Hannah Spencer
PhD candidate
- Name
- H. Spencer MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- h.spencer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7251-900X
Hannah Spencer is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University.
Working days
- Thuesday - Thursday
PhD candidate
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
- Opvoeding en Ontwikkeling
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Pedagogische Wetenschappen
- Opvoeding en Ontwikkeling
- Bos P. A. & Spencer H. (2024), Attractive caregiving: women's preference for men that care for children and the role of nurturance motivation and menstrual cycle phase, Evolutionary Psychological Science 10: 110-121.
- Spencer H., Parianen Lesemann F.H., Buisman R.S.M., Kraaijenvanger E.J., Branje S., Boks M.P.M. & Bos P.A. (2024), Facing infant cuteness: how nurturing care motivation and oxytocin system gene methylation are associated with responses to baby schema features, Hormones and Behavior 164: 105595.
- Odriozola P., Kribakaran S., Cohodes E.M., Zacharek S.J., McCauley S., Haberman J.T., Quintela L.A., Hernandez C., Spencer H., Pruessner L., Caballero C. & Gee D.G. (2024), Hippocampal involvement in safety signal learning varies with anxiety among healthy adults, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 4(1): 155-164.
- Kitt E.R., Zacharek S.J., Odriozola P., Nardini C., Hommel G., Martino A., Anderson T., Spencer H., Broussard A., Dean J., Marin C.E., Silverman W.K., Lebowitz E.R. & Gee D.G. (2024), Responding to threat: associations between neural reactivity to and behavioral avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety, Journal of Affective Disorders 351: 818-826.
- Huijzer-Engbrenghof M., van Rijn-van Gelderen L., Spencer H., Wesarg-Menzel C., Creasey N., Lalihatu E.S. & Overbeek G. (2024), A longitudinal study on the relation between parenting and Toddler's disruptive behavior: what is the role of Toddler's negative emotionality and physiological stress reactivity?, Frontiers in psychology 15: 1444447.
- Nook EC Nardini C Zacharek SJ Hommel G Spencer H Martino A Morra A Flores S Anderson T Marin CE Silverman WK Lebowitz ER Gee DG (2023), Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task, Emotion 23(6): 1513-1521.
- Kitt Elizabeth Cohodes Emily McCauley Sarah Hommel Grace Nardini Cristina Zacharek Sadie Martino Alyssa Anderson Tess Spencer Hannah Odriozola Paola Spurrier Georgia Broussard Alexis Marin Carla Silverman Wendy Lebowitz Eli Gee Dylan (2023), The Role of Family-Level Factors in Childhood Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology 1: 129-151.
- Meier I.M., Montoya E.R., Spencer H., Orellana S.C., Buuren M. van, Honk J. van & Bos P.A. (2022), Preliminary data on oxytocin modulation of neural reactivity in women to emotional stimuli of children depending on childhood emotional neglect, Developmental Psychobiology 65(1): e22349.
- Bos P.A., Lesemann F.H.P., Spencer H., Stein D.J., Honk J. van & Montoya E.R. (2021), Preliminary data on increased reactivity towards children in distress after testosterone administration in women: a matter of protection?, Biological Psychology 165: 108176.
- Spencer H., Parianen Lesemann F.H., Kraaijenvanger E.J., Overbeek G., Montoya E.R., Branje S., Boks M.P.M. & Bos P.A. (2021), Oxytocin system gene methylation is associated with empathic responses towards children, Psychoneuroendocrinology 137: 105629.
- Overbeek G Creasey N Wesarg C Huijzer-Engbrenghof M Spencer H (2020), When mummy and daddy get under your skin: A new look at how parenting affects children's DNA methylation, stress reactivity, and disruptive behavior, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 2020(172): 25-38.
- Parianen Lesemann F.H., Spencer H., Montoya E.R., Kraaijenvanger E.J., He Y., Branje S., Boks M.P. & Bos P.A. (2020), Methylation of oxytocin related genes and early life trauma together shape the N170 response to human faces, European Neuropsychopharmacology 39: 19-28.
- Kraaijenvanger E.J., He Y., Spencer H., Smith A.K., Bos P.A. & Boks M.P.M. (2019), Epigenetic variability in the human oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene: A possible pathway from early life experiences to psychopathologies, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 96: 127-142.
- Endendijk J.J., Spencer H., Bos P.A. & Derks B. (2019), Neural processing of gendered information is more robustly associated with mothers' gendered communication with children than mothers' implicit and explicit gender stereotypes, Social Neuroscience 14(3): 300-312.
- van Hooijdonk R Mathot S Schat E Spencer H van der Stigchel S Dijkerman HC (2019), Touch-induced pupil size reflects stimulus intensity, not subjective pleasantness, Experimental Brain Research 237(1): 201-210.
- Spencer H., Heitland I., Montoya E.R., Branje S.J.T. & Bos P.A. (2018), Ethnic effects when facing children: An ERP study, Biological Psychology 138: 56-62.
- Endendijk J.J., Spencer H., Baar A.L. van & Bos P.A. (2018), Mothers' neural responses to infant faces are associated with activation of the maternal care system and observed intrusiveness with their own child, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 18(4): 609-621.
- Bos P.A., Spencer H. & Montoya E.R. (2018), Oxytocin reduces neural activation in response to infant faces in nulliparous young women, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 13(10): 1099-1109.
- Bos P.A., Jap-Tjong N., Spencer H. & Hofman D. (2016), Social Context Modulates Facial Imitation of Children's Emotional Expressions, PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167991.