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James A. Green

James A. Green

Title: Professor
Departmental Program: Developmental
E-mail: james.green@uconn.edu

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Parent-child relations
  • Social development
  • Prelinguistis communication
  • Quantitative methods

Undergraduate courses:

  • Principles of Research in Psychology
  • General Psychology I.

Graduate courses:

  • Measurement and Scaling
  • Advanced Child Psychology

Representative Publications:

  • Green, J. A., Gustafson, G. E., & McGhie, A. C. (1998). Changes in infants' cries as a function of time in a cry bout. Child Development, 69, 271-279.
  • Green, J. A., & Gustafson, G. E. (1997). Perspectives on an ecological approach to social communicative development in infancy. In C. Dent-Read and P. Zukow-Goldring (Eds.), Evolving explanations of development: Ecological explanations to organism­environment systems (pp. 515-546). Arlington, VA: American Psychological Association.
  • Green, J. A., Gustafson, G. E., Irwin, J. R., Kalinowski, L. L., & Wood, R. M. (1995). Infant crying: Acoustics, perception, and communication. Early Development and Parenting, 4, 161-175.
  • Green, J. A., Irwin, J. R., & Gustafson, G. E. (2000). Acoustic cryanalysis, neonatal status, and long-term developmental outcome. In R. G. Barr, B. Hopkins, & J. A. Green (Eds.), Crying as a sign, a symptom, and a signal: Clinical, emotional, and developmental aspects of infant and toddler crying (pp 137-156). London: MacKeith Press.
  • Barr, R. G., Hopkins, B., & Green, J. A. (2000). Crying as a sign, a symptom, and a signal: Clinical, emotional, and developmental aspects of infant and toddler crying. London: MacKeith Press.

Other:

  • Maternal and Child Health Bureau/Health and Human Service Review Panel member, 1991-1996.
  • Child Development Editorial Board, 1992-1997.
  • Member of the Society for Research on Child Development and the Psychometric Society.
  • International Society on Infant Studies