Professor Dale Hay

2026

• Paine, A. L. et al. 2026. A new approach to assessment for young children referred by education professionals for socio‐emotional, behavioural, and cognitive difficulties. JCPP Advances e70138. (10.1002/jcv2.70138)

2024

• Keating, J. et al. 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) e12162. (10.1002/jcv2.12162)
• Keating, J. et al. 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 1085404. (10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1085404)

2022

• Paine, A. L. et al. 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 Vol. 0065-2.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) 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 64. (10.1186/s13229-020-00368-9)

2019

• Meeuwsen, M. et al., 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. et al. 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. et al. 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. et al. 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. et al. 2018. Seven-year-olds' aggressive choices in a computer game can be predicted in infancy. Developmental Science 21 (3) 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. et al., 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. et al., 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. et al. 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)
• Baker, E. C. et al. 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.
• Roberts, S. et al., 2013. Parental speech at 6 months predicts joint attention at 12 months. Infancy 18 (S1), pp.e12-e15. (10.1111/infa.12018)

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. et al. 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. et al. 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)
• Hay, D. F. et al. 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)
• Pawlby, S. et al., 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)

2010

• Rice, F. et al. 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. , 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)
• Hay, D. F. et al. 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)
• 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)

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. et al. 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)
• Boivin, J. et al. 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.
• Hay, D. F. 2009. The roots and branches of human altruism. British Journal of Psychology 100 (3), pp.473-479. (10.1348/000712609X442096)
• Pawlby, S. et al., 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. et al. 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

• Harold, G. T. et al. 2008. Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on children’s development: introducing a novel methodology. Acta Psychologica Sinica 40 (10), pp.1124-1134.
• Hay, D. F. et al. 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. et al., 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)

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. et al. 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)
• 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)
• 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.

2004

• Rice, F. et al. 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)
• 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)
• Burt, K. B. et al., 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)
• 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. et al. 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. et al. 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)
• 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
• 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)

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. 2001. Introducing social psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Hay, D. F. 2001. The development of social relationships. In: Fraser, C. et al., Introducing Social Psychology. Cambridge: Polity Press. , pp.97-115.
• Hay, D. F. et al. 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)

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. et al. 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. et al. 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.
• Hay, D. F. et al. 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)

1998

• 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.
• 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)

1997

• 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.
• 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)
• Reddy, V. et al., 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)
• Sharp, D. et al., 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)
• 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.