Melissa Mincic
iRT Research Associate
Doctorate in Applied Developmental Psychology
George Mason University

Melissa Mincic, PhD., is a Research Associate I at innovation Research & Training Inc. Dr. Mincic received her Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from George Mason University. Her research interests focus on young children's social-emotional development, school readiness, and social-emotional learning. Specifically, she has developed and examined a school-based small-group storybook reading intervention merging dialogic reading techniques and emotion coaching practices in an effort to simultaneously enhance preschoolers’ emergent literacy and social-emotional skills.

Currently, Dr. Mincic is the project director on a Phase I SBIR grant to develop a social-emotional elementary afterschool program to prevent substance abuse and to build social-emotional and anger management skills.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Denham, S., Bassett, H., Way, E., Mincic, M., Zinsser, K., & Graling, K. (in press). Preschoolers’ emotion knowledge: Self-regulatory foundations and predictions of early school success. Cognition and Emotion.

Bassett, H., Zinsser, K., Kalb, S., Mincic, M., & Segal, Y. (in press). Observing preschoolers’ social-emotional behavior: Structure, foundations, and prediction of early school success. Journal of Genetic Psychology.

Denham, S. A., Bassett, H. H., Way, E., Segal, Y., Kalb, S., Mincic, M. S., & Wyatt, T. (in press). Social-emotional learning profiles of preschoolers’ early school success: A person-centered approach. Journal of Learning and Individual Differences.

Crane, J., Winsler, A., & Mincic, M. S. (2011). Assessing socio-emotional protective factors among ethnically diverse preschoolers in poverty: Parent-teacher agreement on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA). Early Education and Development, 22, 520-547.