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Ross Thompson

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Developmental Psychology

#121

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#131

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Ross Thompson 's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ross A. Thompson is an American author and research psychologist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Davis, and is director of the Social & Emotional Development Lab. Thompson is known for his work on the psychological development of young children. His influences on developmental research and public policy were recognized in the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society in 2018 by the American Psychological Association, the Ann L. Brown Award for Excellence in Developmental Research in 2007. Thompson received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from Zero to Three in 2023.

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Emotion regulation: Conceptual foundations (2007) (3136)
Early attachment and later development. (1999) (522)
Socialization of Emotion Regulation in the Family. (2007) (487)
Emotional regulation and emotional development (1991) (470)
Early attachment and later development: Familiar questions, new answers. (2008) (354)
The double-edged sword: Emotional regulation for children at risk (1996) (348)
Early sociopersonality development. (1998) (335)
Efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting stress among families in poverty. (2005) (298)
The Development of the Person: Social Understanding, Relationships, Conscience, Self (2007) (296)
Security of infantile attachment as assessed in the “strange situation”: Its study and biological interpretation (1984) (265)
Reassessing Emotion Regulation (2008) (254)
Emotion and Emotion Regulation: Two Sides of the Developing Coin (2011) (233)
Toward the next quarter-century: Conceptual and methodological challenges for attachment theory (2003) (206)
Stability of Infant-Mother Attachment and Its Relationship to Changing Life Circumstances in an Unselected Middle-Class Sample (1982) (193)
Sex differences in the recognition of infant facial expressions of emotion: The primary caretaker hypothesis (1985) (184)
Mother-child conflict in the toddler years: lessons in emotion, morality, and relationships. (2002) (175)
The effects of divorce and custody arrangements on children's behaviour, development and adjustment (1997) (168)
Family emotional climate, attachment security and young children's emotion knowledge in a high risk sample (2006) (161)
Patterns of Attachment and Maternal Discourse Effects on Children's Emotion Understanding From 3 to 5 Years of Age (2002) (160)
Stress and Child Development (2015) (157)
Preventing Child Maltreatment through Social Support: A Critical Analysis (1995) (150)
Emotion Regulation and Attachment: Unpacking Two Constructs and Their Association (2009) (149)
Academic Aptitude and Prior Knowledge as Predictors of Student Achievement in Introduction to Psychology (2004) (146)
Attachment security and parenting quality predict children's problem-solving, attributions, and loneliness with peers (2008) (131)
The emergence and development of conscience in toddlerhood and early childhood. (1997) (126)
Early understandings of emotion, morality, and self: developing a working model. (2003) (117)
Sensitivity and Security: New Questions to Ponder (1997) (112)
Parent emotion representations and the socialization of emotion regulation in the family (2014) (111)
The development of self-conscious emotions: Cognitive processes and social influences. (2007) (111)
Attachment and self-evaluation in Chinese adolescents: age and gender differences. (2009) (108)
Attachment, parent -child discourse and theory of mind development (2008) (107)
Feeling and Understanding: Early Emotional Development (2008) (107)
Social Support and Developmental Psychopathology (2015) (101)
Childhood Anxiety Disorders from the Perspective of Emotion Regulation and Attachment (2001) (100)
Security of attachment and stranger sociability in infancy. (1983) (92)
Coping with Interparental Verbal Conflict by Children Exposed to Spouse Abuse and Children from Nonviolent Homes (1998) (83)
Prior Knowledge and Its Relevance to Student Achievement in Introduction to Psychology (2003) (81)
Assessing Qualitative Dimensions of Emotional Responsiveness in Infants: Separation Reactions in the Strange Situation* (1984) (81)
Social support and child protection: Lessons learned and learning. (2015) (79)
Development of emotion regulation: More than meets the eye. (2010) (77)
Emotional Responses of Down Syndrome and Normal Infants in the Strange Situation; The Organization of Affective Behavior in Infants (1985) (74)
The social and emotional foundations of school readiness. (2007) (74)
Empathy and the development of guilt in children. (1980) (73)
Self-understanding in early childhood: associations with child attachment security and maternal negative affect (2008) (72)
Attachment-related mental representations: introduction to the special issue (2008) (70)
Links between Risk and Attachment Security: Models of Influence. (2005) (70)
Ego Identity Status and Self-Monitoring Behavior in Adolescents (2003) (68)
Conversation and Developing Understanding: Introduction to the Special Issue (2006) (62)
Baby Altruists? Examining the Complexity of Prosocial Motivation in Young Children (2013) (60)
The effects of infant day care through the prism of attachment theory: A critical appraisal☆ (1988) (58)
Perceptions of Personal Agency and Infant Attachment: Toward a Life-Span Perspective on Competence Development (1985) (57)
The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society (1999) (57)
Whither the Preconventional Child? Toward a Life‐Span Moral Development Theory (2012) (55)
Development of children's inferences of the emotions of others. (1987) (55)
Parent Attitudes and Discipline Practices: Profiles and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample (1999) (55)
Children’s perceptions of the effectiveness of strategies for regulating anger and sadness (2014) (55)
Extra Credit as Incentive for Voluntary Research Participation (2005) (54)
Social and Emotional Development in Infancy (2003) (54)
Conversations about emotion in high-risk dyads (2008) (54)
Social referencing and the security of attachment (1984) (52)
Understanding values in relationships: The development of conscience. (2006) (52)
Emotion dysregulation: A theme in search of definition (2019) (51)
Socioemotional Development: Enduring Issues and New Challenges (1993) (51)
Parents' role in children's personality development: The psychological resource principle. (2008) (51)
Getting Out of a Rut: Detours to Less Traveled Paths in Child-Witness Research (1987) (46)
Relationships, Regulation, and Early Development (2015) (45)
Infant-Mother Attachment : The Origins and Developmental Significance of Individual Differences in Strange Situation Behavior (2013) (45)
Stranger sociability and its relationships to temperament and social experience during the second year (1982) (41)
Combating Conflicting Messages of Values: A Closer Look at Parental Strategies (2005) (38)
Why Do Some Toddlers Help A Stranger? Origins of Individual Differences in Prosocial Behavior (2014) (37)
Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity (2015) (37)
Individual Differences in Toddlers' Prosociality: Experiences in Early Relationships Explain Variability in Prosocial Behavior. (2016) (37)
The Individual Child: Temperament, Emotion, Self, and Personality (2013) (37)
Conscience Development in Early Childhood (2013) (35)
Attachment Security and the Problem-Solving Behaviors of Mothers and Children (2002) (35)
Harmonizing Discordant Notes: A Reply to Waters. (1983) (34)
Empathy and its origins in early development. (1998) (32)
Measure twice, cut once: attachment theory and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (2008) (32)
Relationships Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on Attachment in Middle Childhood. (2005) (31)
Methods and measures in developmental emotions research: some assembly required. (2011) (30)
Current Research on Child Maltreatment: Implications for Educators (1999) (29)
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Promoting Change in the Quality of Teacher–Child Interactions (2013) (28)
Declines in peer conflict from preschool through first grade: Influences from early attachment and social information processing (2013) (28)
Emotional Competence and the Development of Self (1998) (27)
Emotion and social interaction in the strange situation: consistencies and asymmetric influences in the second year (1986) (26)
Multiple Relationships Multiply Considered (2005) (24)
Toward a child-centered, neighborhood-based child protection system : a report of the consortium on children, families, and the law (2002) (23)
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1988: Socioemotional development. (1990) (23)
Emotion in early conscience. (2010) (23)
Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally: The Development of Self-Regulation. (2009) (22)
CDC Grand Rounds: Addressing Health Disparities in Early Childhood (2017) (22)
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN DIMENSIONS OF SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY (1983) (21)
Early Stress Gets under the Skin: Promising Initiatives to Help Children Facing Chronic Adversity (2014) (21)
Grandparents' Visitation Rights Legalizing the Ties That Bind (1989) (21)
Understanding Values in Relationship : The Development of Conscience (2005) (19)
The Ethics of Parenting (2019) (18)
Values, policy, and research on divorce: Seeking fairness for children. (1999) (18)
Personality, Identity, and Character: Early Foundations: Conscience and the Development of Moral Character (2009) (15)
Attachment Theory and Research (2013) (15)
Temperament, Emotionality, and Infant Social Cognition. (1986) (15)
What More Has Been Learned? The Science of Early Childhood Development 15 Years After Neurons to Neighborhoods (2016) (14)
On Individual Differences in Strange Situation Behavior: Categorical and Continuous Measurement Systems in a Cross-Cultural Data Set (1986) (14)
Development in the First Years of Life. (Caring for Infants and Toddlers) (2001) (14)
Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Attachment and Self-Organization (2000) (14)
New directions in developmental emotion regulation research across the life span (2014) (14)
Why Are Relationships Important to Children's Well-Being? 66 (2014) (13)
Becoming prosocial: The consistency of individual differences in early prosocial behavior (2018) (13)
The Development of Emotion Self-Regulation (2012) (13)
Doing It With Feeling: The Emotion in Early Socioemotional Development (2015) (12)
Feeling and understanding through the prism of relationships. (2010) (12)
16. Group report: Early social attachment and its consequences: the dynamics of a developing relationship (2005) (12)
The Development of Emotion Self-Regulation The Whole and the Sum of the Parts (2012) (12)
“Social Anxiety” in Infancy (1990) (11)
Infants, Mothers, Families, and Strangers (1984) (11)
Continuity and Change in Socioemotional Development during the Second Year (1984) (11)
Changing Societies, Changing Childhood: Studying the Impact of Globalization on Child Development (2012) (11)
Meaning and Methods in the Study and Assessment of Attachment (2017) (10)
Children’s perceptions of emotion regulation strategy effectiveness: links with attachment security (2016) (10)
Defining psychological maltreatment: Research and policy perspectives (1991) (10)
Development of self-produced locomotion in the first year: changes in parent perceptions and infant behaviour (2011) (10)
How children remember the Strange Situation: The role of attachment. (2018) (10)
NATIONAL FORUM ON EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICY AND PROGRAMS (2011) (9)
Student Background and Course Involvement among First-Year College Students in Introduction to Psychology: Implications for Course Design and Student Achievement (2004) (9)
Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960 (review) (2004) (9)
The Psychologist in the Baby. (2008) (8)
Academic Background and Course Involvement as Predictors of Exam Performance (2007) (8)
Talking about Right and Wrong: Moral development, conversation, and the development of internal working models (2014) (8)
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions (2022) (8)
Temperament emotion and social interaction (1986) (7)
Individual differences in attachment (2013) (7)
4 Social and Emotional Development in Infancy (2012) (6)
Bridging Developmental Neuroscience and the Law: Child-Caregiver Relationships (2012) (6)
Early Brain Development and Social Policy (1998) (6)
Infancy and Childhood: Emotional Development (2001) (5)
Twenty-First Century Attachment Theory: Challenges and Opportunities (2017) (5)
Attachment and Life History Theory: A Rejoinder (2010) (5)
Relationships, Stress, and Memory (2009) (5)
Making the Most of Small Effects. (2009) (4)
The Development of Moral Self-Awareness (2020) (4)
Ethical dimensions of child memory research (1998) (4)
Attachment relationships in Early Head Start families (2011) (4)
Parents' Views of Early Social and Emotional Development: More and Less than Meets the Eye. (2010) (4)
On what is read, shared, and felt: parent-child conversation about stories (2020) (4)
Convergent approaches to understanding strange situation behavior (1986) (4)
Behavioral research involving children: a developmental perspective on risk. (1990) (4)
A Yoga Intervention for Young Children: Self-Regulation and Emotion Regulation (2021) (3)
Origins of Attachment Security in Day Care and at Home: Comments on Belsky (2014) (3)
How Emotional Development Unfolds Starting at Birth. (2012) (3)
13 Implications for Policy and Practice (2017) (3)
The Development of Virtue (2014) (3)
Self and Personality (2009) (3)
Prenatal Foundations: Fetal Programming of Health and Development. (2014) (3)
Grandparent Visitation Rights: Emergent Psychological and Psycholegal Issues (1992) (3)
Family and State: The Philosophy of Family Law (1989) (3)
Preschoolers' Reunion Responses in Day Care (1985) (3)
The Sociophysiology of Infants and Their Caregivers (1984) (3)
Development of Emotion Dysregulation in Developing Relationships (2018) (2)
Developing Persons, Relationships, and Science (2006) (2)
Thompson, Ross A. (2020) (2)
Developmental-Ecological Considerations (2004) (2)
Early Moral Development and Attachment Theory (2019) (2)
Child development and research ethics: a changing calculus of concerns. (1990) (2)
Connecting Neurons, Concepts, and People: Brain Development and Its Implications. Preschool Policy Brief. Issue 17. (2008) (2)
Infant Day Care: Concerns, Controversies, Choices (2021) (1)
Twenty-first century temperament (2012) (1)
Conceptual and empirical challenges to social referencing research (1996) (1)
GRANDPARENT VISITATION RIGHTS (2005) (1)
Why Do Some Toddlers Help A Stranger ? Origins of Individual Di ff erences in Prosocial Behavior (2013) (1)
Updating Moral Development Theory Early Conscience (2006) (1)
The mind in the mind of the beholder: Elucidating relational influences on early social understanding (2004) (1)
In search of an emotional development theory (2008) (1)
Discussion sections in psychology courses as fora for instructional development and student learning (2008) (1)
Social and Personality Development in Childhood (2014) (1)
Attachment networks and the future of attachment theory. (2022) (1)
Galerkin Projections Between Finite Element Spaces (2015) (1)
The developmental Polyphony of cognition and emotion (2013) (1)
Child Witness Research from a Children’s Rights Perspective (2019) (1)
Eyes to see and ears to hear: sensitivity in research on attachment and culture. (2018) (1)
Postdivorce family life. (2000) (1)
Implications for Policy and Practice (2017) (1)
Social support and child protection: lessons learned and learning (Journal article) (2014) (0)
Social Networks and Child Maltreatment (2022) (0)
Adaptations and Adaptations (2012) (0)
Psychology and Judicial Indeterminacy. (1989) (0)
Society as an Abusive Parent. (1997) (0)
Parents’ attachment orientation, interviewers’ support, and children’s memory for a mildly distressing event (2021) (0)
Becoming Prosocial: Reliability of Individual Differences in Early Prosocial Behavior (2015) (0)
Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents (2022) (0)
Relationships in process. (2000) (0)
Interdisciplinary thinking done well—And poorly. (2013) (0)
The Development of Virtuous Character (2016) (0)
Addressing health disparities in early childhood (2016) (0)
Poverty of Children. Poverty of Ideas (1996) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
Life in a Developmentally Toxic Environment. (1997) (0)
Parent–Offspring Conflict (2012) (0)
Child development: 1986 vintage. (1988) (0)
Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships (2020) (0)
Studying the security of infant-adult attachment: A reprise (1984) (0)
Fetal Programming of Health and Development (2014) (0)
Translational Science (2013) (0)
THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN Children depend on the care of adults in the environment of relationships (2014) (0)
Emotional Development and the Growth of Moral Self-Awareness (2022) (0)
Social-Emotional Learning is Foundational (2019) (0)
How Babies Think. (2018) (0)
How Do I Assess a Child's Social Support System? (2000) (0)
9. Anaesthetic Care (2013) (0)
Enlivening the Study of Child Development. (1989) (0)
Development; Consultants; Cultural Influences; *Educational Practices; Emergent Literacy; *Emotional Development; Ethnicity; Family Relationship; Interpersonal Competence; Mental Health; Moral Development; Poverty; *Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Program Descriptions; *Public Policy; *Scho (2002) (0)
Developmental dynamics of positive and negative emotion in infancy. (2023) (0)
CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES Reassessing Emotion Regulation (2008) (0)
ZERO TO THREE Board of Directors (2008) (0)
Deferred Adaptations (2021) (0)
Self-consciousness to what end? (2010) (0)
Children’s Memory and Suggestibility Years Later: Age, Distress, and Attachment (2022) (0)
Children's Emotion Regulation Processes Survey--Adapted Version (2014) (0)
The personality artist and the personality scientist shake hands (2016) (0)
Scientific fictions and realities. (1996) (0)
Child Witness Research from a Children’s Rights Perspective (2019) (0)
IMHJ ( Wiley ) RIGHT BATCH short standard top of AH 177 base of drop INFANT MENTAL HEALTH (2005) (0)
Charting the Waters of Ethical Responsibility to Children. (1992) (0)
Developmental vulnerability of infants born at severely high risk (1984) (0)
Eyes to see and ears to hear: sensitivity in research on attachment and culture (2020) (0)
Author and Subject Index (2005) (0)
Children and Welfare Reform (2003) (0)
How Can I Help Parents and Caregivers Develop Social Skills and Make Positive Connections to the Community (2000) (0)

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