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Martha Putallaz

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Professor Emerita of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
putallaz@duke.edu
Duke Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
417 Chapel Drive, Dept of Psychology & Neuroscience, Reuben-Cooke Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The Importance of Context for Multi-informant Assessment of Peer Victimization

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer Quarterly · July 1, 2022 Peer victimization has been assessed by using various methods, with little attention to methodological variance. Peer victimization assessments of 238 girls (M age = 9.77 years; 50% Black, 50% White) made by peers, teachers, and self in school, and peers a ... Full text Cite

Leader of the Pack: Academic Giftedness and Leadership in Early Adolescence

Journal Article Journal of Advanced Academics · November 1, 2019 The present study expanded our current understanding of leadership among academically gifted seventh-grade students by examining peer-identified leaders of naturally occurring social groups in a mixed ability setting. Three consecutive cohorts of seventh-g ... Full text Cite

From A (Aggression) to V (Victimization): Peer Status and Adjustment Among Academically Gifted Students in Early Adolescence

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · July 1, 2019 Peer status is an important indicator and predictor of adjustment. While gifted children tend to enjoy favorable peer status, their social functioning during adolescence is less clear. The current study seeks to enhance this understanding by examining both ... Full text Cite

A genome-wide association study for extremely high intelligence.

Journal Article Molecular psychiatry · May 2018 We used a case-control genome-wide association (GWA) design with cases consisting of 1238 individuals from the top 0.0003 (~170 mean IQ) of the population distribution of intelligence and 8172 unselected population-based controls. The single-nucleotide pol ... Full text Cite

The Intertwined Nature of Adolescents’ Social and Academic Lives: Social and Academic Goal Orientations

Journal Article Journal of Advanced Academics · February 1, 2017 The relations of academic and social goal orientations to academic and social behaviors and self-concept were investigated among academically talented adolescents (N = 1,218) attending a mastery-oriented academic residential summer program. Results support ... Full text Cite

Fine mapping genetic associations between the HLA region and extremely high intelligence.

Journal Article Scientific reports · January 2017 General cognitive ability (intelligence) is one of the most heritable behavioural traits and most predictive of socially important outcomes and health. We hypothesized that some of the missing heritability of IQ might lie hidden in the human leukocyte anti ... Full text Cite

Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: An update and cross cultural extension

Journal Article Intelligence · November 1, 2016 Male–female ability differences in the right tail (at or above the 95th percentile) have been widely discussed for their potential role in achievement and occupational differences in adults. The present study provides updated male–female ability ratios fro ... Full text Cite

When Lightning Strikes Twice: Profoundly Gifted, Profoundly Accomplished.

Journal Article Psychological science · July 2016 The educational, occupational, and creative accomplishments of the profoundly gifted participants (IQs ⩾ 160) in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) are astounding, but are they representative of equally able 12-year-olds? Duke University's ... Full text Cite

The Academic Gap: An International Comparison of the Time Allocation of Academically Talented Students

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · July 8, 2015 Despite growing concern about the need to develop talent across the globe, relatively little empirical research has examined how students develop their academic talents. Toward this end, the current study explored how academically talented students from th ... Full text Cite

Gifted students’ implicit beliefs about intelligence and giftedness.

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · 2015 Growing attention is being paid to individuals’ implicit beliefs about the nature of intelligence. However, implicit beliefs about giftedness are currently under-examined. In the current study, we examined implicit beliefs about both intelligence and gifte ... Full text Cite

Gifted students’ perceptions of an accelerated summer program and social support

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · 2015 This study examined gifted adolescents’ experiences and perceptions of sources of social support at a specialized summer program at two different sites in the U.S. compared to their regular schools. Survey responses from over 1,000 students showed higher r ... Full text Cite

Studying Intellectual Outliers: Are There Sex Differences, and Are the Smart Getting Smarter?

Journal Article Current Directions in Psychological Science · December 1, 2012 By studying samples of intellectual outliers across 30 years, researchers can leverage right-tail data (i.e., samples at or above the 95th percentile on tests of ability) to uncover missing pieces to two psychological puzzles: whether there are sex differe ... Full text Cite

Teach Students What They Don't Know but Are Ready to Learn: A Commentary on "Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education"

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · October 1, 2012 We were thrilled to see an article focusing on giftedness, written by such thoughtful and well-respected researchers as Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius, and Worrell (2011). The expansive scope of their synthesis is so impressive that it could serve as a crash ... Full text Cite

Changing the pond, not the fish: Following high-ability students across different educational environments

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · August 1, 2012 Big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) research (e.g., Marsh & Parker, 1984) has found that perceptions of academic ability are generally positively related to individual ability and negatively related to classroom and school average ability. However, BFLPE r ... Full text Cite

High-Ability Students’ Time Spent Outside the Classroom

Journal Article Journal of Advanced Academics · November 1, 2011 This study considered how three groups of academically talented high school students—those who attended an academic summer program (TIP), those who qualified for the program but chose not to attend (QNA), and those who did not qualify (DNQ)—spent time outs ... Full text Cite

The Flynn effect puzzle: A 30-year examination from the right tail of the ability distribution provides some missing pieces

Journal Article Intelligence · November 1, 2011 The Flynn effect is the rise in IQ scores across the last eighty or more years documented in the general distribution of both industrialized and developing nations primarily on tests that require problem solving and non-verbal reasoning. However, whether t ... Full text Cite

Adult Attachment Style and Stress as Risk Factors for Early Maternal Sensitivity and Negativity.

Journal Article Infant Ment Health J · May 1, 2011 The current study examined the individual and joint effects of self-reported adult attachment style, psychological distress, and parenting stress on maternal caregiving behaviors at 6 and 12 months of child age. We proposed a diathesis-stress model to exam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Academic Giftedness and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence.

Journal Article The gifted child quarterly · April 2011 Adolescence is a period of development particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol use, with recent studies underscoring alcohol's effects on adolescent brain development. Despite the alarming rates and consequences of adolescent alcohol use, gifted ... Full text Cite

Adult attachment style and stress as risk factors for early maternal sensitivity and negativity

Journal Article Infant Mental Health Journal · 2011 The current study examined the individual and joint effects of self-reported adult attachment style, psychological distress, and parenting stress on maternal caregiving behaviors at 6 and 12 months of child age. We proposed a diathesis-stress model to exa ... Cite

Interparental conflict styles and parenting behaviors: Associations with overt and relational aggression among Chinese children

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer Quarterly · January 1, 2011 This study examined how interparental conflict styles related to Chinese children's overt and relational aggression directly and indirectly through parenting behaviors. Mothers (n = 670) and fathers (n = 570) reported their overt and covert interparental c ... Full text Cite

Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30year examination

Journal Article Intelligence · July 1, 2010 One factor in the debate surrounding the underrepresentation of women in science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) involves male-female mathematical ability differences in the extreme right tail (top 1% in ability). The present study provides ... Full text Cite

Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences.

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer quarterly (Wayne State University. Press) · January 2009 Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one ... Full text Cite

Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization: Multiple Perspectives within the School Setting.

Journal Article Journal of school psychology · October 2007 The current study involved a comprehensive comparative examination of overt and relational aggression and victimization across multiple perspectives in the school setting (peers, teachers, observers in the lunchroom, self-report). Patterns of results invol ... Full text Cite

Girl talk: Gossip, friendship, and sociometric status

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer Quarterly · January 1, 2007 This study examined the characteristics of gossip among fourth-grade girls and their close friends. Sixty friendship dyads were videotaped as they engaged in conversation, and their gossip was coded. Analyses revealed gossip to be a dominant feature of the ... Full text Cite

Perceptions of friendship quality and observed behaviors with friends: How do sociometrically rejected, average, and popular girls differ?

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer Quarterly · January 1, 2006 This study examined associations between sociometric status and friendship quality using observational and questionnaire data from 139 fourth-grade girls and their friends. Multivariate analyses of covariance (controlling for ethnicity and socioeconomic st ... Full text Cite

The Duke University Talent Identification Program

Journal Article High Ability Studies · June 1, 2005 The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) holds the distinguished position of being the first 'transplant' of the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) regional talent search model developed by Professor Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins Univers ... Full text Cite

Coming of age: The department of education

Journal Article Phi Delta Kappan · January 1, 1999 The Duke University Education Leadership Summit in February 2002 provided an opportunity to view the evolution of the U.S. Department of Education through the eyes of those who have served as secretaries of education. In this special section, five of the p ... Full text Open Access Cite

Intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development

Journal Article Social Development · January 1, 1998 The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the recent efforts by psychologists to explore intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development. A primary criterion for inclusion in the review was use ... Full text Cite

Conflict, Social Competence, and Gender: Maternal and Peer Contexts

Journal Article Early Education and Development · January 1, 1995 The current study was designed to address two major purposes. The first goal was to investigate the joint influence of children's sociometric status and sex on their conflict behavior, and the second goal was to explore the similarities and differences in ... Full text Cite

Conflict, social competence, & gender: Maternal and peer contexts

Journal Article Early Education and Development · 1995 Cite

Relating mothers' social framing to their children's entry competence with peers

Journal Article Social Development · January 1, 1994 The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers view and construct meaning their children's social interactions, and to understand the interpretive frames they bring to filtering the social world and conveying meaning to their children. Maternal narra ... Full text Cite

Maternal recollections of childhood peer relationships: Implications for their children's social competence

Journal Article Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · January 1, 1991 The relations between mothers’ recollections of their childhood peer relationships and their child-rearing intentions, parenting behaviors and their preschoolers’ social competence were examined. Mothers with predominantly anxious/lonely peer recollections ... Full text Cite

Social Status and Children's Orientations to Limited Resources

Journal Article Child Development · January 1, 1990 6‐year‐old children were paired according to their sociometric status and then confronted with 3 situations in which there was only 1 toy for the 2 children. Children's responses to these limited‐resource situations were coded in terms of a scheme reflecti ... Full text Cite

Children's Naturalistic Entry Behavior and Sociometric Status: A Developmental Perspective

Journal Article Developmental Psychology · January 1, 1989 Extended previous research by examining the relation between children's entry behavior and sociometric status under more naturalistic conditions. First, 3rd, and 5th graders (N = 72) of high, low, and average status were observed during recess. Observers c ... Full text Cite

Maternal Behavior and Children's Sociometric Status

Journal Article Child Development · April 1987 Full text Cite

Social Support and Adjustment in Gifted Adolescents

Journal Article Journal of Educational Psychology · January 1, 1987 We investigated the role of perceived social support in facilitating adjustment to a residential high school for the gifted in science and math. The relation between social support and adjustment appeared to depend on the sex of the student and the source ... Full text Cite

Predicting Children's Sociometric Status from Their Behavior

Journal Article Child Development · December 1983 Full text Cite

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN - AN APPROACH TO INTERVENTION

Journal Article ADVANCES IN CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY · January 1, 1983 Link to item Cite

An Interactional Model of Children's Entry into Peer Groups

Journal Article Child Development · September 1981 Full text Cite

An interactional model of children's peer group entry

Journal Article Child Development · 1981 Cite

A genome-wide analysis of putative functional and exonic variation associated with extremely high intelligence

Journal Article Molecular Psychiatry Although individual differences in intelligence (general cognitive ability) are highly heritable, molecular genetic analyses to date have had limited success in identifying specific loci responsible for its heritability. The present study is the first to i ... Cite

The importance of context for multi-informant assessment of peer victimization: Examination in middle childhood girls.

Journal Article Merrill - Palmer Quarterly: journal of developmental psychology Cite