Title: Associate Professor, Psychology
Groups: Core Faculty
Tara Chaplin, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology
Contact
Phone: 703-993-5309 | Email: tchaplin@gmu.edu
Location: David King Hall, Room 3062
Research Description
Tara Chaplin’s research interests are in the role of gender and emotion regulation in the development of psychopathology and substance abuse in children and adolescence. She is also interested in the role of the family in adolescent development. Related to this, she is currently developing a mindfulness intervention for parents of adolescents. Her research incorporates multiple methods to capture emotion regulation, including self-report, observation, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and neuroimaging.
Selected Publications
- Turpyn, C. C., Poon, J. A., Ross, C. E., Thompson, J. C., & Chaplin, T. M. (2017). Associations between parent emotional arousal and regulation and adolescents’ affective brain response. Social Development, 27(1), 3-18.
- Chaplin, T. M., Visconti, K. J., Molfese, P. J., Susman, E. J., Klein, L. C., Sinha, R., & Mayes, L. C. (2014). Prenatal cocaine exposure differentially affects stress responses in girls and boys: Associations with future substance use. Development and Psychopathology, 27(01), 163-180.
- Chaplin, T. M., & Aldao, A. (2013). Gender differences in emotion expression in children: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 735-765.