Publications


Davis, M. M., Achterberg, M., Haughey, C., Boda, S., Lempres, S. M., Carpenter, K. L. H., Egger, H. L., Copeland, W. E., & Sheridan, M A., (2025). Neural Sensitivity to Social Feedback and Peer Context: Implications for Adolescent Mental Health. In-principal accepted registered report, Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science
Davis, M. M., Woodburn, M., Nugiel, T., Tate, M., Asciutto, W., Rakesh, D., Cohen, J. R., & Sheridan, M. A., (2025). Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(22), e2418176122.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418176122
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Clapham, R. B., Kim, Y., Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., Skymba, H. V., Telzer, E. H., Rudolph, K. D., (2025). Differential susceptibility to friendship quality: The role of need for approval. Social Development, 34(3), e12807.  https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12807
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 Rudolph, K. D., Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., Skymba, H. V., Finnegan, M., Haigler, K., Clapham, R., Ye, Z., Dodson, J., & Telzer, E. H. (2025). Emotional trade-offs of neural sensitivity to social threat and reward in adolescent girls. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1), nsaf048. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf048 
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 Navarro, E., Davis, M. M., Martin, S., Butler, L., Egger, H., Carpenter, K. L. H., Copeland, W. E., Sheridan, M. A. (2024). Pathways to health: A longitudinal examination of protective factors in children with and without preschool anxiety. Development and Psychopathology, 37(3), 1584-1592. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001652 
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Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., Skymba, H. V., Haigler, K., Finnegan, M. K., Telzer, E. H., Rudolph, K. R. (2024). Neural sensitivity to peer feedback and depressive symptoms: Moderation by executive function. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(6), e22515. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22515
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Skymba, H. V., Graham, C. N., Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Troop-Gordon, W., Heller, W., & Rudolph, K. D. (2024). Fixed trait emotion mindsets and emotion regulation self-efficacy: Moderation by emotional competence and gender. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, A Peer Relations Journal, 70(2), 249-267. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2024.a954131
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Davis, M. M., Navarro, E., Carpenter, K. L. H., Copeland, W. E., Small, B., Egger, H. L., & Sheridan, M. A. (2024). Early life adversity and psychopathology in preschoolers: Mechanisms and moderators. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(6), 1945–1954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02295-5 
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Davis, M. M., Surabhi, D. M., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2023). Risk for depressive symptoms among adolescents with a history of adversity: Unique role of stress appraisals. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 56, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01538-5
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Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Troop-Gordon, W., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2023). Need for approval and antisocial behavior predict adolescent girls' cognitive control in the context of socioemotional cues. Child Development, 94(2), 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13875
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Davis, M. M., Modi, H. H., Skymba, H. V., Finnegan, M. K., Haigler, K., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2023). Thumbs up or thumbs down: Neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), nsac055.  https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac055 
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Huggins, A. A., McTeague, L. M., Davis, M. M., Bustos, N., Crum, K. I., Polcyn, R., ... & Danielson, C. K. (2022). Neighborhood disadvantage associated with blunted amygdala reactivity to predictable and unpredictable threat in a community sample of youth. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 2(3), 242-252.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.03.006 
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Rudolph, K. D., Skymba, H. V., Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., & Sze, W. Y. (2022). Biological embedding of peer experiences: The contribution of peer adversity to stress regulation. In P. A. C van Lier, & K. D. Deckard (Eds.), Biosocial interplay in elementary school: Pathways toward maladaptation in young children (pp. 111 – 151). Springer.
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Skymba, H. V., Troop-Gordon, W., Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Weldon, A. L., Xia, Y., Heller, W., & Rudolph, K. D. (2022). Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence. Emotion, 22(6), 1255–1269.
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Rudolph, K. D., Davis, M. M., Skymba, H. V., Modi, H. H., Telzer, E. H. (2021). Social experience calibrates neural sensitivity to social feedback during adolescence: A functional connectivity approach. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, 100903.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100903 
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Rudolph, K. D., Skymba, H. S., Modi, H. H., Davis, M. M., Sze, W. Y., Rosswurm, C. P., & Telzer, E. H. (2021). How does peer adversity “Get inside the brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(3), 481-495.  https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22022 
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 Modi, H. H. Davis, M. M., Miernicki, M. E., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. R. (2020). Maternal antecedents to adolescent girls’ neural regulation of emotion. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30(3), 581-598.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12545 
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Davis, M. M., Miernicki, M. E., Telzer, E. H., & Rudolph, K. D. (2019). The contribution of childhood negative emotionality and cognitive control to anxiety-linked neural dysregulation of emotion in adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(3), 515-527.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0456-0 
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