Affiliated with the Developmental Division

Social and emotional development in infancy and early childhood; infant-caregiver attachment, temperament, and individual differences in emotion regulation. The impact of family interaction patterns for young children's social-emotional development.

Representative Publications:

• Schoppe, S.J., Mangelsdorf, S.C., Frosch, C.A., & McHale J. (2004). Associations between coparenting and marital behavior from infancy to the preschool years. Journal of Family Psychology, 18,
• Mangelsdorf, S. & Frosch, C. (1999). Attachment and Temperament: One construct or two? In H. Reese (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 27 (pp. 181-220). New York: Academic Press.
• Mangelsdorf, S., Plunkett, J., Dedrick, C., Berlin, M., Meisels, S., & McHale, J. (1996). Attachment security in extremely-low-birth weight infants. Developmental Psychology, 32, 914-920.
• Mangelsdorf, S., Shapiro, J. & Marzolf, D. (1995). Developmental and temperamental differences in emotion regulation in infancy. Child Development, 66, 1817-1828.
• Mangelsdorf, S., Gunnar, M., Kestenbaum, R., Lang, S. & Andreas, D. (1990). Infant proneness-to-distress temperament, maternal personality and mother-infant attachment: Associations and goodness of fit. Child Development, 61, 820-831. Reprinted in S. Chess & M. E. Hertzig (1992). Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development, 1991. (pp. 312-331) New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers.