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Negative affect as a mediator of the relationship between weight-based teasing and binge eating in adolescent girlsJessica L Suisman
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Eat Behav 9:493-6. 2008..Results suggest that increases in negative affect are one way in which weight-based teasing leads to binge eating in girls. Future studies should examine additional mediators and assess possible clinical applications of these findings...
The road less traveled: Associations between externalizing behaviors and eating pathologyJennifer D Slane
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:149-60. 2010..The current study investigated sex differences in associations between internalizing and externalizing symptoms and disordered eating...- Rethinking environmental contributions to child and adolescent psychopathology: a meta-analysis of shared environmental influencesS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Psychol Bull 135:608-37. 2009..Conceptual, methodological, and clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - Age-of-onset or behavioral sub-types? A prospective comparison of two approaches to characterizing the heterogeneity within antisocial behaviorS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:633-44. 2011..Such findings suggest that the behavioral sub-types of antisocial behavior may be a stronger predictor of later antisocial outcomes than is its age-of-onset... - How does the inclusion of twins conceived via fertility treatments influence the results of twin studies?S Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 15:746-52. 2012..We thus conclude that estimates of genetic and environmental influences obtained from twin studies over the last 10-15 years are more or less unaffected by the inclusion of twins conceived via fertility treatments in their samples... - Twin and family studies are actually more important than everS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Behav Brain Sci 35:361. 2012..I argue that twin and family studies will in fact serve a necessary and vital role in the study of epigenetic and neogenetic processes... - Additional evidence against shared environmental contributions to attention-deficit/hyperactivity problemsS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107D Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Behav Genet 42:711-21. 2012..We conclude that the presence of dominant genetic influences does not account for the absence of C on ADHD... - Etiological distinctions between aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behavior: results from a nuclear twin family modelS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107D Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:1059-71. 2012..Nevertheless, the current findings also implied that additive genetic influences on antisocial behavior may be overestimated when using the classical twin design... - How do we optimally conceptualize the heterogeneity within antisocial behavior? An argument for aggressive versus non-aggressive behavioral dimensionsS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107D Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 32:263-79. 2012..Available evidence further indicates that neither AGG nor RB is redundant with callous-unemotional traits. The current review thus underscores the clear advantages of differentiating between AGG and RB when studying antisocial behavior... - Are there meaningful etiological differences within antisocial behavior? Results of a meta-analysisS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 29:163-78. 2009.... - Parental divorce and adolescent delinquency: ruling out the impact of common genesS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1668-77. 2008..Results firmly supported the latter, suggesting that it is the experience of parental divorce, and not common genes, that drives the association between divorce and adolescent delinquency... - Confirming the etiology of adolescent acting-out behaviors: an examination of observer-ratings in a sample of adoptive and biological siblingsS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:519-26. 2011..Second, we sought to confirm that these shared environmental influences persist across informants (i.e., the effects are not specific to the rater or the context in question)... - A mechanistic explanation of popularity: genes, rule breaking, and evocative gene-environment correlationsAlexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:783-94. 2009..Moreover, the present results represent the first meaningfully explicated evidence that genes predispose individuals not only to particular behaviors but also to the social consequences of those behaviors... - Environmental contributions to the stability of antisocial behavior over time: are they shared or non-shared?S Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:327-37. 2010..Such results provide an important constructive replication of prior research, strongly suggesting that shared environmental contributions to antisocial behavior are systematic in nature... - Aggressive versus nonaggressive antisocial behavior: distinctive etiological moderation by ageS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 45:1164-76. 2009..Subsequent longitudinal analyses fully replicated these results. Such findings highlight etiological distinctions between aggression and delinquency, and offer insights into the expression of genetic influences during development... - Development and validation of the Subtypes of Antisocial Behavior QuestionnaireS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Aggress Behav 35:376-98. 2009..In short, it appears that the STAB is a brief and useful measure that can be used to differentiate and assess physically aggressive, rule-breaking, and socially aggressive forms of antisocial behavior... - The etiological moderation of aggressive and nonaggressive antisocial behavior by ageS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:343-50. 2009.... - Are there shared environmental influences on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Reply to Wood, Buitelaar, Rijsdijk, Asherson, and Kuntsi [corrected] (2010)S Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Psychol Bull 136:341-3. 2010..are very important, they do not undermine my earlier results (Burt, 2009b). I close with a discussion of 2 issues that may allow for some shared environmental influences on ADHD... - Do aggression and rule-breaking have different interpersonal correlates? A study of antisocial behavior subtypes, negative affect, and hostile perceptions of othersS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Aggress Behav 35:453-61. 2009..Such results provide additional support for clinically meaningful differences between the behavioral subtypes of aggression and nonaggressive rule-breaking and for the independent role of hostile perceptions in aggressive behavior... - A comparison of two different approaches to characterizing the heterogeneity within antisocial behavior: age-of-onset versus behavioral sub-typesS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Pers Disord 24:272-83. 2010..Such findings suggest that the behavioral sub-types may prove to be a stronger predictor of antisocial behavior outcomes than is age-of-onset... - Does marriage inhibit antisocial behavior?: An examination of selection vs causation via a longitudinal twin designS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1309-15. 2010..Although often interpreted as a causal association, marriage is not a random event. As such, the association may stem from selection processes, whereby men less inclined toward antisocial behavior are more likely to marry... - How are parent-child conflict and childhood externalizing symptoms related over time? Results from a genetically informative cross-lagged studyS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:145-65. 2005..These results suggest a "downward spiral" of interplay between parent-child conflict and EXT, and offer confirmation of a (partially) environmentally mediated effect of parenting on child behavior... - Sources of covariation among the child-externalizing disorders: informant effects and the shared environmentS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Psychol Med 35:1133-44. 2005.... - Timing of menarche and the origins of conduct disorderS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:890-6. 2006.... - The different origins of stability and change in antisocial personality disorder symptomsS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Med 37:27-38. 2007..To date, however, researchers have yet to resolve the origins of either stability or change in antisocial behavior from childhood/adolescence to adulthood... - Differential parent-child relationships and adolescent externalizing symptoms: cross-lagged analyses within a monozygotic twin differences designS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 42:1289-98. 2006..These results suggest that markedly different parent-child conflict has an environmentally mediated impact on child behavior through mid-adolescence, findings that yield insights into environmental influences on behavior... - Nonshared environmental mediation of the association between deviant peer affiliation and adolescent externalizing behaviors over time: results from a cross-lagged monozygotic twin differences designS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 45:1752-60. 2009..Implications are discussed... 
Environmental contributions to adolescent delinquency: a fresh look at the shared environmentS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107D Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:787-800. 2007..Such findings provide an important extension of previous twin studies, as they suggest that passive genotype-environment correlations do not explain earlier findings of shared environmental influences on this association...- Genes and popularity: evidence of an evocative gene-environment correlationS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Psychol Sci 19:112-3. 2008 - Preliminary evidence that specific candidate genes are associated with adolescent-onset antisocial behaviorS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Aggress Behav 34:437-45. 2008..They also offer preliminary evidence that the genetic processes underlying aggressive and nonaggressive antisocial behavior may be (at least partially) distinct... - A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between disordered eating attitudes and behaviors and parent-child conflict: a monozygotic twin differences designAlexia Spanos
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:293-9. 2010..Findings suggest differences in parent-child conflict between genetically identical twins may be a consequence of, rather than a risk factor for, differences in disordered eating... - Puberty and the genetic diathesis of disordered eating attitudes and behaviorsKristen M Culbert
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:788-96. 2009..Findings highlight the potentially important role of puberty in the genetic diathesis of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors and the need to use early indicators of pubertal status in studies of developmental effects... - Genetic and environmental influences on disordered eating: An adoption studyKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:797-805. 2009..Shared environmental factors did not contribute significantly to any disordered eating symptom. Our findings bolster those from twin studies and provide critical evidence of significant genetic effects on disordered eating symptoms... - Parental divorce and disordered eating: an investigation of a gene-environment interactionJessica L Suisman
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1116, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:169-77. 2011..We investigated gene-environment interactions (GxE) for associations between parental divorce and disordered eating (DE)... - Parent-child conflict and the comorbidity among childhood externalizing disordersS Alexandra Burt
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:505-13. 2003..Our goals were to determine whether parent-child conflict was associated with the comorbidity among ADHD, CD, and ODD, and to explicitly examine the etiology of this association via a genetically informative design... - Genetic and environmental influences on disordered eating and depressive symptomsJennifer D Slane
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:605-11. 2011..This study examined whether genetic associations observed between eating disorder and depression diagnoses extend to continuous measures of these phenotypes... - The relationship between parent-child conflict and adolescent antisocial behavior: confirming shared environmental mediationAshlea M Klahr
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:683-94. 2011..Such findings argue strongly against rater bias as a primary explanation of shared environmental mediation of the association between parent-child conflict and adolescent antisocial behavior... - Growth curve models for indistinguishable dyads using multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling: the case of adolescent twins' conflict with their mothersDeborah A Kashy
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Dev Psychol 44:316-29. 2008..They illustrate modeling issues using an overtime study of adolescent twins' conflict with their mothers, a substantively important topic given the enduring interest in parent-child relationships during adolescence... - Changes in genetic and environmental influences on disordered eating across adolescence: a longitudinal twin studyKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107B Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1409-15. 2007..Previous research suggests substantial increases in genetic effects on disordered eating across adolescence. Unfortunately, these studies were cross-sectional and focused primarily on early (age 11 years) vs late (age 17 years) adolescence... - The construct validity of rule-breaking and aggression in an adult clinical sampleChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Psychiatr Res 43:803-8. 2009..Gender moderation effects were limited. It was concluded that AGG and RB represent separable components of antisocial behavior with differential and clinically meaningful correlates in an adult clinical sample... - Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: a three-wave longitudinal studyChristopher J Hopwood
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:545-56. 2011..Overall, these genetically informed results support a life-course perspective on personality development during the transition to adulthood... - Genetic and environmental influences on thin-ideal internalizationJessica L Suisman
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Int J Eat Disord 45:942-8. 2012..This study used a twin design to estimate genetic effects on thin-ideal internalization and examine if environmental influences are primarily shared or nonshared in origin... - Dietary restraint moderates genetic risk for binge eatingSarah E Racine
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 107B Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:119-28. 2011..Results suggest that dietary restraint may be most important for individuals at genetic risk for binge eating and that the combination of these factors could enhance individual differences in risk for binge eating... - Age differences in genetic and environmental influences on weight and shape concernsKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1116, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:679-88. 2010..The goal of this study was to investigate these age differences in preadolescent, adolescent, young adult, and mid-adult twins... - Identifying shared environmental contributions to early substance use: the respective roles of peers and parentsBrent Walden
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:440-50. 2004..Findings also indicated that peer deviance, but not parent-child relationship problems, accounted uniquely for variance in early substance use... - The association between parent-child conflict and adolescent conduct problems over time: results from a longitudinal adoption studyAshlea M Klahr
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 37A Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:46-56. 2011..Implications of the findings are discussed... - Externalizing psychopathology and marital adjustment in long-term marriages: results from a large combined sample of married couplesMikhila N Humbad
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:151-62. 2010..These results highlight the importance of examining the presence of externalizing psychopathology and the personality attributes of both members of a dyad when considering psychological predictors of marital adjustment... - Correction to klump et Al. (2012)Kelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
J Abnorm Psychol 122:137. 2013..Future work should explore mechanisms (e.g., gene-hormone interactions) that contribute to both within- and between-subjects differences in emotional eating. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)... - Factor structure of the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale for studies of youths with externalizing behavior problemsJoel T Nigg
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA
Psychol Assess 21:450-6. 2009..The authors concluded that the item-based 4-factor solution to the CPIC is preferable to the 9-factor or 3-factor formulation... - Differential associations between ovarian hormones and disordered eating symptoms across the menstrual cycle in womenSarah E Racine
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Int J Eat Disord 45:333-44. 2012.... - Youth appraisals of inter-parental conflict and genetic and environmental contributions to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: examination of GxE effects in a twin sampleMolly Nikolas
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 40:543-54. 2012..Results suggest that appraisals of self-blame in relation to inter-parental conflict may act as a key moderator of etiological contributions to ADHD... - Development of the Brief Romantic Relationship Interaction Coding Scheme (BRRICS)Mikhila N Humbad
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Fam Psychol 25:759-69. 2011.... - The heritability of life events: an adolescent twin and adoption studyHeather R Bemmels
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 11:257-65. 2008..Findings are discussed in terms of their implication for understanding the nature of psychosocial risk... - Do weight and shape concerns exhibit genetic effects? Investigating discrepant findingsAlexia Spanos
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:29-34. 2010..The present study sought to resolve these discrepancies by examining the heritability of both types of weight and shape concerns in a young adult twin sample... - Individual differences in the relationship between ovarian hormones and emotional eating across the menstrual cycle: A role for personality?Sarah E Racine
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Eat Behav 14:161-6. 2013..Additional factors, other than the two personality traits examined, may account for individual differences in within-person associations between hormones and emotional eating... - Ovarian hormones and emotional eating associations across the menstrual cycle: an examination of the potential moderating effects of body mass index and dietary restraintKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Int J Eat Disord 46:256-63. 2013..We investigated body-weight regulation variables [body mass index (BMI), dietary restraint] that have theoretical relevance by virtue of their associations with both phenotypes... - The interactive effects of estrogen and progesterone on changes in emotional eating across the menstrual cycleKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 122:131-7. 2013..Future work should explore mechanisms (e.g., gene-hormone interactions) that contribute to both within- and between-subjects differences in emotional eating... - Genes, personality, and attachment in adults: a multivariate behavioral genetic analysisM Brent Donnellan
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:3-16. 2008.... - The Michigan State University Twin Registry (MSUTR): genetic, environmental and neurobiological influences on behavior across developmentKelly L Klump
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:971-7. 2006..To date, we have collected data on over 1000 twins, with additional data collections underway. This article provides an overview of the newly developed MSUTR and describes current and future research directions... - Prenatal hormone exposure and risk for eating disorders: a comparison of opposite-sex and same-sex twinsKristen M Culbert
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1116, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:329-36. 2008..Prenatal testosterone exposure is a promising candidate, since it masculinizes behavior in animals and humans via its permanent effects on the central nervous system... - Etiological contributions to heavy drinking from late adolescence to young adulthoodSerena M King
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:587-98. 2005.... - Genetic and environmental influences on ADHD symptom dimensions of inattention and hyperactivity: a meta-analysisMolly A Nikolas
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:1-17. 2010..These findings highlight the need for future studies to disambiguate INATT and HYP when investigating the causal mechanisms, and particularly genetic influences, behind ADHD... - Interpersonal problems associated with multidimensional personality questionnaire traits in women during the transition to adulthoodChristopher J Hopwood
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Assessment 20:60-7. 2013.... - Etiological Contributions to the Covariation Between Children's Perceptions of Inter-Parental Conflict and Child Behavioral ProblemsMolly Nikolas
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, E112 SSH, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 41:239-51. 2013..Overall, findings suggest that the subscales of the CPIC are somewhat etiologically diverse and may provide a useful tool for future investigations of possible gene-environment interplay...
Research Grants
- Gene-environment Interactions in Childhood Conduct ProblemsS Burt; Fiscal Year: 2009..Such findings should ultimately provide information for more effective individually-tailored interventions aimed at the amelioration of child CP. ..
- Gene-environment Interactions in Childhood Conduct ProblemsS Alexandra Burt; Fiscal Year: 2010..Such findings should ultimately provide information for more effective individually-tailored interventions aimed at the amelioration of child CP. ..
- Integrating contextual, proximal, and individual risks for child conduct problemsS Alexandra Burt; Fiscal Year: 2010..Such findings should ultimately inform individually-tailored interventions aimed at the amelioration of child CP. ..