Scientist NameJoann Wu Shortt, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
Oregon Social Learning Center

• Family-Peer Linkages (PI, NIMH)
• Couples (Co-I, NICHD & NIDA)

 

 

Gerald Patterson
Primary research and clinical interests

Dr. Shortt received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on development that occurs within the context of family and peer relationships including couples relationships, emotion regulation and emotional development (affective and physiological processes), risk and protective factors, developmental trajectories and outcomes for children growing up in the same family, and gender differences in adolescent development. She built a psychophysiological lab at OSLC to observe physiological regulation during dyadic interaction. She is currently examining meta-emotion philosophy, emotion regulation, and problem behavior in middle-school siblings, and aggressive/affective processes and relationship outcomes in young, at-risk couples.

Selected publications

Shortt, J.W., Capaldi, D.M., Kim, H.K., & Owen, L.D. (2006). Relationship separation for young, at-risk couples: Prediction from dyadic aggression. Journal of Family Psychology, 20 (4), 624-631.

Capaldi, D.M., Shortt, J.W., Kim, H. (2005). A developmental systems perspective on aggression toward a partner. In W. Pinsof & J. Lebow (Eds.), Family psychology: The art of the science (pp.141-167). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Press.

Shortt, J.W., Capaldi, D.M., Dishion, T.J., Bank, L., & Owen, L.D. (2003). The role of adolescent friends, partners, and siblings in the emergence of the adult antisocial lifestyle. Journal of Family Psychology, 17 (4), 521-533.

Capaldi, D.M., Shortt, J.W., & Crosby, L. (2003). Physical and psychological aggression in at-risk young couples: Stability and change in young adulthood. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49 (1), 1-27.

Shortt, J.W., & Gottman, J.M. (1997). Closeness in young adult sibling relationships: Affective and physiological processes. Social Development, 6 (2), 142-164.

Shortt, J.W., Bush, L.K., McCabe, J.L.R., Gottman, J.M., & Katz, L.F. (1994). Children's physiological responses while producing facial expressions of emotions. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 40 (1), 40-59.