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McGill University: Montreal, QC, CA

2015-06-01 to present | Associate Professor (Psychology)
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Melanie A. Dirks

McGill University: Montreal, QC, CA

2009-07-15 to present | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Melanie A. Dirks

Education and qualifications (3)

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2004-06-01 to 2007-12-01 | PhD (Psychology)
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Melanie A. Dirks

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2003-06-01 to 2004-06-01 | M. Phil (Psychology)
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Melanie A. Dirks

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2001-09-01 to 2003-06-01 | M.Sc (Psychology)
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Funding (7)

(S)he's being mean to me: what works for whom when responding to aggression by peers

2014-04-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/133576/S-hes-being-mean-to-me-what-works-for-whom-when-responding-to-aggression-by-peers
GRANT_NUMBER: 133576
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Ontario Child Health Study Sequel

2013-04-01 to 2018-03-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000024/125941/Ontario-Child-Health-Study-Sequel
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125941
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Ontario Child Health Study Sequel

2012-10-01 to 2013-09-30 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000024/123608/Ontario-Child-Health-Study-Sequel
GRANT_NUMBER:

123608
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The children's interpersonal behaviors they explain the link between depression and subsequent victimization?

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Children's management of key tasks of friendship: associations with friendship stability and quality

2010-04-01 to 2011-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/80841/Childrens-management-of-key-tasks-of-friendship-associations-with-friendship-stability-and-quality
GRANT_NUMBER: 80841
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Measuring Information Processing in Its Interpersonal Context: Links to Youth Anxiety and Depression

2009-10-01 to 2012-09-30 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000024/97919/Measuring-Information-Processing-in-Its-Interpersonal-Context-Links-to-Youth-Anxiety-and-Depression
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97919
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The impact of after-school activites on the social and emotional development of underprivileged children

2002-04-01 to 2005-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/18501/The-impact-of-after-school-activites-on-the-social-and-emotional-development-of-underprivileged-children
GRANT_NUMBER: 18501
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Works (21)

Children's and adolescents’ conversations with mothers about offenders’ and victims’ responsibility for harm in their experiences of being hurt by a peer

Social Development
2023-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12618
Contributors: Anna Saint‐Martin; Mawuena Badasu; Holly Recchia; Cecilia Wainryb; Melanie Dirks
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Through thick and thin?: Young adults’ implicit beliefs about friendship and their reported use of dissolution and maintenance strategies with same‐gender friends

Social Development
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12560
Contributors: Katya Santucci; Thomas H. Khullar; Melanie A. Dirks
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Recognition of vocal socioemotional expressions at varying levels of emotional intensity.

Emotion
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/emo0001024
Contributors: Michele Morningstar; Annie C. Gilbert; Jessica Burdo; Maria Leis; Melanie A. Dirks
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Low Vagal Tone Magnifies the Association Between Psychosocial Stress Exposure and Internalizing Psychopathology in Adolescents

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.843464
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2-s2.0-84927135580
Contributors: McLaughlin, K.A.; Rith-Najarian, L.; Dirks, M.A.; Sheridan, M.A.
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Sibling relationships as sources of risk and resilience in the development and maintenance of internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood and adolescence

Clinical Psychology Review
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2015.07.003
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2-s2.0-84949106820
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Persram, R.; Recchia, H.E.; Howe, N.
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Children's responses to hypothetical provocation by peers: Coordination of assertive and aggressive strategies

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-014-9862-0
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2-s2.0-84907200443
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Suor, J.H.; Rusch, D.; Frazier, S.L.
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Cyberbullying victimization and mental health in adolescents and the moderating role of family dinners

JAMA Pediatrics
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.1223
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2-s2.0-84909606429
Contributors: Elgar, F.J.; Napoletano, A.; Saul, G.; Dirks, M.A.; Craig, W.; Paul Poteat, V.; Holt, M.; Koenig, B.W.
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Parent and youth report of youth anxiety: Evidence for measurement invariance

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12159
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2-s2.0-84894483060
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Weersing, V.R.; Warnick, E.; Gonzalez, A.; Alton, M.; Dauser, C.; Scahill, L.; Woolston, J.
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Youth's responses to peer provocation: Links to symptoms of anxiety and depression

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-014-9406-5
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2-s2.0-84905563794
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Treat, T.A.; Weersing, V.R.
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Annual research review: Embracing not erasing contextual variability in children's behavior - Theory and utility in the selection and use of methods and informants in developmental psychopathology

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02537.x
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2-s2.0-84859720723
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; De Los Reyes, A.; Briggs-Gowan, M.; Cella, D.; Wakschlag, L.S.
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Developmental science and the study of successful development

International Journal of Developmental Sciences
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3233/DEV-2012-11092
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2-s2.0-84879945206
Contributors: Bukowski, W.M.; Li, K.; Dirks, M.; Bouffard, T.
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Integrating clinical and cognitive science

Psychological Clinical Science: Papers in Honor of Richard M. McFall
2012 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9780203810019
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2-s2.0-84920394536
Contributors: Treat, T.A.; Dirks, M.A.
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Psychological symptoms in youth and later socioeconomic functioning: Do associations vary by informant?

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2011.533403
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2-s2.0-78651479661
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Boyle, M.H.; Georgiades, K.
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The latent structure of youth responses to peer provocation

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-010-9206-5
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2-s2.0-79952283263
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Treat, T.A.; Weersing, V.R.
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The comparability of mother-report structured interviews and checklists for the quantification of youth externalizing symptoms

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02244.x
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2-s2.0-77955699797
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Boyle, M.H.
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The judge specificity of evaluations of youth social behavior: The case of peer provocation

Social Development
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00559.x
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2-s2.0-77957226456
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Treat, T.A.; Weersing, V.R.
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Integrating theoretical, measurement, and intervention models of youth social competence

Clinical Psychology Review
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2006.11.002
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2-s2.0-33847400481
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Treat, T.A.; Robin Weersing, V.
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The situation specificity of youth responses to peer provocation

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-38049169604
Contributors: Dirks, M.A.; Treat, T.A.; Robin Weersing, V.
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A window on the normal development of sensitivity to global form in glass patterns

Perception
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1068/p5189
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2-s2.0-3042533086
Contributors: Lewis, T.L.; Ellemberg, D.; Maurer, D.; Dirks, M.; Wilkinson, F.; Wilson, H.R.
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Putting order into the development of sensitivity to global motion

Vision Research
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.05.006
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2-s2.0-3142613191
Contributors: Ellemberg, D.; Lewis, T.L.; Dirks, M.; Maurer, D.; Ledgeway, T.; Guillemot, J.-P.; Lepore, F.
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Sensitivity to global form in Glass patterns after early visual deprivation in humans

Vision Research
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00041-X
EID:

2-s2.0-0036212587
Contributors: Lewis, T.L.; Ellemberg, D.; Maurer, D.; Wilkinson, F.; Wilson, H.R.; Dirks, M.; Brent, H.P.
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