Research Interests

Ginger Moore is a clinical child psychologist who studies ways in which early experiences affect developing bio-behavioral systems that function as risk or protective factors for later psychological adjustment. Her current research examines how conflict between parents affects physiological reactivity and the emergence of empathy and how genes interact with parenting in early childhood to affect toddlers’ risk for problems with self-control.

Dr. Moore’s clinical interests include the development of an innovative parent-infant intervention to promote adaptive self-regulation within families at risk and on trauma-focused interventions for young children.

Recent Publications

Moore, G. A. (in press). Infants’ and mothers’ vagal reactivity in response to anger. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Moore, G.A. (in press). Parent conflict predicts infants’ vagal regulation in social interaction. Development and Psychopathology.

Propper, C.B., & Moore, G.A., & Mills-Koonce, W. R. (in press). Gene-parenting interplay in the development of infant emotionality. In C. Halpern (Ed.), Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics.

Moore, G.A. (2009). When negative is positive. In El-Sheikh, Kouros, Erath, Cummings, Keller, & Staton, Marital conflict and children’s externalizing behavior: Interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity, (pp. 89-97). Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development, 74(1, Serial No. 292).

Moore, G.A., Hill, A.L., Propper, C.B., Calkins, S.D., Mills-Koonce, W.R., Cox, M.J. (2009)Mother-infant vagal regulation in the face-to-face still-face paradigm is moderated by maternal sensitivity. Child Development, 80, 209-223.

Propper, C.B., Moore, G.A., Mills-Koonce, R., Halpern, C. Hill, A., Calkins, S.D., Carbone, M.A. & Cox, M. (2008). Gene-environment contributions to the development of vagal functioning: An examination of DRD2 and maternal sensitivity. Child Development, 79, 1377-1394.

Ganiban, J.M., Leve, L.D., Moore, G.A., Neiderhiser, J.M. (2008). Strategies for understanding the mechanisms of mothering and fathering. In R. Bridges (Ed.), Neurobiology of the Parental Brain (pp. 391- 404). New York: Elsevier.

Hutchinson, K.C., & Moore, G.A., Propper, C., & Mariaskin, A. (2008).Incarcerated women’s psychological functioning during pregnancy. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32, 440–453.

Propper, C.B., & Moore, G.A. (2006). The influence of parental relationships on developing infant temperament:  A multi-level psychobiological perspective. Developmental Review, 26, 427-460.

Moore, G.A., & Calkins, S.D. (2004). Infants' vagal regulation in the still-face paradigm is related to dyadic coordination of mother-infant interaction. Developmental Psychology, 40, 1068-1080.