General Research Area: Social, emotional, and personality development; peer relationships; parent-child relationships; the origins and consequences of childhood anxious-withdrawal, aggression, and social competence; cross-cultural social development.

Areas of Student Supervision: The origins and consequences of childhood anxious-withdrawal, aggression, and social competence; parenting beliefs and behaviors.

Recent Publications:

Rubin, K.H.,  Bukowski, W., & Parker, J. (in press, 2006). Peer interactions, relationships, and groups.  In N. Eisenberg (Ed), Handbook of Child Psychology (6th edition): Social, emotional, and personality development. New York : Wiley.  

Rubin, K.H., Wojslawowicz, J.C., Burgess, K.B., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth, C.L.  (in press). The friendships of socially withdrawn and competent young adolescents, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology .