ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2025
The wobbly bits of development: Variability, fluctuations, and synchrony as temporal markers linking temperament and psychopathology.
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- Beyond snapshots: A systematic review of dyadic and triadic parent-adolescent ecological momentary assessment studies across diverse and general populations.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Intra-Individual Variability in Children's Self-Regulation in Kindergarten Classrooms: An Observational Study.Developmental science · 2026Observational
- Linking temporal dynamics of children's natural behavior to brain development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Keeping it together: Hourly dynamics of children's behavioral regulation at school in a decades-long cohort study.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Real-time prediction of passive and active suicidal ideation in an adolescent clinical sample: Ecological momentary assessment of interpersonal risk factors and mediating mechanisms.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Temperament traits are early appearing and relatively stable phenotypic profiles of behavior that are present across space and time. This definition invariably reflects the timescale imposed when gathering repeated measures of our variables of interest and our reliance on aggregate, mean-level values. However, if the time scale of observations is shortened, and the frequency of observations increased, underlying or latent fluctuations and variability may emerge. Embedding short-term fluctuations into slower developmental trajectories may improve our understanding of behavior in the moment, while also strengthening prediction. Researchers should embrace a more granular time scale in research, incorporating new technology and analytical approaches, enhancing our ability to capture developmental change. This review illustrates with the temperament literature how shifting time scales can provide new insight into social, behavioral, and cognitive processes across development.
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