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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 670
Citations - 79194
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications receiving 75265 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.
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Menstrual symptoms: A social cognition analysis
TL;DR: Evidence is reviewed which suggests that symptom associations may originate and be maintained by means of biases in the processing of information about cyclicity, and the origins of biased beliefs may arise from the connotative meaning of, the salience of, and selectivity in processing the information forming the association.
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Enhancing Maternal Interactive Behavior and Child Social Competence in Low Birth Weight, Premature Infants
TL;DR: Effects of a comprehensive early intervention program for low birth weight, premature infants--the Infant Health and Development Program--on mother-child interaction were examined at 30 months, finding small significant positive effects.
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Like Mother, Like Child: Intergenerational Patterns of Age at First Birth and Associations with Childhood and Adolescent Characteristics and Adult Outcomes in the Second Generation.
TL;DR: In this article, a 30-year follow-up of 1,758 inner-city children and their mothers in the Pathways to Adulthood Study revealed significant associations in transgenerational timing of age at 1st birth between mothers and their daughters and sons.
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Antecedents and consequences of variations in girls' maturational timing
TL;DR: Girls' development is highlighted because research on antecedents addresses genetic and environmental influences on menarcheal age variations, and because findings on the behavioral consequences of tempo variations have been less consistent for girls than for boys.
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The Great Recession and the risk for child maltreatment.
TL;DR: It is found that the large decline in consumer confidence during the Great Recession, as measured by the Consumer Sentiment Index, was associated with worse parenting behavior, and lower levels of consumer confidence were associated with increased levels of high frequency spanking.