Press:
November 9, 2021 - UC Merced Newsroom: Interaction of Faces, Postures and Scenes Affect Emotion Perception, Study Shows
March 6, 2020 - LENA Blog: An Interview with Professor Walle
https://www.lena.org/walking-language-development-qa/
February 21, 2020 - UC Merced Newsroom: New "Babies" Series on Netflix Features UC Merced Professor's Research on Development
September 10, 2019 - Science Direct: Culture Helps Shape when Babies Learn to Walk
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/culture-helps-shape-when-babies-learn-walk
October 30, 2018 - UC Merced Newsroom: Psychologists Look to Partner with Merced Babies, Moms for National Study
June 17, 2015 - Merced Sun-Star: In Any Language, Learning to Walk and Talk Are Linked
http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2015/study-any-language-learning-walk-and-t...
July 16, 2014 - Psychology Today: How to Spot a Lie: A method so simple you could learn it from a toddler.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/significant-results/201407/how-spot...
April 14, 2014 - Merced Sun-Star; Sacramento Bee; Fresno Bee; Modesto Bee: Professor finds infant learning linked to walking
https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article3289012.html
March 23, 2014 - Merced Sun-Star; Sacramento Bee; Fresno Bee
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/03/23/3564033/uc-merced-professor-head...
July 17, 2013 - New Scientist: Look who’s talking now
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929264.500-gocarting-babies-reve...
Publications:
* = denotes graduate student collaborator; † = denotes undergraduate student collaborator
*Subramoney, S., Walle, E. A., & Camras, L. A. (in press). Emotional development in different cultural contexts. In M. Yik (Ed.), Handbook of Emotion and Culture. Oxford University Press.
*Özden, Z. B., & Walle, E. A. (2025). From emotion to action: Developmental differences in linking discrete emotions to behaviour. Cognition and Emotion.
*Subramoney, S., Walle, E. A., Main, A., & Magana, D. (2025). Emotion brokering in Latinx college students: Associations with depressive symptoms and acculturative stress. Emotion, 25, 1536-1549.
Walle, E. A., *Özden, Z. B., *Subramoney, S., & *Ganesh Kumar, M. (in press). Emotional signals. In S. P. Johnson (Ed.), Handbook of Perceptual Development. Oxford University Press.
Reschke, P. J., Walle, E. A., Daines Coleman, B., Jex, J. M., Fraser, A. M., Porter, C. L., Brown, M. A., Clifford, B. N., King, A., McMurry, L. C., & Strang, E. T. (2025). I can relate: A four-wave examination of children’s and parents’ emoter-referent talk about discrete emotions. Child Development, 96, 2062-2078.
*Özden, Z. B., Walle, E. A., & Reschke, P. J. (2025). Infant-centered behavioral response patterns to discrete emotions. Developmental Psychology.
*Subramoney, S., Walle, E. A., Main, A., & Magana, D. (2025). Cultural brokering in immigrant families. Child Development Perspectives, 19, 165-171.
Walle, E. A., Main, A., & Morales, S. (2024). Temperament, emotion, and the self. In M. E. Lamb & M. H. Bornstein (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook, 8th ed. (pp. 409-452). Routledge.
Lopez, L. D. & Walle, E. A. (2024). Caregiver encouragement to act on objects is related with crawling infants’ receptive language. Infancy, 29(4), 550-570.
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., et al. (2024). Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners. Infancy, 29, 302-326.
*Subramoney, S., Walle, E. A., Main, A., & Magana, D. (2024). Navigating intercultural misunderstandings: An examination of emotion brokering. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Walle, E. A., & *Özden, Z. B. (2024). How Appraisals Shape the Development of Emotion. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in Emotion and Mental Health (pp. 141-157). Elsevier.
Walle, E. A., & Dukes, D. (2023). We (still!) need to talk about valence: Contemporary issues and recommendations for affective science. Affective Science, 4, 463-469.
Cooper, A. M., Reschke, P. J., Porter, C. L., Coyne, S., Stockdale, L. A., Graver., H., Siufanua, M., Rogers, A. A., & Walle, E. A. (2023). “Oh no! What happened?” An investigation of parent-child conversations about self-conscious emotions. Developmental Psychology, 59(11), 2133-2147.
*Knothe, J. M., & Walle, E. A. (2023). Labeling and Describing Discrete Emotions in Early Childhood: A Relational Approach. Affective Science, 4, 307-316.
Lopez, L. D., & Walle, E. A. (2022). Young children use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events. Cognition and Emotion, 36 (6), 1196-1202.
Walle, E. A., Dukes, D., & Samson, A. C. (2022). Conceptualizing and advancing an interdisciplinary account of emotional development. In D. Dukes, A. Samson, & E. A. Walle (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. Oxford University Press. pdf
Walle, E. A., *Lopez, L. D., & *Castillo, A. (2022). Emotional development: A field in need of a revolution. In D. Dukes, A. Samson, & E. A. Walle (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional Development. Oxford University Press. pdf
Reschke, P. J., & Walle, E. A. (2021). The unique and interactive effects of faces, postures, and scenes on emotion categorization. Affective Science. pdf
*Yung, S. T., Main, A., Walle, E. A., Scott, R. M., & Chen, Y. (2021). Associations between sleep and mental health among Latina adolescent mothers: The role of social support. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 647544. pdf
*Lopez, L. D., Walle, E. A., *Pretzer, G. M., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2020). Parent infant-directed speech and infant language learning: Qualitative differences from home observations. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0242232. pdf
Walle, E. A. (2020). Factors facilitating emotion understanding in infancy. Human Development. pdf
Gonzalez, M. F., Walle, E. A., Cohen-Charash, Y., & Shields, S. A. (2020). How everyday emotion beliefs influence emotion processes and emotion theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:597412. pdf
Walle, E. A. (2020). Developing emotion research: Insights from emotional development. Emotion Review, 12, 209-211. pdf
Walle, E. A., Reschke, P. J., Main, A., & †Shannon, R. M. (2020). The development of distinct prosocial behaviors in infancy. Social Development. pdf
Reschke, P. J., Walle, E. A., & Dukes, D. (2020). Did you mean to do that? Infants use emotional communication to infer and re-enact others’ intended actions. Cognition & Emotion. pdf
Walle, E. A., & Dahl, A. (2020). Definitions matter for studying emotional development. Developmental Psychology, 56, 837-840. pdf
Walle, E. A., & *Lopez, L. D. (2020). Emotion Recognition & Understanding. In J.B. Benson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, 2nd Edition. Elsevier: New York, NY. pdf
*Knothe, J. M., & Walle, E. A. (2019). Functions of emotional communication: The role of affective expressions in social interactions. In U. Hess & S. Hareli (Eds.), The Social Nature of Emotion Expression: What Emotions Can Tell Us About the World. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pdf
*Pretzer, G. M., *Lopez, L. D., Walle, E. A., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2019). Infant-adult vocal interaction dynamics depend on infant vocal type, child-directedness of adult speech, and timeframe. Infant Behavior and Development, 57. pdf
*Reschke, P. J., Walle, E. A., *Knothe, J. M., & *Lopez, L. D. (2019). The influence of context on distinct facial expressions of disgust. Emotion. pdf
*Knothe, J. M., & Walle, E. A. (in press). Parental communication about emotional contexts: Differences across discrete categories of emotion. Social Development. pdf
*Reschke, P. J., *Knothe, J. M., *Lopez, L. D., & Walle, E. A. (2018). Putting ‘context’ in context: Examining the effects of body posture and emotion scene on adult categorization of affective facial expressions. Emotion, 18, 153-158. pdf
*Lopez, L. D., *Reschke, P. J., *Knothe, J. M., & Walle, E. A. (2017). Postural communication of emotion: Perception of distinct poses of five discrete emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:710. pdf (Download the posture stimuli & confusion matrix ratings here)
*Reschke, P. J., Walle, E. A., Flom, R., & Guenther, D. (2017). Twelve-month-old infants' sensitivity to others' emotions following positive and negative emotions. Infancy. pdf
Walle, E. A., *Reschke, P. J., & *Knothe, J. (2017). Putting social referencing back together again. Emotion Review. pdf
Walle, E. A., *Reschke, P. J., & *Knothe, J. (2017). Social referencing: Defining and delineating a basic process of emotion. Emotion Review. pdf
Walle, E. A., *Reschke, P. J., Camras, L. A., & Campos, J. J. (2017). Infant differential behavioral responding to discrete emotions. Emotion. pdf
Main, A., Walle, E. A., *Kho, C., & Halpern, J. (2017). A functionalist approach to the study of empathy. Emotion Review. pdf
*Reschke, P. J., Walle, E. A., & Dukes, D. (2017). Infant interpersonal development: The interconnectedness of emotion understanding and social cognition. Child Development Perspectives. pdf
Zawadzki, M. J., *Mendiola, J., Walle, E. A., & Gerin, W. (2016). Between-person and within-person approaches to the prediction of ambulatory blood pressure: The role of affective valence and intensity. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 39, 757-766. pdf
Walle, E. A. (2016). Infant social development across the transition from crawling to walking. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:960. pdf
Walle, E. A., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2015). Infant locomotion, the language environment, and language development: A home observation study. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf
He, M., Walle, E. A., & Campos, J. J. (2015). A cross-national investigation of the relation between infant walking and language development. Infancy, 20, 283-305. pdf
Walle, E. A. and Campos, J. J. (2014). The development of infant detection of inauthentic emotion. Emotion, 14, 488-503. pdf
Walle, E. A. and Campos, J. J. (2014). Infant language development is related to the acquisition of walking. Developmental Psychology, 50, 336-348. pdf
Walle, E. A. and Campos, J. J. (2012). Interpersonal responding to discrete emotions: A functionalist approach to the development of affect specificity. Emotion Review, 4, 413-422. pdf
Walle, E. A., Dahl, A. and Campos, J. J. (2012). How can one piece together emotion when a crucial piece is missing? Emotion Review, 4, 299-300. pdf
Campos, J. J., Walle, E. A., Dahl, A. and Main, A. (2011). Reconceptualizing emotion regulation. Emotion Review, 3, 26-35. pdf
Campos, J. J., Walle, E. A. and Dahl, A. (2010). What is missing in the study of the development of jealousy? In S. L. Hart & M. Legerstee (Eds.), Handbook of Jealousy: Theories, principles, and multidisciplinary approaches. Wiley-Blackwell. pdf
