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Gary Evans
Cornell University
Gary Evans is the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, Cornell University. He is a developmental and environmental psychologist.
Type of member: Regular
Telephone: 607 255 4775
Email Address: gwe1@cornell.edu
Mailing Address: Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA
Current research interests
The environment of childhood poverty: what role do psychosocial and physical risk factors, particularly as the accumulate, play in the adverse impacts of childhood poverty on human development. I am also interested in stress as a model for how poverty impacts child development.
Research priorities
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty). Stress and allostatic load. | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies. Root cause analysis to inform policy change.
Selected publications
De France K., Evans G.W., Brody G.H., Doan S.N. (2022). Cost of resilience: Childhood poverty, mental health, and chronic physiological stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology vol. 144, October 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105872 – Full Text PDF
Evans G.W., De France K. (2022). Childhood poverty and psychological well-being: The mediating role of cumulative risk exposure. Development and Psychopathology, vol. 34, 911-922. – Full Text PDF
Doan S.N., Evans G.W. (2020) Chaos and Instability from Birth to Age Three. The Future of Children , vol. 30, no. 2, fall 2020, 93-113. – Full Text PDF
Supplemental Material for Cumulative Risk and Child Development. (2013). Psychological Bulletin. doi:10.1037/a0031808.supp http://www.centrelearoback.org/inrich/assets/documents/G_Evans_CumulativeRiskandChildDevelopment.pdf
Evans, G. W. (2004). The Environment of Childhood Poverty. American Psychologist, 59(2), 77-92. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.59.2.77
profile updated: 06/21/2023