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Expertise
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Work
Work
Selected Publications
Stern, J. A., Kelsey, C. M., Yancey, H., & Grossmann, T. (2024). Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dlPFC. Developmental Science, e13497.
Stern, J. A., Bailey, N. A., Costello, M. A., Hellwig, A. F., Mitchell, J., & Allen, J. P. (2024). Empathy across three generations: From maternal and peer support in adolescence to adult parenting and child outcomes. Child Development.
Stern, J. A., Coard, S. I., Barbarin, O. A., & Cassidy, J. (2024). What attachment researchers can learn from research on Black family resilience. Child Development Perspectives, 18, 10–18.
Stern, J. A., Bailey, N. B., Costello, M. A., Hazelwood, O. A., & Allen, J. P. (2024). Fathers’ contributions to attachment in adolescence and adulthood: The moderating role of race, gender, income, and residential status. Attachment & Human Development, 26, 325–349.
Stern, J. A., & Grossmann, T. (2024). The neuroscience of social relationships in early development. In M. A. Bell (Ed.), Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition (2nd ed., pp. 11–30). American Psychological Association.
Stern, J. A., Kelsey, C. M., Krol, K. M., & Grossmann, T. (2023). Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy. Emotion, 23, 1506–1512.
Whittenburg,* P., Stern,* J. A., Brett, B. E., Straske, M. D., & Cassidy, J. (2023). Maternal depressive symptoms and child behavior problems: Attachment security as a protective factor. Development and Psychopathology, 35, 678–688.
* = Shared first author with student menteeStern, J. A., Barbarin, O. A., & Cassidy, J. (2022). Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice. Attachment & Human Development, 24, 392–422.
Stern, J. A., Botdorf, M., Cassidy, J., & Riggins, T. (2019). Empathy and hippocampal volume in young children. Developmental Psychology, 55, 1908-1920.
Stern, J. A., & Cassidy, J. (2018). Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences. Developmental Review, 47, 1–22.
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Education
Education
Ph.D.
University of Maryland, College ParkMaster of Science
University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Arts
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Mind & Life Institute, PEACE Grant, Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant, 2023–2025
University of Virginia Brain Institute and Baby Brain Initiative, Transformative Neurodevelopment Pilot Grant, 2021–2022
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Research Service Award/ F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020–2023
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Climate Impact Small Research Grant, 2020–2021
Society for Research on Child Development, Dissertation Funding Award, 2018–2019
Milton Dean Havron Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, 2018
University of Maryland Dean’s Research Initiative, Dissertation Research Grant, 2018–2019
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2015–2018
University of Maryland, Dean’s Fellowship, 2014, 2018
University of Maryland, Flagship Fellowship, 2014–2019