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Selected papers and chapters (student co-authors are noted with an asterisk *)

*Kirkpatrick, A., Serbin, L.A. & Stack, D.M. (in press). Do you see what I see? Exploring maternal and child perceptions of children’s anxiety longitudinally. Developmental Psychology.

*Kirkpatrick, A., Serbin, L.A., Hastings, P.D., & Stack, D.M. (accepted). As I see or as I do? Exploring the transactional effects of maternal and paternal perceptions of children’s anxiety and their associated emotion socialization behaviours. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

*Paré-Ruel, M-P., Stack, D.M., Hastings, P.D., & Serbin, L.A. (2023). Specialized and versatile antisocial behavioral profiles in preschoolers: Association with persistent behavioral problems. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14060

*Mercuri, M., Stack, D.M., De France, K., Jean, A., & Fogel, A. (2023). An intensive longitudinal investigation of maternal and infant touching patterns across context and throughout the first 9-months of life. Infant Mental Health Journal, 44(4), 495-512. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22070

Kakinami, L., *Danieles, P.K., *Hosseininasabnajar, F., Barnett, T.A., Henderson, M., Van Hulst, A., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Paradis, G. (2023). The longitudinal effects of maternal parenting practices on children’s body mass index z-scores are lagged and differential. BMC Pediatrics23(1), Article 270. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-03902-9

*Mercuri, M., Stack, D.M., Mantis, I., Moszkowski, R.M., & Field, T.M. (2023). Maternal and infant touching behaviors during perturbed interactions: Associations with maternal depressive symptomatology and infant crying. Infant Behavior and Development71, Article 101821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101821

*Afriat, M., De France, K., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A. & Hollenstein, T. (2023). Relationship quality and mental health implications for adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child and Family Studies32, 544-554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02519-3

*Hazel, L., Barker, E. T., De France, K., & Stack, D. M. (2022). Moderators of the association between co-rumination and depressive symptoms in emerging adult friendships. Emerging Adulthood11(2), 456–466. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968221121166

De France, K., Stack, D.M., & Serbin, L.A. (2022). Associations between early poverty exposure and adolescent well-being: The role of childhood negative emotionality. Development and Psychopathology. 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000487

Langevin, R., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J., & Serbin, L.A. (2021). Transactional and bi-directional associations between children’s behaviour problems and parental aggression toward the child over a ten-year period in an at-risk population. Journal of family violence36, 1017-1031. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-020-00209-6

Véronneau, M.H., Serbin, L., *Kennedy-Turner, K., Stack, D.M., Ledingham, J.E., & Schwartzman, A. E. (2021). Promoting postsecondary education in low-income youth: The moderating role of socio-behavioral and academic skills in the context of a major educational reform. Journal of Youth and Adolescence51,1317-1332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01541-w

Stack, D. M., Langevin, R., *Atkinson, N. H., *Kennedy-Turner, K., *Paré-Ruel, M-P., & Serbin, L.A. (2021). Santé mentale et pratiques parentales chez des familles vulnérables: Facteurs de risque et de protection intergénérationnels. In G. Piché, A. Villatte & S. Bourque (Eds.), Enfants de parents ayant un trouble mental: Enjeux et implications cliniques. Presses de l’Université Laval. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1v7zd09.12

De France, K., Hancock, G., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., & Hollenstein, T. (2021). The mental health implications of COVID-19 for adolescents: Follow-up of a four-wave longitudinal study during the pandemic. American Psychologist, 77(1), 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000838

*Kennedy-Turner, K., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Ledingham, J.E., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2021). Beyond educational attainment: The role of achievement and school absence in the development of criminality. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 53(4), 412-422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000260

*Atkinson, N., Jean, A., & Stack, D.M. (2021). Emotion regulation from infancy to toddlerhood: Individual and group trajectories of full-term and very-low-birthweight preterm infants. Infancy26(4), 570-595. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12405

*Ferrar, S.J., Stack, D.M., *Baldasarrre, K., *Orsini, A., & Serbin, L.A. (2021). Conflict resolution and emotional expression in sibling and mother-adolescent dyads: Within-family and across-context similarities. The Journal of Early Adolescence42(2), 227-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316211020360

*Ferrar, S.J., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J., & Serbin, L.A. (2020). Conflict resolution and emotional expression in mother-preadolescent dyads: Longitudinal associations with children’s socioemotional development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence49, 2388-2406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01312-z

Winner of a Concordia Stand-Out Graduate Research Award 2021 (Ferrar)

*Kennedy-Turner, K., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2020). Prevention of criminal offending: The intervening and protective effects of education for aggressive youth. British Journal of Criminology, 60, 537-538. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz053

Winner of the FRQ-SC prix Relève étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie (Kennedy-Turner)

*Ferrar, S., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2019). Maternal socialization responses to preschoolers’ success and struggle: Links to contextual factors and academic and cognitive outcomes. Journal of Research in Childhood Education33(3), 363-381https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2019.1607787

*Mercuri, M. Stack, D.M., Trojan, S, *Gusti, L., Morandi, F., & Montirosso, R. (2019). Mothers’ and fathers’ early tactile contact behaviors during triadic and dyadic parent-infant interactions immediately after birth and at 3-months postpartum: Implications for early care behaviors and intervention. Infant Behavior and Development57, Article 101347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101347

Hastings, P.D., Serbin, L.A., Bukowski, W.M., Helm, J.L., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J., Ledingham, J.E. & Schwartzman, A.E. (2019). Predicting psychiatric diagnoses in adulthood from social behaviors and neighborhood contexts in childhood: A 30-year prospective longitudinal study. Development and Psychopathology32(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457941900021X

Stack, D.M., Matte-Gagné, C., & Dickson, D.J. (2019). Persistence of effects of VLBW/PT birth status and maternal emotional availability (EA) on child EA trajectories. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 2715. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02715

*Mantis, I., *Mercuri, M., Stack, D.M & Field, T.M. (2019). Depressed and non-depressed mothers’ touching during social interactions with their infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience35, 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.005

*Mantis, I., & Stack, D.M. (2018). The functions of mutual touch in full-term and very low-birth weight/preterm infant-mother dyads: Associations with infant affect and emotional availability during face-to-face interactions. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 31(0)https://doi.org/10.46867/ijcp.2018.31.02.04

*Briscoe, C., Stack, D.M., Dickson, D.J. & Serbin, L.A. (2018). Maternal emotional socialization mediates the relationship between maternal and adolescent negative emotionality. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41, 495-509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0945-z

*Ma, D., Serbin, L., & Stack, D. (2018). How children’s anxiety symptoms impact the functioning of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis over time: A cross-lagged panel approach using hierarchical linear modeling. Development and Psychopathology31(1), 309-323. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001870

Matte-Gagné, C., Stack, D.M. & Serbin, L.A. (2018). Developmental patterns of change in mother and child emotional availability from infancy to the end of the preschool years : A four-wave longitudinal study. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 76-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.05.005

*Ma, D., Serbin, L.A., & Stack, D.M. (2018). Children’s anxiety symptoms and salivary immunoglobulin A: A mutual regulatory system? Developmental Psychobiology, 60(2), 202-215. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21590

Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Matte-Gagné, C., *Kingdon, D., *Doiron, K., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2017). Development under adverse circumstances as a risk for psychopathology: An intergenerational study of children from disadvantaged high-risk backgrounds. In L.C Centifanti and D.M Williams (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118554470.ch17

Kakinami, L., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., *Karmaker, S., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2017). Neighborhood disadvantage during childhood and the risk of cardiovascular disease risk factors and events from a prospective cohort. Preventive Medicine Reports, 8, 294-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.10.003

*Doiron, K.M., & Stack, D.M (2017). Co-regulation and the quality of the relationship in full-term and very low birthweight preterm infant-mother dyads during face-to-face interactions. Infancy, 22(6), 819-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12187

*Briscoe, C., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2017). Maternal guidance in at-risk mother-child dyads: Associations with contextual variables. Infant and Child Development, 26(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2017

*Kingdon, D., Serbin, L.A., & Stack, D.M. (2016). Understanding the gender gap in school performance among low-income children: A developmental trajectory analysis. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025416631836

*Harvey, B., Matte-Gagné, C., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2016). Antecedents of autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting in high-risk families: Identifying protective and risk factors. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 43, 18-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2015.12.004

*August, E.G., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J.E. & Schwartzman, A.E. (2015). Emotion regulation in at-risk preschoolers: Longitudinal associations and influences of maternal histories of risk. Infant and Child Development, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1954

Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., *Mantis, I., & Kingdon, D. (2015). Breaking the cycle of adversity in vulnerable children and families: A thirty-five year study of at-risk lower income families. As part of a Special Section: Family Dynamics. International Journal for Family Research and Policy, 1(1), 31-56. https://ijfrp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/ijfrp/article/view/39580

Serbin, L.A., *Kingdon, D., Ruttle, P.L., & Stack, D.M. (2015). The impact of children’s internalizing and externalizing problems on parenting: Transactional processes and reciprocal change over time. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4), 969-986. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579415000632

Véronneau, M.H., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2015). Emerging psychopathology moderates upward social mobility: The intergenerational (dis)continuity of socioeconomic status. Development and Pschopathology, 27(4), 1217-1236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579415000784

*Enns, L.N., *Barrieau, L.E., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J.E., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2015). Verbal and nonverbal communication in at-risk mother-child dyads: Implications for relationship quality and developing positive social behaviors in middle-childhood. European Journal of Developmental Science, 13(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1049153

Matte-Gagné, C., *Harvey, B., Stack, D.M., & Serbin, L.A. (2015). Contextual specificity in the relationship between maternal autonomy support and children’s socio-emotional development: A longitudinal study from preschool to preadolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 1528-1541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0247-z

*Jean, A.D.L., Stack, D.M. & Arnold, S.L. (2014). Investigating maternal touch and infants’ self-regulatory behaviors during a modified face-to-face Still‐Face with touch procedure. Infant and Child Development, 23(6), 557–574. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1870

*Mantis, I., Stack, D.M., *Ng, L., Serbin, L.A., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2014). Mutual touch during mother-infant face-to-face still-face interactions: Influences of interaction period and infant status. Infant Behavior and Development, 37(3), 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.04.005

Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., & *Kingdon, D. (2013). Academic success across the transition from primary to secondary schooling among lower-income adolescents: Understanding the effects of family resources and gender. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42(9), 1331-1347. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-9987-4

*Jean, A.D.L. & Stack, D.M. (2012). Full-term and very-low-birth-weight preterm infants’ self-regulating behaviors during a Still-Face interaction: influences of maternal touch. Infant Behavior and Development, 35(4), 779-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.07.023

Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Girouard, N., *Enns, L., *Bentley, V., Ledingham, J., * Schwartzman, A.E. (2012). The quality of the mother-child relationship in high-risk dyads: Application of the Emotional Availability Scales in an intergenerational, longitudinal study. Development and Psychopathology, 24(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457941100068X

Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., *Kingdon, D., *Mantis, I., & Enns, L.N (2011). Unpacking the effects of childhood poverty: A psychosocial approach to intergenerational risk. Under the direction of Frechet, G., Gauvreau, D., and Poirier, J. Social Exclusion, Poverty and Social Statistics: Perspectives from Quebec, Canada and Abroad (pp.113-122). A collection of papers highlighting Paul Bernard’s contribution to social statistics and the study of social and health inequalities. Les presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Stack, D.M. & *Jean, A. (2011). Communicating through touch: Touching during parent-infant interactions. In M.J. Hertenstein & S.J. Weiss, (Eds.), The Handbook of Touch: Neuroscience, Behavioral and Health Perspectives (pp. 273-298). Springer Publishing.

*Jean, A. D., & Stack, D. M. (2009). Functions of maternal touch and infants' affect during face-to-face interactions: New directions for the still-face. Infant Behavior & Development32(1), 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.09.008

Serbin, L.A., *Cooperman, J.M., *Peters, P.L., *Lehoux, P.M., Stack, D.M., & Schwartzman, A.E. (1998). Inter-generational transfer of psychosocial risk in women with childhood histories of aggression, withdrawal or aggression and withdrawal. Developmental Psychology, 34(6), 1246-1262. https://doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.34.6.1246

Stack, D.M., & Muir, D.W. (1992). Adult tactile stimulation during face-to-face interactions modulates 5-month-olds’ affect and attention. Child Development, 63(6), 1509-1525. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131572

Stack, D.M., & Muir, D.W. (1990). Tactile stimulation as a component of social interchange: New interpretations for the Still-Face effect. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8(2), 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835X.1990.tb00828.x

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