Assistant Professor

Faculty Psychology Department

Faculty Developmental and Biological Psychology

Faculty/Consultant Child Study Center

jdunsmor@vt.edu

540-231-4201
323 Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Office Hours:
W 8:0-9:0
Other times by appointment

Read My Curriculum Vita (PDF)

Lab website: www.psyc.vt.edu/socdev

Background

1994 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC
1994-1996 Department of Psychology NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
1992 M.A. Clinical Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC
1990 B.A., Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Research/Professional Interests

Parents’ emotion socialization (e.g., parents’ variation in emotional expression, positive emotional expression, and beliefs about emotions) and its influence on children’s developing social cognition, affective social competence, and prosocial behavior

Recent Courses Taught

6944 - Emotional Development
6944 - Developmental Perspectives on Motivation
5534 - Developmental Psychology
4364 - Children's Social and Emotional Development
2034 - Developmental Psychology

Publications

Dunsmore, J.C., Her, P., Halberstadt, A.G., & Perez-Rivera, M.B. (2009). Parents’ beliefs about emotions and childrens’ recognition of parents’ emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 121-140.

Dunsmore, J.C., Bradburn, I.S., Costanzo, P.R., & Fredrickson, B.L. (2009). Mothers’ expressive style and emotional responses to children’s behavior predict children’s prosocial and achievement-related self-ratings. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 253-264.

Dunsmore, J.C. & Halberstadt, A.G. (2009). The dynamic context of emotion socialization. In J.A. Mancini and K.A. Roberto (Eds.), Pathways of human development: Explorations of change (pp. 171-190). Lanham, MD: Lexington.

Garner, P.W., Dunsmore, J.C., & Southam-Gerow, M. (2008). Mother-child conversations about emotions: Linkages to child aggression and prosocial behavior. Social Development, 17, 259-277.

Dunsmore, J.C., Noguchi, R.J.P., Garner, P.W., Casey, E.C., & Bhullar, N. (2008). Gender-specific linkages of Affective Social Competence with peer relations in preschool children. Early Education and Development, 19, 211-237.

Halberstadt, A. G., Thompson, J. A., Parker, A. E., & Dunsmore, J. C. (2008). Parents' emotion-related beliefs and behaviors in relation to children's coping with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Infant and Child Development, 17, 557-580.

Dunsmore, J.C., Benson, M.J., & Bradburn, I.S. (2006). Functions of emotions for parent-child relationships within dynamic contexts: Introduction to the special issue. Ecology of emotion in parenting relationships: Perspectives across the lifespan. Res. in Human Dev, 3, 1-5.

Dunsmore, J.C., Halberstadt, A.G., Eaton, K.L., & Robinson, M.L. (2005). Mothers' typical and event-specific emotional expressions influence children's memory for events. Social Development, 14, 339 - 360.

Dunsmore, J.C. & Karn, M.A. (2004). The influence of peer relationships and maternal socialization on kindergartner's developing emotion knowledge. Early Education and Development, 15, 39 - 56.

Dunsmore, J.C., Halberstadt, A.G., & Robinson, M.L. (2004). Mothers' negative evaluations of their children's performances enhance boys' memories for crafts. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 165, 345 - 365.

Halberstadt, A.G., Dunsmore, J.C., & Denham, S.A. (2001). Spinning the pinwheel, together: More thoughts on Affective Social Competence. Social Development, 10, 130 - 136.

Halberstadt, A.G., Denham, S.A., & Dunsmore, J.C. (2001). Affective social competence. Social Development, 10, 79 - 119.

Dunsmore, J.C. & Smallen, L.S. (2001). Parents’ expressiveness and young children’s emotion decoding with parents and unknown adults. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 162, 478 - 494.

Dunsmore, J.C. & Karn, M.A. (2001). Mothers’ beliefs about feelings and children’s emotional understanding. Early Education and Development, 12, 117 - 138.

Dunsmore, J.C. & Halberstadt, A.G. (1997). How does family emotional expressiveness affect children's schemas?. In K.C. Barrett (Volume Editor), W. Damon (Editor-in-Chief) (Eds.), New Directions for Child Development (pp. 45-68). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Garner, P.W. & Dunsmore, J.C. (in press). Temperament and maternal discourse about internal states as predictors of toddler empathy- and aggression-related behavior. Journal of Early Childhood Research.