Blankson Vitae, October 2017 1 Curriculum Vitae: A. Nayena Blankson, Ph.D. [email protected] http://faculty.spelman.edu/anayenablankson/ www.blanksonstatisticalconsulting.weebly.com EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Psychology. 2007 Dissertation: Shyness, Attachment Security, and Cognitive Abilities: Measurement and Relationships. Advisors: The late Dr. John L. Horn; Dr. Rand Wilcox. M.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Psychology. 2003 Thesis: Studies of Invariance of Measurement. Advisor: The late Dr. John L. Horn. B.A., Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), 2001 Baltimore. Major: Psychology, Minor: Mathematical Sciences Latin honors: summa cum laude University of Newcastle (now Newcastle University), Newcastle upon Tyne, 1999-2000 England. Loyola study abroad program. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Associate Professor, Spelman College, Atlanta. 2015-Present Vice Chair- Spring 2016 Assistant Professor, Howard University, Washington, DC. 2016-2017 Assistant Professor, Spelman College, Atlanta. Tenure awarded. 2009-2015 Statistical Consultant 2007-Present Provide statistical consultation to faculty, students, and other professionals. Post-doctoral Research Associate, Family Research Center, The University of 2007-2009 North Carolina at Greensboro. Collaborated with Drs. Marion O’Brien, Stuart Marcovitch, Susan Calkins, and Esther Leerkes on research project aimed at examining emotion and cognition precursors to early school success as well as on grant proposal development and pursued individual research projects examining the links between socio-emotional functioning and cognition. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Research Interests and Skills Blankson Vitae, October 2017 2 The design of psychological research, particularly the design for research on infant and child development The organization and development of cognitive abilities as related to individual factors such as personality, and contextual factors of parenting and schooling. Measurement invariance, multivariate mathematical/statistical methods, structural equation modeling. The development and validation of psychological scales. Computer skills include LISREL, Mplus, SPSS, Minitab, R, NORM, Microsoft Office. Publications Peer-Reviewed. (+ indicates student co-author) Guillory, J. J., & Blankson, A. N. (in press). Using recently acquired knowledge to self-assess understanding in the classroom. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Blankson, A. N., Weaver, J. M., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M., Calkins, S. D., & Marcovitch, S., (2017). Cognitive and emotional processes as predictors of a successful transition into school. Early Education and Development, 28, (1-20). doi:10.1080/10409289.2016.1183434 Blankson, A. N., & Blair, C. (2016). Cognition and classroom quality as predictors of math achievement in the kindergarten year. Learning and Instruction, 41, 32-40. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2015.09.004 Blankson, A. N., Dipeolu, A. O., Storlie, C. A., Woo, H., & Hargrave, S. J. (2015). Moderated mediation in career development research. Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation, 6, 70-82. doi:10.1177/2150137815569299 Blankson, A. N., & McArdle, J. J. (2015). Measurement invariance of cognitive abilities across ethnicity, gender, and time among older Americans. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 70, 386-397. PMID: 24170715. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbt106 Blankson, A. N., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M., Marcovitch, S., & Calkins, S. D. (2015). Do hours spent viewing television at age 3 and 4 predict vocabulary and executive functioning at age 5? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 61, 264-289. Blankson, A. N., +Rochester, S. E., & Watkins, A. F. (2015). Service- learning and civic responsibility in a sample of African American college students. Journal of College Student Development, 56, 723-734. doi: 10.1353/csd.2015.007 *Negriff, S., *Blankson, A. N., & Trickett, P. K. (2015). Pubertal timing and tempo: Associations with childhood maltreatment. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 201-213. *Authors contributed equally and should be considered co-first authors. doi:10.1111/jora.12128 Blankson, A. N., & McArdle, J. J. (2014). A brief report on the factor structure of the cognitive measures in the HRS/AHEAD studies. Journal of Aging Research, 2014, Article ID 798514, 5 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/798514 Blankson Vitae, October 2017 3 Parade, S. H., Blankson, A. N., Leerkes, E. M., Crockenberg, S. C., & Faldowski, R. (2014). Close relationships predict trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms over the transition to parenthood. Family Relations, 63, 206-218. doi:10.1111/fare.12065 Blankson, A. N., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M, Marcovitch, S., Calkins, S. D., & Weaver, J. M. (2013). Developmental dynamics of emotion and cognition processes in preschoolers. Child Development, 84, 346-360. PMID: 22925076. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01841.x +Brown, A. L. & Blankson, A. N. (2013). Developing the College Student Stress Inventory for Black Women (CSSI-BW). Papers and Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2, Article 5. Blankson, A. N., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M., Marcovitch, S., & Calkins, S. D. (2012). Differentiating processes of control and understanding in the early development of emotion and cognition. Social Development, 21, 1-20. PMID: 22328805. doi:10.1111/j.1467- 9507.2011.00593.x Nelson, J. A., O’Brien, M., Calkins, S. D., Leerkes, E. M., Marcovitch, S., & Blankson, A. N. (2012). Maternal expressive style and children’s emotional development. Infant and Child Development, 21, 267-286. PMID: 24511279. doi:10.1002/icd.748 Blankson, A. N., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M, Marcovitch, S., & Calkins, S. D. (2011). Shyness and vocabulary: The roles of executive functioning and home environmental stimulation. Merrill- Palmer Quarterly, 57, 105-128. PMID: 22096267. doi:10.1353/mpq.2011.0007 Leerkes, E. M., Blankson, A. N., O’Brien, M., Calkins, S. D., & Marcovitch, S. (2011). The relation of maternal emotional and cognitive support to pre-academic skills in preschoolers. Infant and Child Development, 20, 353-370. PMID: 22121336. doi:10.1002/icd.728 Marcovitch, S., Leigh, J., Calkins, S. D., O’Brien, M., Leerkes, E. M., & Blankson, A. N. (2010). Moderate vagal withdrawal in 3.5-year-old children is associated with optimal performance on executive function tasks. Developmental Psychobiology, 52, 603-608. PMID: 20806334. doi:10.1002/dev.20462 Parade, S. H., Leerkes, E. M., & Blankson, A. N. (2010). Attachment to parents, social anxiety, and close relationships of female students over the transition to college. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 127-137. PMID: 20084559. doi:10.10007/s10964-009-9396-x. Leerkes, E. M., Blankson, A. N., & O’Brien, M. (2009). Differential effects of maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress on social-emotional functioning. Child Development, 80, 762-775. PMID: 19489902. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01296.x Nelson, J. A., O’Brien, M., Blankson, A. N., Calkins, S. D., & Keane, S. P. (2009). Family stress and parental responses to children’s negative emotions: Tests of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses. Journal of Family Psychology, 23, 671-679. PMID: 19803603. doi:10.1037/a0015977 Non Peer-Reviewed. (+ = indicates student co-author) Blankson Vitae, October 2017 4 Blankson, A. N. (in press). Reliability, issues of. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief & Vol Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences: Vol. II. Research methods and assessment techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. +Phillips, K. A., +Brown, A. L., & Blankson, A. N. (in press). Validity, issues of. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief & Vol Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences: Vol. II. Research methods and assessment techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Blankson, A. N., & +Rochester, S. E. (2013). Integrating service-learning into developmental science courses. Developments: Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development, 56, 8- 9. +Rochester, S. E., & Blankson, A. N. (2013). After the grade: A report on how to publish a scholarly paper in a peer reviewed journal. Eye on Psi Chi, 17, 16-19. Horn, J. L., & Blankson, A. N. (2012). Foundations for better understanding of cognitive abilities. In D. P. Flanagan & P. L. Harrison (Eds.), Contemporary intellectual assessment: Theories, tests, and issues (3rd ed., chapter 3, pp. 73-98). New York: The Guilford Press. Horn, J. L., & Blankson, N. (2005). Foundations for better understanding of cognitive abilities. In D.P. Flanagan & P.L. Harrison (Eds.), Contemporary intellectual assessment: Theories, tests, and issues (2nd ed., chapter 3, pp. 41-68). New York: The Guilford Press. Under Review. Blankson, A. N., & Blair, C. (invitation to revise and resubmit). Cognition and classroom quality as predictors of math achievement in the kindergarten year. Presentations Conferences and Workshop Presentations. (+ indicates student co-author) Blankson, A. N., (2017, October). Using profiles of cognitive skills in preschool to predict achievement in kindergarten. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Minneapolis, MN. Blankson, A. N., Gudmundson, J., & Blair, C. (2017, April). Profiles of cognitive skills as predictors of early achievement. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting,