Dr. Emma K Adam *ON LEAVE 9/ 2009 - 8/ 2010 * Associate Professor, Education and Social Policy Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Annenberg Hall Room 108 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-2010

Emma Adam is a developmental psychologist with an interest in applying theory and research from developmental psychology to understanding and informing social policies for children and families.  She has expertise in attachment theory and the developmental psychobiology of stress.  Adam is interested in the contributions of workplace, school, family and individual factors to physiological stress in families, and the implications of stress for parent well-being and for child and adolescent behavioral, cognitive and emotional development.  Recent work also examines social influences on sleep in children and adolescents, and the implications of variations in sleep timing and quality for health and development.  In addition to her Northwestern University affiliations, she is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for the Study of Human Development, the Society for Research on Adolescence, and the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. She is the recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship (2003–2004) and a William T. Grant Scholars Award (2004–2009).

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Institute for Policy Research Profile

Year		Degree		Institution
1998		PhD, Child Psychology		University of Minnesota
1998		MA, Public Policy		University of Chicago
1992		MA, Applied Developmental Psychology		University of Toronto
1990		BS, Psychology		University of Toronto

Adam, E. K., Sutton, J., Doane, L. & Mineka, S (2008). Incorporating HPA-axis measures into preventative interventions for adolescent depression: Are we there yet? in Development and Psychopathology: 20 (3), 975-1001.

Kudielka, B. M., Hawkley, L. C., Adam, E. K., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Compliance with ambulatory saliva sampling in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study (CHASRS) and associations with social support. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

DeSantis, A., Adam, E. K., Doane L., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M. (2007). Racial/ethnic differences in cortisol diurnal rhythms in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Pendry, P. & Adam, E. K. (2007). Associations between interparental discord, parenting quality, parent emotion and cortisol levels in adolescent and kindergarten-aged children. International Journal of Behavioral Development.

Adam, E. K., Snell, E. K. & Pendry, P. (2007). Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: A nationally representative time-diary study. Special Issue on Sleep and Family Processes, Journal of Family Psychology.

Snell, E. K., Adam, E. K., & Duncan, G. J. (2007). Sleep and the body mass index and overweight status of children and adolescents. Child Development.

Adam, E. K., Klimes-Dougan, B., & Gunnar, M. (2007). Social regulation of stress physiology in infancy, childhood and adolescence: Implications for mental health and education in Donna Coch, Geraldine Dawson & Kurt Fischer, Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development.

Adam, E. K., Klimes-Dougan, B. & Gunnar, M. (2006). Social regulation of stress physiology in infancy, childhood and adulthood: Implications for mental health and education in Coch, D., Dawson, G. & Fischer, K. , Human Behavior and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development.
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Adam, Emma Kristine (2006). Transactions among trait and state emotion and adolescent diurnal and momentary cortisol activity in naturalistic settings. Psychoneuroendocrinology, Vol 31: 664-679.
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Adam, Emma (2005). Momentary emotion and cortisol levels in the everyday lives of working parents in Schneider, Barbara, Waite, Linda, Being Together, Working Apart: Dual Career Families and the Work-Life Balance: 105-134.
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Adam, E.K., Gunnar, M.R. & Tanaka, A. (2004). Adult attachment, parent emotion, and observed parenting behavior: Mediator and moderator models. Child Development: 75, 110–122.
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Adam, E. K. (2004). Beyond quality: Parental and residential stability and children’s adjustment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13 (5): 210-213.
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Adam, E.K. & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2002). Home sweet home(s): Parental separations, residential moves and adjustment in low-income adolescent girls. Developmental Psychology: 38, 792–805.
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Adam, E.K. & Gunnar, M.R. (2001). Relationship functioning and home and work demands predict individual differences in diurnal cortisol patterns in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology: 26 (189–208).
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Adam, Emma (December, 2005). Everyday influences on stress hormone levels in adults, adolescents, and young children: Implications for health promotion. Presentation to the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics Colloquium Series.

Adam, Emma (October, 2005). Multiple influences on HPA axis functioning in the everyday lives of adolescents: Implications for emotional and physical health. Presentation in the Health Psychology Colloquium Series, Dept. of Psychology, University of British Columbia.

Adam, Emma (July, 2005). Social and Emotional Influences on Physiological Stress in Infants, Children and Adolescents. Presentation to the Undergraduate Success in Science Program, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University.

Snell, E. K., Adam, E. K. & Duncan, G. (2005, June). (June, 2005). Sleep patterns and developmental outcomes among American children. . Poster presented at the CDS-II early results workshop, Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Ann Arbor, MI.

Adam, E. K (June, 2005). Proper use vs. misuse of biomarker data in social science research: The case of cortisol. Invited paper at the Chicago Workshop on Biomarker Collection in Population-Based Health and Aging Research, Sponsored by the Chicago Core on Biomarkers in Population-based Aging Research at the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.

Adam, E. K (June, 2005). Social relationships and the regulation of stress hormones. Invited paper at the Introductory Conference of Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

Adam, Emma (June, 2005). Ups and Downs: Social Experiences, Emotion and Physiological Stress in the Everyday Lives of Adolescents. Presentation at Northwestern University’s Grantmakers Conference (one of three speakers invited by NU Foundation Relations).

Adam, Emma (May, 2005). Social and Emotional Influences on Physiological Stress in Infants, Children and Adolescents. Spring Conference for Alumns of the Communications Disorders Program, Northwestern University.

Adam, E. K (April, 2005). Sorting out the “Normative” from the “Non”: Momentary Emotion, Chronic Emotional Strain, Emotional Disorders, and Cortisol. In P. Hastings and E. K. Adam, (Co-Chairs), Integrating Developmental Psychopathology and Affective Psychophysiology: New Views, New Approaches. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Pendry, P. & Adam, E. K (April, 2005). Associations between Marital Discord, Parenting, and Children’s Stress Physiology: The Role of Child Age and Parent Gender. In P. Pendry (Chair), Marital Discord and Child Development: Developmental and Transactional Perspectives on the Role of Basic Regulatory Processes. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Doane, L. D. & Adam, E. K (April, 2005). Relationship functioning and depressive symptoms in adolescence and over the transition to adulthood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Snell, E. K. & Adam, E. K (April, 2005). Schooling, parental involvement, and adolescent emotion. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Identifying social influences on emotional and physiological stress in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of acute and chronic physiological stress on emotional and physical health, in particular the role of HPA axis activity in the emergence of early health disparities and the development of emotional disorders over the transition to adulthood.

SESP 210		Intro to Stats & Research Definitions and classifications of terms used in quantitative methods; measures of typical and maximum performance, reliability, and validity checks; reporting and displaying data; interpreting results.
LRN_SCI 451		Topics in Learning Sciences Current research topics in the learning sciences. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change in topic.
HDSP 451		Topics in Human Development and Social Policy Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SESP 201		Childhood & Adolescence Personal, social, and cognitive development, birth through adolescence.  Interplay of biological and experiential factors on linguistic and conceptual development, ego, and personality.

Year		Journal Name		Position
2007		Child Development		Editorial board
2005		Journal of Adolescent Health		Editorial board