for prevention. Because of their …

Links between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and threats to health and well-being
later in life are well established. The current study extends those findings into younger …

In this chapter, we offer a developmental perspective on temperament and personality traits
from early childhood through adulthood. First, we address the relationship between …

Neuroticism--the tendency to experience negative emotions, along with the perception that
the world is filled with stressful, unmanageable challenges--is strongly associated with …

Experimental studies of learning suggest that human temperament may depend on the
molecular mechanisms for associative conditioning, which are highly conserved in animals …

Recent genomic, psychological, and developmental research shows that human personality
is organized as a complex hierarchy that ascends from individual traits in many specific …