Curriculum Vitae

Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., DelPriore, D. J., & Ellis, B. J. (2022). Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity-exposed youth. Child Development.

Doom, J. R., Young, E. S., Farrell, A. K., Carlson, E. A., Englund, M. M., Roisman, G. I., & Simpson, J. A. (in press). Behavioral, cognitive, and socioemotional pathways from early childhood adversity to BMI: Evidence from two prospective longitudinal cohorts. Development and Psychopathology.

Young, E. S., Doom, J. R., Farrell, A. K., Carlson, E. A., Englund, M. M., Miller, G. E., ... & Simpson, J. A. (2021). Life stress and cortisol reactivity: An exploratory analysis of the effects of stress exposure across life on HPA-axis functioning. Development and Psychopathology, 33(1), 301-312.

Waters, T. E., Facompré, C. R., Dagan, O., Martin, J., Johnson, W. F., Young, E. S., ... & Roisman, G. I. (2021). Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife. Attachment and Human Development, 1-21.

Szepsenwol, O., Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., Zamir, O., Young, E. S., Shoshani, A., & Doron, G. (2021). The effects of childhood unpredictability and harshness on emotional control and relationship quality: A life history perspective. Development and Psychopathology.

Frankenhuis, W. E., Young, E. S., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). The hidden talents approach: Theoretical and methodological challenges. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(7), 569-581.

Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(6), 550-556.

Farrell, A. K., Waters, T. E., Young, E. S., Englund, M. M., Carlson, E. A., Roisman, G. I., & Simpson, J. (2019). Early maternal sensitivity, attachment security in young adulthood, and cardiometabolic risk at midlife. Attachment and Human Development, 21(1), 70-86.

Young, E. S., Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., Huelsnitz, C. O., & Fleck, C. (2019). Childhood attachment and adult personality: a life history perspective. Self and Identity, 18(1), 22-38.

Young, E. S., Farrell, A. K., Carlson, E. A., Englund, M. M., Miller, G. E., Gunnar, M. R., Roisman, G. I., & Simpson, J. A. (2019). The dual impact of early and concurrent life stress on adults’ diurnal cortisol patterns: A prospective study. Psychological Science, 30, 739-747.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2018). Can an Unpredictable Childhood Environment Enhance Working Memory? Testing the Sensitized-Specialization Hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(6), 891–908.

Martin, J., Anderson, J. E., Groh, A. M., Waters, T. E. A., Young, E. S., Johnson, W. F., … Roisman, G. I. (2018). Maternal Sensitivity During the First 3 1/2 Years of Life Predicts Electrophysiological Responding to and Cognitive Appraisals of Infant Crying at Midlife. Developmental Psychology, 54(10), 1917–1927.

Szepsenwol, O., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Young, E. S., Fleck, C., & Jones, R. E. (2017). The effect of predictable early childhood environments on sociosexuality in early adulthood. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11(2), 131

Mittal, C., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Sung, S., & Young, E. S. (2015). Cognitive Adaptations to Stressful Environments: When Childhood Adversity Enhances Adult Executive Function. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(4), 604–621.

Young, E. S., & Simpson, J. A. (2020). An evolutionary, life history perspective on relationship maintenance. In B. G. Ogolsky & J. K. Monk (Eds.), Relationship maintenance: Theory, process, and context (pp. 29-46). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Simpson, J. A., Griskevicius, V., Szepsenwol, O., & Young, E. S. (2017). An evolutionary life history perspective on personality and mating strategies. In A. T. Church (Ed.), The Praeger handbook of personality across cultures. Volume 3: Evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts of personality (pp. 1-29). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Norton, S. A., Baranger, D.A., Voss, M., Hansen, I., Bondy, E., Rodrigues, M., Paul, S. E., Edershile, E., Rodebaugh, T., Oltmanns, T. F., Young, E. S., Roisman, G. I., Simpson, J. A., & Bogdan, R. (in preparation). Reliability of Diurnal Salivary Cortisol Metrics: A Meta Analysis and Investigation in Two Independent Samples.

Young, E. S., Vermeent, S., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (in preparation). Within-person cognitive performance across abilities among adversity-exposed people in the SECCYD.

Young, E. S. (2021, September). Multiverse Analysis: Being transparent about subjective decisions in data analysis. Preseneted at Open Science Community Utrecht Symposium 2021, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., DelPriore, D. J., & Ellis B. J. (2021, June). Can ecologically-relevant stimuli improve cognitive performance among adversity-exposed youth? Presented at Human Behavior & Evolution Society 2021.

Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ellis B. J. (2021, March). Can ecologically relevant stimuli improve task performance for people living in poverty? Preseneted at Psychology and Economics of Poverty 2021, Berkeley, CA, United States.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2019, February). Can an Unpredictable Childhood Environment Enhance Working Memory? Testing the Sensitized-Specialization Hypothesis. Presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2018, October). Can an Unpredictable Childhood Environment Enhance Working Memory? Testing the Sensitized-Specialization Hypothesis. Presented at Society for Research in Child Development - Special Topics Meeting on Character Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2017, May). Can an Unpredictable Childhood Environment Enhance Working Memory? Testing the Sensitized-Specialization Hypothesis. Presented at Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Boise, ID.

Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W.E., DelPriore, D. J., & Ellis, B. J. (2022, April). Hidden talents in context: Abstract versus ecological test stimuli among adversity-exposed youth. Poster Presented at the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association conference.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2019, November). Can an unpredictable childhood environment enhance aspects of executive function and working memory? Poster Presented at The Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network, Amsterdam, NL.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2015, May). Cognitive Specialization of Memory: Early life stress enhances working memory in the face of economic uncertainty. Poster presented at Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Columbia, MO.

Young, E. S., Griskevicius, V., Simpson, J. A., Waters, T. E. A., & Mittal, C. (2015, February). Cognitive Specialization of Memory: Early life stress enhances working memory in the face of economic uncertainty. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Young, E. S., Mittal, C., Griskevicius, V., & Simpson, J. A. (2013, July). Biological Sensitivity to Context and Life History Theory: How the same trait leads to different behavior. Poster presented at Human Behavior & Evolution Society, South Beach Miami, FL.