Publications
The impact of adversity and maternal depression on neural reward responsivity in young children
Granros, M., Engstrom, A., Sheena, M., Feurer, C., Kujawa, A., Suor, J., & Burkhouse, K. L. (in press). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence
Hill, K. E., Bean, C. A. L., Abitante, G., Lawhead, C., Szenczy, A. K., Kessel, E., Hajcak, G., Nelson, B., Klein, D. N. & Kujawa, A. (2026). Communications Psychology.
Neighborhood disadvantage as a moderator of children’s response to a dyadic positive affect intervention for children of mothers with depressive symptoms
Yerger, J., Cárdenas, E. F., Granros, M., Feurer, C., Patel, K. R., Moon, G., Stibor, A., Kujawa, A., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2026). Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
Associations between new mothers’ neural reward response and perceptions of their own infant
Hill, K. E., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Greene, M. N., Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Pegg, S., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Developmental Psychobiology, 68, e70164.
Maternal outcomes of a dyadic positive affect intervention for mothers with depressive symptoms and their children: A pilot study
Bean, C. A. L., Granros, M., Moon, G. J., Argiros, A., Dao, A, Cárdenas, E.F., Dickey, L., Feurer, C., Hill, K. E., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., Burkhouse, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Cognitive Therapy and Research.
A pilot test of Brief Behavioral Intervention for preschool-aged children with prenatal opioid exposure
Piersiak, H. A., Molnar, A., Ravi, S., Estes, E., Roth, M., Politte-Corn, M., Hare, M., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2026). Child & Family Behavior Therapy.
Social reward responsiveness as a moderator of the association between perceived bonding with infants and depressive symptoms in postpartum women
Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 25, 1181-1191.
Longitudinal associations between prenatal internalizing symptoms and mindfulness with postpartum bonding difficulties
Garon-Bissonnette, J., Bean, C. A. L., Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Abitante, G., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 28, 583-592.
Are brains rewired for caring in pregnancy? Why the jury’s out
Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2024). Correspondence in Nature, 632, 739.
Social media use as a predictor of positive and negative affect: An ecological momentary assessment study of adolescents with and without clinical depression
Politte-Corn, M., Dickey, L., Abitante, G., Pegg, S., Bean, C. A. L., & Kujawa, A. (2024). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 743-755.
Targeting positive valence systems function in children of mothers with depressive symptoms: A pilot randomized trial of an RDoC-informed preventive intervention
Burkhouse, K. L., Dao, A., Argiros, A., Granros, M., Cárdenas, E. F., Dickey, L., Feurer, C., Hill, K. H., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., & Kujawa, A. (2023). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 168, 104384.
Annual Research Review: Emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression diagnoses – A systematic review of neural and physiological research
Burkhouse, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2023). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 583-607.
Caregivers’ positive emotion socialization tendencies are associated with positive affect in preschool age children
Hill, K., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2023). Infant Mental Health Journal, 44, 437-447.
Parent emotion socialization and positive emotions in child and adolescent clinical samples: A systematic review and call to action
Breaux, R., Lewis, J., Cash, A. R., Schroff, D. M., Burkhouse, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2022). Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 25, 204-221.
Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes
King, L., Salo, V., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2021). Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1648-1664.
Developmental trajectories to reduced activation of positive valence systems: A review of biological and environmental contributions
Kujawa, A., Klein, D. N., Pegg, S., & Weinberg, A. (2020). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100791.
Effects of maternal depression and mother-child relationship quality in early childhood on neural reactivity to rejection and peer stress in adolescence: A 9-year longitudinal study
Kujawa, A., Arfer, K. B., Finsaas, M., Kessel, E. M., Mumper, E., & Klein, D. N. (2020). Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 657-672.
Early parenting moderates the association between parental depression and neural reactivity to rewards and losses in offspring
Kujawa, A., Proudfit, G. H., Laptook, R., & Klein, D. N. (2015). Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 503-515.
Emotion recognition in preschool children: Associations with maternal depression and early parenting
Kujawa, A., Dougherty, L., Durbin, C. E., Laptook, R., Torpey, D., & Klein, D. N. (2014). Development and Psychopathology, 26, 159-170.