Child Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Mixed blessings': parental religiousness, parenting, and child adjustment in global perspective. 
  • 3- and 5-year-old children's adherence to explicit and implicit joint commitments. 
  • 36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. 
  • A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done. 
  • A prospective study of the relationship over time of behavior problems, intellectual functioning, and family functioning in children with sickle cell disease: a report from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • A randomized school trial of environmental strategies to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among children. 
  • A review of snacking patterns among children and adolescents: what are the implications of snacking for weight status? 
  • A systematic review of the emotional, behavioural and cognitive features exhibited by school-aged children experiencing neglect or emotional abuse. 
  • ADHD symptoms in children with FXS. 
  • Adult instruction limits children's flexibility in moral decision making. 
  • Adult-child interaction analysis: methodology and case application. 
  • Adults' evaluations of a child as a function of sex of adult and sex of child. 
  • Alcohol use in television programming: effects on children's behavior. 
  • An examination of sex differences on neurocognitive functioning and behavior problems in maltreated youth. 
  • Annotation: implications of violence between intimate partners for child psychologists and psychiatrists. 
  • Approach and exploration of a novel alternative by 12-month-old infants. 
  • Assessing medication effects in the MTA study using neuropsychological outcomes. 
  • Association of the family environment with behavioural and cognitive outcomes in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. 
  • Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents' Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective. 
  • Associations between child emotional eating and general parenting style, feeding practices, and parent psychopathology. 
  • Associations of American Indian children's screen-time behavior with parental television behavior, parental perceptions of children's screen time, and media-related resources in the home. 
  • Attentional characteristics of infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome during triadic interactions. 
  • Behavior and Quality of Life at 6 Years for Children With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. 
  • Behavioural assessment of children and adolescents. 
  • Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries. 
  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries. 
  • Building evidence for environmental and policy solutions to prevent childhood obesity: the healthy eating research program. 
  • Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study 
  • Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Children conform to the behavior of peers; other great apes stick with what they know. 
  • Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma. 
  • Children with asthma have improved pulmonary functions after massage therapy. 
  • Children's Intrinsic Motivation to Provide Help Themselves After Accidentally Harming Others. 
  • Children's behavioral styles at age 3 are linked to their adult personality traits at age 26. 
  • Children's interactions in triads: behavioral profiles and effects of gender and patterns of friendships among members. 
  • Children's norm enforcement in their interactions with peers. 
  • Children's reasoning with peers in cooperative and competitive contexts. 
  • Children's social goals and self-efficacy perceptions as influences on their responses to ambiguous provocation 
  • Classification of eating disturbance in children and adolescents: proposed changes for the DSM-V. 
  • Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment. 
  • Clinical Update: Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care in Community Systems of Care. 
  • Clinical epidemiology of urban violence: responding to children exposed to violence in ten communities. 
  • Clinical presentation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschool children: the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Clonidine extended-release tablets as add-on therapy to psychostimulants in children and adolescents with ADHD. 
  • Collaborative partner or social tool? New evidence for young children's understanding of joint intentions in collaborative activities. 
  • Community-Based multiple family groups to prevent and reduce violent and aggressive behavior: the GREAT Families Program. 
  • Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children. 
  • Concurrent and Short-Term Prospective Relations among Neurocognitive Functioning, Coping, and Depressive Symptoms in Youth. 
  • Conforming to coordinate: children use majority information for peer coordination. 
  • Conscientiousness in life course context: a commentary. 
  • Cooperative activities in young children and chimpanzees. 
  • Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries. 
  • Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers 
  • Correlates of sedentary time and physical activity among preschool-aged children. 
  • Cortisol reactivity to social stress as a mediator of early adversity on risk and adaptive outcomes. 
  • Deconstructing the externalizing spectrum: Growth patterns of overt aggression, covert aggression, oppositional behavior, impulsivity/inattention and emotion dysregulation between school entry and early adolescence 
  • Delineation of children's behavior problems: a basis for assessment and intervention. 
  • Depressed parents and their children. General health, social, and psychiatric problems. 
  • Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood. 
  • Differential diagnosis of staring spells in children: a video-EEG study. 
  • Differential risks of covarying and pure components in mother and teacher reports of externalizing and internalizing behavior across ages 5 to 14. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Direct social support for young high risk children: relations with behavioral and emotional outcomes across time. 
  • Display rules for anger and aggression in school-age children. 
  • Distorted perceptions in dyadic interactions of aggressive and nonaggressive boys: effects of prior expectations, context, and boys' age. 
  • Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage? 
  • Do high-threat life events really provoke the onset of psychiatric disorder in children? 
  • Does the Fast Track Intervention Prevent Later Psychosis Symptoms? 
  • Early behavior problems as a predictor of later peer group victimization: moderators and mediators in the pathways of social risk. 
  • Early caregiving stress exposure moderates the relation between respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity at 1 month and biobehavioral outcomes at age 3. 
  • Effect of daily school and care disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic on child behavior problems. 
  • Effectiveness of a peer-delivered, psychosocial intervention on maternal depression and child development at 3 years postnatal: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan. 
  • Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children's dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Efficacy of gabapentin therapy in children with refractory partial seizures. 
  • Elevated Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Young Children with OCD. 
  • Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in very young children in a Romanian pediatric setting. 
  • Etiology of Pervasive Versus Situational Antisocial Behaviors: A Multi-Informant Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • Evaluating the impact of interventions in the Multisite Violence Prevention Study: Samples, procedures, and measures 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries. 
  • Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds. 
  • Factor structure of parent- and teacher-rated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Family Home Food Environment and Nutrition-Related Parent and Child Personal and Behavioral Outcomes of the Healthy Home Offerings via the Mealtime Environment (HOME) Plus Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Family meals: perceptions of benefits and challenges among parents of 8- to 10-year-old children. 
  • From Childhood Conduct Problems to Poor Functioning at Age 18 Years: Examining Explanations in a Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • From imitation to implementation: How two- and three-year-old children learn to enforce social norms. 
  • Gender and Child Behavior Problems in Rural Nepal: Differential Expectations and Responses. 
  • Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor. 
  • Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior 
  • Group preparation of young children for painful stimulus 
  • Group social context and children's aggressive behavior. 
  • HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children's sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity. 
  • Helping battered women take care of their children. 
  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context. 
  • How does the Fast Track intervention prevent adverse outcomes in young adulthood? 
  • How to Compare Across Species. 
  • Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground. 
  • Identifying an efficient set of items sensitive to clinical-range externalizing problems in children. 
  • Impact of maternal breast cancer on school-aged children in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries. 
  • Individual-group behavioral similarity and peer status in experimental play groups of boys: the social misfit revisited. 
  • Infant Television Watching Predicts Toddler Television Watching in a Low-Income Population. 
  • Influence of Temperament As a Risk Indicator for Early Childhood Caries. 
  • Influence of physical activity and screen time on the retinal microvasculature in young children. 
  • Influence of product placement in children's movies on children's snack choices. 
  • Intersection of child abuse and children's exposure to domestic violence. 
  • Investigating teacher and student effects of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Program in early elementary school. 
  • Kegel exercises and squatting behavior. 
  • Lactational exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and its relation to social and emotional development among toddlers. 
  • Language ability predicts the development of behavior problems in children. 
  • Lessons learned in the Multisite Violence Prevention Project collaboration: Big questions require large efforts 
  • Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. 
  • Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: behavioral and electrophysiological measures. 
  • Living alongside more affluent neighbors predicts greater involvement in antisocial behavior among low-income boys. 
  • Loneliness and peer relations in young children 
  • Long-Term Outcomes of Early Intervention in 6-Year-Old Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. 
  • MAOA, maltreatment, and gene-environment interaction predicting children's mental health: new evidence and a meta-analysis. 
  • Macro-activity patterns of farmworker and non-farmworker children living in an agricultural community. 
  • Maternal Concern for Child Undereating. 
  • Maternal adjustment, parenting and child behaviour in families of school-aged twins conceived after IVF and ovulation induction. 
  • Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors. 
  • Maternal presence, childrearing practices, and children's response to an injection 
  • Measurement of behavioral response to pain 
  • Media content and externalizing behaviors in Latino toddlers. 
  • Mental health antecedents of early midlife insomnia: evidence from a four-decade longitudinal study. 
  • Meritocratic sharing is based on collaboration in 3-year-olds. 
  • Methylphenidate effects on functional outcomes in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Multiple sources of data on social behavior and social status in the school: a cross-age comparison. 
  • Multivitamin/Mineral supplementation does not affect standardized assessment of academic performance in elementary school children. 
  • Nutritional and psychosocial outcomes of gastrostomy tube-dependent children completing an intensive inpatient behavioral treatment program. 
  • Obesogenic Behavior and Weight-Based Stigma in Popular Children's Movies, 2012 to 2015. 
  • Observations of parent-child co-shoppers in supermarkets: children's involvement in food selections, parental yielding, and refusal strategies. 
  • On the relation between social information processing and socially competent behavior in early school-aged children. 
  • One for you, one for me: Humans' unique turn-taking skills 
  • Oxidative stress and neurobehavioral problems in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients undergoing chemotherapy. 
  • Pacifists and Revenge-Seekers in Response to Unambiguous Peer Provocation. 
  • Paediatric preoperative teaching: effects at induction and postoperatively. 
  • Pain coping strategies in children with juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome: correlation with pain, physical function, and psychological distress. 
  • Pain interventions with children: a meta-analysis of research 
  • Paradoxical reactions in children associated with midazolam use during endoscopy. 
  • Parent Perspectives on Addressing Emotional Health for Children and Young Adults With Juvenile Myositis. 
  • Parent and child behavior during immunization 
  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness. 
  • Parent versus teacher ratings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Parental Incarceration and Child Health in the United States. 
  • Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys. 
  • Parenting Stress, Child Weight-Related Behaviors, and Child Weight Status. 
  • Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. 
  • Parenting-related stress and psychological distress in mothers of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Patterns of behavioral disturbance in developmentally disabled children: a replicated cluster analysis. 
  • Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors of Children in Family Child Care Homes: Are There Opportunities for Improvement? 
  • Physical activity and sedentary activity patterns among children and adolescents: a latent class analysis approach. 
  • Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. 
  • Potential for Digital Behavioral Measurement Tools to Transform the Detection and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
  • Predicting child aggression: The role of parent and child endorsement of reactive aggression across 13 cultural groups in 9 nations. 
  • Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model: four American communities. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Predicting support for restricting food marketing to youth. 
  • Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries. 
  • Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for children. 
  • Prenatal exposure to organophosphate esters and behavioral development in young children in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study. 
  • Preschoolers affect others' reputations through prosocial gossip. 
  • Processes of social learning in the tool use of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Prospective associations of appetitive traits at 3 and 12 months of age with body mass index and weight gain in the first 2 years of life. 
  • Providers as weight coaches: using practice guides and motivational interview to treat obesity in the pediatric office. 
  • Providers' response to child eating behaviors: A direct observation study. 
  • Providing obesity prevention counseling to children during a primary care clinic visit: results from a pilot study. 
  • Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample. 
  • Reciprocal relations between parents' physical discipline and children's externalizing behavior during middle childhood and adolescence. 
  • Relationship between a range of sedentary behaviours and blood pressure during early adolescence. 
  • Reward-based decision making and electrodermal responding by young children with autism spectrum disorders during a gambling task. 
  • Screening for DSM-IV externalizing disorders with the Child Behavior Checklist: a receiver-operating characteristic analysis. 
  • Secretive eating among youth with overweight or obesity. 
  • Sensory processing, problem behavior, adaptive behavior, and cognition in preschool children with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Separating the domains of oppositional behavior: comparing latent models of the conners' oppositional subscale. 
  • Sickness behavior clustering in children with cancer. 
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability of a General Psychopathology Factor in Children. 
  • Sluggish cognitive tempo in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. 
  • Social information processing in aggressive and depressed children. 
  • Social skills and associated psychopathology in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: implications for interventions. 
  • Somatic complaints and psychopathology in children and adolescents: stomach aches, musculoskeletal pains, and headaches. 
  • Some consequences of early harsh discipline: child aggression and a maladaptive social information processing style. 
  • Supportive parenting mediates neighborhood socioeconomic disparities in children's antisocial behavior from ages 5 to 12. 
  • Symptom clusters in children and adolescents receiving cisplatin, doxorubicin, or ifosfamide. 
  • Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. 
  • Tactile/kinesthetic stimulation effects on preterm neonates. 
  • Taking Turns or Not? Children's Approach to Limited Resource Problems in Three Different Cultures. 
  • Television exposure in children after a terrorist incident. 
  • Testing Robustness of Child STEPs Effects with Children and Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial. 
  • Testing the programming of temperament and psychopathology in two independent samples of children with prenatal substance exposure. 
  • The 'Sydney Principles' for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to children. 
  • The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The Early Emergence of Guilt-Motivated Prosocial Behavior. 
  • The Multisite Violence Prevention Project: Background and overview 
  • The association between alexithymia and eating behavior in children and adolescents. 
  • The challenging pupil in the classroom: the effect of the child on the teacher. 
  • The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. 
  • The development of coordination via joint expectations for shared benefits. 
  • The early socialization of aggressive victims of bullying. 
  • The effectiveness of the peer delivered Thinking Healthy Plus (THPP+) Programme for maternal depression and child socio-emotional development in Pakistan: study protocol for a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust. 
  • The emergence of chronic peer victimization in boys' play groups. 
  • The fulfillment of others' needs elevates children's body posture. 
  • The infant separates himself from his mother. 
  • The influence of intention and outcome on young children's reciprocal sharing. 
  • The influence of maternal child-rearing attitudes and teaching behaviors on preschoolers' delay of gratification. 
  • The influence of understanding and having choice on children's prosocial behavior 
  • The limits of child effects: evidence for genetically mediated child effects on corporal punishment but not on physical maltreatment. 
  • The long-term effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on neurologic development. 
  • The relation between childhood proactive and reactive aggression and substance use initiation. 
  • The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others. 
  • The relationship between parent feeding styles and general parenting with loss of control eating in treatment-seeking overweight and obese children. 
  • The role of aggression in peer relations: an analysis of aggression episodes in boys' play groups. 
  • The role of early experience in shaping behavioral and brain development and its implications for social policy. 
  • The use of distraction and imagery with children during painful procedures 
  • Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts. 
  • Toddler's behavior and its impacts on exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers. 
  • Toddlers Help a Peer. 
  • Toward a definition of neglect in young children. 
  • Toys and social interaction between infant peers. 
  • Trick, treat, or toy: children are just as likely to choose toys as candy on halloween. 
  • Two-year-olds grasp the intentional structure of pretense acts. 
  • Understanding the behavioral and emotional consequences of child abuse. 
  • Uniquely human self-control begins at school age. 
  • Universal Teacher-Child Interaction Training in early childhood special education: A cluster randomized control trial. 
  • Unpacking the Associations Among Maltreatment, Disengagement Coping, and Behavioral Functioning in High-Risk Youth. 
  • Use of a pediatrician toolkit to address parental perception of children's weight status, nutrition, and activity behaviors. 
  • Use of a tool to determine perceived barriers to children's healthy eating and physical activity and relationships to health behaviors. 
  • Using Early Childhood Behavior Problems to Predict Adult Convictions. 
  • Validity of evidence-derived criteria for reactive attachment disorder: indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited types. 
  • Variations in pain, sleep, and activity during hospitalization in children with cancer. 
  • Weight-related teasing in a racially diverse sample of sixth-grade children. 
  • Why does the worldwide prevalence of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder matter? 
  • Work-based antipoverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children. 
  • Young Children Understand the Role of Agreement in Establishing Arbitrary Norms-But Unanimity Is Key. 
  • Young Children Want to See Others Get the Help They Need. 
  • Young Children\textquotesingles Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering 
  • Young children are intrinsically motivated to see others helped. 
  • Young children are more willing to accept group decisions in which they have had a voice. 
  • Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules 
  • Young children know that trying is not pretending: a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of pretense. 
  • Young children selectively avoid helping people with harmful intentions. 
  • Young children share more under time pressure than after a delay. 
  • Young children sympathize less in response to unjustified emotional distress. 
  • Young children understand and defend the entitlements of others. 
  • Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences. 
  • Young children's behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. 
  • Young children's prosocial responses toward peers and adults in two social contexts. 
  • Young children's reputational strategies in a peer group context. 
  • Young children, but not chimpanzees, are averse to disadvantageous and advantageous inequities. 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology