PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT

Fontaine, R. G. (under contract). The mind of the criminal: The role of social cognition in criminal law. Cambridge University Press.

PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Fontaine, R. G. (forthcoming, 2009). Adequate (non)provocation and heat of passion as excuse not justification. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.^*

^* Note: The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform has devoted a special issue/symposium to this Article, with Responses from several of the nation’s leading criminal law theorists, and my Reply. Response Authors are Marcia Baron (U. Indiana), Gabriel “Jack” Chin (U. Arizona), Stephen Morse (U. Pennsylvania), Victoria Nourse (Emory), Samuel Pillsbury (Loyola, L.A.), Robert Weisberg (Stanford), and Peter Westen (U. Michigan). Symposium forthcoming, 2009.

Fontaine, R. G. (forthcoming, 2009). An attack on self-defense. [Multiple offers of publication have been received; most recently, American Criminal Law Review].

Fontaine, R. G. (forthcoming, 2009). On passion’s potential to undermine rationality. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

Fontaine, R. G. (2009). The wrongfulness of wrongly interpreting wrongfulness: Provocation interpretational bias and heat of passion homicide. New Criminal Law Review, 12, 69-92. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., & Dodge, K. A. (2009). Social information processing and aggressive behavior: A transactional perspective. In A. J. Sameroff (Ed.), The transactional model of development: How children and contexts shape each other (pp. 117-135). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., Yang, C., Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (2009). Development of response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior in childhood and adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 45, 447-459. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., Yang, C., Burks, V. S., Dodge, K. A., Price, J. M., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (2009). Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relation between low social preference in childhood and anxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 479-491. [pdf]

Held^†, E. M., & Fontaine, R. G. (2009). On the boundaries of culture as an affirmative defense. Arizona Law Review, 237-251. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2008). On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: Some essential but neglected issues. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 17-35. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2008). Reactive cognition, reactive emotion: Toward a more psychologically-informed understanding of reactive homicide. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 14, 243-262. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2008). Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 31, 136-149. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., Yang, C., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S. (2008). Testing an individual systems model of response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across adolescence. Child Development, 79, 462-475. [pdf]

Crozier, J. C., Dodge, K. A., Fontaine, R. G., Lansford, J. E., Bates, J. E., Pettit, G. S., & Levenson, R. W. (2008). Social information processing and cardiac predictors of antisocial behavior in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 253-267. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2007). Disentangling the psychology and law of instrumental and reactive subtypes of aggression. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 13, 143-165. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2007). Toward a conceptual framework of instrumental antisocial decision-making and behavior in youth. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 655-675. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2006). Applying systems principles to models of social information processing and aggressive behavior in youth. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 11, 64-76. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G. (2006). Evaluative behavioral judgments and instrumental antisocial behaviors in children and adolescents. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 956-967. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., & Dodge, K. A. (2006). Real-time decision making and aggressive behavior in youth: A heuristic model of response evaluation and decision (RED). Aggressive Behavior, 32, 604-624. [pdf]

Dodge, K. A., Lansford, J. E., Burks, V. S., Bates, J. E., Pettit, G. S., Fontaine, R., & Price, J. M. (2003). Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. Child Development, 74, 374-393. [pdf]

Fontaine, R. G., Burks, V. S., & Dodge, K. A. (2002). Response decision processes and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 107-122. [pdf]

PUBLICATIONS: POLICY REPORTS

Fontaine, R. G., & Dodge, K. A. (2007). Brief review of the efficacy of Triple-P (Positive Parenting Program) for consideration of population-level dissemination in North Carolina. Report to the Duke Endowment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Dodge, K. A., Kupersmidt, J., B., Fontaine, R. G. (2000). Willie M.: Legacy of legal, social, and policy change on behalf of children. Report to the State of North Carolina, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.

MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

Fontaine, R. G., Tanha^†, M., Yang, C., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S. (2009). Does response evaluation and decision (RED) mediate the relation between hostile attributional style and antisocial behavior in adolescence? Invited manuscript to be submitted to the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology [Special Section of JACP dedicated to my symposium on social information processing and aggression at the 20^th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Würzburg, Germany, July, 2008]. (status: revise/resubmit, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology).

Caprara, G. V., Alessandri, G., Paciello, M., Gerbino, M. G., & Fontaine, R. G. (2009). Individual differences in personality traits and social cognitive mechanisms conducive to violence from adolescence to adulthood. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Caprara, G. V., Fontaine, R. G., Fida, R., Paciello, M., & Dodge, K. A. (2009). An individual systems model of aggressogenic personality factors: The intersection of affect and social cognition. Manuscript submitted for publication (status: revise/resubmit, Child Development).

Doucette^†, J., Fontaine, R. G., & Chin, G. J. (2009). Upsetting the reasonable child (standard). Manuscript submitted for publication.