Recent Accomplishments

SELECT GRANTS

Hibel, L.C. (Co-PI): “Reducing bias in incoming UC Davis students an evidence-based approach”. UCOP Addressing Bias and Bigotry. University of California, Office of the President. Amount: $55,000

Sigal, M. & Olwert, M.R. (Co-PIs): "Graduate Peer Support- Navigate your way to social fitness!" Healthy UC Davis & Equity in Mental Health Grant. (funded $22,385 July 2023- July 2025) 

Miller, M. (PI): Early Identification of ADHD: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study. 2022-2023 UC Davis Behavioral Health Center for Excellence Pilot Award, Amount: $50,000. 

Choe, D.E. (PI): Healthy Offspring, Mothers, and Emotions Project. COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT) 2.0 Program. UC Davis Provost’s Office. Submitted November 2022 (funded $40,000 from December 22, 2022 to December 22, 2023). 

Hernández, M. (PI): “Promoting mental health resilience and mitigating covid-19 stressors in middle school.” UC Davis-HMS partnership for promoting mental health resilience in middle school - sponsored by the University of California, Davis, Public Scholarship and Engagement Research. https://www.air.org/covid-19-and-equity-education-community-researchers#promoting

Hagerman, R. (PI): “A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of metformin in individuals with fragile X syndrome. Azrieli Foundation. 

Prado, E. (PI): "Investigation of a new sequential multiple hit model to examine risk and resilience in a prospective longitudinal cohort of children in Ghana.” R03 research grant. Co-investigators: Haiying Yuan, Paul Hastings, and Amanda Guyer at University of California, Davis, and Seth Adu-Afarwuah at the University of Ghana.

Schweitzer, J. (PI): “Can fidgeting lead to enhanced attention and emotional regulation in adult ADHD?” National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health.

Swartz, J.R. (PI): “Risk and protective factors associated with the development of depression and allostatic load in young adults of Mexican origin.” R01 research grant, National Institute of Mental Health.

Huo, M. (PI): “Empathy, Support Exchanges, and Well-being in Older Couples Coping with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease.” National Institute on Aging funded R21 research grant.

Sparapani, N (PI). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Exploration ($1,699,998) Examining How Teacher-Student Interactions within Mathematics and Literacy Instructional Contexts Relate to the Developmental and Academic Outcomes of Early Elementary Students with Autism; Grant #R324A210288 Grant Duration: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2025. IES Exploratory Project: https://ies.ed.gov/ncser/projects/21awards.asp.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 

Hastings, P. D., Miller, J. G., Weissman, D. G., Hodge, R. T., Robins, R. W., Carlo, G., & Guyer, A. E. (2024). Parasympathetic regulation and support from family and friends predict prosocial development in U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 60(8), 1384–1400. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001780

Liu, S. & Zhou, D. J. (2024). Using cross‐validation methods to select time series models: Promises and pitfalls. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 77(2), 337-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12330 

Zhou, D. J., Chahal, R., Gotlib, I., & Liu, S. (2024). Comparison of Lasso and stepwise regression in psychological data. Methodology, 20(2), 121-143. https://doi.org/10.5964/meth.11523

Gilliland, P. D., Phipps, J. E., Derret, B., D'Souza, I., Ha, S., Patil, S., & Simmons, L. A. (2024). Patient-provider trust as a key component of prenatal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACES): A concept analysis. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13660

Choe, D. E., Barreda, S., Galán, C. A., Gardner, F., Wilson, M. N., Dishion, T. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2024). Early childhood predictors of early school-age academic skills and resilience among children living in poverty. Social Development, 33(1), e12715. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12715

Huo, M., Kim, K., Fingerman, K. L., & Zarit, S. H. (2024). Empathy and support exchanges in couples coping with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Aging and Mental Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2326958

Zhao, Y., Dennis, J. M., & Houseman, C. (2024). Predictors of hookup behaviors among Asian and Asian American college students in the United States. Journal of American College Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2024.2311121 

Stahmer, A.C., Yu, Yue, Suhrheinrich, J., Melgajaro, M., & Schetter, P. (2024). The role of implementation climate in moderating teacher use of evidence-based practices and student outcomes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06443-x

del Hoyo Soriano, L., Villarreal, J., & Abbeduto, L. (2023). Parental survey on Spanish-English bilingualism in neurotypical development and neurodevelopmental disabilities in the United States. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-023-00325-6

Ugarte, E., & Hastings, P. D. (2023). Assessing unpredictability in caregiver-child relationships: Insights from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Development & Psychopathology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423000305

Choe, D. E., Olwert, M. R., & Golden, A. B. (2023). Cognitive and psychophysiological predictors of inductive and physical discipline among parents of preschool-aged children. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001140

Snyder, A.L., Bonus, J.A., & Cingel, D.P. (2023). Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media. Journal of Children and Media, 17(1), 154-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2173856

Cingel, D. P., Snyder, A. L., & Vigil, S. L. (2023). Minding children’s media morals: Parents’ moral foundation salience differentially relates to attitudes and motivations toward children’s educational media. Mass Communication and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2226645 

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Golden, A.B., Olwert, M.R., & Choe, D.E. (2024). Preschoolers’ effortful control moderates the effects of parenting stress on parasympathetic activity [poster] Association for Psychological Science's 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. 

Olwert, M.R., Golden, A.B., & Choe, D.E. (2024). Children’s parasympathetic self-Regulation and co-Regulation during parent-child interactions [poster] Western Psychological Association's 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. 

Sigal, M. & Nishina, A. (2024). Does the use of general or study-specific infographics help participant retention in longitudinal studies of diverse emerging adults? [poster]. Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Zhao, Y. & Munger, A. (2024). Chinese American parents’ perspectives on their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities’ oral health [poster]. 18th Annual Conference for University of California's Center for Research on Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk, Sacramento, CA.

AWARDS

Hala Alkhatib: Public Scholars for the Future (2024-2025)

Van Pham: Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship (2024-2025)

Paige Gilliland: ReACH Equity Fellowship with the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing (2024-2026)

Aubrey Golden: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2024-2027) 

Allyson Snyder: Erna and Orville Thompson Endowment Graduate Student Research Award (2024)