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ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2021

The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories.

Katie A McLaughlin, Margaret A Sheridan, Kathryn L Humphreys, Jay Belsky, Bruce J Ellis

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Review in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 187 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

187 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Assessment of Unpredictability and Disordered Eating.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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  17. War-Related Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms During the First Two Postpartum Years: The Moderating Role of Childhood Adversity.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Katie A McLaughlinDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University.
Margaret A SheridanDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kathryn L HumphreysDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.
Jay BelskyDepartment of Human Ecology, University of California at Davis.ORCID 0000-0003-2191-2503
Bruce J EllisDepartments of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Utah.

Funding

Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Underlying Stress Vulnerability during AdolescenceR37MH119194 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI Katie McLaughlin · 2020 to 2026
$10.6M
Child Trauma and the Development of Neural Systems Underlying Emotion RegulationR01MH103291 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MCLAUGHLIN, KATIE · 2014 to 2018
$3.8M
Deprivation and Threat: Dimensions of Early Experience and Neural DevelopmentR01MH106482 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MCLAUGHLIN, KATIE · 2016 to 2020
$3.1M
Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Underlying Stress Vulnerability during AdolescenceR56MH119194 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MCLAUGHLIN, KATIE · 2019 to 2019
$1.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH103291NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106482NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH119194NIMH NIH HHS R56 MH119194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We review the three prevailing approaches-specificity, cumulative risk, and dimensional models-to conceptualizing the developmental consequences of early-life adversity and address fundamental problems with the characterization of these frameworks in a recent

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Biological EvolutionBrainHumansadversitydeprivationearly-life stressexperience-driven plasticityharshnessthreatunpredictability

Identifiers

PMID34491864
PMCPMC8563369

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