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Farewell to Sara, Natasha, Amanda, and Sarah

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Department of Psychology

University of Iowa


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11 Seashore Hall E
Iowa City, IA 52242-1407
(319) 335-2409
grazyna-kochanska@uiowa.edu

Interests

Social development

Processes of socialization

Development of conscience

Parent-child interaction

Child temperament and its role in social development

Education

M.A.

University of Warsaw

Ph.D.

University of Warsaw

Academic and Professional Experience

1991 - 1995

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa

 

1995 - current

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa

Professional Organizations

Society for Research in Child Development, 1985-current

American Psychological Society, 1990-current (Fellow)

International Society for Infant Studies, 1997-current

Grant Support

1989 - 1990

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network for Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood research grant: Kochanska, G. (Project Director), "Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Guilt and Conscience"

1991 - 1992

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network for Early Childhood Transitions research grant: Kochanska, G. (Project Director), "Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Conscience in Early Childhood"

1992 - 1993

Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Spelman Rockefeller Child Research Seed Grant: Kochanska, G. (Principal Investigator), "Maternal Socialization, Children's Temperament, and the Emergence of Conscience in Toddlers"

1992

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network for Early Childhood Transitions research grant: Kochanska, G. (Project Director), "Socialization, Temperament, and Conscience: A cross-sectional Study"

1992 - 1995

National Science Foundation Grant # DBS-9209559: Kochanska, G. (Principal Investigator), "Socialization and Temperament in the Development of Conscience in Early Childhood"

1993 - 1994

National Science Foundation Grant # SBR-9312485: Fowles, D. (Principal Investigator), Kochanska, G. (Co-Principal Investigator), "Physiological Correlates of Early Conscience"

1995 - 1996

University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts seed grant, Kochanska, G. (Principal Investigator), "The Assessment of Young Children's Moral Self"

1995 - 2000

National Science Foundation Grant # SBR-9510863, Kochanska, G. (Principal Investigator), "Toward a Comprehensive Model of the Early Development of Conscience"

1995 - 1997

National Institute of Mental Health, MH-50524, O'Hara, M. W. (Principal Investigator), Kochanska, G. (Investigator), "Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression"

1997 - 1998

University of Iowa, Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement grant: "Closing the "Great Divide": Toward a Synthesis of Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development", Principal Investigator (with R.S. Siegler)

1997 - 2002
2002 - 2007

National Institute of Mental Health, K02 MH01446-01, Independent Scientist Award, Kochanska, G. (Principal Investigator), "Early Development of Internalized Regulators of Behavior"

1998 - 2000

National Science Foundation, SBR-9801292: "The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal System: Links with Emerging Effortful Control and Self-Regulation". With M.R. Gunnar; Principal Investigator, submitted from Iowa; Co-Principal Investigator, submitted from Minnesota.

9/1/2001 - 12/31/2006

NIMH, 1 RO1 MH63096, "Internalization of Moral Standards in Young Children". Kochanska, G. (PI).

1/4/2007-12/31/2011

NIMH, 1 RO1 MH63096, "Developmental Pathways to Antisocial Behavior: A Translational Research Program", Kochanska, G. (PI).

2011-2016

NICHD, 9R01HD069171 - 11, "Promoting Positive Social-Emotional Pathways: A Translational Research Program" Kochanska, G. (PI).

 

Publications, 1990-Present

Zahn-Waxler, C., Kochanska, G., Krupnick, J., & McKnew, D. (1990).

      Patterns of guilt in children of depressed and well mothers. Developmental Psychology, Special Section "Processes of Development in Offspring of Mothers with Psychopathology". 26, 51-59.


 

Kuczynski, L. & Kochanska, G. (1990).

      Development of children's noncompliance strategies from toddlerhood to age 5. Developmental Psychology, 26, 398-408.


 

Kochanska, G. (1990).

      Maternal beliefs as long-term predictors of mother-child interaction and report. Child Development, 61, 1934-1943.


 

Zahn-Waxler, C., & Kochanska, G. (1990).

      The origins of guilt. In R. A. Thompson (Ed.), The 36th annual Nebraska symposium on motivation: Socioemotional development (pp. 183-257). R. A. Dienstbier (Series Ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.


 

Kochanska, G. (1991).

      Patterns of inhibition to the unfamiliar in children of normal and affectively ill mothers. Child Development, 62, 250-263.


 

Kochanska, G., & Kuczynski, L. (1991).

      Maternal autonomy granting: Predictors of normal and depressed mothers' compliance with the requests of 5-year-olds. Child Development, 62, 1449-1459.


 

Kochanska, G. (1991).

      Socialization and temperament in the development of guilt and conscience. Child Development, 62, 1379-1392.


 

Kochanska, G., & Radke-Yarrow, M. (1992).

      Inhibition in toddlerhood and the dynamics of the child's interaction with an unfamiliar peer at age five. Child Development, 63, 325-335.


 

Kochanska, G. (1992).

      Children's interpersonal influence with mothers and peers. Developmental Psychology, 28, 491-499.


 

Kochanska, G. (1993).

      Toward a synthesis of parental socialization and child temperament in early development of conscience. Child Development, 64, 325-347.


 

Kochanska, G., DeVet, K., Goldman, M., Murray, K., & Putnam, S. P. (1994).

      Maternal reports of conscience development and temperament in young children. Child Development, 65, 852- 868.


 

Kochanska, G. (1994).

      Beyond cognition: Expanding the search for the early roots of internalization and conscience. Developmental Psychology, 30, 20-22.


 

Kuczynski, L., & Kochanska, G. (1995).

      Function and content of maternal demands: Developmental significance of early demands for competent action. Child Development, 66, 616- 628.


 

Kochanska, G., & Aksan, N. (1995).

      Mother-child mutually positive affect, the quality of child compliance to requests and prohibitions, and maternal control as correlates of early internalization. Child Development, 66, 236-254.


 

Kochanska, G., Casey, R. J., & Fukumoto, A. (1995).

      Toddlers' sensitivity to standard violations. Child Development, 66, 643-656.


 

Kochanska, G. (1995).

      Children's temperament, mothers' discipline, and security of attachment: Multiple pathways to emerging internalization. Child Development, 66, 597-615.


 

Kochanska, G., Murray, K., Jacques, T., Koenig, A. L., & Vandegeest, K. (1996).

      Inhibitory control in young children and its role in emerging internalization. Child Development, 67, 490-507.


 

Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., & Koenig, A. L. (1995).

      A longitudinal study of the roots of preschoolers' conscience: Committed compliance and emerging internalization. Child Development, 66, 1752-1769.


 

Kochanska, G., Padavich, D. L., & Koenig, A. L. (1996).

      Children's narratives about hypothetical moral dilemmas and objective measures of their conscience: Mutual relations and socialization antecedents. Child Development, 67, 1420-1436.


 

Kochanska, G. (1997).

      Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their young children: Implications for early socialization. Child Development, 67, 94-112.


 

Kochanska, G. (1997).

      Multiple pathways to conscience for children with different temperaments: From toddlerhood to age five. Developmental Psychology, 33, 228-240.


 

Kochanska, G., Clark, L. A., & Goldman, M. S. (1997).

      Implications of mothers' personality for their parenting and their young children's developmental outcomes. Journal of Personality, 65, 387-420.


 

Kochanska, G., Murray, K., & Coy, K. C. (1997).

      Inhibitory control as a contributor to conscience in childhood: From toddler to early school age. Child Development, 68, 263-277.


 

Kochanska, G., & Thompson, R. A. (1997).

      The emergence and development of conscience in toddlerhood and early childhood. In J. E. Grusec, & L. Kuczynski (Eds.), Parenting and children's internalization of values: A handbook of contemporary theory (53-77). New York: Wiley.


 

Kochanska, G., Coy, K. C., Tjebkes, T. L., & Husarek, S. J. (1998).

      Individual differences in emotionality in infancy. Child Development, 69, 375-390.


 

Kochanska, G., Tjebkes, T. L., & Forman, D. R. (1998).

      Children's emerging regulation of conduct: Restraint, compliance, and internalization from infancy to the second year. Child Development, 69, 1378-1389.


 

Kochanska, G. (1998).

      Mother-child relationship, child fearfulness, and emerging attachment: A short-term longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 34, 480-490.


 

Kochanska, G., Forman, G., & Coy, K.C. (1999).

      Implications of the mother-child relationship in infancy for socialization in the second year of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 22, 249-265.


 

Kochanska, G., Murray, K.T., & Harlan, E. (2000).

      Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development. Developmental Psychology, 36, 220-232.


 

Kochanska, G., & Murray, K.T. (2000).

      Mother-child mutually responsive orientation and conscience development: From toddler to early school age. Child Development, 71, 417-431.


 

Clark, L.A., Kochanska, G., & Ready, R. (2000).

      Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 274-285.


 

Smetana, J.G., Kochanska, G., & Chuang, S. (2000).

      Mothers' conceptions of everyday rules for young toddlers: A longitudinal investigation. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 391-416.


 

Fowles, D. C., Kochanska, G., & Murray, K. (2000).

      Electrodermal activity and temperament in preschool children. Psychophysiology, 37, 777-787.


 

Fowles, D.C., & Kochanska, G. (2000).

      Multiple pathways to conscience in children with different temperaments: Extension to psychophysiology. Psychophysiology, 37, 788-795.


 

Kochanska, G. (2001).

      Emotional development in children with different attachment histories: The first three years.  Child Development, 72, 474-490.


 

Forman, D.R., & Kochanska, G. (2001).

      Viewing imitation as child responsiveness: A link between teaching and discipline contexts of socialization. Developmental Psychology, 37, 198-206.


 

Kochanska, G., Coy, K.C., & Murray, K.T. (2001).

      The development of self-regulation in the first four years of life. Child Development, 72, 1091-1111.


 

Murray, K.T., & Kochanska, G. (2002).

      Effortful control: Relation to externalizing and internalizing behaviors and factor structure. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 503-514.


 

Kochanska, G., Gross, J.N., Lin, M-H., & Nichols, K.E. (2002).

      Guilt in young children: Development, determinants, and relations with a broader system of standards. Child Development, 73, 461-482.


 

Kochanska, G., & Coy, K. C. (2002).

      Child emotionality and maternal responsiveness as predictors of reunion behaviors in the Strange Situation: Links mediated and unmediated by separation distress. Child Development, 73, 228-240.


 

Kochanska, G. (2002).

      Committed compliance, moral self, and internalization: A mediational model. Developmental Psychology, 38, 339-351.


 

Kochanska, G. (2002).

      Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their young children: A context for the early development of conscience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 191-195. Reprinted in the Current Directions Reader


 

Kochanska, G., & Knaack, A. (2003).

      Effortful control as a personality characteristic of young children: Antecedents, correlates, and consequences. Journal of Personality, 71, 1087-1112, a special issue on personality development.


 

Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., & Nichols, K. E. (2003).

      Maternal power assertion in discipline and moral discourse contexts: Commonalities, Differences, and implications for children's moral conduct and cognition. Developmental Psychology, 39, 949-963.


 

Kochanska, G., Friesenborg, A. E., Lange, L. A., & Martel, M. M. (2004).

      The parents' personality and the infants' temperament as contributors to their emerging relationship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 744-759.


 

Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., Knaack, A., & Rhines, H. M. (2004).

      Maternal parenting and children's conscience: Early security as moderator. Child Development,75, 1229-1242.


 

Kochanska, G. & Aksan, N. (2004).

      Conscience in childhood: Past, present, and future. Invited article for the 50th anniversary issue of Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 50, 299-310.


 

Aksan, N. & Kochanska, G. (2004).

      Heterogeneity of joy in infancy. Infancy, 6, 79-94.


 

Forman, D. R., Aksan, N., & Kochanska, G. (2004).

      Toddlers' responsive imitation predicts preschool conscience. Psychological Science, 15, 699-704.


 

Aksan, N. & Kochanska, G. (2004).

      Links between systems of inhibition from infancy to preschool years. Child Development, 75, 1477-1490.


 

Kochanska, G. & Aksan, N. (2004).

      Development of mutual responsiveness between parents and their young children. Child Development, 75, 1657-1676.


 

Kochanska, G., Forman, D. R., Aksan, N., & Dunbar, S. B. (2005).

      Pathways to conscience: Early mother-child mutually responsive orientation and children's moral emotion, conduct, and cognition. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 19-34.


 

Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., & Carlson, J. J. (2005).

      Temperament, relationships, and young children's receptive cooperation with their parents. Developmental Psychology, 41, 648-660.

 


Aksan, N., & Kochanska, G. (2005).

      Conscience in childhood: Old questions, new answers. Developmental Psychology, 41, 506-516.

 


 Aksan, N., Kochanska, G., & Ortmann, M.R. (2006).

      Mutually responsive orientation between parents and their young children: Toward methodological advances in the science of relationships. Developmental Psychology, 42, 833-848.

 


Kochanska, G. & Aksan, N. (2006).

      Children’s conscience and self-regulation. Journal of Personality, 74, 1587-1617.

 


 

Anderson, S. W., Aksan, N., Kochanska, G., Damasio, H., Wisnowski, J., & Afifi, A. (2007).

      The earliest expression of focal damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cortex, 6, 667-816

 


Kochanska, G., Aksan, N. & Joy, M. E. (2007).

      Children's fearfulness as a moderator of parenting in early socialization: Two longitudinal studies. Developmental Psychology, 43, 222- 237.

 


 Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., Penney, S. J., & Boldt, L. J. (2007).

      Parental personality as an inner resource that moderates the impact of ecological adversity on parenting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 136-150.

 


 Kochanska, G., & Aksan, N. (2007).

 

      Conscience in childhood: Past, present, and future. In G. W. Ladd (Ed.), Appraising the human developmental sciences: Essays in honor of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (pp. 238-249). Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

 


Kochanska, G., Aksan, A., Penney, S. J., & Doobay, A. F. (2007).

      Early positive emotionality as a heterogeneous trait: Implications for children's self-regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 1054-1066

 


Kochanska, G., Aksan, N., Prisco, T. R., & Adams, E. E.  (2008).

      Mother-child and father-child mutually responsive orientation in the first two years and children's outcomes at preschool  age:  Mechanisms of influence. Child Development, 79, 30-44.

 


 Kochanska, G., Barry, R.A., Aksan, N., & Boldt, L. J. (2008).

 

      A developmental model of maternal and child contributions to disruptive conduct: The first six years.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1220–1227.

 


Barry, R. A., Kochanska, G., &  Philibert, R. A. (2008).

       G x E interactions in the organization of attachment: Mothers’ responsiveness as a moderator of children’s genotypes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1313-1320.

 


Kochanska, G., Barry, R. A., Stellern, S. A., & OżBleness, J. J. (2009). Early attachment organization
moderates the parent-child mutually coercive pathway to children's antisocial conduct . Child
Development, 80, 1297-1309.



Kochanska, G., Barry, R. A., Jimenez, N. B., Hollatz, A. L., & Woodard, J. (2009). Guilt and
effortful control: Two mechanisms that prevent disruptive developmental trajectories. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 322-333.



Kochanska, G., Philibert, R. A., & Barry, R. A. (2009). Interplay of genes and early mother-child
relationship in the development of self-regulation from toddler to preschool age. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 1331-1338.



Barry, R.A. & Kochanska, G. (2010). A longitudinal investigation of affective environment in families
with young children: From infancy to early school age. Emotion, 10, 237-249.



Kochanska, G., Woodard, J., Kim, S., Koenig, J. L., Yoon, J. E., & Barry, R. A. (2010). Positive
socialization mechanisms in secure and insecure parent-child dyads: Two longitudinal studies.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51, 998-1009.



Kochanska, G., Koenig, J. L., Barry, R.A., Kim, S., & Yoon, J. E. (2010). Children's conscience during
toddler and preschool years, moral self, and a competent, adaptive developmental trajectory.
Developmental Psychology, 46, 1320-1332.



Koenig, J. L., Barry, R. A., & Kochanska, G. (2010). Rearing difficult children: Parents' personality
and children's proneness to anger as predictors of future parenting. Parenting: Science and Practice,
10, 258 - 273.



Kochanska, G., Kim, S., Barry, R. A., & Philibert, R. A. (2011). Children's genotypes interact with
maternal responsive care in predicting children's competence: Diathesis-stress or differential
susceptibility? Development and Psychopathology, 23, 605-616.



Kim, S., & Kochanska, G. (In press). Child temperament moderates effects of parent-child mutuality on
self-regulation: A relationship-based path for emotionally negative infants. Child Development.



Kochanska, G., & Kim, S. (In press, Summer 2012). Toward a new understanding of legacy of early
attachments for future antisocial trajectories: Evidence from two longitudinal studies. Development
and Psychopathology, special issue "Multi-level Approaches toward Understanding Antisocial
Behavior: Current Research and Future Directions." D. Cicchetti & M. L. Burnette (Eds).



Kochanska, G., & Kim, S. (In press). Early attachment organization with both parents and future
behavior problems: From infancy to middle childhood. Child Development.