Theodore Wachs

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Theodore Wachs is affiliated with the following schools: Muhlenberg College, Purdue University

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According to Wikipedia, Theodore D. Wachs is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He has studied the effects of environmental factors, such as noise, on children's mental development. He has also conducted research in the field of behavioral genetics. Wachs was one of the founders of the Global Child Development Group in 2007.

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Theodore Wachs's Published Works

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Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries (2007) (1959)
Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development (2011) (1177)
Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development (2017) (872)
Bringing order out of chaos: Psychometric characteristics of the confusion, hubbub, and order scale (1995) (747)
Maternal Depression: A Global Threat to Children’s Health, Development, and Behavior and to Human Rights (2009) (367)
Measuring environment across the life span : emerging methods and concepts (1999) (331)
Temperament: Individual differences at the interface of biology and behavior. (1994) (314)
Early Experience and Human Development (1982) (311)
The Study of Early Temperament: Measurement and Conceptual Issues. (1982) (272)
Chaos and its influence on children's development: An ecological perspective. (2010) (263)
Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Respective Roles of Single and Multiple Influences on Individual Development (2000) (225)
CONSORT for reporting randomised trials in journal and conference abstracts (2008) (214)
Issues in the timing of integrated early interventions: contributions from nutrition, neuroscience, and psychological research (2014) (175)
The Nature of Nurture (1992) (165)
Proximal Experience and Early Cognitive-Intellectual Development: The Physical Environment. (1979) (164)
The use and abuse of environment in behavior-genetic research. (1983) (160)
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANTS OF DIFFERENT AGE LEVELS AND FROM DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUNDS. (1967) (151)
Relation of maternal zinc nutriture to pregnancy outcome and infant development in an Egyptian village. (1994) (140)
Temperament, Environment, and Six-Month Cognitive-Intellectual Development: A Test of the Organismic Specificity Hypothesis (1983) (137)
Early supplementary feeding and cognition (1993) (125)
Temperament in Context (2001) (121)
Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development (2007) (121)
Conceptualization and Measurement of Organism-Environment Interaction (1991) (116)
Does Parental Mood or Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Environmental Chaos Upon Parenting Behavior? (2002) (114)
Relation of mild-to-moderate malnutrition to human development: correlational studies. (1995) (108)
Environmental Moderators of Genetic Influence on Verbal and Nonverbal Abilities in Early Childhood. (2005) (99)
Chaos in context. (2010) (97)
Predictors of preschool children's compliance behavior in early childhood classroom settings (2004) (96)
Relation of neonatal iron status to individual variability in neonatal temperament. (2005) (88)
The Nature of the Physical Microenvironment: An Expanded Classification System. (1989) (83)
Short-term stability of aggregated and nonaggregated measures of parental behavior. (1987) (83)
A Reconceptualization of the Effects of Undernutrition on Children's Biological, Psychosocial, and Behavioral Development (1996) (80)
Specificity of Environmental Action, As Seen in Environmental Correlates of Infants' Communication Performance. (1986) (75)
Maternal education and intelligence predict offspring diet and nutritional status. (2005) (74)
Contributions of Temperament to Buffering and Sensitization Processes in Children's Development (2006) (74)
A longitudinal study of temperament and its correlates in the first 12 months (1984) (73)
Questionnaire Measurement of Infant and Child Temperament (1991) (72)
Multiple influences on children's nutritional deficiencies: A systems perspective (2008) (72)
Vitamin B-6 status of Egyptian mothers: relation to infant behavior and maternal-infant interactions. (1990) (70)
Specificity of Environmental Action as Manifest in Environmental Correlates of Infant's Mastery Motivation. (1987) (69)
Do ecological or individual characteristics mediate the influence of the physical environment upon maternal behavior (1991) (69)
Determinants of pregnancy outcome and newborn behavior of a semirural Egyptian population. (1991) (66)
Diet during lactation associated with infant behavior and caregiver-infant interaction in a semirural Egyptian village. (1993) (52)
Models linking nutritional deficiencies to maternal and child mental health. (2009) (51)
The Nature and Impact of Risk and Protective Influences on Children’s Development in Low-Income Countries (2013) (49)
The Relationship of Infants' Physical Environment to Their Binet Performance at 21/2 Years (1978) (47)
Caregiver Child Interaction Patterns in Two Cultures in Relation to Nutritional Intake (1992) (44)
Policies to reduce undernutrition include child development (2008) (43)
Nutritional deficits and behavioural development (2000) (42)
Antecedents of mother-infant interaction and infant irritability in the first 3 months of life. Discussions (2002) (40)
Celebrating complexity: Conceptualization and assessment of the environment. (1999) (40)
Nutritional Intake and Context as Predictors of Cognition and Adaptive Behaviour of Egyptian School-age Children (1995) (40)
Mechanisms linking parental education and stunting (2008) (39)
Utilization of a Piagetian Approach in the Investigation of Early Experience Effects: A Research Strategy and Some Illustrative Data. (1976) (39)
Relation of infants' performance on Piaget scales between twelve and twenty-four months and their Stanford-Binet performance at thirty-one months. (1975) (34)
Environmental considerations in studies with nonextreme groups. (1991) (34)
Synthesis: Promising research designs, measures, and strategies. (1991) (34)
Known and potential processes underlying developmental trajectories in childhood and adolescence. (1996) (33)
Infant temperament and subject loss in a habituation procedure. (1985) (31)
Must the physical environment be mediated by the social environment in order to influence development?: A further test (1990) (30)
Effects of arousing stimulation upon novelty preference in rats. (1967) (30)
Child Development 1 Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development (2011) (30)
Temperament and risk: Risilient and vulnerable responses to adversity (2012) (30)
Psychological dimensions of the infant's physical environment* (1979) (29)
Functional Correlates of Nutritional Anemias in Infancy and Early Childhood — Child Development and Behavior (2000) (29)
Fit, context, and the transition between temperament and personality. (1994) (28)
Relations between nutrition and cognitive performance in Egyptian toddlers. (1993) (28)
Similarity in developmental profile among related pairs of human infants. (1972) (28)
Relation of maternal intelligence and schooling to offspring nutritional intake (2001) (27)
Toward practical uses for biological concepts of temperament. (1994) (27)
Temperament and Socioemotional Adjustment to Kindergarten: A Multi-Informant Perspective (2001) (26)
Relevance of physical environment influences for toddler temperament (1988) (26)
Summary of the Scientific Evidence on the Nature and Determinants of Child Development and Their Implications for Programmatic Interventions with Young Children (1999) (24)
Nature of relations between the physical and social microenvironment of the two‐year‐old child (1993) (23)
Intra-individual variability in infant visual recognition memory performance: Temperamental and environmental correlates (1990) (22)
Expanding our view of context: the bio-ecological environment and development. (2003) (21)
Parental Perceptions of the Behavioral Components of Infant Easiness/Difficultness. (1985) (21)
Size-discrimination learning as a function of motivation-hygiene orientation in adolescents. (1966) (21)
The Nature and Nurture of Child Development (1999) (20)
Parent-report measures of toddler temperament and attachment: their relation to each other and to the social microenvironment (1993) (19)
Relation of rearing environment to adaptive behavior of Egyptian toddlers. (1993) (19)
Relation of home chaos to cognitive performance and behavioral adjustment of Pakistani primary school children (2011) (19)
Relation of maternal personality to perceptions of environmental chaos in the home (2013) (18)
Early Experience and Development (1982) (18)
Hershey Medical Center Technical Workshop Report: optimizing the design and interpretation of epidemiologic studies for assessing neurodevelopmental effects from in utero chemical exposure. (2006) (18)
The Optimal Stimulation Hypothesis and Early Development (1977) (18)
The domains of infant mastery motivation. (1995) (17)
Young People and Climate Change: The Role of Developmental Science (2018) (17)
Viewing microsystem chaos through a Bronfenbrenner bioecological lens. (2010) (17)
The Effects of Chronological Age, Trials, and List Characteristics upon Children's Category Clustering. (1971) (17)
INFANTS WITH MYELOMENINGOCELE: VISUAL RECOGNITION MEMORY AND SENSORIMOTOR ABILITIES (1992) (16)
Toys as an Aspect of the Physical Environment: Constraints and Nature of Relationship to Development (1985) (15)
The human costs of moderate malnutrition in an Egyptian village. Functional implications of malnutrition. Egypt project: final report. Human Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program. (1992) (15)
Cognitive performance of Egyptian adults as a function of nutritional intake and sociodemographic factors (1996) (14)
Intra-individual variability in infancy: structure, stability, and nutritional correlates. (2008) (14)
Structure and cross-contextual stability of neonatal temperament (2004) (14)
Linking Nutrition and Temperament (2000) (13)
"Determinants" of Intellectual Development: Single-Determinant Research in a Multidetermined Universe. (1993) (13)
Adaptive behavior and Uzgiris-Hunt Scale performance of young, developmentally disabled children. (1978) (13)
The nature–nurture gap: What we have here is a failure to collaborate. (1993) (13)
Going beyond nutrition: nutrition, context, and development. (1993) (13)
Changes in the structure of cognitive-intellectual performance during the second year of life (1981) (13)
Free-Recall Learning in Children as a Function of Chronological Age, Intelligence, and Motivational Orientation. (1969) (13)
Developmental Perspectives on Designing for Development (1987) (12)
Report on the utility of a Piaget-based infant scale with older retarded children. (1970) (12)
Linking Nutrition and Education: A Cross-Generation Model (2005) (12)
Unstable Ideas: Temperament, Cognition, and Self (1991) (11)
Necessary but not sufficient: The problem of variability in individual outcomes. (2000) (10)
Assessing Bioecological Influences (2015) (10)
Multidimensional correlates of individual variability in play and exploration (1993) (9)
Assessment of Young Developmentally Disabled Children (2013) (9)
Person‐Environment “Fit” and Individual Development (2008) (9)
Criteria for the Assessment of Organism-Environment Correlation in Human Developmental Studies. (1978) (8)
Relation of Birth Weight, Maternal Intelligence and Mother-Child Interactions to Cognitive and Play Competence of Jamaican Two-Year Old Children. (2007) (8)
The role of the environment in human nutritional research and intervention. (1998) (8)
More than poverty (2016) (7)
The relevance of the concept of nonshared environment to the study of environmental influences: A paradigmatic shift or just some gears slipping? (1987) (7)
Behavioral research in the brave new world of neuroscience and temperament: A guide to the biologically perplexed. (1994) (7)
Trends in research on temperament. (1995) (7)
The effects of enriched neonatal experiences upon later cognitive functioning. (1971) (7)
The construct validity of measures of social mastery motivation (2016) (6)
Infant Nutrition and 12 and 18 Months Secure Base Behavior: An Exploratory Study. (2011) (6)
Poverty, Child Risk, and Resilience in Developing Countries (2012) (6)
A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations (1998) (6)
Visual exploratory behavior as a function of early handling, sex, and level of auditory prestimulation. (1974) (5)
Personality testing of the handicapped: a review. (1966) (5)
Reinstatement of early experiences and later learning: an animal analogue for human development. (1973) (5)
Overview of current models and research. (1991) (5)
The Relationship between Social and Cognitive Development (1982) (5)
Distal environmental influences. (2000) (5)
Nutritional deficiencies as a biological context for development. (2002) (5)
Specificity of Environmental Action (1992) (5)
Issues in the Linkage of Assessment to Intervention (1988) (5)
Environmental Assessment of Developmentally Disabled Infants and Preschoolers (1988) (4)
Understanding early experience and development: The relevance of stages of inquiry☆ (1986) (4)
“Back to the future”: A commentary on (2002) (4)
Developmental Patterns in Disabled Infants and Preschoolers (1988) (4)
The Bidirectional Nature of TemperamentContext Links (2001) (4)
Biomedical and nutritional influences. (2000) (4)
Risk Factors and the Development of Competence in Children from Low-Income Countries: The Importance of Social-Emotional Outcomes and Multiple Process Models (2009) (4)
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development:Second Edition (2010) (3)
Proximal environmental influences. (2000) (3)
Commentary on Plomin, R. (1994). Genetics, nurture and social development: an alternative viewpoint (1994) (2)
Activity level in rats as a function of hyper stimulation and sex of animal (1971) (2)
Nature and nurture: A shaky alliance (1991) (2)
Perceptual distortions by mentally retarded and normal children in response to failure information. (1966) (2)
Genetic and Family Influences on Individual Development (1995) (2)
Introduction to the special section on pathways underlying the impact of economic inequality on children’s development (2016) (1)
Chapter 20. Temperament (2010) (1)
The Social Environment and Its Relationship to Cognitive-Intellectual Development (1982) (1)
The Structure of the Environment (1992) (1)
Early Experience and Cognitive-Intellectual Development (1982) (1)
Linkages among multiple influences. (2000) (1)
Temperamental Change, Parenting, and the Family Context (2001) (1)
Organism-Environment Interaction (1992) (1)
Temperament and Development: The Role of Context in a Biologically Based System. (2004) (1)
The Earliest Social Experiences and Their Effect on Social Development (1982) (0)
Effects of Strain, Sex, and Pretest Stimulation Level on Visual Exploration by Mice (1973) (0)
The Nature of Nurture: Implications and Applications (1992) (0)
Child Psychopathology at Two Levels. (1983) (0)
Measuring the Environment (1992) (0)
The measurement of early intellectual functioning: contributions from developmental psychology. (1973) (0)
The Wiley‐Blackwell handbook ofiInfant development (2018) (0)
From principles to practice. (2000) (0)
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development: Bremner/The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development (2010) (0)
Noise in the nursery: Background stimulation and infant cognitive development (1980) (0)
Contents for Volume 2 (2010) (0)
Linking poverty and developmental disabilities. (2021) (0)
Temporal and specificity processes. (2000) (0)
Temperament and Context: Correlates of Home Environment With Temperament Continuity and Change, Newborn to 30 Months (2001) (0)
Integrating multiple influences, midlevel processes, and systems. (2000) (0)
The Study of the Environment in Historical Perspective (1992) (0)
Prematurity and socio-economic status. (1966) (0)
Evolutionary and ecological influences. (2000) (0)
Out of the Laboratory: Real-World Application of Temperament Concepts. (1991) (0)
Similarity in Developmental Profile among Related Pairs of Human Infants (1972) (0)
The Study of Early Experience (1982) (0)
The Nature of Early Environmental Action (1982) (0)
Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale (2013) (0)
The Physical Environment and Its Relationship to Cognitive-Intellectual Development (1982) (0)
Comparative Salience of Physical and Social Environmental Influences. (1987) (0)
Review of The practice of psychotherapy with children. (1968) (0)
Organism-Environment Covariance (1992) (0)
The Socialization of Young Children (1982) (0)
Genetic, neural, and hormonal influences. (2000) (0)
Individual and Contextual Predictors of Children's Behavior in Daycare during Caregiver Turnover Episodes. (1997) (0)
Relation of infant iron status at 12 and 18 months to neonatal iron status and postnatal iron intake (2010) (0)
Careers in engineering (1964) (0)
Health and behaviour: The psychosocial environment and the development of competence in children (1989) (0)
Specific Environmental Influences (1992) (0)
Temperament in Transition. (1987) (0)
Chaos Contextualized and Concretized (2010) (0)
The nature of nurture. Indivudual Differences and Development Series, Vol. 3. By Theodore D. Wachs. Sage, Newbury Park, CA, ISBN 0-8039-4374-1 (1995) (0)
Introduction to Volume 2: Applied and Policy Issues (2010) (0)
Introduction to Volume 1: Basic Research (2010) (0)
Operation of the Environment across Time (1992) (0)
Contents Volume 1 (2010) (0)

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