Education
B.A. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1996
Ph.D. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2002
Research Interests
My work focuses on investigation of infant contributions to social processes, with particular emphasis on the role of early temperament in influencing the quality of the child’s interactions with their caregivers and peers and how these interactions, in concert with the child’s temperament, shape the course of early social/emotional development.
Topics Studied in the Temperament, Emotion, and Relationship Processes Laboratory (TERP Lab) include: prenatal stress, maternal sensitivity, mother-infant attachment, infant temperament, psychophysiological measures of stress reactivity, behavioral inhibition, exuberance, vocal coregulation, and communicative and social competence.
Courses Taught
PSYC 201 : Experimentation and Statistics
PSYC 232 : Developmental Psychology
PSYC 335 : Prenatal and Infant Development
PSYC 401 : Perspectives on Psychological Issues (team taught)
Selected Publications
- Fox, N.A., Hane, A.A., & Pine, D.S. (2007). Plasticity for affective neurocircuitry. Currrent Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 1-5.
- Hane, A. A., & Fox, N. A. (2007). A closer look at the transactional nature of early social development: The relations among early caregiving environments, temperament, and early social development and the case for phenotypic plasticity. In F. Santoianni & C. Sabatano (Eds.), Brain Development in Learning Environments: Embodied and Perceptual Advancements (pp. 1-15). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Hane, A.A., Fox, N.A., Polak-Toste, C., Ghera, M.M., Guner, B. (2006). Contextual basis of maternal perceptions of infant temperament. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1077-1088.
- Hane, A. A., & Fox, N. A. (2006). Ordinary variations in maternal caregiving of human infants influence stress reactivity. Psychological Science, 17, 550-556.
- Ghera, M. M., Hane, A. A., Malesa, E. M., & Fox, N. A. (2006). The role of infant soothability in the relation between infant negativity and maternal sensitivity. Infant Behavior and Development, 29, 289-293.
- Fox, N. A., Hane, A. A., & Perez-Edgar, K. (2006). Psychophysiological
methods for the study of developmental psychopathology. In D. Cichetti
(Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley
and Sons Inc.