Sara Harkness
Professor/Human Dev and Family Sciences

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Culture and the challenges of being a good parent
2024
Sara Harkness, Charles M Super
Research Type: Book Chapter

Various Potentials
2024
Charles M Super, Sara Harkness
Research Type: Journal Article

Culture and Policy in Early Childhood Development.
2024
Sara Harkness, Charles M Super
Research Type: Other Scholarly Work

Harkness, S. (2023). Commentary for “Parenting culture(s): Ideal parent beliefs across 37 countries.” Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, 54(1), 25-29.
2023
Research Type: Journal Article

Harkness, S. Culture and human development: Where did it go? And where is it going? And why does it matter? Invited colloquium, Behavioral Sciences Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands (June 27)
2022
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Harkness, S. (Discussant) (2022). Development across Preschool Years in Emotional and Executive Functioning: Roles of Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Emotionality, and Emotion Coaching (E. Hooper & S. Ku, organizers). Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Rhodes, Greece, June 24)
2022
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A. Infant Behavior and Development, 64. Doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101620.
2021
Charles M Super, Sara Harkness, Marjolijn J.M. Blom, Sara Harkness
Research Type: Journal Article

Children’s sleep as a cultural activity.
2021
Sara Harkness, Charles M Super
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. Culture and Parental Burnout. Invited keynote address at the Second International Conference on Parental Burnout (virtual), May 6, 2021.
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Super, C. M., Harkness, S., Zylicz, O., Bonichini, S., Rios Bermudez, M., & Welles, B. Children’s sleep as a cultural activity. Poster presented at 32nd Quadrennial International Congress of Psychology (virtual), Prague, July 19, 2021.
2021
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Super, C. M., & Harkness, S. (2020). Culture and the perceived organization of newborn behavior: A comparative study in Kenya and the U.S. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. doi: http:// 10.1002/cad.20366
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Getting the baby on a schedule: Dutch and American mothers’ ethnotheories and the establishment of diurnal rhythms in early infancy.
2020
Marjolijn J.M. Blom, Caroline A Mavridis, Sara Harkness, Margaretha De Looze, Saskia D.M. van Schaik, Charles M Super
Research Type: Book Chapter

van Schaik, S. D. M., Mavridis, C., de Looze, M. E., Blom, M. J. M., Super, C. M., & Harkness, S. (2020). Getting the baby on a schedule: Dutch and American mothers’ ethnotheories and the establishment of diurnal rhythms in early infancy. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 13-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20336
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Barbot, B., Hein, S., Trentacosta, C., Beckmann, J. F., Bick, J., Crocetti, E., Liu, Y., Rao, S. F., Liew, J., Overbeek, G., Ponguta, L. A., Scheithauer, H., Super, C. M., Arnett, J., Bukowski, W., Cook, T. D., Cooper, C. R., Côté, J., Eccles, J., Eid, M., Hiraki, K., Johnson, M., Juang, L., Landi, N., Leckman, J., Mulvey, K. L., McCardle, P., Piquero, A. R., Preiss, D. D., Siegler, R., Soenens, B., Yousafzai, A. K., Bornstein, M. H., Goossens, L., Harkness, S., van IJzendoorn, M. H.. (2020). Manifesto for New Directions in Developmental Science. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. http://dx.doi.org/:10.1002/cad.20359
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Harkness, S., Super, C. M., Bonichini, S., Ríos Bermúdez, M., Mavridis, C., van Schaik, S. D. M., Tomkunas, A., & Palacios, J. (2020). Parents, preschools, and the developmental niches of young children: A study in four western cultures. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 113-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20343
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Tsamaase, M. M., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. (2020). Grandmothers’ developmental expectations for early childhood in Botswana. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 93-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20335
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Super, C. M., Harkness, S., Bonichini, S., Welles, B. Zylicz, P. O., Ríos Bermúdez, M., & Palacios, J. (2020). Developmental continuity and change in the cultural construction of the “difficult child: A study in six Western cultures. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 43-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20338
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. (2020). Cross-cultural research on parents: Applications to the care and education of children introduction to the issue. In S. Harkness & C. M. Super (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Research on Parents: Applications to the Care and Education of Children. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 7-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20341
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Liu, J. L., Harkness, S., & Super, C. M. (2020). Chinese mothers’ cultural models of children’s shyness: Ethnotheories and socialization strategies in the context of social change. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 69-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20340.
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Feng, X., Harkness, S., Super, C. M., Welles, B., Ríos Bermúdez, M., Bonichini, S., Moscardino, U., & Zylicz, P. O. (2020). Parents’ concepts of the successful school child in seven western cultures. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 143-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20337
2020
Research Type: Journal Article