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Katherine C. Haydon


Psychology & Education Department
Mount Holyoke College 
50 College Street 
South Hadley, MA 01075
(413) 538-2365                                                                   


EDUCATION

2008             Ph. D., Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
                     Advisor: W. Andrew Collins
                     Minor: Interpersonal Relationships Research


2002-2004    Psychology Department, University of Minnesota
                     Social Psychology Ph. D. program
                     Advisor: Ellen Berscheid


2000             B. A., Mount Holyoke College                        
                     Cum laude with High Honor in Psychology



PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2018-           Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College
2015-2016   Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts
2012-           Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education, Mount Holyoke College

2011-2012   Non-tenure-track faculty, Psychology Department, Illinois State University
2009-2011   Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Psychology Department                                               Mentor: Glenn I. Roisman
2008-2009   Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College
2000-2002   Project Coordinator, Across Generations Project, Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston, Massachusetts


RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Attachment processes in adulthood

- Physiological correlates of relationship functioning
- Romantic relationship development and maintenance processes
- Close relationships as developmental contexts across the lifespan


PUBLICATIONS

1. Rothman, A. J., & Haydon, K. C. (2006). Strategies to motivate behavior change: How can we mobilize adults to promote  positive youth development? In E.G. Clary & J. Rhodes (Eds.), Mobilizing adults for positive youth development: Promoting socially valued activities (pp. 101-114). Kluwer Academic: New York, NY.
 
2. Simpson, J. A., Collins, W. A., Tran, S., & Haydon, K. C. (2007).  Attachment and the experience and expression of emotions in romantic relationships:  A developmental perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 355-367. 

3. Collins, W. A., Haydon, K. C., & Hesemeyer, P. (2007). Relating relationships: Development, expansion, and interrelations in relationship networks. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 581-584.
 
4. Simpson, J. A., Collins, W. A., Tran, S., & Haydon, K. C. (2008). Developmental antecedents of emotion in romantic relationships. In  J. P. Forgas & J. Fitness (Eds.), Social relationships: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes. New York: Psychology Press.

5. van Dulmen, M. H. M., Goncy, E. A. , Haydon, K. C., & Collins, W. A. (2008). Distinctiveness of adolescent and emerging  adult romantic relationship features in predicting externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 336-345.

6. Roisman, G. I., & Haydon, K.C. (2011). Earned-security in retrospect: Emerging insights from longitudinal, experimental, and taxometric investigations. In D. Cicchetti & G. I. Roisman (Eds.), Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (Vol. 36). New York: Wiley.

7. Oriña, M. M., Collins, W. A., Simpson, J. A., Salvatore, J. E., Haydon, K. C., & Kim, J. S. (2011). Developmental and dyadic perspectives on commitment in adult romantic relationships. Psychological Science, 22(7), 908-915.

8. Fortuna, K., Roisman, G. I., & Haydon, K.C., Groh, A. M., & Holland, A. S.  (2011). Adult attachment states of mind and the quality of young adults’ sibling relationships. Developmental Psychology, 47(5), 1366-1373.

9. Haydon, K. C., Roisman, G. I., Marks, M. J., & Fraley, R. C. (2011). An empirically derived approach to the latent structure of the  Adult  Attachment Interview: Additional convergent and discriminant validity evidence. Attachment and Human Development, 13, 503-524.

10. Haydon, K. C., Roisman, G.I., & Burt, K.B. (2012). In search of security: The latent structure of the Adult Attachment Interview revisited. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 589-606.

11. Roisman, G.I., Newman, D.A., Fraley, R.C., Haltigan, J.D., Groh, A.M., & Haydon, K.C. (2012). Distinguishing differential susceptibility from diathesis-stress: Recommendations for evaluating interaction effects. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 389-409.

12. Haydon, K. C., Collins, W. A., Salvatore, J. E., Simpson, J. A., & Roisman, G. I.  (2012). Shared and distinctive origins and correlates  of adult attachment representations: The developmental organization of romantic functioning. Child Development, 83, 1689-1702.

13. *Yang, M., Haydon, K. C., & Miller, M. J. (2012). Family intergenerational cultural conflict and social support in Asian and Asian American college student families.  Asian American Journal of Psychology. *Student collaborator

14. Haydon, K. C. & Roisman, G. I. (2013). What's past is prologue: Social developmental antecedents of close relationships.  In J. A. Simpson & L. Campbell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships (pp.750-770). New York: Oxford University Press.

15. Salvatore, J. E., Haydon, K. C., Simpson, J. A., & Collins, W. A. (2013). The distinctive role of romantic relationships in moderating the effects of  early caregiving on adulthood depressive symptom trajectories. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 843-856. 

16. Emery, H. T., McElwain, N. L., Groh, A. M., Haydon, K. C., & Roisman, G. I. (2014). Dispositional empathy and electrodermal reactivity: Interactive contributions to maternal sensitivity with toddler-aged children. Journal of Family Psychology.

17. Haydon, K. C., Roisman, G. I., Booth-LaForce, C., Owen, M., & Cox, M. (2014). Shared and distinctive antecedents of Adult Attachment Interview state of mind and inferred experience dimensions. In C. Booth LaForce and G. I. Roisman (Eds.), The Adult Attachment Interview: Psychometrics, Continuity and Change from Infancy, and Developmental Origins in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development. 

18. Haltigan, J. D., Roisman, G. I., Haydon, K. C., & Booth LaForce, C. (2014). The latent structure of the Adult Attachment Interview: Exploratory and confirmatory evidence. In C. Booth LaForce and G. I. Roisman (Eds.), The Adult Attachment Interview: Psychometrics, Continuity and Change from Infancy, and Developmental Origins in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development.

19. Roisman, G. I., Haltigan, J. D., Haydon, K. C., & Both-LaForce, C. (2014). Earned-security in retrospect and prospect: Depressive symptoms, family stress, and materanl and paternal sensitivity from early childhood to mid-adolescence.  In C. Booth LaForce & G. I. Roisman (Eds.), The Adult Attachment Interview:  Psychometrics, Continuity and Change from Infancy, and Developmental Origins in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development.

20. Groh, A. M., Roisman, G. I., Haydon, K. C., Bost, K., McElwain, N., *Garcia, L., & *Hester, C. (2015). Mothers’ electrophysiological, subjective, and observed emotional responses to infant distress: The role of secure base script knowledge. Development & Psychopathology, 27, 1237-1250.

21. Haydon, K. C. (2015). Relational contexts of women's stress and competence during the transition to adulthood. Journal of Adult Development, 22, 112-123.  PDF

22. 
 Waters, T. E. A., Roisman, G. I., Steele, R. D., Haydon K. C., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2016). A linguistic analysis of the Adult Attachment Interview in two large corpora. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 48, 78-88.

23. Roisman, G. I., Rogosch, F. A., Cicchetti, D., Groh, A., Haltigan, J. D., & Haydon, K. C., Holland, A. S. & Steele, R. D. (in press). Adult Attachment Interview states of mind and inferred childhood experiences in maltreated and comparison adolescents from low income families. Development and Psychopathology. 

24. Haydon, K.C., Jonestrask, C., Guhn-Knight, H., & Salvatore, J.E. (in press). The dyadic construction of romantic conflict recovery sabotage. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. PDF



TEACHING & MENTORSHIP

University of Minnesota
                        Introduction to Child Psychology. 
                        Development & Interpersonal Relationships
                        Senior Writing Seminar

Illinois State University
                        Infant and Child Development
                        Developmental Research Methods
                        Senior Seminar on Close Relationships Across the Lifespan        

Mount Holyoke College
                       Introduction to Psychology
                       Adolescent Development
                       Developmental Psychology
                       Seminar in Close Relationships Across the Lifespan 
                       Laboratory in Romantic Development: Observational Methods
                       Independent research and thesis students
                              Susan Bonner '09
                              Minji Yang '09
                              Emily Bancroft '13
                              Haley Guhn-Knight  '14
                              Jessica Craig '15
                              Cassie Jonestrask '15
                              Rachel Maskin '15
                             
 
INVITED TALKS & MEDIA

2009    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Psychology Department Brown-Bag Colloquium: “Developmental Pathways to Discordant Adult
            Attachment Representations” 
2013    Guest appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio’s At Issue.
2013    Guest appearance on WHMP radio’s Morning News with Bob Flaherty
2014    Mount Holyoke College Junior Faculty Baccalaureate Address to the Class of 2014
2015    Guest appearance on Mighty Married Moms podcast
2015    University of Massachusetts Social Psychology Brown-Bag Series: "The Developmental and Dyadic Construction of Conflict Recovery"


HONORS AND AWARDS

2002-03   Graduate School Fellowship, University of Minnesota                      
2005-06   NIMH-NRSA Pre-doctoral Trainee “Mental Health and Adjustment in the Life Course”
                Interdisciplinary training grant to the departments of Sociology, Public Health, and Child Development. Program Director: Jeylan T.    
                Mortimer                       


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Ad-Hoc        Child Development            
Reviewer     Emerging Adulthood                                             
                    International Journal of Behavioral Development
                   Journal of Family Issues
                   Journal of Family Psychology
                   Journal of Marriage and the Family
                   Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
                   Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
                   Oxford University Press
                   Personal Relationships
                   The Sociological Quarterly


SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

      Haydon, K. C., Salvatore, J. E., Kuo, S. I., & Collins, W. A. (2008). The impact of multiple negative conflict strategies on couple 
                   functioning:  A process analysis of romantic conflict. In J. Kim (Chair), Learning to love: Viewing romantic relationships 
                   through a developmental lens. Paper symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the International Association for 
                   Relationships Research, Providence, RI.

      Haydon, K. C. (2009). Developmental pathways to discordant generalized and romantic attachment representations: Forming a 
                   secure  partnership despite having an insecure history. In A. Holland (Chair), The influence of adult attachment security in 
                   adolescence and young adulthood: The distinctiveness of different measurement types. Poster symposium conducted at 
                   the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

      Haydon, K. C., Roisman, G. I., Marks, M. J., Fraley, R. C., & Burt, K. (2011). In search of security: The latent structure 
                   of the Adult Attachment Interview revisited. In K. C. Haydon & G. I. Roisman (Chairs), New and emerging insights regarding 
                   the  Adult Attachment Interview. Paper symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child 
                   Development, Montreal, Canada. 

      Haydon, K.C., Roisman, G. I., Cox, M., Booth-LaForce, C., & Owen, M. T. (2013). Shared and distinctive antecedents of AAI state of                                       mind and inferred experience dimensions. In C. Booth LaForce (Chair), Attachment From Infancy to Late Adolescence 
                    in a Large Sample (N=857): Stability, Lawful Change, and Developmental Origins
. Paper symposium conducted at the                                               Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

      Haydon, K. C. (2014). Relational contexts of stress and competence during the transition to adulthood. In K.C. Haydon (Chair), Risk and 
                   Protective Factors Found in Multiple Contexts in Emerging Adulthood
. Paper symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the 
                   Society for Research on Adolescence, Austin, Texas. 

      Haydon, K. C., *Jonestrask, C., Guhn-Knight, H., & Salvatore, J. E. (2015).  Say What You Need To Say: Dyadic Co-Regulation of Romantic
                   Conflict Recovery.
Paper presented at the International Association for Relationships Research Conference on Self-Regulation in
                   Romantic Relationships; Amsterdam, Netherlands.

      Haydon, K. C., & *Jonestrask, C. (2016). I think therefore we are: Self-regulation, narrative coherence and relationship stability. Poster
                   presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality 
and Social Psychology; San Diego, CA.

      *Weidman, S., Breen, M. & Haydon, K.C. (2016). Prosodic speech entrainment in romantic relationships. Proceedings of Speech Prosody,                            Boston, MA.

      Haydon, K. C. (accepted). Hidden regulation of vagal rebound from romantic conflict. Paper to be presented at the meeting of the International
                   Association for Relationships Research; Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2016.
 
    
  ADDITIONAL TRAINING

      - Adult Attachment Interview Coding System. Trained by June Sroufe, Minneapolis Attachment Institute
      - Adult Attachment Interview Coding Certification: Mary Main and Eric Hesse, Univ. of California at Berkeley
      - Current Relationship Interview Coding System: Trained by W. Andrew Collins
      - Attachment Script Assessment Coding System: Trained by Kelly Bost
      - Intensive Longitudinal Data Analysis: Trained by Niall Bolger and J.P. Laurenceau
   

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