Christine E. Parsons

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christine E. Parsons is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine E. Parsons has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Clinical Psychology, 25 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christine E. Parsons's work include Infant Health and Development (18 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (17 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (15 papers). Christine E. Parsons is often cited by papers focused on Infant Health and Development (18 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (17 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (15 papers). Christine E. Parsons collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Christine E. Parsons's co-authors include Katherine S. Young, Morten L. Kringelbach, Alan Stein, Lone Overby Fjorback, Catherine Crane, Willem Kuyken, Tamsen Rochat, Michelle G. Craske, Lynne Murray and Eloise Stark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christine E. Parsons

72 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2025). Fathers’ sleep in the first 24 months postpartum: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global data. Sleep Health. 11(3). 279–292.

Thorlund, Jonas Bloch, Robert Zachariae, Werner Vach, et al.. (2025). Digitally delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) for patients with chronic pain and insomnia (The Back2Sleep Trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 26(1). 292–292. 1 indexed citations

Díaz, Carlos Mauricio Castaño, Qian Janice Wang, Ali Amidi, et al.. (2023). Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment. Cognitive Science. 47(6). e13308–e13308. 7 indexed citations

Carter, Richard Allen, et al.. (2023). Educator preparation: a multi-discipline analysis of standards to promote critical thinking. Teachers and Teaching. 29(4). 422–438. 4 indexed citations

Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2023). Maternal depression and anxiety symptoms across pregnancy and the postnatal period: Modest associations between depression symptoms and infant sleep outcomes. Sleep Medicine. 112. 291–300. 1 indexed citations

Parsons, Christine E., Kirstin L. Purves, Molly R. Davies, et al.. (2023). Seeking help for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of adults’ experiences with digital technologies and services. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(12). e0000402–e0000402. 2 indexed citations

Parsons, Christine E., Kirstin L. Purves, Megan Skelton, et al.. (2022). Different trajectories of depression, anxiety and anhedonia symptoms in the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a UK longitudinal sample. Psychological Medicine. 53(14). 6524–6534. 7 indexed citations

Parsons, Christine E. & Katherine S. Young. (2022). Beneficial effects of sleep extension on daily emotion in short-sleeping young adults: An experience sampling study. Sleep Health. 8(5). 505–513. 3 indexed citations

Vægter, Henrik Bjarke, et al.. (2021). Sleep disturbance in patients attending specialized chronic pain clinics in Denmark: a longitudinal study examining the relationship between sleep and pain outcomes. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 21(3). 539–547. 7 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2021). How does cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia work? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediators of change. Clinical Psychology Review. 86. 102027–102027. 36 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., Katherine S. Young, Mikkel Steen Petersen, et al.. (2017). Duration of motherhood has incremental effects on mothers’ neural processing of infant vocal cues: a neuroimaging study of women. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1727–1727. 42 indexed citations

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Young, Katherine S., Christine E. Parsons, Mark W. Woolrich, et al.. (2015). Evidence for a Caregiving Instinct: Rapid Differentiation of Infant from Adult Vocalizations Using Magnetoencephalography. Cerebral Cortex. 26(3). 1309–1321. 34 indexed citations

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Young, Katherine S., Christine E. Parsons, Alan Stein, & Morten L. Kringelbach. (2015). Motion and emotion: depression reduces psychomotor performance and alters affective movements in caregiving interactions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 9. 26–26. 31 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2014). Music training and empathy positively impact adultsâ€™ sensitivity to infant distress. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1440–1440. 18 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., Katherine S. Young, Morten Joensson, et al.. (2013). Ready for action: a role for the human midbrain in responding to infant vocalizations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9(7). 977–984. 35 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2011). Postnatal depression and its effects on child development: A developing world perspective.. CentAUR (University of Reading). 1. 89–110. 2 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Kristine Rømer, Hans C. Lou, Morten Joensson, et al.. (2011). Impact of Emotion on Consciousness: Positive Stimuli Enhance Conscious Reportability. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e18686–e18686. 10 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., Katherine S. Young, Emma Parsons, et al.. (2011). The Effect of Cleft Lip on Adults' Responses to Faces: Cross-Species Findings. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25897–e25897. 35 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., et al.. (2011). The Motivational Salience of Infant Faces Is Similar for Men and Women. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20632–e20632. 119 indexed citations

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Parsons, Christine E., Katherine S. Young, Lynne Murray, Alan Stein, & Morten L. Kringelbach. (2010). The functional neuroanatomy of the evolving parent–infant relationship. Progress in Neurobiology. 91(3). 220–241. 108 indexed citations

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