My research interests focus on the development of children’s self-regulation and externalizing behavior problems, their complex associations with parents’ mental health and caregiving, and their contributions to the onset of psychopathology, specifically child conduct problems and maternal depressive symptoms. I follow a biopsychosocial approach to studying psychopathology and its intergenerational transmission with observational, questionnaire, neuropsychological, behavioral, interview, and biological data. I'm currently examining parents’ and young children’s executive functions, psychophysiological markers of stress and regulation, as well as family and neighborhood influences on the development of preschoolers’ self-regulation and general cognitive skills, as well as how parents promote young children’s cognitive development through parent–child interactions and other intergenerational mechanisms.