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Selected peer-reviewed publications:

Liu, S., Fisher, P. A., Schlueter, L. J., Phu, T., Gunnar, M. R., & Watamura, S. E. (in press). A brief video-coaching intervention buffers young children’s vulnerability to the impact of caregivers’ depressive symptoms: examination of differential susceptibility. Development and Psychopathology.

Oshri, A., Liu, S., Suveg, C., Caughy, M. O., & Goodgame-Huffman, L. (2021). Biological sensitivity to context as a dyadic construct: an investigation of child-parent RSA synchrony among low-SES youth. Development and Psychopathology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/S095457942100078X. 

Liu, S., Oshri, A., Kogan, S. M., Wickrama, K.A.S., & Sweet, L. (2021). Amygdalar activation as a neurobiological marker of differential sensitivity in the effects of family rearing experiences on youths’ psychopathology. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.04.017.

Liu, S., Phu, T., Dominguez, A., Hurwich-Reiss, E., McGee, D., Watamura, S. E., & Fisher, P. A. (2021). Improving caregiver self-efficacy and children’s behavioral outcomes via a brief video coaching intervention: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Prevention Science, 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s11121-021-01251-6. 

Liu, S., Cui, Z., Duprey, E.B., Kogan S.M., & Oshri, A. (2020). Adverse parenting is indirectly linked to delayed reward discounting via blunted RSA reactivity: the protective role of a shift-and-persist coping strategy. Adversity and Resilience Science. 1(3), 149-163. doi: 10.1007/s42844-020-00012-8. 

Liu, S., Oshri, A., & Duprey, E. B. (2020). Heart rate variability reactivity moderates the indirect link between child maltreatment and young adult alcohol use Problems via depressive symptoms. The American Journal on Addictions, 29(2), 141-150. doi: 10.1111/ajad.13004. 

Oshri, A., Gray, J., Owen, M., Liu, S., Duprey, E. B., Sweet, L. H., & MacKillop, J. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences and amygdalar reduction:  high-resolution segmentation reveals specificity of subnuclei associations and links to psychiatric outcomes. Child Maltreatment, 24(4), 400-410. doi: 10.1177/1077559519839491. 

Liu, S., Oshri, A., & Duprey, E. B., (2018). Alcohol use and depressive symptoms among a nationally representative sample of youth investigated for maltreatment. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79(3), 380-390. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2018.79.380. 

Oshri, A., Liu, S., Duprey, E. B., & MacKillop, J. (2018). Child maltreatment, delayed reward discounting, and alcohol and other drug use problems: the moderating role of heart rate variability. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42(10), 2033-2046. doi: 10.1111/acer.13858.

Oshri, A., Duprey, E. B., Kogan, S. M., Carlson, M. W., & Liu, S. (2018). Growth patterns of future orientation among maltreated youth: a prospective ecological examination of resilience. Developmental Psychology, 54(8), 1456-1471. doi: 10.1037/dev0000528.