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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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Role of mother's genes and environment in postpartum depression
Colter Mitchell,Daniel A. Notterman,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,John Hobcraft,Irwin Garfinkel,Kate Jaeger,Iulia Kotenko,Sara McLanahan +7 more
TL;DR: Using a nontruncated measure of a chronic environmental stressor—socioeconomic status—measured by education, and two polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT), this work finds strong evidence that some women are genetically more reactive to the environment, resulting in a crossover of risks of postpartum depression for the most reactive groups.
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Coping with social stress: implications for psychopathology in young adolescent girls.
TL;DR: Interestingly, pubertal timing demonstrated a trend association with cortisol, and early maturers and girls with higher levels of peer stress exhibited more problematic responses to stress, in turn demonstratingHigher levels of internalizing distress and aggression.
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The role of family literacy environments in promoting young children's emerging literacy skills
TL;DR: Britto et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between shared book reading and children's vocabulary, and parent's storybook reading is contrasted with their teaching of literacy to determine the respective influence of each activity on children's emerging literacy skills.
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.
Matthew J. Salganik,Ian Lundberg,Alexander T. Kindel,Caitlin Ahearn,Khaled AlGhoneim,Abdullah Almaatouq,Drew Altschul,Jennie E. Brand,Nicole Bohme Carnegie,Ryan James Compton,Debanjan Datta,Thomas Davidson,Anna Filippova,Connor Gilroy,Brian J. Goode,Eaman Jahani,Ridhi Kashyap,Antje Kirchner,Stephen McKay,Allison C. Morgan,Alex Pentland,Kivan Polimis,Louis Raes,Daniel E Rigobon,Claudia V. Roberts,Diana Stanescu,Yoshihiko Suhara,Adaner Usmani,Erik H. Wang,Muna Adem,Abdulla Alhajri,Bedoor K. AlShebli,Redwane Amin,Ryan Amos,Lisa P. Argyle,Livia Baer-Bositis,Moritz Büchi,Bo-Ryehn Chung,William Eggert,Gregory Faletto,Zhilin Fan,Jeremy Freese,Tejomay Gadgil,Josh Gagné,Yue Gao,Andrew Halpern-Manners,Sonia P Hashim,Sonia Hausen,Guanhua He,Kimberly Higuera,Bernie Hogan,Ilana M. Horwitz,Lisa M Hummel,Naman Jain,Kun Jin,David Jurgens,Patrick Kaminski,Areg Karapetyan,Areg Karapetyan,E H Kim,Ben Leizman,Naijia Liu,Malte Möser,Andrew E Mack,Mayank Mahajan,Noah Mandell,Helge Marahrens,Diana Mercado-Garcia,Viola Mocz,Katariina Mueller-Gastell,Ahmed Musse,Qiankun Niu,William Nowak,Hamidreza Omidvar,Andrew Or,Karen Ouyang,Katy M. Pinto,Ethan Porter,Kristin E. Porter,Crystal Qian,Tamkinat Rauf,Anahit Sargsyan,Thomas Schaffner,Landon Schnabel,Bryan Schonfeld,Ben Sender,Jonathan D Tang,Emma Tsurkov,Austin van Loon,Onur Varol,Onur Varol,Xiafei Wang,Zhi Wang,Julia Wang,Flora Wang,Samantha Weissman,Kirstie Whitaker,Kirstie Whitaker,Maria Wolters,Wei Lee Woon,James M. Wu,Catherine Wu,Kengran Yang,Jingwen Yin,Bingyu Zhao,Chenyun Zhu,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Barbara E. Engelhardt,Moritz Hardt,Dean Knox,Karen Levy,Arvind Narayanan,Brandon M. Stewart,Duncan J. Watts,Sara McLanahan +114 more
TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.
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Head Start and Urban Children’s School Readiness: A Birth Cohort Study in 18 Cities
TL;DR: This article investigated the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 and found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems.