Chris L Porter, Associate Professor of Human Development and Neuroscience

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Research interests include the socialization of behavioral and psychophysiological components of young children's individual characteristics (temperament, emotionality) with particular interest on linkages to individual differences in emerging neural control on children's heart rate variability (i.e., cardiac vagal tone). Additional interests include familial and individual factors influencing the formation of early childhood attachment systems and familial and individual factors influencing the transition to parenting and the emergence of parenting belief systems (self-efficacy).

Porter, C. L. & Rollins, N. (2005). Parenting that strengthens each family member. Helping and Healing our Families: Principles and Practices Inspired by "The Family: A Proclamation to the World".
Hsu, H & PORTER, C. L. (2005). Young infants' behavioral reactivity to mild perturbation: Developmental continuity, stability, and organization. Infancy.
PORTER, C. L., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., Zeng, Q., Robinson, C.C., Olsen, J. A., Olsen, S. F. & Jin, S. (2005). A comparative study of child temperament and parenting in Beijing, China and the Western United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
Yang, C., Hart, C. H., Nelson, D. A., PORTER, C. L., Olsen, S. F. Robinson, C. C. & Jin, S (2004). Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese sample: Associations with boys' and girls' negative emotionality and aggression. Conceptualizing and measuring fatherhood.
PORTER, C.L. & Hsu, H. (2003). First-time mothers' perceptions of efficacy during the transition to motherhood: Links to infant temperament. Journal of Family Psychology.
PORTER, C.L., Wouden-Miller, M., Silva, S.S., & Porter, A.E. (2003). Marital harmony and conflict: Links to infants' emotional regulation and cardiac vagal tone. Infancy.