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
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Education and Child Studies
- Parenting, Child Care and Development
Lecturer
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Education and Child Studies
- Parenting, Child Care and Development
- 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.
- Kitt E., Cohodes E., McCauley S., Hommel G., Nardini C., Zacharek S., Martino A., Anderson T., Spencer H., Odriozola P., Spurrier G., Broussard A., Marin C., Silverman W., Lebowitz E. & Gee D. (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.