Kimberly Saudino, Ph.D.

Kimberly Saudino is a faculty member at Boston University where she is the director of the Developmental Behavior Genetics Laboratory.

Saudino's primary interest is the etiology of individual differences in temperament. Utilizing behavioral genetics, Saudino attempts to disentangle the effects of biology and environment on temperament. She is also interested in the use of measures to examine temperament, particularly measures that use parent report to assess temperament. In particular, Saudino is interested in the factors that influence the validity of parent report of temperament.

Most Cited Publication (38):

Saudino, K. J., Pedersen, N. L., Lichenstein, P., McClearn, G. E., & Plomin, R. (1997). Can personality explain geneti influences on life events? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 72(1), 196-206.

Recent Publications:

Saudino, K. J., Ronald, A., & Plomin, R. (2005). The etiology of behavior problems in 7-year-old twins: Substantial genetic influence and negligible shared environmental influens for parent ratings and ratings by same and different teachers. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 33(1), 113-130. (PDF)

Saudino, K., J., (2003). Parent ratings of infant temperament - Lessons from twin studies. Infant Behavior and Development 26(1), 314-325.

Visconti, K. J., Saudino, K. J., Rappaport, L. A., Newburger, J. W., & Bellinger, D. C. (2002). Influence of parental stress and social support on the behavioral adjustment of children with transposition of the great arteries. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pedicatrics 23(5), 314-321.

Purcell, S., Eley, T. C., Dale, P. S., Oliver, B., Petrill, S. A., Price, T. S., Saudino, K. J., Simonoff, E., Stevenson, J., TAylor, E., & Plomin, R. (2001). Comorbidity between verbal and non-verbal cogntiive delays in 2-year-olds: A bivariate twin analysis. Developmental Science 4(2), 195-208.