From the Family Journal Study, concluded 2019 (PI = Kuo)
*Italicized names indicate mentored student co-authors.

Johnson, V.J., Choi, D., Wheeler, L.A., & Kuo, P.X. (2023). Coparenting support in the context of child difficulty: Mother and father differences. Family Processdoi.org/10.1111/famp.12911

Kuo, P.X., Lee, K., Johnson, V.J., & Starr, E.J. (2023). Investigating moderators of daily marital to parent-child spillover: Individual and family systems approaches. Family Relations. 72(4) doi.org/10.1111/fare.12777

Kuo, P.X. & Johnson, V.J. (2021). Whose parenting stress is more vulnerable to marital dissatisfaction? A within-couple approach examining gender, cognitive reappraisal and parental identity. Family Process. 60(4) 1470-1487. doi.org/10.1111/famp.12642  

Other Work

Gettler, L.T., Rosenbaum, S., Kuo, P.X., Sarma, M.S., Bechayda, S.A., McDade, T.W., & Kuzawa, C.W. (2022). Evidence for an adolescent sensitive period to family experiences influencing adult male testosterone production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kuo, P.X. & Braungart-Rieker, J.M. (2022). Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 58, 188-197. 

Nowak, A.L., Braungart-Rieker, J.M., & Kuo, P.X. (2021). Social support moderates the relation between childhood trauma and prenatal depressive symptoms in teen mothers. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

Gettler, L.T., Kuo, P.X., Sarma, M.S., Lefever, J.E., Cummings, E.M., McKenna, J., & Braungart-Rieker, J.M. (2021). U.S. fathers’ reports of bonding, infant temperament, and psychosocial stress based on family sleep practices. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 9(1), 460-469.

Gettler, L.T., Kuo, P.X., Sarma, M.S., Trumble, B.C., Burke Lefever, J.E., & Braungart-Rieker, J.M. (2021). Fathers’ oxytocin responses to first holding their newborns: Interactions with testosterone reactivity to predict later parenting behavior and father-infant bonds. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(5), 1384-1398. Invited contribution to the special issue: Fathers, families & physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering. 

Volling, B.L., Steinberg, E.M., & Kuo, P.X. (2020). Is it easier the second time around? Fathers' (and mothers') roles across the transition from one child to two. In H. Fitzgerald, K. von Klitzing, N. Cabrera, T. Skjѳthaug, & J. S. de Mendonça (Eds.) Handbook of Fathers and Child Development: Prenatal to Preschool. 

Gettler, L.T., Kuo, P.X., Bas, A., & Borja, J.B. (2019). The roles of parents in shaping fathering across generations in Cebu, Philippines. Journal of Marriage and Family. 81(3) 662-678.

Edelstein, R.S., Chin, K., Saini, E.K., Kuo, P.X., Schultheiss, O.C., & Volling, B.L. (2019). Adult attachment and testosterone reactivity: Fathers' avoidance predicts changes in testosterone during the Strange Situation Procedure. Hormones and Behavior. 112, 10-19. 

Kuo, P.X., Saini, E.K., Thomason, E., Volling, B.L. (2019).  Is one secure attachment enough? Infant cortisol reactivity and security of infant-mother and infant-father attachments at the end of the first year. Attachment and Human Development. 21(5), 426-444.

Gettler, L.T., Kuo, P.X., Avila, J., Rosenbaum, S., McDade, T.W., & Kuzawa, C.W. Sociosexuality, testosterone, and life history status: Prospective associations and longitudinal changes among men in Cebu, Philippines. (2019). Evolution and Human Behavior. 40(2), 249-258.

Kuo, P.X. & Gettler, L.T. The neuroendocrinology of fatherhood. (2018). In P. Mehta, & O. Schultheiss (Eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology. Routledge: Abingdon, UK.

Gettler, L.T., Kuo, P.X., Bechayda, S.A. (2018). Fatherhood and psychobiology in the Philippines: Perspectives on joint profiles and longitudinal changes of fathers' estradiol and testosterone. American Journal of Human Biology. 30(6), e23150.

Kuo, P.X., Braungart-Rieker, J.M., Burke Lefever, J.E., Sarma, M.S., O'Neill, M., & Gettler, L.T. (2018). Fathers' cortisol and testosterone in the days around infants' births predict later paternal involvement. Hormones and Behavior. 106, 28-34.

Sarma, M.S., Kuo, P.X., Bechayda, S.A., Kuzawa, C.W., & Gettler, L.T. (2018). Exploring the links between early life and young adulthood social experiences on men's later life psychobiology as fathers. Physiology and Behavior, 193(Part A), 82-89.

Kuo, P.X., Volling, B.L., & Gonzalez, R. (2018). Gender role beliefs, work-family conflict, and father involvement after the birth of a second child. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 19(2), 243-256.

Kuo, P.X., Volling, B.L., Gonzalez, R., Oh, W., & Yu, T. (2017). Developmental trajectories of children’s adjustment across the transition to siblinghood: Pre-birth predictors and sibling outcomes; Chapter VII: Trajectories of children’s emotional reactivity after the birth of a second child. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 82(3), 93-105.

Volling B.L., Gonzalez, R., Oh, W., Song, J., Yu, T., Rosenberg, L., Kuo, P.X., Thomason, E., Beyers-Carlson, E., Safyer, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017). Developmental trajectories of children’s adjustment across the transition to siblinghood: Pre-birth predictors and sibling outcomes. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 82(3).

Kuo, P.X., Volling, B.L., & Gonzalez, R. (2017). His, hers, or theirs? Coparenting after the birth of a second child. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(6), 710-720.

Kuo, P.X., & Ward, L.M. (2016). Contributions of television use to beliefs about fathers and gendered family roles among first-time expectant parents. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 17(4), 352-362.

Kuo, P.X., Saini, E.K., Thomason E., Schultheiss, O.C., Gonzalez, R., & Volling, B.L. (2016). Individual variation in fathers' testosterone reactivity to infant distress predicts parenting behaviors with their 1-year-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 58(3), 303-314.

Volling, B.L., Oh, W., Gonzalez, R. Kuo, P.X., & Yu, T. (2015). Patterns of marital change across the transition from one child to two. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, 4(3), 177-197.         

Kuo, P.X., Carp, J.M., Light, K.C., & Grewen, K.M. (2012). Behavioral interactions and testosterone linked with neural responses to infants in human fathers. Biological Psychology, 91(2), 302-306.

van Anders, S.M., Goldey, K.L., & Kuo, P.X. (2011). The Steroid/Peptide Theory of Social Bonds: Integrating testosterone and peptide responses for classifying social behavioral contexts. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36, 1265-1275.