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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Psychology

Nancy L McElwain

Research Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Research Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Recent Publications

Kim, S. G., Holland, A., Brezinski, K., Tu, K. M., & McElwain, N. L. (2025). Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes: Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Journal of youth and adolescence, 54(3), 736-749. Article e49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02091-7

Li, X., McElwain, N. L., & Tu, K. M. (2025). Early Mother-Child Interaction Flexibility Predicts Adolescent Psychological Adjustment. Journal of youth and adolescence, 54(1), 225-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02059-7

Chen, X., McElwain, N. L., Pomerantz, E. M., & Wang, M. (2024). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ agency and defeat. Developmental psychology, 60(6), 1016-1027. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001723

Hossain Khan, M. N., McElwain, N. L., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & Islam, B. (2024). InfantMotion2Vec: Unlabeled Data-Driven Infant Pose Estimation Using a Single Chest IMU. In 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2024 - Proceedings (2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2024 - Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN63547.2024.10780750

Hossain Khan, M. N., Li, J., McElwain, N. L., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & Islam, B. (2024). Sound Tagging in Infant-centric Home Soundscapes. In Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, CHASE 2024 (pp. 142-146). (Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, CHASE 2024). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE60773.2024.00023

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Psychology

308 Psychology Bldg, MC-716

603 East Daniel St.

Champaign, IL 61820

(217) 333-0631

Email: psych@illinois.edu

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