Dr. Trentacosta’s Publications

  1. Drury, G., Elezi, J., Kondor, L., Beeghly, M., Trentacosta, C. J., Thomason, M. E., & Stacks, A. M. (in press). Maternal reflective functioning in pregnancy and parenting during the preschool period. Infant Mental Health Journal.
  2. Hyde, L. W., Trentacosta, C. J., & Bezek, J. L. (in press). Annual research review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
  3. Chen, B., Ji, L., Yoon, Y. B., Duffy, M., Menu, I., Trentacosta, C. J., & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Maternal prenatal psychological stress and iron levels in the fetal brain. Developmental Psychobiology, 67, e70062.
  4. Ji, L., Duffy, M., Chen, B., Majbri, A., Trentacosta, C. J., & Thomason, M. (2025). Whole brain MRI assessment of age and sex-related R2* changes in the human fetal brain. Human Brain Mapping, 46, e70073.
  5. Menu, I., Ji, L., Trentacosta, C. J., Jacques, S. M., Qureshi, F., & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Prenatal chronic inflammation and children’s executive function development. Child Neuropsychology, 31, 752-770.
  6. Reed, E., Ji, L., Beeghly, M., Majbri, A., Bhatia, T., Duffy, M., Menu, I., Trentacosta, C., & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Fetal functional connectivity: Examining the role of prenatal maternal depression symptoms using graph theory. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 74, 101585.
  7. Riser, M., Trentacosta, C., & Jovanovic, T. (2025). Wearing invisible threads: The impact of caregiver trauma on parenting and child brain development. Brain Sciences, 15, 726.
  8. Ji, L., Menu, I., Majbri, A., Bhatia, T., Trentacosta, C. J., & Thomason, M. E. (2024). Trajectories of human brain functional connectome maturation across the birth transition. PLOS Biology, 22, e3002909.
  9. McGoron, L., Towner, E. K., Johnson-Hooper, T., Martel, M. M., Trentacosta, C. J., & Ondersma, S. J. (2024). Proof-of-concept trial of a tablet-based program in pediatrics to motivate parental use of an online behavioral parent training program. Children’s Health Care, 53, 205-222.
  10. McGoron, L., Towner, E. K., Martel, M. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Purkayestha, S., Friedrich, F. S., Traylor, P., & Ondersma, S. J. (2024). Developing the technology-based Parenting Young Children Check-Up intervention for disruptive behavior problems identified in pediatric primary care. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 12, 128-142.
  11. McGoron, L., Trentacosta, C. J., Wargo Aikins, J., Beeghly, M., Beatty, J. R., Domoff, S. E., Towner, E. K., & Ondersma, S. J. (2024). Risk, emotional support, child abuse potential, and parenting during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Maltreatment, 29, 463-473.
  12. Hendrix, C. L., Ji, L., Werchan, D. M., Majbri, A., Trentacosta, C. J., Burt, S. A., & Thomason, M. E. (2023). Fetal frontolimbic connectivity prospectively associates with aggression in toddlers. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 3, 969-978.
  13. Yamin, J. B., Cannoy, C. N., Gibbins, K. M., Krohner, S., Rapport, L. J., Trentacosta, C. J., Zeman, L. L., & Lumley, M. A. (2023). Experiential training of mental health graduate students in emotional processing skills: A randomized, controlled trial. Psychotherapy, 60, 512-524.
  14. Hruschak, J. L., Palopoli, A. C., Thomason, M. E., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2022). Maternal-fetal attachment, parenting stress during infancy, and child outcomes at age three years. Infant Mental Health Journal, 43, 681-694.
  15. Mulligan, D. J., Palopoli, A., van den Heuvel, M. I., Thomason, M. E., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2022). Frontal alpha asymmetry in response to stressor moderates the relation between parenting hassles and child externalizing problems. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 917300.
  16. Leach, C., Schroeck, N., Blessman, J., Rorai, V., Cooper-Sargent, M., Lichtenberg, P. A., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2022). Engaged communication of environmental health science: Processes and outcomes of urban academic-community partnerships. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 21, 7-22.
  17. McGoron, L., Wargo Aikins, J., Trentacosta, C. J., Gómez, J. M., & Beeghly, M. (2022). School support, chaos, routines, and parents’ mental health during COVID-19 remote schooling. School Psychology, 37, 173-182.
  18. Sparks, L. A., Trentacosta, C. J., Hicks, M. R., Kernsmith, P., & Smith-Darden, J. (2021). Hope as a protective factor: Relations to adverse childhood experiences, delinquency, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 3005-3015.
  19. Thomason, M. E., Palopoli, A. C., Jariwala, N. N., Werchan, D. M., Chen, A., Adhikari, S., Espinoza-Heredia, C., Brito, N. H., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2021). Miswiring the brain: Human prenatal Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol use associated with altered fetal hippocampal brain network connectivity. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51, 101000.
  20. Wilhoit, S. A., Trentacosta, C. J., Beeghly, M., Boeve, J. L., Lewis, T., & Thomason, M. E. (2021). Household chaos and early childhood behavior problems: The moderating role of parent-child reciprocity in lower-income families. Family Relations, 70, 1040-1054.
  21. Barbot, B., Hein, S., Trentacosta, C. J., Beckmann, J. F., Bick, J., Crocetti, E., Liu, Y., Rao, S. F., Liew, J., Overbeek, G., Ponguta, L. A., Scheithauer, H., Super, C., Arnett, J., Bukowski, W., Cook, T. D., Cooper, C. R., Cote, J., Eccles, J. S., … van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2020). Manifesto for new directions in developmental science. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020(172), 135-149.
  22. Trentacosta, C. J. & Mulligan, D. (2020). New directions in understanding the role of environmental contaminants in child development: Four themes. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020(172), ­39-51.
  23. Crespo, L. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Udo-Inyang, I., Northerner, L., Chaudhry, K., & Williams, A. (2019). Self-regulation mitigates the association between household chaos and children’s behavior problems. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 60, 56-64.
  24. Harper, F. W. K., Albrecht, T. L., Trentacosta, C. J., Taub, J. W., Phipps, S., & Penner, L. A. (2019). Understanding differences in the long-term psychosocial adjustment of parents and their children with pediatric cancer: An individual differences resources model. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 9, 514-522.
  25. Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., Herres, J., Dilks, K., Rahim, F., & Trentacosta, C. (2019). Understanding of emotions and empathy: Predictors of positive parenting with preschoolers in economically stressed families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 1346-1358.
  26. Richardson, P. A., Bocknek, E. L., McGoron, L., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2019). Fathering across contexts: The moderating role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in predicting toddler emotion regulation. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 903-919.  
  27. Thomason, M., Hect, J. L., Rauh, V. A., Trentacosta, C., Wheelock, M. D., Eggebrecht, A. T., Espinoza-Heredia, C., & Burt, S. A. (2019). Prenatal lead exposure impacts cross-hemispheric and long-range connectivity in the human fetal brain. NeuroImage, 191, 186-192.
  28. Trentacosta, C. J., Waller, R.,Neiderhiser, J.M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Leve, L. D., & Hyde, L. W. (2019).Callous-unemotional behaviors and harsh parenting: Reciprocal associations across early childhood and moderation by inherited risk. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 811-823.
  29. Wong, K., Hicks, L. M., Seuntjens, T. G., Trentacosta, C. J., Hendriksen, T. H. G, Zeelenberg, M., & van den Heuvel, M. I. (2019). The role of mindful parenting in individual and social decision-making in children. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 550.
  30. Sparks, L. A., Trentacosta, C. J., Owusu, E., McLear, C., & Smith-Darden, J. (2018). Family cumulative risk and at-risk kindergarteners’ social competence: The mediating role of parent representations of the attachment relationship. Attachment and Human Development, 20, 406-422.
  31. Crespo, L. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Aikins, D., & Wargo-Aikins, J. (2017). Maternal emotion regulation and children’s behavior problems: The mediating role of child emotion regulation. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2797-2809. 
  32. Goodlett, B. D., Trentacosta, C. J., McLear, C., Crespo, L., Wheeler, R., Williams, A., Chaudhry, K., & Smith-Darden, J. (2017). Maternal depressive symptoms and at-risk young children’s internalizing problems: The moderating role of mothers’ positivity. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 63, 77-104. 
  33. Waller, R.,Shaw, D. S., Neiderhiser, J.M., Ganiban, J. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., Trentacosta, C. J., Leve, L. D., Hyde, L. W. (2017).Towards an understanding of the role of the environment in the development of early callous behavior. Journal of Personality, 85, 90-103.
  34. Hyde, L.W., Waller, R., Trentacosta, C. J., Shaw, D.S., Neiderhiser, J.M., Ganiban, J.M., Reiss, D., & Leve, L.D. (2016). Heritable and non-heritable pathways to early callous unemotional behavior. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173, 903-910.
  35. McLear, C. M., Trentacosta, C. J., & Smith-Darden, J. (2016). Child self-regulation, parental secure base scripts, and at-risk kindergarteners’ academic achievement. Early Education and Development, 27, 440-456.
  36. Northerner, L. M., Trentacosta, C. J., & McLear, C. M. (2016). Negative affectivity moderates associations between cumulative risk and at-risk toddlers’ behavior problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 691-699. 
  37. Trentacosta, C. J., Davis-Kean, P., Mitchell, C., Hyde, L., & Dolinoy, D. (2016). Environmental contaminants and child development. Child Development Perspectives, 10, 228-233.
  38. Trentacosta, C. J., Harper, F. W. K., Albrecht, T. L., Taub, J. W., Phipps, S., & Penner, L. A. (2016). Pediatric cancer patients’ treatment-related distress and longer-term anxiety: An individual differences perspective. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 37, 753-761.
  39. Trentacosta, C. J., McLear, C. M., Ziadni, M. S., Lumley, M. A., & Arfken, C. L. (2016). Potentially traumatic events and mental health problems among children of Iraqi refugees: The roles of relationships with parents and feelings about school. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 86, 384-392. 
  40. Waller, R., Trentacosta, C. J., Shaw, D. S., Neiderhiser, J.M., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Leve, L. D., Hyde, L. W. (2016). Heritable temperament pathways to early callous-unemotional behavior. British Journal of Psychiatry, 209, 475-482.
  41. Trentacosta, C. J. & Schultz, D. (2015). Hold tight: Carroll Izard’s contributions to translational research on emotion competence. Emotion Review, 7, 136-142.
  42. Lindhiem, O., Bennett, C. B., Trentacosta, C. J., & McLear, C. (2014). Client preferences affect treatment satisfaction, completion, and clinical outcome: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 34, 506-517. 
  43. Harper, F. W. K., Goodlett, B. D., Trentacosta, C. J., Albrecht, T. L., Taub, J. W., Phipps, S., & Penner, L. A. (2014). Temperament, personality, and quality of life in pediatric cancer patients. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 39, 459-468.
  44. Lindhiem, O., Higa, J., Trentacosta, C. J., Herschell, A., & Kolko, D. J. (2014). Skill acquisition and utilization during evidence-based psychosocial treatments for childhood disruptive behavior problems: A review and meta-analysis. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 17, 41-66.
  45. Trentacosta, C. J., Hyde, L. W., Goodlett, B. D., & Shaw, D. S. (2013). Longitudinal prediction of disruptive behavior disorders in adolescent males from multiple risk domains. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 44, 561-572.
  46. Troxel, W. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Forbes, E. E., & Campbell, S. B. (2013). Negative emotionality moderates associations among attachment, toddler sleep, and later problem behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 127-136.
  47. Shaffer, A., Lindhiem, O., Kolko, D. J., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2013). Bidirectional relations between parenting practices and child externalizing behaviors: A cross-lagged panel analysis in the context of a psychosocial treatment and 3-year follow-up. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 41, 199-210.
  48. Slatcher, R. B., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2012). Influences of parent and child negative emotionality on young children’s everyday behaviors. Emotion, 12, 932-942.
  49. Barker, E. D., Trentacosta, C. J., Salekin, R. T. (2011). Are impulsive adolescents differentially influenced by the good and bad of neighborhood and family? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 981-986.
  50. Slatcher, R. B., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2011). A naturalistic observation study of the links between parental depressive symptoms and preschoolers’ behaviors in everyday life. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 444-448.
  51. Supplee, L. H., Skuban, E. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Shaw, D. S., & Stoltz, E. (2011). Preschool boys’ development of emotional self-regulation strategies in a sample at risk for behavior problems. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 172, 95-120.
  52. Trentacosta, C. J., Criss, M.M., Shaw, D. S., Lacourse, E., Hyde, L. W., & Dishion, T. J. (2011). Antecedents and outcomes of joint trajectories of mother-son conflict and warmth during middle childhood and adolescence. Child Development, 82, 1676-1690.
  53. Trentacosta, C. J., Neppl, T. K., Donnellan, M. B., Scaramella, L. V., Shaw, D. S., & Conger, R. D. (2010). Adolescent personality as a prospective predictor of parenting: An interactionist perspective. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 721-730. 
  54. Trentacosta, C. J. & Fine, S. E. (2010). Emotion knowledge, social competence, and behavior problems in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review. Social Development, 19, 1-29.
  55. Gardner, F.,Connell, A., Trentacosta, C. J., Shaw, D. S., Dishion, T. J., & Wilson, M. (2009). Moderators of intervention effects in a brief family-centered intervention for early prevention of problem behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77, 543-553.
  56. Trentacosta, C. J., Hyde, L. W., Shaw, D. S., & Cheong, J. (2009). Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: The roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 564-575.
  57. Trentacosta, C. J. & Shaw, D. S. (2009). Emotional self-regulation, peer rejection, and antisocial behavior: Associations from early childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 356-365. 
  58. Izard, C. E., King, K. A., Trentacosta, C. J., Morgan, J. K., Laurenceau, J. P., Krauthamer-Ewing, E. S., & Finlon, K. J. (2008). Accelerating the development of emotion competence in Head Start children: Effects on adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 369-397.
  59. Izard, C., Stark, K., Trentacosta, C., & Schultz, D. (2008). Beyond emotion regulation: Emotion utilization and adaptive functioning. Child Development Perspectives, 2, 156-163.
  60. Trentacosta, C. J., Hyde, L. W., Shaw, D. S., Dishion, T. J., Gardner, F., & Wilson, M. (2008). The relations among cumulative risk, parenting, and behavior problems during early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1211-1219.
  61. Trentacosta, C. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2008). Maternal predictors of rejecting parenting and early adolescent antisocial behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 247-259.
  62. Trentacosta, C. J., & Izard, C. E. (2007). Kindergarten children’s emotion competence as a predictor of their academic competence in first grade. Emotion, 7, 77-88.
  63. Fine, S. E., Izard, C. E., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2006). Emotion situation knowledge in elementary school: Models of longitudinal growth and preschool antecedents. Social Development, 15, 730-751.
  64. Trentacosta, C. J., Izard C. E., Mostow, A. J. & Fine, S. E. (2006). Children’s emotional competence and attentional competence in early elementary school. School Psychology Quarterly, 21, 148-170.
  65. Izard, C. E., Trentacosta, C. J., King, K. A., & Mostow, A. J. (2004). An emotion-based prevention program for Head Start children. Early Education and Development, 15, 407-422.
  66. Fine, S. E., Trentacosta, C. J., Izard, C. E., Mostow, A. J., & Campbell, J. L. (2004). Anger perception bias, caregivers’ use of physical discipline, and aggression in children at risk. Social Development, 13, 213-228.
  67. Fine, S. E., Izard, C. E., Mostow, A. J., Trentacosta, C. J., & Ackerman, B. P. (2003). First grade emotion knowledge as a predictor of fifth grade self-reported internalizing behaviors in children from economically-disadvantaged families. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 331-342.
  68. Izard, C. E., Fine, S. E., Mostow, A., Trentacosta, C., & Campbell, J. (2002). Emotion processes in normal and abnormal development and preventive intervention. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 761-787.
  69. Mostow, A. J., Izard, C. E., Fine, S. E., & Trentacosta, C.J. (2002). Modeling the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral predictors of peer acceptance. Child Development, 73, 1775-1787.

Other Journal Articles:

  1. Trentacosta, C. J., & Austin, C. (2022). Introduction to the special issue: Environmental contaminants and child and adolescent development. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 181-182, 5-9.
  2. Trentacosta, C. J., & Riggs, N. R. (2020). Executive function in context. Infant and Child Development, 29, e2174. [Introduction to the Special Issue]
  3. Fiese, B. H., Connell, A., Doss, B., Kaugars, A. S., Rhoades, G. K., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2017). Introduction to the special issue: Advances in methods and measurement in family psychology. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 969-971.
  4. Izard, C. E., Trentacosta, C. J., & King, K. A. (2005). Brain, emotions, and emotion-cognition relations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 208-209. [Invited Commentary]
  5. Izard, C. E., King, K. A., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2004). Lawful processes in naturally occurring emotions. Social Science Information, 43, 559-608. [Invited Commentary]

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:

  1. Trentacosta, C. J., Singh, S., & Eidnes, K. (2022). Emotion knowledge and competence at school. In T. L. Spinrad & J. Liew (Eds), Social and emotional learning section; D. Fisher (Ed.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Taylor & Francis.
  2. Trentacosta, C. J. & Crespo, L. M. (2019). Development of emotional competence. In S. Hupp & J. Jewell (Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  3. Trentacosta, C. J., Irwin, J. L., Crespo, L. M., & Beeghly, M. (2018). Financial hardship and parenting stress in families with young children with autism: Opportunities for preventive intervention. In M. Siller & L. Morgan (Eds.) Handbook of Parent-Implemented Interventions for Very Young Children with Autism (pp. 79-91). New York: Springer.
  4. Trentacosta, C. J., & Goodlett, B. D. (2015). Early dispositional risks for conduct problems and gene-environment interplay. In M. DeLisi & M. G. Vaughn (Eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology (pp. 403-417). New York: Routledge.
  5. Trentacosta, C. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2012). Preventing early conduct problems and later delinquency. In E. Grigorenko (Ed.) Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry (pp. 309-322). New York: Springer
  6. Izard, C. E., Trentacosta, C. J., King, K. A., Morgan, J. K., & Diaz, M. (2007). Emotions, emotionality, and intelligence in the development of adaptive behavior. In G. Matthews & M. Zeidner & R. Roberts (Eds.), Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns (pp. 127-150). Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press.
  7. Trentacosta, C. J., & Izard, C. E. (2007). Feeling, thinking, and playing: Social and emotional learning in early childhood. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on Socialization and Social Development in Early Childhood Education (pp. 59-77). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.
  8. Izard, C. E., Youngstrom, E. A., Fine, S. E., Mostow, A. J. & Trentacosta, C. J. (2006). Emotions and developmental psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.) Developmental Psychopathology, 2nd Edition, Volume One: Theory and Method (pp. 244-292).New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  9. Trentacosta, C. J., & Izard, C. E. (2005). Emotional development. In N Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.