Heather A. Henderson

Heather A. Henderson

Assistant Professor, Child Division
University of Maryland, 2002

Temperamental contributions to children's social behavior; affective and cognitive influences on self-regulation in typically and atypically developing children; developmental psychophysiology.

Teaching

Selected Publications

Henderson, H. A., Zahka, N. E., Kojkowski, N. M., Inge, A. P., Schwartz, C. B., Hileman, C. M., Coman, D. C., & Mundy, P. C. (in press). Self-referenced memory, social cognition, and symptom presentation in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Schwartz, C. B., Henderson, H. A., Inge, A. P., Zahka, N. E., Coman, D. C., Kojkowski, N. M., Hileman, C. M., & Mundy, P. (in press). Temperament as a predictor of symptomotology and adaptive functioning in adolescents with high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Fox, N. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2008). Predicting social wariness in middle childhood: The moderating roles of child care history, maternal personality, and maternal behavior. Social Development, 17, 471-487.

Hane, A. A., Fox, N. A., Henderson, H. A., & Marshall, P. J. (2008). Behavioral reactivity and approach- withdrawal bias in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1491-1496

Henderson, H. A., & Wachs, T. D. (2007). Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development. Developmental Review, 27, 396-427.

Mundy, P. C., Henderson, H. A., Inge, A. P., & Coman, D. C. (2007). The modifier model of autism and social development in higher functioning children with autism. Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 32(2), 1-16.

Munis, P., Greenfield, D. B., Henderson, H. A., & George, J. (2007). Development and validation of the Preschool Temperament Classification System for use with teachers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22, 440-450.

Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2007). Considerations in studying emotion in infants and children. In J.A. Coan & J.J.B. Allen (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment (pp. 827-864). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, H. A., Schwartz, C. B., Mundy, P., Burnette, C., Sutton, S. K., Zahka, N., & Pradella, A. (2006). Response monitoring, the error-related negativity, and differences in social behavior in autism. Brain and Cognition, 61, 96-109.

Fox, N. A., Nichols, K., Henderson, H. A., Rubin, K. H., Schmidt, L. A., Hamer, D., Ernst, M., & Pine, D. (2005). Evidence for a gene-environment interaction in predicting behavioral inhibition in middle childhood. Psychological Science, 16, 921-926.

Henderson, H. A., Marshall, P. J., Fox, N. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2004). Psychophysiological and behavioral evidence for varying forms and functions of nonsocial behavior in preschoolers. Child Development, 75, 251-263.

Henderson, H. A., Fox, N. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2001). Temperamental contributions to social behavior: The moderating roles of frontal EEG asymmetry and gender. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 68-74. Reprinted in M. E. Hertzig & E. A. Farber (Eds.) (2005), Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology