DR. NATHAN A. FOX

Lab Director
Distinguished University Professor
Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (HDQM)

General Research Area:
temperament; development of emotion and emotion regulation; developmental psychophysiology; infant cognitive/social development

Areas of Student Supervision:
infant cognitive/social development; emotions and psychopathology 

Contact:
Email: fox@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2816
 

Recent Publications: 

Book
Nelson, C.A., Fox, N.A., & Zeanah, C.H. (2014). Romania’s Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development and the Struggle for Recovery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Journals

Flilppi, C. A., Valadez, E. A., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S. (2022). Temperamental risk for anxiety: Emerging work on the infant brain and later neurocognitive development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44, 101105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101105

Khaksari, K., Smith, E. G., Miguel, H. O., Zeytinoglu, S., Fox, N. A., & Gandjbakhche, A. H. (2022). An fNIRS study of brain lateralization during observation and execution of a fine motor task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 798870. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.798870

Meyer, M., Chung, H., Debnath, R., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2022). Social context shapes neural processing of others' actions in 9-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105260

Tang, A., Fox, N. A., & Slopen, N. (2022). Examination of early childhood temperament of shyness and social avoidance and associations with cardiometabolic health in young adulthood. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2144727. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44727

Chapters in Books

Fox, N.A., Salo, V.C., Morales, S., Debnath, R. Smith, E.G. (2020). Mirror system development and social cognition. In C. Tamis-LeMonda & J. Lockman (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schmidt, L.A., Poole, K.L., Fox, N.A., & Kagan, J. (2020). The study of behavioral inhibition and temperamental shyness across four academic generations. In L.A. Schmidt & K.L. Poole (Eds.), Adaptive Shyness: Multiple Perspectives. Springer Publishers.

 Zeytinoglu, S. & Fox, N. A. (2021). What does animal (non-human) research tell us about social deprivation and social isolation? In R. J. Coplan, J. C. Bowker & L. J. Nelson (Eds.) The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone. Wiley-Blackwell Press.

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