Hamilton College

December 2022
Congratulations to Emlyn Harris, my senior thesis advisee who just completed her one-semester project! Her project was titled Adaptive Sports: Grit, Growth Mindset, and Emotion Regulation Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

August 2022
Our paper "Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings" is now available in Infant Behavior and Development.

May 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Hamilton graduates, including my amazing thesis group who all successfully completed full-year projects! Jonah Bauer: The Relationship Between Pop Culture, Belongingness, and Envy Grace Kupka: Investigating Emotion Regulation as a Mediator between Sibling Relationship Quality and Adult Attachment Security Phoebe Parker: Exploring Predictors of Emotion Socialization and Empathy in Young Children Sosha Stecher: The Impact of Playful Parents on One’s Dispositional Joyfulness Kit Taylor: The Presence of Fathers: Implications for the Development of Eating Disorders Amanda Tougas: The Association Between Perceived Destructive Parental Conflict and Interpersonal Relationship Closeness

May 2022

Congratulations to the 2022 Hamilton graduates, including my amazing thesis group who all successfully completed full-year projects!

Jonah Bauer: The Relationship Between Pop Culture, Belongingness, and Envy

Grace Kupka: Investigating Emotion Regulation as a Mediator between Sibling Relationship Quality and Adult Attachment Security

Phoebe Parker: Exploring Predictors of Emotion Socialization and Empathy in Young Children

Sosha Stecher: The Impact of Playful Parents on One’s Dispositional Joyfulness

Kit Taylor: The Presence of Fathers: Implications for the Development of Eating Disorders

Amanda Tougas: The Association Between Perceived Destructive Parental Conflict and Interpersonal Relationship Closeness

May 2021
Wishing all the best to our graduating seniors, and extra congratulations to my group of senior thesis students who finished their projects this spring! Full year projects Kalea Blaustein: Talking About Feelings: Linking Caregiver Emotion Socialization to Emotional Competence and Conflict Management Perrin Salewood: The Association Between Coaching Style and Student Athlete Well-Being and Mental Health One-semester projects Noemi Meli: Can We Just Talk? Longitudinal Associations between Parent-Child Conversations about Mental Health and Child Emotion Regulation Montana Sprague: The Impact of Pandemic Isolation and Parent Fear Behavior on Social Anxiety in Children

May 2021

Wishing all the best to our graduating seniors, and extra congratulations to my group of senior thesis students who finished their projects this spring!

Full year projects

Kalea Blaustein: Talking About Feelings: Linking Caregiver Emotion Socialization to Emotional Competence and Conflict Management

Perrin Salewood: The Association Between Coaching Style and Student Athlete Well-Being and Mental Health

One-semester projects

Noemi Meli: Can We Just Talk? Longitudinal Associations between Parent-Child Conversations about Mental Health and Child Emotion Regulation

Montana Sprague: The Impact of Pandemic Isolation and Parent Fear Behavior on Social Anxiety in Children

May 2021
Our paper "A comprehensive model of women’s social cognition and responsiveness to infant crying: Integrating personality, emotion, executive function, and sleep" is now available in Infant Behavior and Development.

December 2020
Congratulations to two of my thesis students who completed their one-semester projects this semester! Jessica Haviland: Predicting Child Emotion Dysregulation and Anxiety from Emotion Dismissing Parenting: The Role of Physical Activity Samantha Wolfe: Predicting Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction and Depression: The Role of Parental Comments and Negative Emotionality

December 2020

Congratulations to two of my thesis students who completed their one-semester projects this semester!

Jessica Haviland: Predicting Child Emotion Dysregulation and Anxiety from Emotion Dismissing Parenting: The Role of Physical Activity

Samantha Wolfe: Predicting Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction and Depression: The Role of Parental Comments and Negative Emotionality

May 2020
Congratulations to all recent Hamilton graduates, but especially four seniors from my thesis group who rose to the unexpected challenges of this semester and completed a range of exciting projects. Alessandra Nocco: Are Siblings as Important as Parents? Sibling Relationship Quality as a Moderator of Parenting Style and Social Competence Kendall Searcy: Associations Between Perceived Helicopter Parenting, Impulsivity and Adolescent Risk Seeking Leah Westfall: The Complex Relation between Maternal Depression and Child Internalizing Behaviors Ellie Williams: Children’s Technology Use, Executive Function, and Parent Behavior Wishing you all the best!

May 2020

Congratulations to all recent Hamilton graduates, but especially four seniors from my thesis group who rose to the unexpected challenges of this semester and completed a range of exciting projects.

Alessandra Nocco: Are Siblings as Important as Parents? Sibling Relationship Quality as a Moderator of Parenting Style and Social Competence

Kendall Searcy: Associations Between Perceived Helicopter Parenting, Impulsivity and Adolescent Risk Seeking

Leah Westfall: The Complex Relation between Maternal Depression and Child Internalizing Behaviors

Ellie Williams: Children’s Technology Use, Executive Function, and Parent Behavior

Wishing you all the best!

March 2020
Our paper "The Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Socialization" is now available in the Developmental Psychology special issue on Parental Socialization of Emotion and Self-Regulation.

January 2020
Our paper "The role of positive emotions in child development: A developmental treatment of the broaden and build theory" is now available in The Journal of Positive Psychology.

December 2019
Congratulations to two seniors from my thesis group who completed their one-semester projects this fall! Claudia Karademas' thesis is titled Scaffolding as a Mediator of the Link between Parenting Style and Reading Comprehension. Zixin Zhu's thesis is titled Tech-savvy Kids: Drawing Attention to Educational Technology. Wishing them all the best as they move on to next steps after Hamilton. Congratulations as well to all two-semester senior thesis students who completed their proposals and will move on to data collection this spring.

December 2019

Congratulations to two seniors from my thesis group who completed their one-semester projects this fall!

Claudia Karademas' thesis is titled Scaffolding as a Mediator of the Link between Parenting Style and Reading Comprehension. Zixin Zhu's thesis is titled Tech-savvy Kids: Drawing Attention to Educational Technology.

Wishing them all the best as they move on to next steps after Hamilton. Congratulations as well to all two-semester senior thesis students who completed their proposals and will move on to data collection this spring.

July 2019
Our paper "Children's behavioral self-regulation and conscience: Roles of child temperament, parenting, and parenting context" is now available in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

June 2019
Our paper "Associations Between Maternal Physiology and Maternal Sensitivity Vary Depending on Infant Distress and Emotion Context" is now available in the Journal of Family Psychology.

Mairin Augustine

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