Academic Publications

1.     Black, C. J., Placencio-Castro, M., Phend, G., Havugimana, J. M. V., Umulisa, G., Uwamahoro, P., Nyirahabimana, M. G., Bond, L., Hernandez, K., Jensen, S. K. G., Murray, S. M., Rawlings, L. B., Sezibera, V., & Betancourt, T. S. (2025) Scaling Up Home-Visiting to Promote Early Childhood Development and Prevent Violence in Rwanda: An Embedded Hybrid Type-II Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14160

2.     Black, C. J., McEwen, F., Smeeth, D., Popham, C., Karam, E. & Pluess, M. (2023). Effects of war exposure on pubertal development in refugee children. Developmental Psychology, 59(9), 1559-1572. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001569

3.     Black, C. J., Berent, J. M., and Joshi, U., Chamlagai, L., Khan A., Shrivastavam R., Gautam, B., Negeye A., Nor Iftin A., Ali H., Bhan A., Desrosiers A., Naslund, J. A., Betancourt, T. S. (2023). Applying human-centered design in global mental health to improve reach among underserved populations in the United States and India. Global Health Science and Practice, 11(1), e2200312. https://doi.org/10.9745/ghsp-d-22-00312

4.     Grieco-Page, H.*, Black, C. J., Berent, J. M., Gautam, B., & Betancourt, T. S. (2021) Beyond the Pandemic: Leveraging Rapid Expansions in Telemental Health and Digital Platforms to Address Disparities and Resolve the Digital Divide. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.671502

5.     Rahman, A., Naslund, J. A., Betancourt, T. S., Black, C. J., Bhan, A., Byansi, W., Chen, H., Gaynes, B. N., Restrepo, C. G., Gouveia, L., Hamdani, S. U., Marsch, L. A., Petersen, I., Bahar, O. S., Sheilds-Zeeman, L., Ssewamala, F., & Wainberg, M. L. (2020). The NIMH global mental health research community and COVID-19, The Lancet Psychiatry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30347-3.

6.     Figueredo, A. J., Black, C. J., Patch, E. A., Heym, N., Ferreira, J. H. B. P., Varella, M. A. C., Pereira de Felipe, R., Cosentino, L. A. M., Castro, F. N., Natividade, J. C., Hattori, W. T., Perez-Ramos, M., Madison, G., & Fernandes, H. B. F. (2020). The Cascade of Chaos: From Early Adversity to Interpersonal Aggression. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

7.     Black, C. J., Patch, E. A., and Taylor, D.* (2019). Female Orgasm and In-Pair Copulation. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

8.     Black, C. J. & Cabeza de Baca, T. (2018). Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Compatibility. In T. K. Shackelford, V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.

9.     Black, C. J., Figueredo, A. J., & Jacobs, W. J. (2018). Life history theory. In V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.

10.  Mayer, B., Blume, A., Black, C., & Stevens, S. (2018). Improving Student Learning Outcomes through Community-based Research: The Poverty Workshop. Teaching Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X18818251

11.  Black, C. J., Figueredo, A. J., & Jacobs, W. J. (2017). Substance, history, and politics: An examination of the conceptual underpinnings of alternative approaches to the life history narrative. Evolutionary Psychology, 15(1), 1-16.

12.  Black, C. J., Aguirre, M. P., Minera, C. E. C., & Figueredo, A. J. (2017). The influence of life history strategies on regional variation in social and sexual equality in Italy, Spain, and Mexico. Mankind Quarterly, 57(3), 338-354.

13.  Garcia, R. A., Cabeza de Baca, T., Black, C. J., Sotomayor-Peterson, M., Smith-Castro, V., & Figueredo, A. J. (2016). Measures of domain-specific resource allocations in life history strategy: Indicators of a latent common factor or ordered developmental sequence? Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 7(1).

14.  Figueredo, A. J., Cabeza de Baca, T., Fernandes, H. B. F., Black, C. J., Penaherrera, M., Hertler, S., Garcia, R. A., Meisenberg, G., Woodley of Menie, M. A. (2016). A sequential canonical cascade model of social biogeography: Plants, parasites, and people. Evolutionary Psychological Science. Published online November 18, 2016.

15.  Figueredo, A. J., Cabeza De Baca, T., Black, C. J., Garcia, R. A., Fernandes, H. B. F., Wolf, P. S. A., & Woodley, M. A. (2015). Methodologically sound: Evaluating the psychometric approach to the assessment of human life history [Reply to Copping, Campbell, and Muncer, 2014]. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(2), 299-338.

16.  Woodley, M. A., Figueredo, A. J., Cabeza de Baca, T., Fernandes, H. B. F., Madison, G., Wolf, P. S. A., & Black, C. J. (2015). Strategic differentiation and integration of genomic-level heritabilities facilitate individual differences in preparedness and plasticity of human life history. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(422), 1-10.

17.  Sefcek, J.A., Black, C. J., & Wolf, P.S. (2015). Evolutionary perspectives of personality. In Zeigler-Hill, V., Welling, L.L., & Shackelford, T.K. (Eds.), Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. Springer.

18.  Figueredo, A. J., Cabeza De Baca, T., & Black, C. J., (2014). No matter where you go, there you are: The genetic foundations of temporal stability. Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 5(2), 76-106.

19.  Figueredo, A. J., Black, C. J., & Scott, A. G. (2013). Complementary meta-analytic methods for the quantitative review of research: A theoretical overview, Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 4(2), 21-45.

20.  Figueredo, A. J., Black, C. J., & Scott, A. G. (2013). Complementary meta-analytic methods for the quantitative review of research: An extended illustration, Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 4(2), 46-69.

21.  Figueredo, A.J., Gladden, P., & Black, C.J. (2012) Parasite Stress, Ethnocentrism, and Life History Strategy, Commentary for Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35(1).

22.  Figueredo, A.J., Sefeck, J.A., Black, C.J., Garcia, R.A., & Jacobs, W.J. (2011). Chapter 390. Evolutionary Personality Psychology. In Ramachandran, V.S., (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. New York, NY. Academic Press.

23.  Garcia-Chevesich, P., Black, C. J., Tuki, T., & Pizarro, R. (2010). Easter Island Project Offers Practical Solutions for Restored Sustainability. Environmental Connection 4(4), 14-16.

24.  Black, C.J. & Jacobs, W.J. (2010). Review of Emotion Science by E. Fox. Human Ethology Bulletin.

* Asterisks denote student mentees.