[1] She developed questionnaires on emotional expression in the family that are used internationally to address a wide variety of social developmental questions.
To date she has authored or co-authored more than forty articles and book chapters and two readers for graduate and undergraduate courses in social psychology.
From high school through her early professional life she was also a competitive fencer and fencing coach, placing sixth in women's foil at the 1985 Empire State Games in Buffalo, New York.
Halberstadt and colleagues also consider how individual characteristics, such as temperament and self-concept, and environmental contexts, such as culture and historical change, may alter how ASC components operate.
[8] Recognizing that parental beliefs may influence parents' emotion socialization behaviors and child outcomes and that these beliefs might vary across cultures, Halberstadt and Professors Julie Dunsmore (Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech) and Al Bryant (School of Education, UNC-Pembroke) received funding to explore the varied beliefs about emotions that parents from African American, European American, and Lumbee American Indian cultural groups hold.