General Research Interests
- Child temperament
- Emotion regulation
- Family interactions and parent-child narratives
- Fathering
- Infant-caregiver attachment and adult attachment
- Marital interactions
- Social and emotional development in children
- Young children's self-concepts

Recent Manuscripts and Publications
Brown, G. L., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Agathen, J. M., & Ho, M. H. (In press). Young children's psychological selves: Covergence with maternal reports of child personality. Social Development. (::download::)

Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Brown, G. L., & Szewczyk Sokolowski, M. (2007). Goodness-of-fit in family context: Infant temperament, marital quality, and early coparenting behavior. Infant Behavior & Development, 30, 82-96. (::download::)

Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Haight, W. L., Black, J.E., Sokolowski, M. S., Giorgio, G., & Tata, L. Maternal discourse, attachment-related risk, and current risk factors: Associations with maternal parenting behavior during foster care visits. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28, 149-165. (::download::)

Recent Conference Presentations
Society for Research in Child Development, March 2007, Boston, MA
Davis, E.F., Buckley, C.K., Schoppe-Sullivan, S.J., Brown, G.L., Sokolowski, M.S., & Mangelsdorf, S. C. The Moderating Role of Infant Temperament on Stability in Coparenting Across the First Year of Life. (Poster Presentation ::download::)

Shigeto, A., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Brown, G. L., Wong, M. S., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & Szewczyk Sokolowski, M. Predictors of Triadic Family Interaction Patterns at 13 Months Postpartum. (Paper symposium ::download::)

Wong, M. S., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Brown, G. L., Neff, C., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. Predicting Antecedents of Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Attachment: A Comparison between Categorical and Continuous Variables. (Poster Presentation ::download::)

International Conference in Infant Studies, June 2006, Kyoto, Japan
Shigeto, A., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Brown, G. L., Neff, C. N., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & Sokolowski, M. S. Parental and Child Influences on Family Interaction Patterns. (Poster Presentation ::download::)

Wong, M. S., Mangelsdorf, S. C., Brown, G. L., Neff, C., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. Antecedents of Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Attachment: Infant Temperament, Parental Beliefs about Paternal Roles, and Marital Quality. (Poster Presentation)

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development,
July 2006, Melbourne, Australia
Brown, G.L., Mangelsdorf, S.C., Neff, C., Schoppe-Sullivan, S.J., & Frosch, C.A. Direct and Interactive Predictor of Young Children's Self-Concepts: Associations with Temperament, Parenting, and Family Interactions. (Poster Presentation ::download::)

Brown, G.L., Neff, C., Mangelsdorf, S.C., Sokolowski, M.S., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. The Family Context of Disorganized Infant-Father Attachment. (Poster Presentation ::download::)