Andrea Fields

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

YAY!!!

New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

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Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic This study examined if considerably different caregiving experiences in infancy influence socio–emotional development later in childhood. We included children aged 6–9 years who were, immediately a...

Early caregiving consistency really matters! In a new paper, Petra Winnette and I find that foster care in the first year (compared with institutions) protects against development of behavioral problems in childhood. Importantly...

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Investigative Approaches to Resilient Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment in a South African Birth Cohort Understanding the neurobiology of resilient emotion regulation following adversities is critical for addressing mental health problems globally. Yet, …

Including diverse populations with a broad range of experiences in our science is essential to advance our understanding of neurodevelopment and resilience. This is one of the arguments our team makes in our in press paper 1/4 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating:
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology!

New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills

Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott
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🧪🧠Another compelling new study demonstrating in children that unpredictability is an important early-life adversity #stress that influences the maturation of brain circuits pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39488929/ www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #neuroscience #neurobiologyofstress

🚨preprint alert🚨
So excited to share new work on developmental links between the microbiome-gut-brain axis and internalizing symptoms with @drbcallaghan.bsky.social, Jessica Uy, Jen Labus, and the GUSTO study team 🥳 (1/n)

osf.io/preprints/ps... 🚧 note: this work has NOT yet been peer-reviewed 🚧

Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks Parental mental health is associated with children’s emotion regulation (ER) and risk for psychopathology. The relationship between parental psychopat…

Associations between parent’s mental health and youth’s functional emotion regulation networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Just discovered an amazing repository of open-access textbooks, with many options for different areas of Psychology. Consider adopting one of these for your undergraduate courses to promote equity and inclusion!

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I am recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 @ University of Utah! If you are interested in how prenatal and early postnatal experiences influence health, behavior, and cognition over development - shoot me a message or email!

Toddlers’ Helping Behavior Is Affected by the Effortful Costs Associated With Helping Others Although the presence of early helping behavior has been firmly established, it is unclear to what extent children are willing to adopt costs to help others, as well as how this willingness changes a....

New paper just out in Dev Science led by @radovanovic.bsky.social : Toddlers' helping is impacted (i.e., lowered) by a range of effortful costs.
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Words Matter: The Influence of Prenatal Care Experiences on Expecting Parents While the medical objectives of the procedure remain consistent across exams, how healthcare providers communicate can significantly impact the patient’s experience.

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So proud of this collaborative @star_BrownDPHB paper led by the brilliant #SharonLeePhD & including so many amazing co-authors as part of the American Psychologist SI focused on on rethinking #resilience & posttraumatic growth

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Excited to share our new @plos.bsky.social paper! We wanted to understand how childhood socioeconomic status affects decision-making later in life. We studied ~13,000 adults across 61 countries 🌍 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... (1/3)

Calls for editorial fellowship nominations Find out which APA-published journals are seeking nominations for editorial fellows.

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!

*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Member of underrep community (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend

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I'm looking forward to accepting applications for doctoral students to come join us in @pine_lab in Boston this coming cycle! I can't believe my first students are getting ready to leave the nest already, but we're excited to welcome new members! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Seven‐months‐old infants show increased arousal to static emotion body expressions: Evidence from pupil dilation Human body postures provide perceptual cues that can be used to discriminate and recognize emotions. It was previously found that 7-months-olds’ fixation patterns discriminated fear from other emotio...

Using an eyetracking paradigm, Geangu and Vuong (2023) found infants had increased arousal to fear and anger over neutral body expressions, showing that infants as young as 7mos can process the emotional content of static body postures #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Excited to share a piece with the incredible Emma Margolis
integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to provide new perspective on biological embedding mechanisms from pre- to post-natal neurodevelopment! Please repost and give it a read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr. Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. Projects will include analysis of fMRI and ecological momentary assessment data from an NIH-funded study examining neurocognitive mechanisms of reward-motivated memory and behaviors across development. Candidates must have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, or a related field by the position start date. The start date is flexible. Fluency with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, R, Matlab) and experience with fMRI are required. Developmental cognitive neuroscience research experience is preferred, but not required. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment (LUMeN) Lab at Emory is seeking our first postdoc! ✨ Learn more about the position and apply here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/123119/...

I’m hiring a full time lab manager to start this summer! Come help found my lab at UW Madison and do some fun science! There will be beer and brats!!

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🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...

Come study children's emotions and learning with us at the UW-Madison Child Emotion Lab. Post-doc fellowships on the NIMH Training Program in Emotion Research. Apps due February 2, 2024 (but please contact me before applying). childemotion.waisman.wisc.edu
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New paper: The stress-buffering role of friendships in young people with childhood threat experiences: a preliminary report
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1. Serving as an action editor has changed how I write reviews for other journals. A thread on reviewing:
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