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Brigham Young University
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422-5939
Email: craig_hart@byu.edu
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Craig H. Hart received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1987. He was formerly an Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University. He served as Chair of Marriage, Family, and Human Development in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University from 1998 to 2004, was an associate dean in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences from 2006-2009, and is currently Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at BYU. Dr. Hart has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers on parenting/familial linkages with children’s social development and on developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. His work has appeared in leading developmental science journals such as Child Development and Developmental Psychology, and in early childhood education research journals including Early Childhood Research Quarterly. His collaborative research program has most recently focused on cultural influences, with studies conducted in Australia, China, Japan, Russia and various parts of the United States. He has also published two edited books entitled Children on Playgrounds: Research Perspectives and Applications and Integrated Curriculum and Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Birth to Age Eight. He serves on several journal editorial boards, was associate editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly (1995-2006), and is co-editor of Blackwell's Handbook of Childhood Social Development (second edition forthcoming). Dr. Hart also serves on the Biobehavioral and Behavioral Sciences subcommittee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Nelson, L. J., Hart, C. H., Evans, C. A., Coplan, R. J., Roper, S. O, & Robinson, C. C. (in press). Behavioral and relational correlates of negative self-perceived competence in young children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Nelson, D.A., Hart, C. H., *Keister, E., & Piassetskaia, K. (2009). Childhood and Adolescence in Modern Day Russia. In M. Bornstein (Ed.). Handbook of cross-cultural developmental science. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nelson, L. J., Hart, C. H., & Evans, C. A. (2008). Solitary-functional play and Solitary-pretend play: Another look at the construct of solitary–active behavior using playground observations. Social Development.
Hart, C. H. (2007). Why are parents important? Linking parenting to childhood social skills in Australia, China, Japan, Russia and the United States. In A.S. Loveless & T. B. Holman (Eds.), The Family in the third millenium (Vol. 1, pp. 227-247), London: Praeger.
Nelson, D.A., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., Olsen, J.A. & Jin, S. (2006). Aversive parenting in China: Associations with child physical and relational aggression. Child Development, 77, 554-572.
Nelson, L.J., Hart, C.H., Wu, B., & Olsen, S.F. (2006). Relations between Chinese mothers’ parenting practices and social withdrawal in early childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 261-271
Porter, C.L., Hart, C.H., Yang, C., Robinson, C.C., Olsen, S.F., Zeng, Q, Olsen, J.A., & Jin, S. (2005). A comparative study of child temperament and parenting in Beijing, China and the Western United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development
Hart, C.H.,*Newell, L. D., Olsen, S. F. (2003). Parenting skills and social/communicative competence in childhood. In J. O. Greene & B. R. Burleson (Eds.), Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skill (pp. 753-797). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Russell, A., Hart, C.H., Robinson, C.C., & Olsen, S.F. (2003). Children's sociable and aggressive behavior with peers: A comparison of the U.S and Australia, and contributions of temperament and parenting styles. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 74-86.
Wu, P., Robinson, C., Yang, C., Hart, C., Olsen, S. & Porter (2002). Similarities and differences in mothers' parenting of preschoolers in China and the United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26, 481
Hart, C.H., Nelson, D.A., Robinson, C. C., Olsen, S. F., McNeilly-Choque, M. K., & McKee, T. R. (2000). Russian parenting styles and family processes: Linkages with subtypes of victimization and aggression. In K. A. Kerns, J. M. Contreras, & A.M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.), Family and Peers: Linking Two Social Worlds. Westport: Praeger.
Hart, C.H., Yang, C., Nelson, L. J., Robinson, C. C., Olsen, J. A., Nelson, D. A., Porter, C. L., Jin, S., & Olsen, S. F., & Wu, P. (2000). Peer acceptance in early childhood and subtypes of socially withdrawn behavior in China, Russia, and the United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24, 73.
Hart, C.H., Nelson, D., Robinson, C.C., Olsen, S.F., & McNeilly-Choque, M.K., (1998). Overt and relational aggression in Russian nursery-school-age children: Parenting style and marital linkages. Developmental Psychology 34 (4), 687-697.
Hart, C.H., Yang, C., Nelson, D., Jin, S., Bazarskaya, N., & Nelson, L. (1998). Peer contact patterns, parenting practices, and preschoolers' social competence in China, Russia, and the United States. In P. Slee and K. Rigby (Eds.), Peer Relations Amongst Children: Current Issues and Future Directions. London: Routledge Ltd.
Hart, C.H., Burts, D.C., Durland, M.A., Charlesworth, R. DeWolf, M., & Fleege, P.O. (1998). Stress behaviors and activity type participation of preschoolers in more and less developmentally appropriate classrooms; SES and gender differences. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 12 (2), 176-196.
Hart, C.H., Olsen, S.F., Robinson, C.C, & Mandleco, B.L. (1997). The development of social and communicative competence in childhood: Review and a model of personal, familial, and extrafamilial processes. Communication Yearbook, 20, 304-373.
Charlesworth, R., Hart, C.H., Burts, D.C., Thomasson, R.H., Mosley, J., & Fleege, P.O. (1993). Measuring the developmental appropriateness of kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 8, 255-276.
Ladd, G.W., & Hart, C.H. (1992). Creating informal play opportunities: Are parents' and preschoolers' initiations related to children's peer competence? Developmental Psychology, 28, 1179-1187.
Hart, C.H., DeWolf, M., Wozniak, P., & Burts, D.C. (1992). Maternal and paternal disciplinary styles: Relations with preschoolers' playground behavioral orientations and peer status. Child Development, 63, 879-892.
Hart, C.H., Ladd, G.W., & Burleson, B.R. (1990). Children's expectations of the outcomes of social strategies: Relations with sociometric status and maternal disciplinary styles. Child Development, 61, 127.