Notations: *co-first authors, ^ mentored students as coauthors

Current / In Press

Donohue*, M.R., Hennefield*, L., Rogers, C.E., Barch, D.M., & Luby, J. L. (accepted). Prevalence and characteristics of infants’ prosocial helping strategies between 11 and 20 months of age. Developmental Psychology.

2024

Hoyniak, C.P., Donohue, M.R., Hennefield, L., & Whalen, D.J. (2024). Preschool mood disorders: A review of the literature from 2017-2024. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics.

Ortin-Peralta, A., Schiffman, A., Malik, J., Polanco-Roman, L., Hennefield, L., Luking, K. (2024). Negative and positive urgency as pathways in the intergenerational transmission of suicide risk in childhood. Frontiers in Psychiatry. pdf

Hennefield*, L., Denton*, E., Chen, P. G., Sheftall, A. H., & Ayer, L. (2024) Preteen Suicide Risk Screening in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting: A Clinical Pathway. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaclp.2024.06.003 pdf

Thompson, R. J., Whalen, D. J., Gilbert, K., Tillman, R., Hennefield, L., Donohue, M. R., Hoyniak, C. P., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2024). Preadolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors: An intensive longitudinal study of risk factors. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. pdf

Donohue, M.R., Camacho, M.C., Drake, J.E., Schwarzlose, R.F., Brady, R.G., Hoyniak, C.P., Hennefield, L., Wakschlag, L.S., Rogers, C.E., Barch, D.M., & Luby, J. (2024). Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants. Infancy.

Hennefield, L., Gilbert, K., Donohue, M. R., Tillman, R., McCoy, A., Diggs, G., Paul, Z. A., Kohl, P. L., & Luby, J. L. (2024). Early emotion development intervention improves mental health outcomes in low-income, high-risk community children. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. pdf

2023

Hennefield, L., Whalen, D. J., Tillman, R., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2023). Preschool-onset major depressive disorder as a strong predictor of suicidal ideation and behaviors into preadolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. pdf

Santopetro, N. J., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., Hennefield, L., Gilbert, K. E., Whalen. D. J., & Hajcak, G. (2023). Deficits in doors P300 amplitude during adolescence associated with preschool onset depression. Psychophysiology. doi:10.1111/psyp.14331 pdf

^Green, A. B. & Hennefield, L. (2023). The relationship between early life adversity and academic competence in early childhood. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.JN28.3.168 pdf

^Lu, M. S., Hennefield, L., Tillman, R., & Markson, L. (2023). Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behavior. International Journal of Behavior and Development. doi.org/10.1177/01650254221132766 pdf

Hoyniak, C.P., Whalen, D.J., Hennefield, L., Tilman, R., Barch, D.M., & Luby, J.L. (2023) Early childhood sleep problems predict increased risk for the later development of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. doi.org/10.1037/abn0000787 pdf

Herzberg, M. P., Hennefield, L., Luking, K. R., Sanders, A. F. P., Vogel, A. C., Kandala, S., Tillman, R., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. M. (2023). Family income buffers the relationship between childhood adverse experiences and putamen volume. Developmental Neurobiology. doi.org/10.1002/dneu.22906 pdf

2022

Barch, D. M., Hennefield, L., & Herzberg, M. (2022). What makes a useful “predictor” of risk for suicide attempt? Commentary on “Associations between Genetic Risk for Adult Suicide Attempt and Suicidal Behaviors in Young Children: The US Population-based study”. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.2031 pdf

Hennefield, L. & Markson, L. (2022). The development of optimistic expectations in young children. Cognitive Development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101201 pdf

Hoyniak, C., Donohue, M. R., Quiñones Camacho, L. E., Vogel, A., Perino, M., Hennefield, L., Tillman, R., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2022). Developmental pathways from preschool temper tantrums to later psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology. doi.10.1017/S0954579422000359 pdf

Hennefield, L., Hao, J. M., Joiner, T. E., Whalen, D. J., Giorio, C., & Luby, J. L. (2022). Young children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors more likely to resolve conflicts with violence, homicide, or suicide: A study of internal working models using narratives. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. doi.org/10.1037/abn0000723 pdf

Schwarzlose, R. F., Hennefield, L., Hoyniak, C. P., Luby, J. L., & Gilbert, K. E. Picky eating in childhood: Associations with obsessive compulsive symptoms. (2022). Journal of Pediatric Psychology. doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsac006 pdf

Donohue, M. R., Yin, J., Quiñones Camacho, L. E., Hennefield, L., Gilbert, K., Whalen, J., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2022). Children’s maternal representations moderate the efficacy of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy—Emotion Development (PCIT-ED) treatment for preschool depression. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathologydoi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00897-2 pdf

^Rackoff, G. N., ^Lagoni, D. W., ^Shoshany, M. F., ^Moursi, N. A., Hennefield, L. (2022). The impact of informant gender on children’s endorsement of scientific and non-scientific information. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12397 pdf

Barch, D. M., Donohue, M. R., Elsayed, N. M., Gilbert, K., Harms, M. P., Hennefield, L., Herzberg, M., Kandala, S., Karcher, N. R., Jackson, J. J., Luking, K. R., Rappaport, B. I., Sanders, A., Taylor, R., Tillman, R., Vogel, A. C., Whalen, D., & Luby, J. L. (2022). Early childhood socioeconomic status and cognitive and adaptive outcomes at the transition to adulthood: The mediating role of gray matter development across 5 scan waves. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.07.002 pdf

Hennefield, L., Gilbert, K., Whalen, D., ^Giorio, C., Quiñones Camacho, L. E., Kelly, D., Fleuchaus, E., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., & Hajcak, G. (2022). The reward positivity shows increased amplitude and decreased latency with increasing age in early childhood. Developmental Sciencedoi.org/10.1111/desc.13196 pdf

2021

Whalen, D. J., Hennefield, L., Elsayed, N., Tillman, R., Barch, D., & Luby, J. (2021). Trajectories of suicidal thoughts and behaviors from preschool through late adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.08.020 pdf

Hennefield, L., ^Talpey, L. M., & Markson, L. (2021). When positive outcomes and reality collide: Children prefer optimists as social partners. Cognitive Development. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101070 pdf

Silver, J., Barch, D. M., Klein, D. N., Whalen, D. J., Hennefield, L., Tillman, R., & Luby, J. L. (2021). A brief early childhood screening tool for psychopathology risk in primary care: The moderating role of poverty. The Journal of Pediatrics. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.04.042 pdf

2019

Hennefield, L., Whalen, D. J., Wood, G., Chavarria, M. C., & Luby, J. L. (2019). Changing conceptions of death as a function of depression status, suicidal ideation, and media exposure in early childhood, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2018.07.909 pdf

Donohue, M. R., Whalen, D. J., Gilbert, K. E., Hennefield, L., Barch, D. M., & Luby, J. L. (2019). Preschool depression: A diagnostic reality. Current Psychiatry Reports. doi:10.1007/s11920-019-1102-4  pdf

Rappaport, B. I., Hennefield, L., Kujawa, A., Arfer, K. B., Kelly, D., Kappenman, E. S., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. M. (2019). Peer victimization and dysfunctional reward processing: ERP and behavioral responses to social and monetary rewards, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00120 pdf

Hennefield, L., Hwang, H. G., & Povinelli, D. J. (2019). Going meta: Retelling the scientific retelling of Aesop’s the Crow and the Pitcher. Journal of Folklore Research. doi:10.2979/jfolkrese.56.2_3.04 pdf

2018

Hennefield*, L., Hwang*, H. G., Weston, S. J., & Povinelli, D. J. (2018). Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop’s Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning, Animal Cognitiondoi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1206-y pdf

2017

Hennefield, L. & Markson, L. (2017). Four-year-old children align their preferences with those of their peers. Collabra: Psychology. doi:10.1525/collabra.89 pdf

Luo, Y., Hennefield, L., Mou, Y., vanMarle, K., & Markson, L. (2017). Infants’ understanding of preferences when agents make inconsistent choices. Infancy. doi:10.1111/infa.12194

2016

Hennefield, L. & Markson, L. (2016). If you don’t want it, neither do I: Social influences on children’s choices. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.07.001 pdf

2012

Prasada, S., Hennefield, L., & Otap, D. (2012). Conceptual and linguistic representations of kinds and classes. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01254.x pdf