Shadi Houshyar

TL;DR: Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

TL;DR: This is the first investigation to demonstrate a gene-by-gene interaction conveying vulnerability to depression, and the current data show a protective effect of social supports in ameliorating genetic and environmental risk for psychopathology.

TL;DR: Peer-perceived popularity, but not like-ability, was significantly associated with both boys' and girls' body size and dieting and suggest that peer status is an important source of social reinforcement associated with weight-related behaviors and cognitions.

TL;DR: Without protective services information to supplement parent and child report, diagnosing PTSD was missed in a significant proportion of the cases.

TL;DR: The authors examined the association between ethnic identity centrality and peer status for African American adolescents who represented a sizable proportion, yet numerical minority within a high school context, and found that high levels of peer acceptance and popularity as rated by African American peers were associated with high ethnic identity importance.