Publications
2026
Bailes, L. G., Augustine, M. E., Girod, S. A., & Leerkes, E.M. (2026). Predictors of stability and change of attachment avoidance and anxiety over the transition to parenthood. Attachment & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2026.2637554
Chen, Y., Leerkes, E. M., Supple, A., Girod, S. A., Buehler, C., Wideman, L., Shriver, L. (2026). Prenatal psychosocial distress interacting with postnatal maternal sensitivity in shaping infant observed affect and RSA profiles. Developmental Psychobiology, 68, e70139. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70139
Girod, S. A., Ganguli, A., Jackson, Y., Heim, C., Shalev, I., Claus, E., Fisher, Z., Noll, J., Shenk, C., & Schreier, H.M. (2026). The role of social support on change in C-reactive protein and BMI among youth with and without child maltreatment history. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.106250
Brown, S. M., Lunkenheimer, E., Girod, S. A., Krause, J. T., Marti, C. N., & Heilman, K. J.(2026). Mother–infant physiological coregulation is associated with infant developmental status among families with experienced adversity. Developmental Psychobiology, 68(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70113 | 🐘 PDF Access
2025
Girod, S. A., Leerkes, E. M., Buehler, C., Shriver, L. H., & Wideman, L. (2025). Intergenerational transmission of emotionally responsive parenting via parenting-related emotion and cognition. Journal of Family Psychology, 39(3), 325–335.https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001304
Girod, S. A., Li, L., & Lunkenheimer, E. (2025). Dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia self-regulation and coregulation in response to caregiving challenges in at-risk mother–child and father–child dyads. Journal of Family Psychology, 39(3), 285–297. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001314
2024
Girod, S., Leerkes, E., Chen, Y., Buehler, C., Shriver, L., & Wideman, L. (2024). Latent profiles of infant negative affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the still‐face paradigm: The role of maternal sensitivity. Infant and Child Development, 33(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2532 | 🐘 PDF Access
2023
Girod, S. A., Buehler, C., Bailes, L. G., Leerkes, E. M., Wideman, L., & Shriver, L. H. (2023). Childhood adversity predicts maternal pre-pregnancy BMI but not gestational weight gain. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 27(4), 641–649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03613-8 | 🐘 PDF Access
Girod, S. A., Leerkes, E. M., & Zvara, B. J. (2023). Childhood maltreatment predicts maternal sensitivity to distress: Negative attributions during the transition to parenthood.Journal of Family Psychology, 37(5), 709–719. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001088 | 🐘 PDF Access
2022
Leerkes, E., Sommers, S., & Bailes, L. (2022). The validity of prenatal assessments of mothers’ emotional, cognitive, and physiological reactions to infant cry.Parenting, 22(4), 286–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2021.1975122 | 🐘PDF Access
Buehler, C., Girod, S. A., Bailes, L.G., Leerkes, E. M., Calkins, S., Shriver, L., & Wideman, L. (2022). Women’s social well-being during pregnancy: Adverse childhood experiences and recent life events. Women’s Health Reports, 3, 582-592. https://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2022.0023 | 🐘 PDF Access
2020
Leerkes, E. M., Su, J., & Sommers, S. A. (2020). Mothers’ self‐reported emotion dysregulation: A potentially valid method in the field of Infant mental health. Infant Mental Health Journal, 41(5), 642–650. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21873
Presentations
Girod, S. A., Lunkenheimer, E. (2026, June) Maternal and Paternal Psychopathology Symptoms and Parenting Demands Differentially Shape Parent-Child Regulation and Synchrony of RSA. International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Incheon, South Korea.
Girod, S. A., Lunkenheimer, E. (2025, May) Associations Between RSA Coregulation and Behavioral Coregulation in At-Risk Mother-Child Dyads. Society for Research in Child Development. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Girod, S. A., Lunkenheimer, E. (2025, May). Parent-Child Physiological, Affective, and Behavioral Coregulation as Risk and Protective Mechanisms Across Early Childhood. Society for Research in Child Development. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Girod, S. A.& Lunkenheimer, E. (2025, October). Father-Child Dynamic Individual RSA and RSA Coregulation: Associations with Positive Behavioral Coregulation. Society for Psychophysiological Research. Montréal, Canada.
Chen, Y., Leerkes, E. M., Supple, A., Girod, S. A.,Buehler, C., Wideman, L., Shriver, L. (2025, May). Prenatal Stress Interacting with Postnatal Maternal Sensitivity in Shaping Profiles of Infant Observed Affect and RSA. Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Girod, S. A., Leerkes, E.M., Buehler, C., Shriver, L., Wideman, L. (2024, July). Indirect Effects of Maternal Emotion Regulation on Infant Behavior Problems. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.
Girod, S. A., Leerkes, E.M., Buehler, C., Shriver, L., Wideman, L. (2023, March). Pathways by which remembered positive parenting in childhood predicts maternal sensitivity to distress. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.