Publications

Research articles, books, and book chapters. Student mentees marked with *, graduate students and post-doctoral collaborators marked with +.

Books

Doan, S.N. & Borrelli, J. (2022). Nature Meets Nurture: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Hofmann, S. & Doan, S.N. (2018). Social Foundations of Emotions: Cultural, Developmental and Clinical Dimensions. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Research Articles

In Press

Doan, S.N., Hoell, D.J.*, & Fuller-Rowell, T.E. (in press). Cortisol and C-reactive protein interact to predict depressive symptoms. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Ha, C.* & Doan, S.N. (in press). Authoritative parenting and children's executive functioning: Considering children's biological sensitivity. Journal of Cognition and Development.
Tsai et al. (in press). A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation. Psychological Bulletin.
Doan, S.N., Ding, M.*, Song, Q., Smiley, P.A., & Klemfuss, J.Z. (in press). Maternal capitalization is associated with children's resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Song, Q., Cheah, C., & Doan, S.N. (in press). Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal childhood food insecurity and child hair cortisol. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
Doan, S.N. & Swaminathan, K. (in press). Family, relationships and positive psychology. APA Handbook of Positive Psychology.

2025

Song, W., Whipple, S., Doan, S.N., Cassells, R.C., & Evans, G. (2025). Parent but not peer attachment mediates the relations between childhood poverty and rural adolescents' internalizing problems. Pediatric Reports, 17(5), 97.
Taghian, N.R.+, Parsons, E.M., Fitzgerald, H.E., Zvolensky, M.J., Gorlin, E.I., Doan, S.N., & Otto, M.W. (2025). Stressful life events and depression in adolescents from low-income neighborhoods. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 49(1), 169–176.
Lau, A., Fung, J., Adjah, F., Arce, A., Du, H., & Doan, S.N. (2025). Interrupting the 'costs of competence' through mindfulness intervention for high achieving minoritized students. Mental Health Science.
Doan, S.N., Aringer, A.*, Vicman, J.*, & Fuller-Rowell, T. (2025). Chronic physiological dysregulation and changes in depressive symptoms: Testing sex and race as vulnerability factors. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 12(6), 3917–3924.

2024

Chang, J.W.T., Venkatesh, S., Ha, C., & Doan, S.N. (2024). Longitudinal effects of mother-child sleep on maternal chronic stress. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 70(3), 522–536.
Henshaw, E. ... Doan, S.N. (2024). A randomized controlled trial of the Happy, Healthy, Loved personalized text-message program for new parent couples. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 24, 506.
Swaminathan, K.*, MacDonald, S.+, & Doan, S.N. (2024). An examination of curvilinear relations between perceived mother-child closeness and maternal hair cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(7), e22548.
Venkatesh, S.+, & Doan, S.N. (2024). Feeding under fire: Relations between parental stress hormones and controlling feeding behaviors. Appetite, 198, 107365.
Doan, S.N., Davis, A.S., & Fuller-Rowell, T.E. (2024). Cortisol and changes in depressive symptoms: The moderating role of DHEA. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 161, 106941.
Smiley, P.A., Ahn, A., Blackard, M.B., Borelli, J.L., & Doan, S.N. (2024). Undoing mothers' avoidant coping with children's negative emotion: A randomized controlled trial of relational savoring. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(3), 365–376.
Bridgewater, J.M.+, Berzenski, S.R., Doan, S.N., & Yates, T.M. (2024). Early life adversity and adolescent sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress and Health, 40(3), e3332.

2023

Doan, S.N., Davis, A.S., Lazarus, M. et al. (2023). Belonging exacerbates the relations between racial climate stress and physiological dysregulation. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Doan, S.N., Smiley, P.A., Kerr, M.L., Vicman, J.M.*, & Borelli, J.L. (2023). A relational savoring intervention predicts higher levels of adherence to COVID-19 health recommendations. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.
Doan, S.N., MacDonald, S.*, & Swaminathan, K.* (2023). The socialization of positive emotions: Implications for physical health and psychological adjustment. Mental Health & Prevention, 30, 200272.
Doan, S.N., Burniston, A.B.*, Smiley, P.A., & Liu, C.H. (2023). COVID-19 pandemic and changes in children's behavioral problems: The mediating role of maternal depressive symptoms. Children, 10(6), 977.
Doan, S.N., Patel, S.K., Xie, B., Nelson, R.A., & Yee, L.D. (2023). Disrupting the mood and obesity cycle: The potential role of Metformin. Obesities, 3(1), 59–75.
Burniston, A.B.*, Chan, C.P.*, Vicman, J.M.*, Smiley, P.A., & Doan, S.N. (2023). Maternal and paternal emotion socialization and children's physiological stress regulation. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Venkatesh, S.*, Gill, A.*, Kim, L.*, & Doan, S.N. (2023). Mothers' intentions to vaccinate their children for COVID-19. AIMS Public Health, 10(1), 209–218.
Son, H.+ & Doan, S.N. (2023). Cultural differences in maternal emotion control values and children's expressive flexibility. Social Development, 32(2), 501–516.
Boullion, A.M.+, Linde-Krieger, L.B., Doan, S.N., & Yates, T.M. (2023). Parental warmth, adolescent emotion regulation, and adolescents' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1216502.
Henshaw, E.J., Cooper, M., Wood, T., Doan, S.N., Krishna, S., & Lockhart, M. (2023). Psychosocial predictors of early postpartum depressive and anxious symptoms in primiparous women and their partners. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), 209.

2022

Heshmati, S., DavyRomano, E.C., Chow, C., Doan, S.N., & Reynolds, K.D. (2022). Negative emodiversity is associated with emotional eating in adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 95(1), 115–130.
De France, K.+, Evans, G.W., Brody, G.H., & Doan, S.N. (2022). Cost of resilience: Childhood poverty, mental health, and chronic physiological stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 144, 105872.
Doan, S.N., De France, K., Brody, G.H., & Evans, G.W. (2022). Letter to the Editor in response to "The cost of resilience." Psychoneuroendocrinology, 144, 105891.
Doan, S.N., Yu, S.H., Wright, B., Fung, J., Saleem, F.T., & Lau, A.S. (2022). Resilience and family socialization processes in ethnic minority youth: Illuminating the Achievement-Health Paradox. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 25(1), 75–92.
Doan, S.N., Ding, M.*, Burniston, A.B.*, Smiley, P.A., Chow, C.M., & Liu, C.H. (2022). Changes in maternal depression and children's behavior problems. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(6), 1098–1110.
Doan, S.N., Venkatesh, S.*, Mendiola, I.*, Smiley, P.A., & Schmolze, D. (2022). Stressed out and fed up: The effect of stress on maternal feeding behaviors. Appetite, 168, 105762.
Scott, M.G.*, Smiley, P.A., Ahn, A.*, Lazarus, M.*, Borelli, J.L., & Doan, S.N. (2022). A mother's touch: Preschool-aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(2).
Doan, S.N. & Song, Q. (2022). Culture, emotion socialization and children's inhibitory control. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(5), 591–607.
Song, Q., Vicman, J.M.*, & Doan, S.N. (2022). Changes in attachment to parents and peers and relations with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging Adulthood, 10(4), 1048–1060.
Song, Q., Smiley, P.A., & Doan, S.N. (2022). The moderating effect of facial emotion recognition in maternal emotion socialization. Social Development, 31(4), 1095–1109.

2021

Doan, S.N. (2021). Allostatic load: Developmental and conceptual considerations in a multi-system physiological indicator of chronic stress exposure. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(5), 825–836.
Doan, S.N., Xie, B., Zhou, Y.*, Lei, X., & Reynolds, K.D. (2021). Loneliness and cravings for sugar-sweetened beverages among adolescents. Pediatric Obesity, 17(1).
Ahn, A.*, Smiley, P.A., Borelli, J., & Doan, S.N. (2021). The effects of relational savoring on maternal responsiveness: Investigating the role of culture. European Journal of Positive Psychology, 5, 17, 1–11.
Liu, C.H., Smiley, P.A., Vicman, J.M.*, Wong, G.T.F.*, & Doan, S.N. (2021). The roles of life stress and preventive health behaviors on parent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(6), 1470–1483.
Lee, H.*, Kao, K.*, & Doan, S.N. (2021). Exploring relationship between self-regulation dimensions and cardiac autonomic functioning in preschoolers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 205–216.
Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Nichols, O.I., Doan, S.N., Adler-Baeder, F., & El-Sheikh, M. (2021). Changes in depressive symptoms, physical symptoms, and sleep-wake problems from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging Adulthood, 9(5), 492–505.

2020

Doan, S.N. & Evans, G.W. (2020). Chaos and instability from birth to age three. The Future of Children, 30(2), 93–114.
Doan, S.N., Venkatesh, S.*, Pedroza, M.*, Tarullo, A.R., & Meyer, J.S. (2020). Maternal expressive suppression moderates the relations between maternal and child hair cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology, 62(8), 1150–1157.
Lee, H.* & Doan, S.N. (2020). Ethnicity moderates the association between autonomic functioning and temperament in preschool children. Journal of Genetic Psychology.
Gaither, S.E., Perlin, J.D.*, & Doan, S.N. (2020). Race, gender, and the development of cross-race egalitarianism. Frontiers in Psychology.
Otto, M. ... & Doan, S.N. (2020). Targeting cognitive and emotional regulatory skills for smoking prevention in low-SES youth. Addictive Behaviors, 104, 106262.
Liu, C.H.± & Doan, S.N.± (2020). Psychosocial stress contagion in children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Pediatrics, 59(9–10), 853–855.
Dich, N.+, Rod, N.H., & Doan, S.N. (2020). Both high and low levels of negative emotions are associated with higher blood pressure. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 27(2), 170–178.
Dich, N.+, Rozing, M.P., Kivimäki, M., & Doan, S.N. (2020). Life events, emotions, and immune function. Behavioral Medicine, 46(2), 153–160.
Harris, A.C., Young, A.*, Hughson, L., Green, D., Doan, S.N., Hughson, E., & Reed, C.L. (2020). Perceived relative social status and cognitive load influence acceptance of unfair offers in the Ultimatum Game. PLOS ONE, 15(1), e0227717.
Yang, Y., Song, Q., Doan, S.N., & Wang, Q. (2020). Maternal reactions to children's negative emotions. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(3), 408–420.
Son, H.*, Lee, Y., Ahn, D., Doan, S.N., Ha, E., & Choi, Y.S. (2020). Antecedents of maternal rejection across cultures. SAGE Open, 10(2).
Natarajan, R. ... Doan, S.N. ... & Seewaldt, V.L. (2020). Environmental exposures during puberty: Window of breast cancer risk and epigenetic damage. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(2), 493.

2019

Doan, S.N., Marcelo, A.K., & Yates, T.M. (2019). Ethnic-racial discrimination, family ethnic socialization and Latinx children's emotion competence. Culture and Brain, 7(2), 190–211.
Doan, S.N., Dich, N., Fuller-Rowell, T.E., & Evans, G.W. (2019). Externalizing behaviors buffer the effects of early life adversity on physiologic dysregulation. Scientific Reports, 9(1).
Rudd, K.L.+, Doan, S.N., & Yates, T.M. (2019). The physical health costs of positive adaptation to childhood adversity. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(9), 1324–1338.
Dich, N.+ & Doan, S.N. (2019). Moderate emotional reactions to stressful life events are associated with lowest risk of increased alcohol consumption. European Journal of Public Health, 29(4), 754–758.
Wang, Q., Koh, J.B.K., Santacrose, D.E., Song, Q., Klemfuss, J.Z., & Doan, S.N. (2019). Child-centered memory conversations facilitate children's episodic thinking. Cognitive Development, 51, 58–66.
Liu, C.H. & Doan, S.N. (2019). Innovations in biological assessments of chronic stress through hair and nail cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology, 61(3), 465–476.
Song, Q., Yang, Y., Doan, S.N., & Wang, Q. (2019). Savoring or dampening? Maternal reactions to children's positive emotions in cultural contexts. Culture and Brain, 7(2), 172–189.

2018

Doan, S.N., Lee, H.*, & Wang, Q. (2018). Maternal mental state language is associated with trajectories of Chinese immigrant children's emotion situation knowledge. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(1), 43–52.
Doan, S.N. & Wang, Q. (2018). Children's emotion knowledge and internalizing problems: The moderating role of culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(5), 689–709.
Doan, S.N., DeYoung, G.R.*, Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Liu, C.H., & Meyer, J.S. (2018). Investigating relations among stress, sleep and nail cortisol and DHEA. Stress, 21(2), 188–193.
Doan, S.N., Son, H.+, & Kim, L.T.+ (2018). Maternal and paternal emotional contributions to children's distress tolerance. Psychiatry Research, 267, 215–220.
Kao, K.+, Nayak, S.+, Doan, S.N., & Tarullo, A.R. (2018). Relations between parent EF and child EF: The role of socioeconomic status and parenting. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(2), 122–137.
Barthel, A.L.+, Hay, A.C.*, Doan, S.N., & Hofmann, S.G. (2018). Interpersonal emotion regulation: A review of social and developmental components. Behaviour Change, 35(4), 203–216.

2017

Kao, K.+, Doan, S.N., St John, A.M.+, Meyer, J.S., & Tarullo, A.R. (2017). Salivary cortisol reactivity in preschoolers is associated with hair cortisol and behavioral problems. Stress, 21(1), 28–35.
Otto, M.W., Gorlin, E.I.+, Rosenfield, D., ... & Doan, S.N. (2018). Rescuing cognitive and emotional regulatory skills to aid smoking prevention. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 70, 1–7.
Curtis, D.+, Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Hinnant, J.B., Kaeppler, A.K., & Doan, S.N. (2017). Resting high-frequency HRV moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(7), 953–963.
Dich, N.+, Doan, S.N., & Evans, G.W. (2017). In risky environments, emotional children have more behavioral problems but lower allostatic load. Health Psychology, 36(5), 468–476.
Hong, F.+, Doan, S.N., López, A.*, & Evans, G.W. (2017). Relations among temperament, self-regulatory strategies and gender in predicting delay of gratification. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.
Casasola, M., Bhagwat, J.G., Doan, S.N., & Love, H.R. (2017). Getting some space: Infants' and caregivers' containment and support spatial constructions during play. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 110–128.

2016

Doan, S.N., Tardif, T., Miller, A.L., Olson, S.L., Kessler, D.P., Felt, B.T., & Wang, L. (2016). Consequences of 'tiger' parenting: A cross-cultural study of maternal psychological control and children's cortisol stress response. Developmental Science, 20(3), e12404.
Doan, S.N., Dich, N., & Evans, G.W. (2016). Stress of stoicism: Low emotionality and high control lead to increases in allostatic load. Applied Developmental Science, 20(4), 310–317.
Hofmann, S., Doan, S.N., Sprung, M. et al. (2016). Training children's theory-of-mind: A meta-analysis of controlled studies. Cognition, 150, 200–212.
Curtis, D.+, Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Doan, S.N., Zgierska, A., & Ryff, C.D. (2016). Racial and socioeconomic disparities in body mass index among college students. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 39(5), 866–875.

2015 & Earlier

Dich, N.±, Doan, S.N.±, & Evans, G.W. (2015). Children's emotionality moderates the association between maternal responsiveness and allostatic load. Child Development, 86(3), 936–944.
Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Curtis, D.+, Doan, S.N., & Coe, C.L. (2015). Racial disparities in the health benefits of educational attainment. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77(1), 33–40.
Dich, N.+, Doan, S.N., & Evans, G.W. (2014). Children's negative emotionality combined with poor self-regulation affects allostatic load in adolescence. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(4), 368–375.
Doan, S.N., Dich, N.+, & Evans, G.W. (2014). Childhood cumulative risk and later allostatic load: Mediating role of substance use. Health Psychology, 33(11), 1402–1409.
Doan, S.N., Fuller-Rowell, T.E., & Evans, G.W. (2012). Cumulative risk and adolescent's internalizing and externalizing problems. Developmental Psychology, 48(6), 1529–1539.
Evans, G.W., Fuller-Rowell, T.E., & Doan, S.N. (2012). Childhood cumulative risk and obesity: The mediating role of self-regulatory ability. Pediatrics, 129(1), e68–e73.
Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Doan, S.N., & Eccles, J.S. (2012). Differential effects of perceived discrimination on the diurnal cortisol rhythm of African Americans and Whites. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37(1), 107–118.
Doan, S.N. & Evans, G.W. (2011). Maternal responsiveness moderates the relationship between allostatic load and working memory. Development and Psychopathology, 23(3), 873–880.
Doan, S.N. & Wang, Q. (2010). Maternal discussions of mental states and behaviors: Relations to emotion situation knowledge in European American and immigrant Chinese children. Child Development, 81(5), 1490–1503.
Fuller-Rowell, T.E. & Doan, S.N. (2010). The social costs of academic success across ethnic groups. Child Development, 81(6), 1696–1713.
Doan, S.N. (2010). The role of emotion in word learning. Early Child Development and Care, 180(8), 1065–1078.

Book Chapters

Ding, M.* & Doan, S.N. (in press). Culture and risk behavior. Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health.
Vicman, J.M.*, Cardillo, L.G.*, & Doan, S.N. (2023). Culture-fit and mental health. Encyclopedia of Culture and Mental Health (pp. 565–576). Elsevier.
Venkatesh, S.*, Doan, S.N., Barthel, A.*, & Hofmann, S. (2020). Cultural and social influences on individual variation in emotional processes. In S.C. Hayes & S.G. Hofmann (Eds.) Beyond the DSM. Context Press.
Doan, S.N. & Evans, G.W. (2017). Culture, stress, poverty and allostatic load. In J.M. Causadias, E.H. Telzer & N.A. Gonzales (Eds.). The Handbook of Culture and Biology. Wiley & Sons.
Doan, S.N. (2013). Culture and the conceptual contents of emotion. Handbook of Psychology of Emotions. Nova Science Publishers.
Doan, S.N., Koh, B.J., & Wang, Q. (2012). How does culture influence memory for personal experiences? In G. Hayes & M. Bryant (Eds.) Psychology of Culture. Nova Publishers.
Russell, S., Chu, J., Crockett, L., & Doan, S.N. (2010). The meanings of parent-adolescent relationship quality among Chinese American and Filipino American adolescents. In S.T. Russell, L. Crockett & R. Chao (Eds.) Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships. Springer.