Recent Publications
2024
Tomaso, C. C., James, T. D., Brock, R. L., Yaroch, A. L., Hill, J. L., Huang, T. T., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Early childhood executive control modulates negative affectivity's role in increasing adolescent body mass index trajectories. Pediatric obesity, e13144. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.13144
Sarwar, S., Hill., J.L., Yaroch, A.L., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2024). Associations between adolescent food environments and dietary intake. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 56(12), 869-880.
Phillips, E. M., Goldberg, E. L., Brock, R. L., Hamburger, E. R., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Adolescent sleep as a transdiagnostic factor: Associations between actigraphy-derived night-to-night sleep metrics and adolescent psychopathology. JAACAP Open.
Mason, W. A., Fleming, C. B., Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Associations between middle childhood executive control aspects and adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems. Journal of Research on Adolescence: The Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 10.1111/jora.12943. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12943
Laifer, L. M., Brock, R. L., Tomaso, C. C., James, T. D., Yaroch, A. L., Hill, J. L., Huang, T. T., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2024). Exploring the interaction between preschool executive control and caregiver emotion socialization in predicting adolescent weight trajectories. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53(3), 656–668. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01928-x
Patwardhan, I., Fleming, C.B., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., Nelson, T.D., & Mason, W.A. (2024). Child executive control and adolescent substance use: Mediation via parent-child relationship quality. Family Relations, 73(5), 3513-3529.
2023
Nelson, T. D., & Stice, E. (2023). Contextualizing the neural vulnerabilities model of obesity. Nutrients, 15(13), 2988. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15132988
Laifer, L. M., Tomaso, C. C., Chang, O. D., Phillips, E. M., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., Alex Mason, W., & Nelson, T. D. (2023). Early executive control buffers risk for adolescent psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescence, 95(6), 1205–1219. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12195
Kidwell, K.M., James, T.D., Brock, R.L., Yaroch, A.L., Hill, J.L., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2023). Preschool executive control, temperament, and adolescent dietary behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57(3), 260-268.
Phillips, E. M., Brock, R. L., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2023). Does preschool executive control mediate the impact of early environmental unpredictability and deprivation on the general factor of psychopathology a decade later?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(10), 1505-1516.
Guo, Y., Fleming, C. B., Patwardhan, I., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., Nelson, T. D., & Mason, W. A. (2023). A comparison of task-based and questionnaire assessments of executive control aspects in relation to adolescent marijuana initiation. Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.), 6(1), 65–78. https://doi.org/10.26828/cannabis/2023.01.006
Patwardhan, I., Guo, Y., Hamburger, E. R., Sarwar, S., Fleming, C. B., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., Nelson, T. D., & Mason, W. A. (2023). Childhood executive control and adolescent substance use initiation: The mediating roles of physical and relational aggression and prosocial behavior. Child Neuropsychology: A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence, 29(2), 235–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2022.2079615
Kidwell, K. M., James, T. D., Brock, R. L., Lazarus Yaroch, A., Hill, J. L., Mize Nelson, J., Alex Mason, W., Andrews Espy, K., & Nelson, T. D. (2023). Preschool executive control, temperament, and adolescent dietary behaviors. Annals of Behavioral medicine: A Publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 57(3), 260–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaac052
2022
Phillips, E. M., Brock, R. L., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2022). Empirical support for a dual process model of the p-factor: Interaction effects between preschool executive control and preschool negative emotionality on general psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(8), 817–829. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000777
Tomaso, C. C., Yaroch, A. L., Hill, J. L., Jackson, T., Nelson, J. M., James, T., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2022). The roles of sleep and executive function in adolescent nighttime eating. Eating Behaviors, 46, 101657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101657
Nelson, T. D., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Tomaso, C. C., & Espy, K. A. (2022). Executive control throughout elementary school: Factor structure and associations with early childhood executive control. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 730–750. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001314
Tomaso, C. C., James, T., Nelson, J. M., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2022). Longitudinal associations between executive control and body mass index across childhood. Pediatric Obesity, 17(4), e12866. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12866
2021 and Prior
Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Johnson, A.B., Mason, W.A., Yaroch, A.L., & Espy, K.A. (2020). Associations between specific components of executive control and eating behaviors in adolescence: A study using objective and subjective measures. Appetite, 154(1), 1-10.
Mason, W.A., Fleming, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., James, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations of early socio-familial stress with maladaptive and adaptive functioning in middle childhood: Roles of executive control and foundation cognitive abilities. Prevention Science, 21(5), 681-690.
Tomaso, C.C., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2020). Associations between different components of executive control in childhood and sleep problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 2440-2452.
Johnson, A. B., Nelson, J. M., Tomaso, C. C., James, T., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2020). Executive control in preschool as a predictor of social information processing in early elementary school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 71, 1-11.
Fleming, C.B., Stevens, A.L., Vivero, M., Patwardhan, I., Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Espy, K.A., & Mason, W.A. (2020). Executive control in early childhood as an antecedent of adolescent problem behaviors: A longitudinal study with performance-based measures of early childhood cognitive processes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(12), 2429-2440.
Tomaso, C. C., Johnson, A. B., James, T. D., Nelson, J. M., Mason, W. A., Espy, K. A., & Nelson, T. D. (2020). Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the relationship between internalizing psychopathology and sleep-wake problems during the transition to adolescence: A longitudinal study. Journal of Early Adolescence. Online first published July 24, 2020.
Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., Mason, W.A., Kozikowski, C.B., Tomaso, C.C., & Espy. K.A. (2019). Executive control and adolescent health: Toward a conceptual framework. Adolescent Research Review, 4(1), 31-43.
Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K. M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J. M., & Espy, K. A. (2018). Preschool executive control and sleep problems in early adolescence. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 16(5), 494-503.
Kidwell, K.M., Kozikowski, C., Roth, T., Lundahl, A., & Nelson, T.D. (2018). Concurrent and longitudinal associations among temperament, parental feeding styles, and selective eating in a preschool sample. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 43(5), 572-583.
Nelson, T.D., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Tomaso, C.C., Hankey, M., & Espy, K.A. (2018). Preschool executive control and internalizing symptoms in elementary school. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46(7), 1509-1520.
Kidwell, K.M., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Child executive control as a moderator of the longitudinal association between sleep problems and subsequent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(10), 1144-1155.
Nelson, T.D., James, T.D., Hankey, M., Nelson, J.M., Lundahl, A., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Early executive control and risk for overweight and obesity in elementary school. Child Neuropsychology, 23(8), 994-1002.
Nelson, T.D., Nelson, J.M., James, T.D., Clark, C.A., Kidwell, K.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). Executive control goes to school: Implications of preschool executive performance for observed elementary classroom learning engagement. Developmental Psychology, 53(5), 836-844.
Hankey, M., Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, J.M., Espy, K.A., & Nelson, T.D. (2017). Weight status as a mediator of the association between preschool extraversion and adolescent restrained eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(8), 882-891.
Kidwell, K.M., Nelson, T. D., Nelson, J.M., & Espy, K.A. (2017). A longitudinal study of maternal and child internalizing symptoms predicting early adolescent emotional eating. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(4), 445-456.
Espy, K. A. (2016). The changing nature of executive control in preschool. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 81(4), 1-179.