Nicholas Wagner

Nicholas Wagner is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Biobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development Lab at Boston University. His research focuses on how early experiences and relationships, particularly parent-child and sibling interactions, influence children’s social-emotional development. He examines psychobiological and environmental factors contributing to psychosocial adaptation or psychopathology, with a focus on self-regulatory capacities and their role in mediating developmental outcomes.

Education: Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Research interests include callous-unemotional traits, anxiety, behavioral inhibition, and the impact of social environments (e.g., peer relationships, school contexts) on biobehavioral adaptation. His work bridges developmental psychology, neuroscience, and clinical science to understand pathways to both externalizing and internalizing psychopathology.