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Nancy Eisenberg

Nancy Eisenberg

Professor Eisenberg has research interests in socialization and moral and emotional development, socio-emotional competence, altruism, empathy, and gender role development.

Primary Interests:

  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Ethics and Morality
  • Gender Psychology
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Personality, Individual Differences

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Self-Regulation: Definitions and Relations to Adjustment and Empathy-Related Responding

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  • Eisenberg, N., Cumberland, A., Spinrad, T. L., Fabes, R. A., Shepard, S. A., Reiser, M., Murphy, B. C., Losoya, S. H., & Guthrie, I. K. (2001). The relations of regulation and emotionality to children's externalizing and internalizing problem behavior. Child Development, 72, 1112-1134.
  • Eisenberg, N., Gershoff, E. T., Fabes, R. A., Shepard, S. A., Cumberland, A. J., Lososya, S. H., Guthrie, I. K., & Murphy, B. C. (2001). Mothers' emotional expressivity and children's behavior problems and social competence: Mediation through children's regulation. Developmental Psychology, 37, 475-490.
  • Eisenberg, N., Guthrie, I., Cumberland, A., Murphy, B. C., Shepard, S. A., Zhou, Q., & Carlo, G. (2002). Prosocial development in early adulthood: A longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 993‑1006.
  • Eisenberg, N., Pidada, S., & Liew, J. (2001). The relations of regulation and negative emotionality to Indonesian children's social functioning. Child Development, 72, 1747-1763.
  • Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Morris, A. S., Fabes, R. A., Cumberland, A., Reiser, M., Gershoff, E. T., Shepard, S. A., & Losoya, S. (2003). Longitudinal relations among parental emotional expressivity, children's regulation, and quality of socioemotional functioning. Developmental Psychology, 39, 2-19.
  • Zhou, Q., Eisenberg, N., Losoya, S., Fabes, R. A., Reiser, M., Guthrie, I. K., Murphy, B., Cumberland, A., & Shepard, S. A. (2002). The relations of parental warmth and positive expressiveness to children's empathy-related responding and social functioning: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 73, 893‑915.

Nancy Eisenberg
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Box 871104
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1104
United States of America

  • Phone: (480) 965-5217
  • Fax: (480) 965-8544

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