Megan M. Davis

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

11h-index518citations32works0.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development(22), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(6), Early Childhood Education and Development(5), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies(3), Child Abuse and Trauma(3)

Publications32 total

Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
Pathways to health: A longitudinal examination of protective factors in children with and without preschool anxiety.
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval
Social Development·2025Open Access
Emotional trade-offs of neural sensitivity to social threat and reward in adolescent girls
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·2025Open Access
Pathways to health: A longitudinal examination of protective factors in children with and without preschool anxiety
Development and Psychopathology·2024Open Access
Neural Sensitivity to Peer Feedback and Depressive Symptoms: Moderation by Executive Function
Developmental Psychobiology·2024· 3 cited
Fixed Trait Emotion Mindsets and Emotion Regulation Self-Efficacy: Moderation by Emotional Competence and Gender
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly·2024· 1 cited
Early life adversity and psychopathology in preschoolers: mechanisms and moderators
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry·2023· 3 cited
Risk for Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents with a History of Adversity: Unique Role of Stress Appraisals
Child Psychiatry & Human Development·2023· 1 cited
Need for approval and antisocial behavior moderate the effect of socioemotional cues on adolescent girls’ cognitive control
Child Development·2022Open Access
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·2022· 25 citedOpen Access
P108. Neighborhood Disadvantage Associated With Differential Neural Response to Predictable and Unpredictable Threat in a Community Sample of Youth
Biological Psychiatry·2022
Neighborhood Disadvantage Associated With Blunted Amygdala Reactivity to Predictable and Unpredictable Threat in a Community Sample of Youth
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
Biological Embedding of Peer Experiences: The Contribution of Peer Adversity to Stress Regulation
2022· 8 cited
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence.
Emotion·2020· 20 cited
Social experience calibrates neural sensitivity to social feedback during adolescence: A functional connectivity approach
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience·2020· 35 citedOpen Access
How does peer adversity “Get inside the Brain?” Adolescent girls’ differential susceptibility to neural dysregulation of emotion following victimization
Developmental Psychobiology·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Maternal Antecedents to Adolescent Girls’ Neural Regulation of Emotion
Journal of Research on Adolescence·2020· 3 cited
Sex, Gender, and Emotion
The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development·2020· 2 cited
Hungry for inclusion: Exposure to peer victimization and heightened social monitoring in adolescent girls
Development and Psychopathology·2019· 30 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Karen D. Rudolph(19), Haina H. Modi(13), Eva H. Telzer(12), Haley V. Skymba(9), Wendy Troop‐Gordon(4), Michelle E. Miernicki(3), Megan Finnegan(3), Katherine Haigler(3), Kimberly L. H. Carpenter(3), William Copeland(3), Helen L. Egger(3), Margaret A. Sheridan(3), Carina H. Fowler(2), Yuji Kim(2), Wing Yan Sze(2), Wendy Heller(2), Ashley A. Huggins(2), Lisa M. McTeague(2), Nicholas Bustos(2), Kathleen I. Crum(2)