Presentations
Selected Presentations at International and National Conferences: *mentee (student, research assistant, etc)
Karam, M.* & Degnan, K. A. (2021, May). Consistency and collaboration across the parent-teacher-child system in support of social success in early childhood. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Kravitz, S.* & Degnan, K. A. (2021, November). Perception vs. participation: How resilience influences college students’ ideas about risk and risk-taking behavior. Poster presented virtually at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood.
Karam, M.*, Huz, I.*, & Degnan, K. A. (2020, November). Teacher-child Interactions, Behavioral Inhibition, and Social Competence Development in Early Childhood. Poster presented virtually at the Occasional Temperament Conference.
Kravitz, S.* & Degnan, K. A. (2020, November). Differential Effects of Temperamental Exuberance and Social Behavior on Attention and Externalizing Problems across Childhood. Poster presented virtually at the Occasional Temperament Conference.
Lavin, K.*, Goeke-Morey, M., Degnan, K. A., & Perry, D. (2020, November). A Closer Look at the Measurement and Stability of Temperament across Infancy. Poster presented virtually at the Occasional Temperament Conference.
Flint, G.R.* & Degnan, K.A. (2019, October). Exuberant and inhibited children: pathways toward social competence in middle childhood. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Portland, OR.
Finster, H.*, Degnan, K. A., Almas, A., Nelson III, Charles A., Zeanah Jr., Charles H., & Fox, N.A. (2019, May). Caregiving Disruptions Moderate the Stability of Social Skills in Late Childhood. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Raff, S.*, Calias, S.*, & Degnan, K. A. (2019, May). “It Bit Me!” Social-emotional outcomes as predicted by temperamental exuberance and social behavior during a peer risk-taking game. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Flint, G.R.* & Degnan, K. A. (2019, March). Maternal emotion socialization: Goals versus behaviors. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Huz, I.* & Degnan, K. A. (2019, March). The Intersection of Temperament and Early Childhood Care and Education as a Predictor of Social Functioning in Middle Childhood. In K. A. Degnan (chair), The Multiple Factors Influencing Developmental Pathways of Behavioral Inhibition. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Huz, I.* & Degnan, K.A. (2018, April). Positive caregiving in early childhood: A protective factor against social anxiety for highly inhibited children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Depression And Anxiety, Washington, DC.
Degnan, K. A., Nozadi, S., & Lahat, A. (2017, March). Risk-taking propensity in the context of peers: Internal and external influences. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Degnan, K. A., McDermott, J. M., Hane, A. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2016, October). Temperamental exuberance, parenting, and mechanisms of risk for maladaptive outcomes. Paper presented at the Occasional Temperament Conference, Seattle, WA.
Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Almas, A. N., & Fox, N. A. (2016, March). The influence of life events on daily social experiences for behaviorally inhibited adolescents. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.
Degnan, K.A., Lewis-Morrarty, E., McDermott, J.M., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2015, November). Parent gentle discipline predicts the development of child executive functioning among exuberant children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.
Catholic University Research Day presentations (all student authors):
2023
Coming soon!
2022
Gia Carusone, Kaleigh McDonald, & Margaret Roesser: Role of Social Referencing and Regulation for Inhibited Behavior in Toddlerhood (Undergraduate poster)
Brigid McGroarty: Studying the Effect of Positive Priming on Body Image (Undergraduate poster)
Sydney Blasi, Glynn Bradley, Lyndsey McLamb, Grace Imondi, & Rileigh Thompson: Why Do Emerging Adults Take Risks: Seeing More Benefit or Lower Risk? (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Grace Imondi, Lyndsey McLamb, Rileigh Thompson, Sydney Blasi, & Glynn Bradley, Risk-Taking and Personality: A Comparison Across Samples (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Julia Perez, Elisabeth Harris, Vanessa Ribeiro Revollo, Glynn Bradley, Grace Imondi, Sydney Blasi, Kaleigh McDonald, & Elizabeth Egan, Let's Talk About It: The Role of Emotion in Mother-child Shared Remembering (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Sarah Kravitz: Regulating Exuberance: How Temperament and Emotion Regulation Influence Later Socioemotional Functioning (PhD student talk)
2021
Gia Carusone & Adrian Fonochio: Role of Social Referencing and Regulation for Inhibited Behavior in Toddlerhood (Undergraduate poster)
Grace Imondi, Kaleigh McDonald, Sydney Blasi, & Sarah Kravitz, Positive Risk-Taking and Personality: Does Being Adventurous and Sociable Influence Positive Risk-Taking? (Undergraduate/MA poster)
2020
Joanne Holler & Sarah Raff Kravitz, Link between Exuberance and Multiple Domains of Risk-Taking in Adulthood (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Meredith Karam & Ilana Huz, Teacher-child Interactions, Behavioral Inhibition, & Social Engagement in Early Childhood (MA/PhD poster)
Melissa Cowell, Bridget Buckley, & Genessey Flint, Mother-Child Discussion of Emotional and Hypothetical Events in Middle Childhood (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Michela Caffrey, Rachel Carafello, & Sarah Raff Kravitz, The Effect of Exuberance on Social Behavior in Middle Childhood (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Megan Hut, Kathryn Degnan, Carol Glass, & Thomas Minkler, The Effects of Mindfulness in Development: The Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood (MA/Faculty poster)
2019
Erica Lilly & Julia Rossetto, The Physiology of Positive Risk Taking (Undergraduate poster)
Caroline Van Kampen, Meredith Karam, & Heather Finster, Personality and Risk-Taking Associations: A Pilot Study (MA/Undergraduate poster)
Genessey Flint & Jacqueline Dende, Exuberant and Inhibited Children: Pathways Toward Social Competence in Middle Childhood (MA/Undergraduate poster)
Megan Hut & Alexandria Cippolloni, A typical week in an adolescent’s life: The role of temperament and past social experience (MA/Undergraduate poster)
Rachel Torres & Joanne Holler, Exploring the Impact of Physiology on Personality: a Study of Exuberance (Undergraduate poster)
Samantha Calias & Sarah Raff, “It’s a mean toy!” The negative tendencies of a positive trait (Undergraduate/MA poster)
Sarah Raff, “It Bit Me!” Social-emotional outcomes as predicted by temperamental exuberance and social behavior during a peer risk-taking game (MA poster)
2018
Ilana Huz, Positive Caregiving in Early Childhood: A Protective Factor Against Social Anxiety for Highly Inhibited Children (PhD student talk)
Heather Finster, The Effects of Early Institutionalization vs. Foster Care Intervention on Children's Social Behaviors at Age 12 (Undergraduate poster)
Rachel Torres, Katherine Houser, Elizabeth Kreisler, Rebecca Rizkalla, Rachelle Rizkalla, Julia Rossetto, & Emily Fair*, The Physiology of Positive Risk-Taking (Undergraduate/Graduate poster) *Winner of the Master's Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award
Sarah Raff, Ilana Huz, Samantha Calias, & Kathryn Degnan, Crocodile Dentist: Temperament and Social Behavior in Childhood (Undergraduate/Graduate poster)
2017
Heather Finster, Elizabeth Kreisler, Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts, & Caroline Van Kampen, Risk-Taking Propensity in the Context of Peers in 5-year olds (Undergraduate poster)
2016
Mary Fesalbon, Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts, & Caroline Van Kampen, Discussing emotional events: Measuring emotion talk between mothers and 7-year-old children (Undergraduate poster)