Professor Dale Hay

2024

• Keating, J., Uljarević, M., van Goozen, S. H. M., Abbot‐Smith, K., Hay, D. F. and Leekam, S. R. 2024. Assessing pragmatic language difficulties using the Revised Children's Communication Checklist‐2. Exploratory structural equation modeling and associations with restricted and repetitive behaviors. Autism Research 17(3), pp. 584-595. (10.1002/aur.3100)

2023

• Chawner, S. J. et al. 2023. Neurodevelopmental dimensional assessment of young children at high genomic risk of neuropsychiatric conditions. JCPP Advances 3(2), article number: e12162. (10.1002/jcv2.12162)
• Keating, J., Van Goozen, S., Uljarevic, M., Hay, D. and Leekam, S. 2023. Restricted and repetitive behaviors and their developmental and demographic correlates in 4-8-year-old children: A transdiagnostic approach. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17, article number: 1085404. (10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1085404)

2022

• Paine, A. L., Hashmi, S., Howe, N., Johnson, N., Scott, M. and Hay, D. F. 2022. “A pirate goes nee-nor-nee-nor!” Humor with siblings in middle childhood: a window to social understanding?. Developmental Psychology 58(10), pp. 1986-1998. (10.1037/dev0001403)
• Hay, D. F., Paine, A. and Robinson, C. 2022. Young children's cooperation and conflict with other children. In: Lockman, J. ed. Advances in Child Development and Behavior., Vol. 63. Advances in Child Development and Behavior Elsevier, pp. 225-248., (10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.04.004)

2021

• Perra, O., Paine, A. L. and Hay, D. F. 2021. Continuity and change in anger and aggressiveness from infancy to childhood: The protective effects of positive parenting. Development and Psychopathology 33(3), pp. 937-956. (10.1017/S0954579420000243)
• Hashmi, S., Paine, A. L. and Hay, D. F. 2021. Seven-year-olds’ references to internal states when playing with toy figures and a video game. Infant and Child Development 30(3), article number: e2223. (10.1002/icd.2223)
• Hay, D. F. et al. 2021. Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior: A Longitudinal Study. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 86(2), pp. 7-103. (10.1111/mono.12427)
• Palmer, M. et al. 2021. Development of the observation schedule for children with autism-anxiety, behaviour and parenting (OSCA-ABP): a new measure of child and parenting behavior for use with young autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 51(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1007/s10803-020-04506-3)

2020

• Jones, C. R. G. et al. 2020. Development of the Signposting Questionnaire for Autism (SQ-A): measurement comparison with the ten item Autism spectrum quotient-child and the strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the UK and Latvia. Molecular Autism 11, article number: 64. (10.1186/s13229-020-00368-9)

2019

• Meeuwsen, M., Perra, O., Van Goozen, S. H. M. and Hay, D. F. 2019. Informants' ratings of activity level in infancy predict ADHD symptoms and diagnoses in childhood. Development and Psychopathology 31(4), pp. 1255-1269. (10.1017/S0954579418000597)
• Paine, A. L., Howe, N., Karajian, G., Hay, D. F. and DeHart, G. 2019. 'H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, PEE! Get it? Pee!': Siblings' shared humour in childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 37(3), pp. 336-353. (10.1111/bjdp.12277)
• Paine, A. L., Hashmi, S., Roberts, S., Fyfield, R. and Hay, D. F. 2019. Concurrent associations between mothers' references to internal states and children's social understanding in middle childhood. Social Development 28(3), pp. 529-548. (10.1111/sode.12356)
• Hay, D. F. 2019. Emotional development from infancy to adolescence: pathways to emotional competence and emotional problems - international texts in developmental psychology. International Texts in Developmental Psychology. Routledge.
• Pawlby, S., Sharp, D. and Hay, D. F. 2019. Prevalence of maternal psychiatric disorder in pregnancy: 1986 and 2016. British Journal of Psychiatry 214(2), pp. 116. (10.1192/bjp.2018.281)

2018

• Paine, A. L., Pearce, H., van Goozen, S. H., de Sonneville, L. M. and Hay, D. F. 2018. Late, but not early, arriving younger siblings foster firstborns' understanding of second-order false belief. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 166, pp. 251-265. (10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.007)
• Hay, D. F., Johansen, M. K., Daly, P., Hashmi, S., Robinson, C., Collishaw, S. and van Goozen, S. 2018. Seven-year-olds' aggressive choices in a computer game can be predicted in infancy. Developmental Science 21(3), article number: e12576. (10.1111/desc.12576)

2017

• Hay, D. et al. 2017. If you go down to the woods today: infants' distress during a teddy bear's picnic in relation to peer relations and later emotional problems. Infancy 22(4), pp. 552-570. (10.1111/infa.12172)
• Smaling, H. J. A., Huijbregts, S. C. J., van der Heijden, K. B., Hay, D. F., Van Goozen, S. H. M. and Swaab, H. 2017. Prenatal reflective functioning and development of aggression in infancy: the roles of maternal intrusiveness and sensitivity. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 45(2), pp. 237-248. (10.1007/s10802-016-0177-1)

2015

• Perra, O., Phillips, R., Fyfield, R., Waters, C. and Hay, D. F. 2015. Does mothers' postnatal depression influence the development of imitation?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 56(11), pp. 1231-1238. (10.1111/jcpp.12413)

2014

• Waters, C. S., Hay, D., Simmonds, J. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2014. Antenatal depression and children's developmental outcomes: potential mechanisms and treatment options. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 23(10), pp. 957-971. (10.1007/s00787-014-0582-3)
• Hay, D. F. et al. 2014. Precursors to aggression are evident by 6 months of age. Developmental Science 17(3), pp. 471-480. (10.1111/desc.12133)
• Meeuwsen, M., Hay, D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2014. Exploring the developmental course of potential precursors in the first year of life and the emergence of ADHD symptoms in early childhood with a longitudinal community sample.. Presented at: BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 September 2014.

2013

• Waters, C. S. et al. 2013. Infants at familial risk for depression show a distinct pattern of cortisol response to experimental challenge. Journal of Affective Disorders 150(3), pp. 955-960. (10.1016/j.jad.2013.04.054)
• Roberts, S., Fyfield, R., Baibazarova, E., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Culling, J. F. and Hay, D. F. 2013. Parental speech at 6 months predicts joint attention at 12 months. Infancy 18(S1), pp. e12-e15. (10.1111/infa.12018)
• Baker, E. C., Shelton, K. H., Baibazarova, E., Hay, D. F. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2013. Low skin conductance activity in infancy predicts aggression in toddlers 2 years later. Psychological Science 24(6), pp. 1051-1056. (10.1177/0956797612465198)
• Meeuwsen, M., Hay, D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2013. The contribution of perinatal adversity to early symptoms of ADHD. Presented at: CogDev2013: Joint Annual Conference of the BPS Developmental and Cognitive Sections, Reading, UK, 4-6 September 2013.

2011

• Hay, D. F. et al. 2011. Known risk factors for violence predict 12-month-old infants' aggressiveness with peers. Psychological Science 22(9), pp. 1205-1211. (10.1177/0956797611419303)
• Harold, G. T., Rice, F., Hay, D. F., Boivin, J., van den Bree, M. B. and Thapar, A. 2011. Familial transmission of depression and antisocial behavior symptoms: Disentangling the contribution of inherited and environmental factors and testing the mediating role of parenting. Psychological Medicine 41(6), pp. 1175-1185. (10.1017/S0033291710001753)
• Hay, D. F., Hurst, S., Waters, C. S. and Chadwick, A. 2011. Infants' Use of Force to Defend Toys: The Origins of Instrumental Aggression. Infancy 16(5), pp. 471-489. (10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00069.x)
• Pawlby, S., Hay, D. F., Sharpe, D., Waters, C. S. and Pariante, C. M. 2011. Antenatal depression and offspring psychopathology: The influence of childhood maltreatment. The British Journal of Psychiatry 199(2), pp. 106-112. (10.1192/bjp.bp.110.087734)
• Hay, D. F., Nash, A., Caplan, M., Swartzentruber, J., Ishikawa, F. and Vespo, J. E. 2011. The emergence of gender differences in physical aggression in the context of conflict between young peers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 29(2), pp. 158-175. (10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02028.x)

2010

• Thapar, A. et al. 2010. Response to: testing the association between smoking in pregnancy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a novel design [Letter]. Biological psychiatry 68(4), pp. e13-e14. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.01.032)
• Rice, F., Harold, G. T., Boivin, J., van den Bree, M. B., Hay, D. F. and Thapar, A. 2010. The links between prenatal stress and offspring development and psychopathology: Disentangling environmental and inherited influences. Psychological Medicine 40(2), pp. 335-345. (10.1017/S0033291709005911)
• Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Waters, C. S., Perra, O. and Sharp, D. 2010. Mothers' antenatal depression and their children's antisocial outcomes. Child Development 81(1), pp. 149-165. (10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01386.x)
• Hay, D. F. et al. 2010. Identifying early signs of aggression: psychometric properties of the cardiff infant contentiousness scale. Aggressive Behavior 36(6), pp. 351-357. (10.1002/ab.20363)
• Hay, D. F., Hudson, K. and Liang, W. 2010. Links between preschool children's prosocial skills and aggressive conduct problems: The contribution of ADHD symptoms. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 25(4), pp. 493-601. (10.1016/j.ecresq.2010.01.003)

2009

• Thapar, A. et al. 2009. Prenatal smoking might not cause Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a novel design. Biological Psychiatry 66(8), pp. 722-727. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.05.032)
• Shelton, K. H., Boivin, J., Hay, D. F., van den Bree, M. B., Rice, F., Harold, G. T. and Thapar, A. 2009. Examining differences in psychological adjustment problems among children conceived by assisted reproductive technologies. International Journal of Behavioral Development 33(5), pp. 385-392. (10.1177/0165025409338444)
• Hay, D. F. 2009. The roots and branches of human altruism. British Journal of Psychology 100(3), pp. 473-479. (10.1348/000712609X442096)
• Boivin, J., Rice, F., Hay, D. F., Harold, G. T., Lewis, A., van den Bree, M. B. and Thapar, A. 2009. Associations between maternal older age, family environment and parent and child wellbeing in families using assisted reproductive techniques to conceive. Social Science & Medicine 68(11), pp. 1948-1955. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.036)
• Van Goozen, S. H. M. and Hay, D. F. 2009. Antisocial behaviour. In: Sander, D. and Scherer, K. eds. Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Series in Affective Science Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-42.
• Hay, D., Caplan, M. and Nash, A. 2009. The beginnings of peer relations. In: Rubin, K. H., Bukowski, W. M. and Laursen, B. eds. Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups. New York: Guildford, pp. 121-142.
• Pawlby, S., Hay, D. F., Sharp, D., Waters, C. S. and O'Keane, V. 2009. Antenatal depression predicts depression in adolescent offspring: Prospective longitudinal community-based study. Journal of Affective Disorders 113(3), pp. 236-243. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.05.018)
• Rice, F., Harold, G. T., Boivin, J., Hay, D. F., van den Bree, M. B. and Thapar, A. 2009. Disentangling prenatal and inherited influences in humans with an experimental design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106(7), pp. 2464-2467. (10.1073/pnas.0808798106)

2008

• Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Waters, C. S. and Sharp, D. 2008. Antepartum and postpartum exposure to maternal depression: Different effects on different adolescent outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 49(10), pp. 1079-1088. (10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01959.x)
• Pawlby, S., Sharp, D., Hay, D. F. and O'Keane, V. 2008. Postnatal depression and child outcome at 11 years: The importance of accurate diagnosis. Journal of Affective Disorders 107(1), pp. 241-245. (10.1016/j.jad.2007.08.002)
• Harold, G. T., Shelton, K. H., Rice, F., Boivin, J., Hay, D. F., van den Bree, M. B. and Thapar, A. 2008. Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on children’s development: introducing a novel methodology. Acta Psychologica Sinica 40(10), pp. 1124-1134.

2007

• Rice, F. et al. 2007. Genetic and environmental transmission of anxiety and depression in families using a novel design [Abstract]. Behavior Genetics 37(6), pp. 788-788. (10.1007/s10519-007-9169-9)
• Hay, D. F. 2007. The gradual emergence of sex differences in aggression: alternative hypotheses. Psychological Medicine 37(11), pp. 1527-1537. (10.1017/S0033291707000165)
• Thapar, A. et al. 2007. Do intrauterine or genetic influences explain the foetal origins of chronic disease? A novel experimental method for disentangling effects. BMC Medical Research Methodology 7(1), pp. 25-32. (10.1186/1471-2288-7-25)
• Hay, D. F. and Cook, K. V. 2007. The transformation of prosocial behavior from infancy to childhood. In: Brownell, C. A. and Kopp, C. B. eds. Socioemotional Development in the Toddler Years: Transitions and Transformations. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 100-131.
• Rice, F. et al. 2007. Agreement between maternal report and antenatal records for a range of pre and peri-natal factors: The influence of maternal and child characteristics. Early Human Development 83(8), pp. 497-504. (10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.09.015)

2006

• Hay, D. F. 2006. Yours and mine: toddlers' talk about possessions with familiar peers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 24(1), pp. 39-52. (10.1348/026151005X68880)
• Ishikawa, F. and Hay, D. F. 2006. Triadic Interaction among Newly Acquainted 2-year-olds. Social Development 15(1), pp. 145-168. (10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00334.x)

2005

• Goody, A. J., Rice, F., Boivin, J., Harold, G. T., Hay, D. F. and Thapar, A. 2005. Twins born following fertility treatment: implications for quantitative genetic studies. Twin Research and Human Genetics 8(4), pp. 337-345. (10.1375/twin.8.4.337)
• Hay, D. F. 2005. The beginnings of aggression in infancy. In: Tremblay, R., Hartup, W. W. and Archer, J. eds. Developmental Origins of Aggression. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 107-132.
• Harold, G. T. and Hay, D. F. 2005. Normal development in middle childhood. Psychiatry 4(6), pp. 3-5. (10.1383/psyt.4.6.3.66355)
• Hay, D. F. 2005. Development in infancy and early childhood. Psychiatry 4(6), pp. 1-3. (10.1383/psyt.4.6.1.66348)

2004

• Rice, F., Goody, A. J., Boivin, J., Hay, D. F., Harold, G. T. and Thapar, A. 2004. A novel method for disentangling the effects of genes, intrauterine and environmental risk factors [Abstract]. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 130B(1), pp. 116-117. (10.1002/ajmg.b.30101)
• Burt, K. B., Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Harold, G. T. and Sharp, D. 2004. The prediction of disruptive behaviour disorders in an urban community sample: the contribution of person-centred analyses. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45(6), pp. 1159-1170. (10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00308.x)
• Hay, D. F., Payne, A. and Chadwick, A. 2004. Peer Relations in Childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45(1), pp. 84-108. (10.1046/j.0021-9630.2003.00308.x)
• Demetriou, H. and Hay, D. F. 2004. Toddlers' reactions to the distress of familiar peers: The importance of context. Infancy 6(2), pp. 299-318. (10.1207/s15327078in0602_9)

2003

• Thapar, A., Boivin, J., Harold, G. T., Hay, D. F., Rice, F. and Goody, A. J. 2003. A novel method for disentangling the effects of genes, intrauterine, and environmental risk factors [Abstract]. Behavior Genetics 33(6), pp. 721-721. (10.1023/A:1026187215665)
• Hay, D. F., Angold, A., Harold, G. T. and Pawlby, S. 2003. Pathways to violence in the children of mothers who were depressed postpartum. Developmental Psychology 39(6), pp. 1083-1094. (10.1037/0012-1649.39.6.1083)
• Thapar, A. et al. 2003. Maternal smoking in pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in offspring. Behavior Genetics 33(6), pp. 720-721.
• Thapar, A. et al. 2003. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in offspring. American Journal of Psychiatry 160(11), pp. 1985-1989. (10.1176/appi.ajp.160.11.1985)
• Hay, D. F. and Pawlby, S. 2003. Prosocial development in relation to children's and mothers' psychological problems. Child Development 74(5), pp. 1314-1327. (10.1111/1467-8624.00609)
• Hay, D. F. 2003. Aggression as an outcome of early childhood development: comments on Tremblay, Keenan, and Ishikawa and Raine. In: Tremblay, R. E., Boivin, M. and Peters, R. D. eds. Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Development (Online). Montreal: Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development

2002

• Hay, D. F. and Nash, A. 2002. Social development in different family arrangements. In: Smith, P. K. and Hart, C. H. eds. Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 238-262.

2001

• Hay, D. F. et al. eds. 2001. Introducing social psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Sharp, D., Asten, P., Mills, A. and Kumar, R. 2001. Intellectual problems shown by 1-year-old children whose mothers had postnatal depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 42(7), pp. 871-889. (10.1111/1469-7610.00784)
• Hay, D. F. 2001. The development of social relationships. In: Fraser, C. et al. eds. Introducing Social Psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 97-115.

2000

• Hay, D. F., Castle, J. and Davies, L. 2000. Toddlers' use of force against familiar peers: A precursor of serious aggression?. Child Development 71(2), pp. 457-467. (10.1111/1467-8624.00157)

1999

• Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Sharp, D., Schmucker, G., Mills, A., Allen, H. and Kumar, R. 1999. Parents' judgements about young children's problems: Why mothers and fathers might disagree yet still predict later outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 40(8), pp. 1249-1258. (10.1111/1469-7610.00541)
• Hay, D. F., Castle, J., Davies, L., Demetriou, H. and Stimson, C. A. 1999. Prosocial action in very early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 40(6), pp. 905-916. (10.1111/1469-7610.00508)
• Hay, D. F., Castle, J., Stimson, C. A. and Davies, L. 1999. The social construction of character in toddlerhood. In: Killen, M. and Hart, D. eds. Morality in Everyday Life: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-51.

1998

• Hay, D. F., Vespo, J. E. and Zahn-Waxler, C. 1998. Young children's quarrels with their siblings and mothers: Links with maternal depression and bipolar illness. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 16(4), pp. 519-538. (10.1111/j.2044-835X.1998.tb00769.x)
• Hay, D. F. and Demetriou, H. 1998. The developmental origins of social understanding. In: Campbell, A. and Muncer, S. eds. The Social Child. Studies in Developmental Psychology Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 219-248.

1997

• Loeber, R. and Hay, D. F. 1997. Key issues in the development of aggression and violence from childhood to early adulthood. Annual Review of Psychology 48, pp. 371-410. (10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.371)
• Hay, D. F. 1997. Postpartum depression and cognitive development. In: Murray, L. and Cooper, P. J. eds. Postpartum depression and child development. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 85-110.
• Reddy, V., Hay, D. F., Murray, L. and Trevarthen, C. 1997. Communication in infancy: Mutual regulation of affect and attention. In: Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. and Butterworth, G. E. eds. Infant Development: Recent Advances. Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 247-273.
• Stimson, C. A., Castle, J. and Hay, D. F. 1997. Mothers' construction of their toddlers' personalities: consistency and change in the second and third years of life. Child Study Journal 27(1), pp. 21-39.

1995

• Hay, D. F. and Kumar, R. 1995. Interpreting the effects of mothers' postnatal depression on children's intelligence: A critique and re-analysis. Child Psychiatry & Human Development 25(3), pp. 165-181. (10.1007/BF02251301)
• Vespo, J. E., Pedersen, J. and Hay, D. 1995. Young children's conflicts with peers and siblings: Gender effects. Child Study Journal 25(3), pp. 189-212.
• Sharp, D., Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Schmücker, G., Allen, H. and Kumar, R. 1995. The Impact of Postnatal Depression on Boys' Intellectual Development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 36(8), pp. 1315-1336. (10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01666.x)