Faculty profile
Robert Coplan
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Latest papers
Predictors of affect across social contexts: An integration of existing diary datasets.
The British journal of social psychology · 2026
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Shyness Among Mothers of Young Children in Mainland China.
The Journal of genetic psychology · 2026
Establishing a protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development for children with health disorders: Canadian Children’s Health in Context Study (CCHICS)
BMJ Open · 2018
Latest funding
- $45,617
Exploring Positive Experiences of Solitude in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $280,721
The solitude paradox: causes and consequences of seeking time alone in childhood and adolescence
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $22,320
Development 2014 a Canadian conference on developmental psychology
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Predictors of affect across social contexts: An integration of existing diary datasets.
Tovmasyan A, Gamagedara D, Murayama K, Bowker J, Coplan R, Lay J, Nguyen TV, Ren D, Stavrova O, Thomas V, Tse D, Weinstein N
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Shyness Among Mothers of Young Children in Mainland China.
Xiao B, Coplan R, Xiang S, Cao L, Li Y
Establishing a protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development for children with health disorders: Canadian Children’s Health in Context Study (CCHICS)
Janus M, Brownell M, Reid-Westoby C, Bennett T, Birken C, Coplan R, Duku E, Ferro MA, Forer B, Georgiades S
Exploring Positive Experiences of Solitude in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: solitude; well-being; attitudes; loneliness; aloneliness; childhood; adolescence; young adulthood
The solitude paradox: causes and consequences of seeking time alone in childhood and adolescence
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: solitude; social withdrawal; loneliness; attitudes; well-being; childhood; adolescence
Development 2014 a Canadian conference on developmental psychology
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: developmental psychology; child development; infancy; childhood; adolescence; lifespan development
Shyness: participation in organized activities: and socio-emotional functioning in early childhood
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: shyness; activity engagement; preschool; socio-emotional functioning; risk/protective factors
The KidsInPlaces initiative an international partnership for the study of societal resilience and early child development
Principal investigators: Maggi, Stefania
Keywords: early childhood development; societal resilience; policy; participatory research; interdisciplinary research; population-based approaches
Development 2010: a Canadian conference on developmental psychology
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: developmental psychology; child development; infancy; childhood; adolescence; lifespan development
Should we leave children alone: the contributors, contexts, and consequences of social withdrawal in middle childhood
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: social withdrawal; shyness; unsociability; adjustment; childhood; solitude; loneliness; anxiety; internalizing problems; personality; parenting; social motivations
Electronic communication in the emergence and facilitation of friendships by socially withdrawn, anxious early adolescents
Principal investigators: Schneider, Barry H.
Keywords: internet; friendship; social withdrawal; anxiety; early adolescence
What the meek shall actually inherit: risk and protective factors in the development, stability, and outcomes of shyness from early to middle childhood
Principal investigators: Coplan, Robert J.
Keywords: shyness; social anxiety; social withdrawal; peer relations; parenting; emotion regulation; teacher-child relationships
Cultural, school and individual factors in becoming a successful first grader
Principal investigators: Schneider, Barry H.
Keywords: school transition; cultural differences; risk factors; school effects
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Eric Duku and Stelios Georgiades: 113 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Teresa Bennett: 95 shared papers
- Teresa Bennett and Stelios Georgiades: 82 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Magdalena Janus: 77 shared papers
- Teresa Bennett and Magdalena Janus: 25 shared papers
- Magdalena Janus and Martin Guhn: 25 shared papers
- Magdalena Janus and Stelios Georgiades: 14 shared papers
- Magdalena Janus and Marni Brownell: 14 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Martin Guhn: 12 shared papers
- Martin Guhn and Marni Brownell: 11 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Marni Brownell: 10 shared papers
- Magdalena Janus and Catherine Birken: 6 shared papers
- Stelios Georgiades and Jan Willem Gorter: 5 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Jan Willem Gorter: 3 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Heather Manson: 3 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Catherine Birken: 3 shared papers
- Teresa Bennett and Jan Willem Gorter: 3 shared papers
- Teresa Bennett and Heather Manson: 3 shared papers
- Magdalena Janus and Heather Manson: 3 shared papers
- Stelios Georgiades and Catherine Birken: 3 shared papers
- Eric Duku and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Teresa Bennett and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Magdalena Janus and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Stelios Georgiades and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Jan Willem Gorter and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Heather Manson and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Martin Guhn and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Birken and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Marni Brownell and Robert Coplan: 1 shared paper
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Nutritional Sciences
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Pediatrics
- Life Span Development
- Other
Co-authors at Carleton University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Eric Duku
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Teresa Bennett
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Magdalena Janus
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Stelios Georgiades
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Jan Willem Gorter
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Heather Manson
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Martin Guhn
Life Span Development
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Catherine Birken
Nutritional Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Marni Brownell
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
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