Jessica A Stern
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 764920 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jessica A Stern |
| NOMBRES | Jessica A |
| APELLIDO | Stern |
| FIRMA | STERN J A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1357-724X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
United States Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons
The United States Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons was established by presidential mandate and sat in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State. The position was established in 2015 when John Kerry served as the U.S. Secretary of State during the second Barack Obama administration. It did not exist during the first Donald Trump administration. Special Envoy Jessica Stern (JS) became the …
Coordination of parent and adolescent attachment across time
Adolescence is a period of rapid social changes that may have important implications for the ways adolescents think, feel, and behave in their close relationships. According to family systems theory, adolescents' attachment-related changes have the potential to spread throughout their family system, leading to coordinated changes in parents' and adolescents' attachment styles over time. The present study analyzed data from 205 adolescents ( M age…
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
Adolescent responses to paternal verbal aggression
INTRODUCTION: Prior research suggests several pathways through which verbal aggression manifests across adolescent relationship contexts, including spillover (continuity of aggression across different relationships) and compensation (offsetting an aggressive relationship with less aggression in other relationships). These pathways vary across timescales in ways that between-person analytic approaches are unlikely to adequately capture. The curren…
Empathy across three generations
This study examined the development of empathic care across three generations in a sample of 184 adolescents in the United States (99 female, 85 male; 58% White, 29% African American, 8% mixed race/ethnicity, 5% other groups), followed from their family of origin at age 13 into their parenting years (through their mid-30s). Mothers' empathic support toward adolescents at age 13 predicted teens' empathy for close friends across adolescence (13–19 …
Does attachment in adolescence predict neural responses to handholding in adulthood? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Objective: Early life experiences, including attachment-related experiences, inform internal working models that guide adult relationship behaviors. Few studies have examined the association between adolescent attachment and adult relationship behavior on a neural level. The current study examined attachment in adolescence and its associations with neural correlates of relationship behaviors in adulthood. Method: 85 participants completed the Adu…
Vulnerable self-disclosure co-develops in adolescent friendships
This study examines the development of vulnerable self-disclosure in supportive interactions from ages 13 to 29. A diverse community sample ( N = 184; 85 boys 99 girls; 58% white, 29% Black, 13% other identity groups) participated in annual observed interactions with close friends and romantic partners. Participants were observed as they sought and provided support to their best friends each year from age 13 to 18, and as they sought support from…
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33
Adolescent success providing satisfying support in response to a close friend's call in a caregiving task was examined as a potentially fundamental developmental competence likely to predict future social functioning, adult caregiving security, and physical health. Adolescents (86 males, 98 females; 58% White, 29% African American, 8% mixed race/ethnicity, 5% other) were followed from ages 13 to 33 (1998–2021) using multiple methods and reporters…
Sexual Experiences and Attachment Styles in Online and Offline Dating Contexts
Objective: Nearly 50% of adults under age 29 report using some form of online dating to find sexual partners or romantic relationships. Limited evidence suggests online and offline dating behaviors and experiences can vary. We aimed to expand understanding these differences by examining how attachment styles are associated with online and offline search for partners and emotional responses to sexual experiences. Methods: In a sample of single adu…
Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy
Research on parent-child relationships demonstrates the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of children's emotion regulation, social competence, and health; thus, it is important to understand the emotional-cognitive capacities underlying maternal sensitivity. We followed 120 mothers and their full-term infants from the newborn period to 5 months postpartum. Mothers' emotion recognition during the newborn period was measured us…
Characterizing Emotional Support Development
This study examined development of emotional support competence within close friendships across adolescence. A sample of 184 adolescents (53% girls, 47% boys; 58% White, 29% Black, 14% other identity groups) participated in seven waves of multimethod assessments with their best friends and romantic partners from age 13 to 24. Latent change score models identified coupled predictions over time from emotional support competence to increasing friend…
Parent and Romantic Partner Behaviors during Adolescence as Predictors of Young Adult Positive Personality, Relational Competence, and Functional Independence
Here for You
Attachment was examined as a predictor of teens’ empathic support for friends in a multimethod longitudinal study of 184 U.S. adolescents (58% Caucasian, 29% African American, 13% other) followed from ages 14 to 18. Adolescents’ secure state of mind regarding attachment at 14 predicted teens’ greater capacity to provide empathic support during observed interactions with friends across ages 16–18 (Baverage = .39). Teens’ empathic support was gener…
Reflective functioning and empathy among mothers of school-aged children
Parental child-focused reflective functioning (RF)-understanding children's behavior as a function of mental states-and parental empathy -understanding, resonating with, and feeling concern for children's emotions-have each been linked to sensitive caregiving and children's attachment security in separate studies, but they have been neither directly compared nor have researchers tested whether they interact in predicting child outcomes. In this a…
Empathic responding and hippocampal volume in young children
Empathic responding-the capacity to understand, resonate with, and respond sensitively to others' emotional experiences-is a complex human faculty that calls upon multiple social, emotional, and cognitive capacities and their underlying neural systems. Emerging evidence in adults has suggested that the hippocampus and its associated network may play an important role in empathic responding, possibly via processes such as memory of emotional event…
Empathy from infancy to adolescence
Developmental processes across the first two years of parenthood
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in first-time mothers' attachment style across the first 2 years of motherhood. At Time 1, 162 economically stre…
The multifaceted nature of prosocial behavior in children
Prosocial behavior involves attempting to improve others’ welfare and plays a central role in cooperative social relationships. Among the manifold processes that contribute to prosocial development is the quality of children's attachment to their caregivers. Often, researchers have investigated the link between secure attachment and broad indices of prosociality. Recent theory and research, however, suggest that children's prosocial behavior is m…
PTSD
Response to Marc Sageman's “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”
The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America
Book Review| January 01 2012 The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America. By Loren, Diana DiPaolo. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. $69.95 cloth.) Jessica Stern Jessica Stern Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 178–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1435630 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Religious Violence and Peace
Religious faith meets some extremely important psychological needs that have existed since the emergence of humankind: it provides a sense of security, safety, meaning, and comfort in a threatening world in which the only real certainty is that someday we will die. However, ideologically inspired violence—both terrorism and war—is also on the rise. According to research by Monica Toft, religious wars are more common than secular ones, and they ar…
Strengths and limits of criminological research on terrorism
Precaution Against Terrorism
Stunned by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration adopted a new National Security Strategy in September 2002. The UK government took a similar stance. This new strategy calls for anticipatory attacks against potential enemies with uncertain capacities and intentions, even before their threat is imminent. Rather than wait for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shifts the burden of proof, obliging “rogue” stat…
The Politics of Fear after 9/11
Pakistan's Jihad Culture
This spring the U.S. State Department reported that South Asia has replaced the Middle East as the leading locus of terrorism in the world. Although much has been written about religious militants in the Middle East and Afghanistan, little is known in the West about those in Pakistan?perhaps because they operate mainly in Kashmir and, for now at least, do not threaten security outside South Asia. General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military rule…
The multifaceted nature of prosocial behavior in children
Prosocial behavior involves attempting to improve others’ welfare and plays a central role in cooperative social relationships. Among the manifold processes that contribute to prosocial development is the quality of children's attachment to their caregivers. Often, researchers have investigated the link between secure attachment and broad indices of prosociality. Recent theory and research, however, suggest that children's prosocial behavior is m…
The Protean Enemy
HAVING SUFFERED the destruction of its sanctuary in Afghanistan two years ago, al Qaeda's already decentralized organization has become more decentralized still. The group's leaders have largely dispersed to Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world (only a few still remain in Afghanistan's lawless border regions). And with many of the planet's intelligence agencies now focusing on destroying its network, al Qaeda's ability to carry ou…
Precaution Against Terrorism
Stunned by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration adopted a new National Security Strategy in September 2002. The UK government took a similar stance. This new strategy calls for anticipatory attacks against potential enemies with uncertain capacities and intentions, even before their threat is imminent. Rather than wait for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shifts the burden of proof, obliging “rogue” stat…
Developmental processes across the first two years of parenthood
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in first-time mothers' attachment style across the first 2 years of motherhood. At Time 1, 162 economically stre…
Characterizing Emotional Support Development
This study examined development of emotional support competence within close friendships across adolescence. A sample of 184 adolescents (53% girls, 47% boys; 58% White, 29% Black, 14% other identity groups) participated in seven waves of multimethod assessments with their best friends and romantic partners from age 13 to 24. Latent change score models identified coupled predictions over time from emotional support competence to increasing friend…
Response to Marc Sageman's “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”
Empathic responding and hippocampal volume in young children
Empathic responding-the capacity to understand, resonate with, and respond sensitively to others' emotional experiences-is a complex human faculty that calls upon multiple social, emotional, and cognitive capacities and their underlying neural systems. Emerging evidence in adults has suggested that the hippocampus and its associated network may play an important role in empathic responding, possibly via processes such as memory of emotional event…
Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons
January 01 2003 Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons Jessica Stern Jessica Stern Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jessica Stern Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2003 President …
Vulnerable self-disclosure co-develops in adolescent friendships
This study examines the development of vulnerable self-disclosure in supportive interactions from ages 13 to 29. A diverse community sample ( N = 184; 85 boys 99 girls; 58% white, 29% Black, 13% other identity groups) participated in annual observed interactions with close friends and romantic partners. Participants were observed as they sought and provided support to their best friends each year from age 13 to 18, and as they sought support from…
Fearing Evil
Jessica Stern Fearing Evil Evil doers are evil dreaders. —Sixteenth-century proverb A M E R IC A N S ARE LIVIN G IN A D RE AD FU L AGE: OF " SHOE B O M B E R S" and orange alerts, of suicide-murderers and poisonous bombs, of pronouncements by our enemies that they will destroy our will as well as our countiy. We are unaccustomed to living with such dizzying uncertainty. For the first time in histoiy, American citizens feel vulner able in their o…
Parent and Romantic Partner Behaviors during Adolescence as Predictors of Young Adult Positive Personality, Relational Competence, and Functional Independence
Strengths and limits of criminological research on terrorism
It Could Happen Here
Pakistan's Jihad Culture
This spring the U.S. State Department reported that South Asia has replaced the Middle East as the leading locus of terrorism in the world. Although much has been written about religious militants in the Middle East and Afghanistan, little is known in the West about those in Pakistan?perhaps because they operate mainly in Kashmir and, for now at least, do not threaten security outside South Asia. General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military rule…
Preparing for a War on Terrorism
America's goal must be to prevent future strikes by its enemies. The United States cannot afford to allow an emotional desire for quick retribution to override its long-term national security interests. It would not be difficult to make things worse rather than better
Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons
January 01 2003 Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons Jessica Stern Jessica Stern Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jessica Stern Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Online ISSN: 1531-4804 Print ISSN: 0162-2889 © 2003 President …
Terror in the Name of God
For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively-to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola-she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common. Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains h…
The Protean Enemy
HAVING SUFFERED the destruction of its sanctuary in Afghanistan two years ago, al Qaeda's already decentralized organization has become more decentralized still. The group's leaders have largely dispersed to Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere around the world (only a few still remain in Afghanistan's lawless border regions). And with many of the planet's intelligence agencies now focusing on destroying its network, al Qaeda's ability to carry ou…
The Politics of Fear after 9/11
The Politics of Fear after 9/11
Triborder Dispute
Fearing Evil
Jessica Stern Fearing Evil Evil doers are evil dreaders. —Sixteenth-century proverb A M E R IC A N S ARE LIVIN G IN A D RE AD FU L AGE: OF " SHOE B O M B E R S" and orange alerts, of suicide-murderers and poisonous bombs, of pronouncements by our enemies that they will destroy our will as well as our countiy. We are unaccustomed to living with such dizzying uncertainty. For the first time in histoiy, American citizens feel vulner able in their o…
Precaution Against Terrorism
Stunned by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration adopted a new National Security Strategy in September 2002. The UK government took a similar stance. This new strategy calls for anticipatory attacks against potential enemies with uncertain capacities and intentions, even before their threat is imminent. Rather than wait for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shifts the burden of proof, obliging “rogue” stat…
Strengths and limits of criminological research on terrorism
Religious Violence and Peace
Religious faith meets some extremely important psychological needs that have existed since the emergence of humankind: it provides a sense of security, safety, meaning, and comfort in a threatening world in which the only real certainty is that someday we will die. However, ideologically inspired violence—both terrorism and war—is also on the rise. According to research by Monica Toft, religious wars are more common than secular ones, and they ar…
The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America
Book Review| January 01 2012 The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America. By Loren, Diana DiPaolo. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. $69.95 cloth.) Jessica Stern Jessica Stern Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 178–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1435630 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
PTSD
Response to Marc Sageman's “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”
The multifaceted nature of prosocial behavior in children
Prosocial behavior involves attempting to improve others’ welfare and plays a central role in cooperative social relationships. Among the manifold processes that contribute to prosocial development is the quality of children's attachment to their caregivers. Often, researchers have investigated the link between secure attachment and broad indices of prosociality. Recent theory and research, however, suggest that children's prosocial behavior is m…
Empathy from infancy to adolescence
Developmental processes across the first two years of parenthood
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in first-time mothers' attachment style across the first 2 years of motherhood. At Time 1, 162 economically stre…
Empathic responding and hippocampal volume in young children
Empathic responding-the capacity to understand, resonate with, and respond sensitively to others' emotional experiences-is a complex human faculty that calls upon multiple social, emotional, and cognitive capacities and their underlying neural systems. Emerging evidence in adults has suggested that the hippocampus and its associated network may play an important role in empathic responding, possibly via processes such as memory of emotional event…
Reflective functioning and empathy among mothers of school-aged children
Parental child-focused reflective functioning (RF)-understanding children's behavior as a function of mental states-and parental empathy -understanding, resonating with, and feeling concern for children's emotions-have each been linked to sensitive caregiving and children's attachment security in separate studies, but they have been neither directly compared nor have researchers tested whether they interact in predicting child outcomes. In this a…
Here for You
Attachment was examined as a predictor of teens’ empathic support for friends in a multimethod longitudinal study of 184 U.S. adolescents (58% Caucasian, 29% African American, 13% other) followed from ages 14 to 18. Adolescents’ secure state of mind regarding attachment at 14 predicted teens’ greater capacity to provide empathic support during observed interactions with friends across ages 16–18 (Baverage = .39). Teens’ empathic support was gener…
Sexual Experiences and Attachment Styles in Online and Offline Dating Contexts
Objective: Nearly 50% of adults under age 29 report using some form of online dating to find sexual partners or romantic relationships. Limited evidence suggests online and offline dating behaviors and experiences can vary. We aimed to expand understanding these differences by examining how attachment styles are associated with online and offline search for partners and emotional responses to sexual experiences. Methods: In a sample of single adu…
Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy
Research on parent-child relationships demonstrates the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of children's emotion regulation, social competence, and health; thus, it is important to understand the emotional-cognitive capacities underlying maternal sensitivity. We followed 120 mothers and their full-term infants from the newborn period to 5 months postpartum. Mothers' emotion recognition during the newborn period was measured us…
Characterizing Emotional Support Development
This study examined development of emotional support competence within close friendships across adolescence. A sample of 184 adolescents (53% girls, 47% boys; 58% White, 29% Black, 14% other identity groups) participated in seven waves of multimethod assessments with their best friends and romantic partners from age 13 to 24. Latent change score models identified coupled predictions over time from emotional support competence to increasing friend…
Psychology (22 obras) · Developmental psychology (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (12 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (8 obras) · Criminology (7 obras)