Santiago Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 5758334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santiago Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santiago |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9850-042X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perceived Caregiver Discrimination and Neurocognitive Development: An Analysis from the Echo Cohort
The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears
BACKGROUND: Although social anxiety runs in families, little is known about how parents and children contribute to the intergenerational transmission of social fears. We examined whether mothers transfer social fear beliefs to their children through verbal communication and how children's behavioral inhibition and social anxiety contribute to this transmission. The associations of children's social fear beliefs with peer avoidance and interpretat…
Study protocol for a multimethod investigation of the development of social and nonsocial reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents: Reward and Depression in Autism (RDA)
This systematic study of reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents is likely to advance our collective understanding of depression in this population by informing risk stratification models and identifying potential intervention targets. Findings may also establish the reliability of several clinical and neural measures of reward responsivity in this population that can eventually be used to measure treatment outcome and identify…
Infants’ resting-state functional connectivity and event-related potentials: A multimodal approach to investigating the neural basis of infant novelty detection
Individual differences in how the brain responds to novelty are present from infancy. A common method of studying novelty processing is through event-related potentials (ERPs). While ERPs possess millisecond precision, spatial resolution remains poor, especially in infancy. This study aimed to balance spatial and temporal precision by combining ERP data with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Twenty-nine infants (15 female) underw…
Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat
Attention bias to threat is considered an adaptive cognitive phenomenon that is associated with developmental and psychopathological outcomes across the lifespan. However, investigations into the development of attention bias to threat in infancy have produced mixed results. Steady-state visual evoked potentials provide a robust measure of visual cortex processing and attention by capturing brain entrainment to the rhythmic flicker of visual stim…
Maternal education prospectively predicts child neurocognitive function: An environmental influences on child health outcomes study
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear if early maternal education is longitudinally related to neurocognitive functions in children, adolesc…
Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence
Children with a history of behaviorally inhibited (BI) temperament face a heightened risk for anxiety disorders and often use control strategies that are less planful. Although these relations have been observed concurrently in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, few studies leverage longitudinal data to examine long-term prospective relations between cognitive control and anxiety. Using longitudinal data from 149 adolescents (55%…
Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety
Behavioral Inhibition is a temperament identified in the first years of life that enhances the risk for development of anxiety during late childhood and adolescence. Amongst children characterized with this temperament, only around 40 percent go on to develop anxiety disorders, meaning that more than half of these children do not. Over the past 20 years, research has documented within‐child and socio‐contextual factors that support differing deve…
Association of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Perinatal Maternal Depression with Early Childhood Behavioral Problems: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (Echo) Study
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American Indian/Alaskan Native, <2% Native Hawaiian; 23% Hispanic). Data were collected from the NIH Environmental i…
El contínuum cultural, metodología para una historia integrada
La metodología del contínuum cultural fue creada en el 2011 durante la intervención arqueológica y de gestión en el complejo arqueológico Mateo Salado (Cercado de Lima). Dicha metodología propone que todas las actividades evidenciadas en un monumento a lo largo del tiempo tienen el mismo valor como modos de vida, conectando así, en la práctica, a la arqueología prehispánica, la arqueología histórica, la arqueología de lo contemporáneo y la arqueo…
Transactional Associations Between Parent and Late Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping
Examining a developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to emotion regulation and social anxiety: The moderating role of parenting
We examined the longitudinal relation between behavioral inhibition (BI) and social anxiety symptoms and behavior and the mediating role of emotion regulation (ER). Moreover, we investigated the influence of parenting behavior on the development of ER strategies. Participants were 291 children (135 male) followed longitudinally from 2 to 13 years. Mothers were predominantly well educated and non-Hispanic Caucasian. Children were screened for BI u…
Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy
Although cognitive theories of psychopathology suggest that attention bias toward threat plays a role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety, there is relatively little evidence regarding individual differences in the earliest development of attention bias toward threat. The current study examines attention bias toward threat during its potential first emergence by evaluating the relations between attention bias and known risk factors of anxi…
The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first 2 years of life
The current study examined the relations between individual differences in attention to emotion faces and temperamental negative affect across the first 2 years of life. Infant studies have noted a normative pattern of preferential attention to salient cues, particularly angry faces. A parallel literature suggests that elevated attention bias to threat is associated with anxiety, particularly if coupled with temperamental risk. Examining the emer…
Toddler Inhibitory Control, Bold Response to Novelty, and Positive Affect Predict Externalizing Symptoms in Kindergarten
Poor inhibitory control and bold-approach have been found to predict the development of externalizing behavior problems in young children. Less research has examined how positive affect may influence the development of externalizing behavior in the context of low inhibitory control and high approach. We used a multimethod approach to examine how observed toddler inhibitory control, bold-approach, and positive affect predicted externalizing outcom…
Toddler Inhibitory Control, Bold Response to Novelty, and Positive Affect Predict Externalizing Symptoms in Kindergarten
Poor inhibitory control and bold-approach have been found to predict the development of externalizing behavior problems in young children. Less research has examined how positive affect may influence the development of externalizing behavior in the context of low inhibitory control and high approach. We used a multimethod approach to examine how observed toddler inhibitory control, bold-approach, and positive affect predicted externalizing outcom…
Transactional Associations Between Parent and Late Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping
The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first 2 years of life
The current study examined the relations between individual differences in attention to emotion faces and temperamental negative affect across the first 2 years of life. Infant studies have noted a normative pattern of preferential attention to salient cues, particularly angry faces. A parallel literature suggests that elevated attention bias to threat is associated with anxiety, particularly if coupled with temperamental risk. Examining the emer…
Maternal education prospectively predicts child neurocognitive function: An environmental influences on child health outcomes study
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear if early maternal education is longitudinally related to neurocognitive functions in children, adolesc…
El contínuum cultural, metodología para una historia integrada
La metodología del contínuum cultural fue creada en el 2011 durante la intervención arqueológica y de gestión en el complejo arqueológico Mateo Salado (Cercado de Lima). Dicha metodología propone que todas las actividades evidenciadas en un monumento a lo largo del tiempo tienen el mismo valor como modos de vida, conectando así, en la práctica, a la arqueología prehispánica, la arqueología histórica, la arqueología de lo contemporáneo y la arqueo…
Toddler Inhibitory Control, Bold Response to Novelty, and Positive Affect Predict Externalizing Symptoms in Kindergarten
Poor inhibitory control and bold-approach have been found to predict the development of externalizing behavior problems in young children. Less research has examined how positive affect may influence the development of externalizing behavior in the context of low inhibitory control and high approach. We used a multimethod approach to examine how observed toddler inhibitory control, bold-approach, and positive affect predicted externalizing outcom…
Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy
Although cognitive theories of psychopathology suggest that attention bias toward threat plays a role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety, there is relatively little evidence regarding individual differences in the earliest development of attention bias toward threat. The current study examines attention bias toward threat during its potential first emergence by evaluating the relations between attention bias and known risk factors of anxi…
The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first 2 years of life
The current study examined the relations between individual differences in attention to emotion faces and temperamental negative affect across the first 2 years of life. Infant studies have noted a normative pattern of preferential attention to salient cues, particularly angry faces. A parallel literature suggests that elevated attention bias to threat is associated with anxiety, particularly if coupled with temperamental risk. Examining the emer…
Transactional Associations Between Parent and Late Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping
Examining a developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to emotion regulation and social anxiety: The moderating role of parenting
We examined the longitudinal relation between behavioral inhibition (BI) and social anxiety symptoms and behavior and the mediating role of emotion regulation (ER). Moreover, we investigated the influence of parenting behavior on the development of ER strategies. Participants were 291 children (135 male) followed longitudinally from 2 to 13 years. Mothers were predominantly well educated and non-Hispanic Caucasian. Children were screened for BI u…
Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety
Behavioral Inhibition is a temperament identified in the first years of life that enhances the risk for development of anxiety during late childhood and adolescence. Amongst children characterized with this temperament, only around 40 percent go on to develop anxiety disorders, meaning that more than half of these children do not. Over the past 20 years, research has documented within‐child and socio‐contextual factors that support differing deve…
Association of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Perinatal Maternal Depression with Early Childhood Behavioral Problems: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (Echo) Study
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American Indian/Alaskan Native, <2% Native Hawaiian; 23% Hispanic). Data were collected from the NIH Environmental i…
El contínuum cultural, metodología para una historia integrada
La metodología del contínuum cultural fue creada en el 2011 durante la intervención arqueológica y de gestión en el complejo arqueológico Mateo Salado (Cercado de Lima). Dicha metodología propone que todas las actividades evidenciadas en un monumento a lo largo del tiempo tienen el mismo valor como modos de vida, conectando así, en la práctica, a la arqueología prehispánica, la arqueología histórica, la arqueología de lo contemporáneo y la arqueo…
Maternal education prospectively predicts child neurocognitive function: An environmental influences on child health outcomes study
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear if early maternal education is longitudinally related to neurocognitive functions in children, adolesc…
Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence
Children with a history of behaviorally inhibited (BI) temperament face a heightened risk for anxiety disorders and often use control strategies that are less planful. Although these relations have been observed concurrently in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, few studies leverage longitudinal data to examine long-term prospective relations between cognitive control and anxiety. Using longitudinal data from 149 adolescents (55%…
The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears
BACKGROUND: Although social anxiety runs in families, little is known about how parents and children contribute to the intergenerational transmission of social fears. We examined whether mothers transfer social fear beliefs to their children through verbal communication and how children's behavioral inhibition and social anxiety contribute to this transmission. The associations of children's social fear beliefs with peer avoidance and interpretat…
Study protocol for a multimethod investigation of the development of social and nonsocial reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents: Reward and Depression in Autism (RDA)
This systematic study of reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents is likely to advance our collective understanding of depression in this population by informing risk stratification models and identifying potential intervention targets. Findings may also establish the reliability of several clinical and neural measures of reward responsivity in this population that can eventually be used to measure treatment outcome and identify…
Infants’ resting-state functional connectivity and event-related potentials: A multimodal approach to investigating the neural basis of infant novelty detection
Individual differences in how the brain responds to novelty are present from infancy. A common method of studying novelty processing is through event-related potentials (ERPs). While ERPs possess millisecond precision, spatial resolution remains poor, especially in infancy. This study aimed to balance spatial and temporal precision by combining ERP data with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Twenty-nine infants (15 female) underw…
Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat
Attention bias to threat is considered an adaptive cognitive phenomenon that is associated with developmental and psychopathological outcomes across the lifespan. However, investigations into the development of attention bias to threat in infancy have produced mixed results. Steady-state visual evoked potentials provide a robust measure of visual cortex processing and attention by capturing brain entrainment to the rhythmic flicker of visual stim…
Perceived Caregiver Discrimination and Neurocognitive Development: An Analysis from the Echo Cohort
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Anxiety (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (5 works)