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Recent & Selected Publications

Temperamental Differences in Social-Emotional Development and Health
Tang, A., Harrewijn, A., Benson, B., Haller, S.P., Guyer, A.E., Perez-Edgar, K., Stringaris, A., Ernst,M., Brotman, M.A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2022). Striatal activity to reward anticipation as a moderator of the relation between early behavioral inhibition and changes in anxiety and depressive symptoms from adolescence to adulthood. JAMA Psychiatry, 79(12), 1199-1208.

Tang, A., Fox, N.A., Slopen, N. (2022). Examination of early childhood temperament of shyness and social avoidance and associations with cardiometabolic health in young adulthood. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2144727-e2144727.

Tang, A., Lahat, A., Crowley, M.J., Wu, J., & Schmidt, L.A. (2021). Children’s shyness and neural responses to social exclusion: Patterns of midfrontal theta power usually not observed until adolescence. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 1262-1275.

Morales, S., Tang, A., Bowers, M.E., Miller, N. V., Buzzell, G.A., Smith, E., Seddio, K., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2021). Infant temperament prospectively predicts general psychopathology in childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 1-10.

Tang, A., Crawford, H., Morales, S., Degnan, K.A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(18), 9800-9807.

Tang, A., Lahat, A., Crowley, M.J., Wu, J., & Schmidt, L.A. (2019). Neurodevelopmental differences to social exclusion:  An event-related neural oscillation study of children, adolescents, and adults. Emotion, 19(3), 520-532.

Early Adverse Experiences Associated with Social-Emotional Development and Health
Zeytinoglu, S., Tang, A., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., Almas, A., & Fox, N.A. (In press). Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing. Developmental Science.

Tang, A., McLaughlin, K.A., Sheridan, M., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2022). Autonomic reactivity to social rejection and the buffering effects of adolescent friendships on social problems following early psychosocial deprivation. Emotion, 22, 318-330.

Tang, A., Almas, A., Zeytinoglu, S., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., & Fox, N.A. (2021). Long-term effects of institutional rearing and enhanced attachment relationships on close adolescent friendships. Child Development, 92(6), 2431–2446.

Tang, A., Wade, M., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Slopen, N. (2020). The prospective association between stressful life events and inflammation among adolescents with a history of early institutional rearing. Development and Psychopathology, 32(5), 1715-1724.

Meiers, G., Nooner, K.B., De Bellis, M.D., Debnath, R., & Tang, A. (2020). Alpha EEG asymmetry, childhood maltreatment, and problem behaviors: A pilot home-based study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 101, 104358.

Debnath, R., Tang, A., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Long-term effects of institutional rearing, foster care intervention and disruptions in care on brain electrical activity in adolescence. Developmental Science, 23(1), e12872.

Review Papers

Tang, A., Ertel, K. A., Keen, R., Beyer, L., Eckert, N., Mita, C., … & Slopen, N. (2023). Parent-child separation and cardiometabolic outcomes and risk factors in adulthood: A systematic review. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106084.

Brooker, R.J., Bates, J.E., Buss, K.A., Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., Gatzke-Kopp, L.M., Hoyniak, C., Klein, D.N., Kujawa, A., Lahat, A., Lamm, C., Moser, J.S., Petersen, I.T., Tang, A., Woltering, S., Schmidt, L.A. (2019). Conducting event-related potential (ERP) research with young children: A review of components, special considerations and recommendations for research on cognition and emotion. Journal of Psychophysiology, 34,137-158.

Harrewijn, A., Schmidt, L.A., Westenberg, P.M., Tang, A., & Van der Molen, M.J.W. (2017). Electrocortical mechanisms of information processing biases in social anxiety: A review.  Biological Psychology, 129, 324-348.