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Direct linkHarms, Madeline B.; Shannon Bowen, Katherine E.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D. – Developmental Science, 2018
Children who experience severe early life stress show persistent deficits in many aspects of cognitive and social adaptation. Early stress might be associated with these broad changes in functioning because it impairs general learning mechanisms. To explore this possibility, we examined whether individuals who experienced abusive caregiving in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Anxiety, Early Experience, Cognitive Processes
Hanson, Jamie L.; van den Bos, Wouter; Roeber, Barbara J.; Rudolph, Karen D.; Davidson, Richard J.; Pollak, Seth D. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Children who experience early adversity often develop emotion regulatory problems, but little is known about the mechanisms that mediate this relation. We tested whether general associative learning processes contribute to associations between adversity, in the form of child maltreatment, and negative behavioral outcomes. Methods:…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Seltzer, Leslie J.; Ziegler, Toni; Connolly, Michael J.; Prososki, Ashley R.; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2014
Child maltreatment often has a negative impact on the development of social behavior and health. The biobehavioral mechanisms through which these adverse outcomes emerge, however, are not clear. To better understand the ways in which early life adversity affects subsequent social behavior, changes in the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) in children…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Abuse, Child Development, Metabolism
Romens, Sarah E.; Pollak, Seth D. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Child maltreatment is associated with heightened risk for depression; however, not all individuals who experience maltreatment develop depression. Previous research indicates that maltreatment contributes to an attention bias for emotional cues, and that depressed individuals show attention bias for sad cues. Method: The present study…
Descriptors: Cues, Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Self Control
Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
Pollak, Seth D.; Messner, Michael; Kistler, Doris J.; Cohn, Jeffrey F. – Cognition, 2009
How do children's early social experiences influence their perception of emotion-specific information communicated by the face? To examine this question, we tested a group of abused children who had been exposed to extremely high levels of parental anger expression and physical threat. Children were presented with arrays of stimuli that depicted…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Child Abuse, Psychological Patterns
Peer reviewedPollak, Seth D.; Cicchetti, Dante; Klorman, Rafael; Brumaghim, Joan T. – Child Development, 1997
Recorded cognitive event-related potentials from maltreated and nonmaltreated children during presentations of happy, angry, or neutral facial expressions. Found that for nonmaltreated children, the average amplitude of P300 was comparable for responses to happy and neutral expressions. Maltreated children displayed larger P300 amplitude to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedPollak, Seth D.; Sinha, Pawan – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined visual perception of emotion in typically developing and physically abused children, focusing on the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes. Found that physically abused children accurately identified facial displays of anger on the basis of less sensory input than did typically…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Child Abuse, Children
Pollak, Seth D.; Vardi, Shira; Bechner, Anna M. Putzner; Curtin, John J. – Child Development, 2005
The present study examines the effects of early emotional experiences on children's regulation or strategic control of attention in the presence of interpersonal hostility. Abused children's reactions to the unfolding of a realistic interpersonal emotional situation were measured through multiple methods including autonomic nervous system changes…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Psychopathology, Risk, Child Abuse
Shackman, Jessica E.; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2005
The impact of 2 types of learning experiences on children's perception of multimodal emotion cues was examined. Children (aged 7-12 years) were presented with conflicting facial and vocal emotions. The effects of familiarity were tested by varying whether emotions were presented by familiar or unfamiliar adults. The salience of particular…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Cues, Child Abuse, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedPollak, Seth D.; Cicchetti, Dante; Hornung, Katherine; Reed, Alex – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Two experiments assessed recognition of emotion among physically abused and neglected preschoolers. Results showed that neglected children had more difficulty discriminating emotional expressions that control or abused children. Abused children displayed response bias for angry facial expressions. Control children viewed discrete emotions as…
Descriptors: Anger, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis
