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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Lin Tan

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Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: University of North Texas (2022–2023); University of North Texas Health Science Center (2022–2023); University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (2020–2021); Virginia Tech (2017–2022); Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University (2023)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 26 pubs 204 cited

  • Humans
  • Male
  • Female
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Mothers
  • Child, Preschool
  • Emotions
  • Infant
  • Child
  • Object Attachment
  • Siblings
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Fathers
  • Sadness
  • Adult

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Lin Tan's research investigates developmental psychology, focusing on children's emotional development and family dynamics. Her work examines how children's negative affectivity relates to their mothers' emotional expressivity over time. Tan also studies changes in children's attachment security to parents following the birth of a sibling, exploring risk and resilience factors within families. She has investigated growth in children's emotion understanding across early childhood, particularly during the transition to siblinghood, and has explored adrenocortical interdependence in father-infant and mother-infant dyads.

In addition to developmental research, Tan has published on the effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions, utilizing meta-analytic approaches. Her publications include analyses of statistical models for reporting count outcomes in intervention trials and the efficacy of motivational interventions for college students' drinking behavior. Her scholarly contributions include 26 publications with an h-index of 8 and 187 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 26
  • Citations: 204

Selected Publications

  • Children’s emotion understanding and attachment security to mothers and fathers across the transition to siblinghood. (2026)
    Journal of Family Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • Attachment network, interparental conflict, and older siblings’ behavior predicting toddler behavior problems. (2026)
    Journal of Family Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • Infant-Mother Attachment Security and Cortisol Reactivity During the Strange Situation Procedure: Longitudinal Associations With Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant Temperament (2026)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Acculturation domains, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences among Asian American university students (2025)
    International Journal of Intercultural Relations DOI OpenAlex
  • You need to take turns! Sibling sharing and the emergence of conscience in early childhood (2025)
    Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation: Private Speech in Cognitive and Emotion Contexts (2023)
    Journal of Child and Family Studies 4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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