Lucas-Thompson is interested in developmental psychology and researches the ways
marital and parent-child relationships influence child and adolescent development. 

Lucas-Thompson has been teaching at Macalester since 2009. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Beloit College, 2003; M.A., University of California at Irvine, 2005

Articles

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Family relationships and children's stress responses (with W. A. Goldberg), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (2011)
 

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Social constraints, genetic vulnerability, and mental health following collective stress (with E. A. Holman and T. Liu), Journal of Traumatic Stress (2011)
 

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Maternal work early in the lives of children and its distal associations with achievement and behavior problems: A meta-analysis (with Wendy A. Goldberg and JoAnn Prause), Psychological Bulletin (2010)
 

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Sleep arrangements and night waking at 6 and 12 months in relation to infants' stress-induced cortisol responses, Infant and Child Development (2009)
 

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Developmental Changes in the Responses of Preterm Infants to a Painful Stressor (with E. L. Townsend; M, R. Gunnar; M. K. Georgieff; S. F. Guiang; R. F. Ciffuentes; R. C. Lussky; and E. P. Davis), Infant Behavior and Development (2008)
 

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