Publications and presentations

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Recent publications

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.

Smith, K. A., Hastings, P. D., Henderson, H. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2019). Multidimensional emotion regulation moderates the relation between behavioral inhibition and social reticence with unfamiliar peers.  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1239-1251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-00509-y

Henderson, H. A., Green, E. S., & Wick, B. L. (2018). The social world of behaviorally inhibited children: A transactional account. In K. Perez-Edgar & N. Fox (Eds.) Behavioral Inhibition: Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives (pp. 135-155).   New York:  Springer.

Burrows, C. A., Usher, L. V., Becker-Haimes, E. M., McMahon, C., Mundy, P. C., Jensen-Doss, A., & Henderson, H. A. (2018).  Profiles and correlates of parent-child agreement on social anxiety symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 2023-2037. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3461-9

Usher, L. V., Burrows, C. A., Messinger, D. S., & Henderson, H. A. (2018). Metaperception in adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3356-1

Henderson, H. A. & Wilson, M. J. G. (2017). Attention processes underlying risk and resilience in behaviorally inhibited children. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 4, 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-017-0111-z

Burrows, C. A., Usher, L. V., Mundy, P. C. & Henderson, H. A. (2017). The salience of the self: Self-referential processing and internalizing problems in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10, 949-960. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1727

Recent presentations

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.