Recent publications by HERD Lab students and postdoctoral fellows
Partington, L. C., & Mashash, M. & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Children’s problems predicted parents’ mental health via parental burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of predominantly White, partnered mothers. Developmental Psychology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002076
Hodge, R. T., Klimes-Dougan, B., Marceau, K., Matsuaki, M. N., Shirtcliff, E. A., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Parasympathetic reactivity to recalled emotional experiences and adolescent prosociality. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35: e70033, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70033
Ugarte, E. & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Caregiver unpredictability and the development of biobehavioral regulation during early childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251349755
Parra, L. A., Helm, J. L., & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Lifetime heterosexist victimization and diurnal cortisol predict depression trajectories among sexual minority emerging adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 178: e107476, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107476
Her, H., Ugarte, E., Weissman, D. G., Robins, R. W., Guyer, A. E., & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Warm parenting throughout adolescence predicts basal parasympathetic activity among Mexican-origin youths. Developmental Psychobiology, 67: e70012, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70012
Aryee, L. M. D., Adu-Afarwuah, S., Prado, E. L., Guyer, A. E., Arnold, C. D., Dewey, K. G., Amponsah, B., Manu, A., Oaks, B. M., Bentil, H. J., Nti, H., Ayete Labi, F. B., Mensah, M. O., Adjetey, E., & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Effects of early-life lipid-based nutrient supplement and home environment on autonomic nervous system regulation at 9-11 years: Follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 21: e13789, 1-12. DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13789
Risbud, R. D., Guyer, A. E., Robins, R. W., & Hastings, P. D. (2024). Development of comorbid alcohol use and depression problems during late adolescence: Examining the role of emotion regulation and sex differences. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 1931–1943. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-024-01251-4
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
Gonzalves, L. C., Ferrer, E., Robins, R. W., Guyer, A. E., & Hastings, P. D. (2023). Psychosocial predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in Mexican-origin youth: An 8-year prospective cohort study. Clinical Psychological Science, 11, 425-443. DOI: 10.1177/21677026221102924
Hastings, P. D., & Hodge, R. T. (2023). Considering the experiences and adjustment of sexual and gender minority youths during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Opinion in Psychology, 53, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.
Miller, J. G., Xia, G., & Hastings, P. D. (2019). Resting heart rate variability is negatively associated with mirror neuron and limbic response to emotional faces. Biological Psychology, 146, e107717, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107717
Miller, J. G., & Hastings, P. D. (2019). Neurobiology, parenting, and prosocial development. In D. Laible, L. Padilla-Walker, & G. Carlo (Eds.), Oxford handbook on parenting and moral development. NY: Oxford University Press.
Miller, J. G., & Hastings, P. D. (2019). Prosocial development. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.), The encyclopedia of child and adolescent development.West Sussex, UK: Wiley.
Weissman, D. G., Guyer, A. E., Ferrer, E., Robins, R. W., & Hastings, P. D. (2019). Tuning of brain-autonomic coupling by prior threat exposure: Implications for internalizing problems in Mexican-origin adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 1127-1142. doi:10.1017/S0954579419000646
Weissman, D. G., Guyer, A. E., Ferrer, E., Robins, R.W., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Adolescents’ brain-autonomic coupling during emotion processing. NeuroImage. 183, 818-827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.069
Kahle, S., Miller, J. G., Helm, J. L., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Linking autonomic physiology and emotion regulation in preschoolers: The role of reactivity and recovery. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 775-788. DOI: 10.1002/dev.21746
Parra, L. A., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Integrating the neurobiology of minority stress with an intersectionality framework for LGBTQ-Latinx populations. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 161, 91–108. DOI:10.1002/cad.20244
Grady, J., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Becoming prosocial peers: The roles of temperamental shyness and mothers’ and fathers’ elaborative emotion language. Social Development, 27, 858-875. DOI: 10.1111/sode.12300
Helm, J. L., Miller, J. G., Kahle, S., Troxel, N. R., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). On measuring and modeling physiological synchrony in dyads. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 53, 521-543.DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1459292
Weissman, D. G., Conger, R. D., Robins, R. W., Hastings, P. D., & Guyer, A. E. (2018). Income change alters default mode network connectivity for adolescents in poverty. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 93-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.008
Weissman, D. G.,Gelardi, K. L., Conger, R. W., Robins, R. W., Hastings, P. D., & Guyer, A. E. (2018). Adolescent externalizing problems: Contributions of community crime exposure and neural function during emotion introspection in Mexican-origin youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28,551-563.DOI: 10.1111/jora.12358
Parra, L. A., Bell, T., Benibgui, M., Helm, J. L., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). The buffering effect of peer support on the links between family rejection and psychosocial adjustment in LGB emerging adults. Journal of Personal and Social Relations, 35, 854-871. DOI: 10.1177/0265407517699713Kahle, S., Utendale, W. T., Widaman, K., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Parasympathetic reactivity and inhibitory control predict the development of externalizing problems in early childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 237-249. DOI 10.1007/s10802-017-0305-6
Recent publications by Paul Hastings
Hastings, P. D., & Kahle, S. (2019). Get bent into shape: The non-linear, multi-system, contextually-embedded psychophysiology of emotional development. In V. LoBue, K. Perez-Edgar, & K. A. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of emotional development(pp. 27-56). NY: Springer.
Hastings, P. D., Serbin, L. A., Bukowski, W., Helm, J. L., Stack, D. M., Dickson, D. J., Ledingham, J. E., & Schwartzman, A. E. (2019). Predicting psychosis-spectrum diagnoses in adulthood from social behaviors and neighborhood contexts in childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S095457941900021X
Hastings, P. D., Grady, J. G., & Barrieau, L. E. (2019). Children’s anxious characteristics predict how their parents socialize emotions. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1225-1238.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0481-z
Hastings, P. D., Kahle, S., Fleming, C., Lohr, M. J., Katz, L. F., & Oxford, M. (2019). An intervention that increases parental sensitivity in families referred to Child Protective Services also changes toddlers’ parasympathetic regulation. Developmental Science, 22. e12725. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12725
Hastings, P. D., Rubin, K. H., Smith, K., & Wagner, N. (2019). Parents of behaviorally inhibited and socially withdrawn children. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting, Vol. 1, 3rd Ed.NY: Routledge Press
Hastings, P. D. (2018). The socialization of emotion by parents: Following Saarni’s legacy. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 694-710. DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2018.1482210
Recent publications with colleagues and collaborators
Wuermli, A. J., Hiott, C. M., Ugarte, E., Rahman, M. S., Elahi, M., Rahim, AK., Dutta, G. K., Ahamed, M. S., Roy, B., Akhter, R. M., Hossain, E., Michael, D., Ayrin, T. K., Hasneen, S. H., Alam, R. B., Ratul, T. I., Horaira, M. A., Gladstone, M., Sanin, K. I., Raqib, R., Hamadani, J., Yoshikawa, H., Hastings, P. D., & Tofail, F. (2025). Cohort profile: A prenatal birth cohort study of intergenerational risk and resilience after conflict and forced displacement. BMJ Open; 15:e099052, 1-12. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2025-099052
Ugarte, E., Hiott, M. C., Elahi, M., Hossain, E., Ahamed, M. S., Rahman, M. S., Tofail, F., Hastings, P. D., & Wuermli, A. J. (2025). Maternal mental health and infant parasympathetic activity in the context of forced displacement: Insights from the Rohingya camps and surrounding communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Developmental Psychobiology, 67:e70102, 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.
Carranza, A. F., McMillan, S. J., Guyer, A. E., Hastings, P. D., Robins, R. W., & Schwartz, J. R. (2025). Identifying neural mediators and cultural moderators in the role of discrimination and depression in Mexican-American youth. Scientific Reports, 15:38924, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/
Hodge, R. T., Partington, L. C., Knapp, M. E., Ugarte, E., & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Associations of emotion regulation and distress with altruistic and egoistic prosociality during COVID-19. Emotion, 1-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/
Fajardo, J., Arnold, C. D., Mensah, M. O., Adjetey, E., Demuyakor, M. E., Tan, X., Oaks, B. M., Adu-Afarwuah, S., Guyer, A. E., Dewey, K. G., Hastings, P. D., Prado, E. L., & Stewart, C. P. (2025). The effects of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements on adolescent physical activity and sedentary behavior: a follow-up of the iLiNS-DYAD Ghana trial. British Journal of Nutrition, 1-10. doi: 10.1017/ S0007114525105126
Pandey, P. Sahadevan, K G, & Hastings, P. D. (2025). Association of affirmative action with health and education outcomes and services in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 122 (41), e2502290122, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.
Vilgis V, Rhoads SA, Weissman DG, Gelardi, K. L., Forbes, E. E., Hipwell, A. E., Keenan, K., Hastings, P. D., & Guyer, A. E. (2019). Direct replication of task-dependent neural activation patterns during sadness introspection in two independent adolescent samples. Human Brain Mapping, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24836
Swartz, J. R., Weissman, D. G., Ferrer, E., Beard, S. J., Fassbender, C., Robins, R. W., Hastings, P. D., & Guyer, A.E. (2019). Reward-related brain activity prospectively predicts increases in alcohol use in adolescents.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.05.022
Hobbs, S., Bederian-Gardner, D., Ogle, C., Goodman, G., Hastings, P. D., Cordon, I. M., Bakanosky, S., & Chae, Y. (2019). Psychological security in foster and nonfoster youth: Attachment, emotion regulation, and PTSD symptom severity. International Journal on Child Maltreatment, 2, 17-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42448-019-00015-8
Smith, K. A., Hastings, P. D., Henderson, H. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2019). Multidimensional emotion regulation moderates the relation between behavioral inhibition at age 2 and social reticence with unfamiliar peers at age 4. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1239-1251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-00509-yOwens, S. A, Helms, S. W., Giletta, M., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2019). Interpersonal stress severity longitudinally predicts adolescent girls’ depressive symptoms: The moderating mole of subjective and HPA axis stress responses. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 895-905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0483-xEisenlohr-Moul, T., Miller, A. B., Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D., Rudolph, K. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). HPA axis response and psychosocial stress as interactive predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescent females: A multilevel diathesis-stress framework. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 2564-2571. Miller, A. B., Linthicum, R., Helms, S., Giletta M., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). Reciprocal associations between adolescent girls’ chronic interpersonal stress and nonsuicidal self-injury: A multi-wave, prospective investigation. Journal of Adolescent Health, 63, 694-700. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.06.033
Poulin-Dubois, D., Hastings, P. D., Chiarella, S., Geangu, E., Hauf, P., Ruel, A., Johnson, A. (2018). The eyes know it: Toddlers’ visual scanning of sad faces is predicted by their theory of mind skills. PLOS One, 13(12): e0208524. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208524
Wagner, N. J., Hastings, P. D., & Rubn, K. H. (2018). Children’s autonomic functioning moderates links between maternal rejecting attitudes and preschool aggressive behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 739-747. DOI: 10.1002/dev.21747
Massing-Schaffer, M., Helms, S. W., Rudolph, K. D., Slavich, G. M., Hastings, P. D., Giletta, M., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). Preliminary associations among relational victimization, targeted rejection, and suicidality in adolescents: A prospective study. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2018.1469093
Schriber, R. A., Rogers, C. R., Ferrer, E., Conger, R. D., Robins, R. W., Hastings, P. D., & Guyer, A. E.(2018). Do hostile school environments promote social deviance by shaping neural response to social exclusion? Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28, 103-120. DOI:10.1111/jora.12340
Giletta, M., Slavich G. M., Rudolph, K. D., Hastings, P. D., Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2018). Peer victimization predicts heightened inflammatory reactivity to social stress in cognitively vulnerable adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59, 129-139. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12804
Perez-Edgar, K., & Hastings, P. D. (2018). Emotional development from an experimental and individual differences lens. In S. Ghetti (volume ed.), The Stevens’ handbook of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Vol. 3: Developmental and social psychology, 4thEd (pp. 289-322). SF: John Wiley & Sons.
List of Earlier Publications available upon request.