Presentations

Select Conference Presentations

Buote, K., A., Cooper, A., M. & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2026). Context matters: Differences in observed parent socialization behaviors across four emotional reminiscing contexts. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Society. Barcelona, Spain.

Whitesides, I., Mansour, M., Sullivan, M., Michel, J., Buote, K. A., & Tully, E. C. (March, 2026). Predicting children’s self-blame for parents’ emotions from affect during conversations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Tan, E., McKee, L. G., Tully, E. C. (2025). Sweetening the bond: Savoring and parent-child synchrony following a parent-mediated intervention. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. New Orleans, LA.

Moran, S. E., McKee, L. G., Tully, E. C. (2025). Changes in parents’ encouraging of children’s empathy towards others in a parent-led program for children’s positive empathy. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. New Orleans, LA.

Farris, K. D., Buote, K. A., & Tully, E. C.* (August, 2025). Parent-child mutuality predicts amygdala activity in response to children causing mothers’ happiness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Denver, CO.

Buote, K., A., Cooper, A., M.. & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2025). Children’s empathic RSA reactivity to others’ emotions and their internalizing problems. Symposium paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Buote, K., A., & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2025). Parents’ emotion coaching but not their expressive emotion behaviors predicts children’s emotion communication. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Gellin, A., McKee, L. G., & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2025). How mindful parent SHAPE JOY impact mindful parenting? A mixed methods analysis. Flash talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Farris, K. D., McKee, L. M. & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025). New parent-mediated program for improving children’s empathy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Las Vegas, NV.

Bunnell, J., Kakarla, V., Roberts, T., Buote, K. A., Farris, K. D., & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025). Association between children’s affective and cognitive empathy in parent-child behavioral interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Farris, K. D., & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025). Neural correlates of children’s empathy towards mothers’ and stranger’s emotions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Gellin, A., McKee, L. G., & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025).  Does SHAPE JOY impact mindful parenting? Poster presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Whitaker, T., Stanley, B., Vodovoz, A., Buote, K. A., Farris, K. D., & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025). Children’s perceptions of parents’ depression and their prosocial behavior toward parents’ emotions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Wadlington, J., Stanley, B., & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2025). Are children who are more empathic toward their parents’ emotions more prosocial toward their parents’ emotions? Poster presented at the annual meeting of Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Tobin, K. E., & Tully, E. C.* (February, 2025). Warm parenting and executive functions from middle childhood to adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Poster presented at the International Neuropsychological Society, New Orleans, LA.

Buote, K. A., Cooper, A. M. & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2024). Parents’ active emotion coaching is associated with children’s better emotion communication in middle childhood. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Society conference, San Francisco, CA.

Farris, K. D., Buote, K. A., McDonald, E., M. & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2024). Mother-child mutuality predicts dACC and vmPFC activity when children observe mother’s emotions in middle childhood. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Society conference, San Francisco, CA.

McDonald, E., Cooper, A. & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2024). Higher negative empathy is associated with lower worry in school-aged boys but not girls. Poster presentation at the Anxiety & Depression Association of America annual research conference, Boston, MA.

Cooper, A., McDonald, E. & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2024). Positive affect is associated with higher reparative behaviors in boys but not girls. Poster presentation at the Anxiety & Depression Association of America, Boston, MA.

McKee, L. G., & Tully, E. C.* (November, 2023). SHAPE JOY: A parenting program to support positive empathy in young children. Presentation at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle.

Tobin, K. & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2023). Does parental acceptance/warmth moderate longitudinal bidirectional associations between parents’ and children’s internalizing psychopathology? American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. General SSCP Student Poster Winner.

Buote, K., McDonald, E., Thompson, A. & Tully, E. C.* (April, 2023). Parent’s emotion coaching of positive and negative emotions as it relates to children’s communication of emotions. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT. Presentation selected for Flash Talk.

McDonald, E., Farris, K., Cooper, A., Thompson, A., & Tully, E. C.* (March, 2023). Children’s brain activity when causing others’ emotions predicts externalizing problems. Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.  Finalist for Graduate Research Award.

Cooper, A., M., & Tully, E. C.* (November, 2022). Children with low physiological regulation in early childhood are not fated to have sustained poor regulation capacity into middle childhood. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

McKee, L. G. & Tully, E. C.* (June, 2022).  Creating SHAPE JOY, a mindful parenting program to support positive empathy in young children. European Conference on Positive Psychology, Reykjavik Iceland.

Cooper, A., & Tully, E. C.* (July, 2022). Children with moderate regulation during discussions of their behaviors have lowest levels of internalizing problems. International Society for Research on Emotion, Los Angeles, CA.

Buote, K., Ames-Sikora, A., & Tully, E. C.* (July, 2022).  Parents’ high positive affect while discussing positive events predicts hope in children when parents express low negative affect. International Society for Research on Emotion, Los Angeles, CA.  (First Runner Up, ISRE Researcher award.)

McDonald, E., & Tully, E. C.* (July, 2022). Brain regions associated with affective arousal show significant activity when children empathize. International Society for Research on Emotion, Los Angeles, CA.

Farris, K., & Tully, E. C.* (July, 2022).  Children’s cognitive empathy predicts perceived personal responsibility for mother’s emotions. International Society for Research on Emotion, Los Angeles, CA.

Tobin, K., McDonald, E., & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2022). Parental acceptance moderates the association between caregivers’ and children’s internalizing psychopathology in boys but not girls. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Honorable Mention, Student Research Award.

French, K., Buote, K. B., McDonald, E., & Tully, E. C.* (May, 2022). Children’s self-blame for mothers’ sadness predicts lower reparative behaviors during middle childhood. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. (Honorable Mention, Student Poster Award.)

Thompson, A.J., Barnes, A., Barrows, C., Reed, M., Tully, E., & Henrich, C. (March, 2022).  Emotional Experiences and Significant events among college students during the COVID-19 Quarantine.  Paper presented at the annual Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.