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Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, Dr. McElwain received a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her research focuses on social and emotional development during the first five years of life. In particular, Dr. McElwain investigates the dynamic early-life interactions between parents and children that shape children’s developing abilities to regulate stress. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines neuroscience, psychophysiology, linguistics, and developmental psychology.
Dr. McElwain teaches courses on behavioral research methods and social-emotional development, and she currently serves on the Editorial Board of the American Psychologist.
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Research Interests:


Physiological and neural correlates of infant-mother attachment


Emotion-related dynamics of parent-child interactions


Maternal speech prosody and children's stress regulation


Parental socialization of emotion


Family-friend linkages and children's social-emotional competence


Education


Ph.D., psychology, University of Michigan, 1999