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Recent publications
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Dys, S.P., Degnan, K. A., Fox, N.A., & Henderson, H. A. (2026). Young children's emotional responses to new peers: The roles of behavioural inhibition and relationships. Child Development, aacag030. https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag030
Van Kessel, K., McDiarmid, S., Browne, D., Children and Youth Planning Table of Waterloo Region, & Henderson, H.A. (2026). Validation of a Community Belonging Measure for Youth and Adults. Journal of Community Psychology, 54, e70089. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.70089.
Poole, K. L., English, S. D., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Dockrill, M., & Henderson, H. A. (2025). Children's sharing behavior with an unfamiliar peer across repeated social interactions. Developmental psychology, 61(10), 1849–1859. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev000193
Hubley, C., Wilson, M., Hartman, O., Scholer, A.A., Fujita, K. and Henderson, H.A. (2025). Metamotivational Beliefs in Middle Childhood: Evaluating Children's Understanding of Task-Motivation Fit. Social Development, 34: e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.70009
Wilson, M. L., Powell, A. R., Hernandez, L. S., Green, E., Labahn, C., & Henderson, H.A. (2024). Shyness, social engagement, and conversational response times in children's dyadic interactions with an unfamiliar peer. Social Development, 33, e12734. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12734
Lorenzo, N. E., Bui, H. N. T., Degnan, K. A., McDermott, J. M., Henderson, H. A., Fox, N. A., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2024). The Developmental Unfolding of ADHD Symptoms from Early Childhood Through Adolescence: Early Effects of Exuberant Temperament, Parenting and Executive Functioning. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(4), 621–634. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01140-
Poole, K.L. & Henderson, H.A. (2023). Social Cognitive Correlates of Contagious Yawning and Smiling. Human Nature, 34, 569–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09463-1
Fox, N.A., Zeytinoglu, S., Valadez, E., Buzzell, G., Morales, S., & Henderson, H.A. (2023). Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Annual Research Review, 64, 537-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13702
Dys, S.P., Burrows, C.A., Usher, L.V., Almas, A.N., Degnan, K.A., Fox, N.A., & Henderson, H.A. (2023). Encouraging a peer in need: The impacts of social anxiety and peer familiarity. Social Development, 32(2), 618-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12648
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Aitken, C., Heintzman, S., Nilsen, E. S., & Henderson, H. A. (2023). Temperamental shyness and children’s communicative behaviours in a goal-oriented task: A dyadic perspective. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 87, 101566. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.APPDEV.2023.101566
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Wilson, M., & Henderson, H. A. (2023). Emotion dynamics among preadolescents getting to know each other: Dyadic associations with shyness. Emotion, 23(4), 949–960. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001155
Poole, K. L., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Green, E. S., Wilson, M., Labahn, C., & Henderson, H. A. (2023). Children’s shyness and physiological arousal to a peer’s social stress. Developmental Psychobiology, 65(4), e22388. https://doi.org/10.1002/DEV.22388
Poole, K.L., Degnan, K.A., Harrewijn, A., Almas, A., Fox, N.A., & Henderson, H.A. (2022) Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and socio-cognitive pathways. Child Development https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13767
Poole, K.L., & Henderson, H.A. (2022). Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction. Journal of Research in Personality, 98, 104255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104225
Wilson, M.L., Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H.A. (2022). Mind wandering and executive dysfunction predict children’s performance in the Metronome Response Task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105257
Suarez, G.L., Morales, S., Miller, N., Penela, E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H.A., Fox, N.A. (2021). Examining a developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to emotion regulation and social anxiety: The moderating role of parenting. Developmental Psychology, 57, 1261-1273. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001225
Hudson, A., Green, E.S., Wilson, M.J.G., Itier, R.J., & Henderson, H.A. (2021). The prominence of self-referential processing across ERP and memory consolidation in children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 46, 598-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2021.1991354
Fox, N.A., Buzzell, G.A., Morales, S., Valadez, E.A., Wilson, M.L., Henderson, H.A. (2021). Understanding the emergence of social anxiety in children with behavioral inhibition. Biological Psychiatry, 681-689.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.10.004
Buzzell, G.A., Morales, S., Bowers, M.E., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., & Fox, N.A. (2021). Inhibitory control and set shifting describe different pathways from behavioral inhibition to socially anxious behavior. Developmental Science, 24, e13040. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13040
Wilson, M. & Henderson, H. A. (2020). Shyness and perceived monitoring by peers affect children’s performance in a divided attention task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 198, 104882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104882
Hudson, A., Wilson, M., Green, E., Itier, R., & Henderson, H. A. (2020). Are you as important as me? Self-other discrimination within trait-adjective processing. Brain and Cognition, 142, 105569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105569
Burrows, C. A., Green, E. S., & Henderson, H. A. (2020). Self-reported temperament in children and adolescents with High Functioning Autism. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. New York: Springer.
Recent presentations
English, S. D., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Poole, K. P., & Henderson, H. A. (2025, June 12-14). The role of shyness and affiliative language in supporting communication and social engagement in unfamiliar peers. Symposium Presentation (Chair: L. Nilsen). Canadian Psychological Association Annual National Convention, Newfoundland, Canada.
Savic, A., Ghanem, N., Denison, S., & Henderson, H. A. (2026, May 27-28). The Influence of Goal-Orientation on Parent-Child Affect During a Problem-Solving Task. [Poster Presentation]. Child and Youth Health Research Conference, London, ON.
Macleod Emmer, P., English, S. D., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Poole, K. L., & Henderson, H. A. (2026, June 2-3). Expressing the Positive: Exploring the Associations Between Positive Emotionality and Interaction Enjoyment in Peer Dyads. [Poster Presentation]. Development 2026 Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Wilson, M., Hubley, C., Hartman, O., Scholer, A. A., Fujita, K., & Henderson, H. (2025, June 12-14). Metamotivational beliefs in middle childhood. [Poster Presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association Convention 2025, St. John’s, NL.
Savic, A., Ghanem, N., Denison, S., & Henderson, H. A. (2025, May 29-31). Exploring the Associations Between Parent and Child Affect During a Problem-Solving Task. [Poster Presentation]. Jean Piaget Society Conference, Belgrade, Serbia.
English, S. D., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Poole, K. L., & Henderson, H. A. (2025, May 1-3). Validation of a novel measure of children’s affiliative language use during peer interactions. [Poster Presentation]. 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Ebeid, E., English, S. D., Poole, K.L., Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H. (2025, May 1-3). Children’s temperament and perceptions of an unfamiliar peer over multiple interactions. [Poster presentation]. 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
McDiarmid, S. (2024, April 26). Child & Youth Belonging in Action: The work of the Measurement for Change team in Waterloo Region, Canada [Poster presentation]. Othering and Belonging Conference 2024, Oakland, CA, USA.
Ebeid, E., English, S. D., Poole, K.L., Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H. A.(2023, October 5-7). Children’s Temperament and perceptions of an unfamiliar peer during an initial interaction [Poster Presentation]. Occasional Temperament Conference, Quebec, Canada.
Poole, K.L., Green, E., Wilson, M., Sosa-Hernandez, L. & Heather, H.A. (2022, June). Children’s shyness and empathic physiological arousal to a peer’s social stress . Poster presented at Development 2022: Canadian Developmental Psychology Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Poole, K.L. & Heather, H.A. (2022, June). Shyness, self-focussed attention, and behavioral mimicry in social interaction. In T. Heffer (Chair), Factors that affect social behavior among children, adolescents, and emerging adults with anxiety-related temperament styles. Paper presented at Development 2022: Canadian Developmental Psychology Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Poole, K., Wilson, M., & Henderson, H. A. (2022, June 15-16). It matters who I’m with! Dyadic relations between shyness, positive affect, and physiological dysregulation in unfamiliar peer dyads. In Hassan, R. (Chair), Self-regulation across childhood: Temperamental, contextual, and interpersonal considerations [Symposium]. Development 2022 Conference, Alberta, Canada.
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Aitken, C., Heintzman, S., Nilsen, E. S., & Henderson, H. A. (2022, June 15-16). Temperamental shyness and children’s communicative behaviors in a goal-oriented task: A dyadic perspective. [Poster Presentation]. Development 2022 Conference, Alberta, Canada.
Green, E., Labahn, C., Henderson, H. A. (2002, June 15). The role of negative expectation in children's observable social behaviours during middle childhood. Poster presented at Development 2022: Canadian Developmental Psychology Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
McHardy, B., Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H. A. (2022, June 15-16). Perceptions of quality across adolescents’ personal networks: Concurrent and longitudinal associations with temperamental shynes Poster Presentated at Development 2022 Conference, Alberta, Canada.
English, S. D., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Wilson, M., Green, E. S., & Henderson, H. A. (2022, June 15-16). Reactive and Regulatory Processes Underlying Children’s Ruminative Tendencies . Poster Presentation. Development 2022 Conference, Alberta, Canada.
Rioux, J. M., Sosa-Hernandez, L., Labahn, C., & Henderson, H. A., (2022, July 18-19). Children’s perceived social competence influences their social performance with an unfamiliar peer. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 22nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
Poole, K.L., Green, E., Wilson, M., Sosa-Hernandez, L. & Heather, H.A. (2022, July). Children’s shyness and empathic physiological arousal to a peer’s social stress. In N. Tolksdorf (Chair), Diversity in children’s temperament: Interdisciplinary perspectives on shyness in interaction. Paper to be presented at Cognitive Science Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Green, E. S., Bowers, M. E., Labahn, C., Fox, N.A., Henderson, H.A. (2021, April). Parent-adolescent agreement on ratings of social anxiety: Concurrent and longitudinal relations. Society for Research in Child Development 44th Biennial Meeting, Virtual.
Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H. A. (2021, April 7-9). Individual and dyadic associations between temperamental shyness and emotional flexibility amongst pre-adolescent unfamiliar peer dyads. Society for Research in Child Development 44th Biennial Meeting, Virtual.
Sosa-Hernandez, L., Degnan, K. A., Fox, N. A., & Henderson, H. A. (2021, April 7-9). Behavioral inhibition predicts blunted positive affect during preschoolers’ play with an unfamiliar peer: A longitudinal study. [Talk]. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting.
McDiarmid, S. (2021, September 10). What role do schools and teachers play in supporting refugee youths' mental wellbeing?: A qualitative study with Swedish teachers [Virtual oral presentation]. European Association for Developmental Psychology Conference: Krakow, Poland.
Sosa-Hernandez, L., & Henderson, H. A. (2021, November 10-12). Emotion dynamics among pre-adolescents getting to know each other: Associations with temperamental shyness.International Society for Developmental Psychobiology 54th Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Henderson, H. A., Sosa-Hernandez, L.,& Usher, L. (March 2020). Temperament and Observed Social Engagement Among Unfamiliar Peers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Symposium talk to be presented at Occasional Temperament Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia.