- Dr. Natasha Cabrera won the award for Best Research Article Award from the National Council on Family Relations. 11/20/09
- Dr. Meredith Rowe joins the Human Development faculty as an assistant professor. 09/11/09
- Human Development professor Elisa Klein has been awarded an SRCD Executive Branch Policy Fellowship for the next academic year 07/24/09
- Human development Professors Fox and Bolger play leading roles in the University's new fMRI imaging center. 07/13/09
- EDHD Professor Melanie Killen wins an Honorable Mention for this year’s Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize. 06/18/09
- The 2009 Rachel Petty Dissertation Awards were given to Cassandra Coddington and Nicole Denmark 05/21/09
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Developmental Science Faculty
The following is a list of the faculty associated with the Developmental Science program.
Dr. Donald J. Bolger How the brain learns to read; Sources of reading skill and impairment; How children learn the meaning of words
Dr. Natasha Cabrera Parenting and children's cognitive and social development; Parent involvement in schools and children's achievement; Cultural and ethnic differences in parenting behaviors and children's outcomes.
Dr. Nathan Fox Temperament; Development of emotion and emotion regulation; Developmental psychophysiology, infant cognitive/social development.
Dr. Brenda Jones-Harden Development of maltreated foster, prenatally drug-exposed, and other children at-risk; Prevention science and program evaluation.
Dr. Melanie Killen Social and moral reasoning; Peer relationships and intergroup attitudes; Inclusion and exclusion; Stereotyping; Gender roles in the family, prejudice, and diversity in relation to reasoning about exclusion and intergroup bias.
Dr. Elisa Klein Child care and early education policy; Early childhood education; Young children's understanding of their early school experiences; Teacher beliefs about development; Teacher education.- Dr. Robert Marcus Family relationships; Attachment; Prosocial behavior; Adolescent violence; Social skills; Delinquency; Personality and socio-emotional development in young children and adolescents.
Dr. Geetha Ramani Influence of social interactions on young children's cognitive development; Learning through cooperative play and activities; Early mathematics and problem-solving skills; Development and correlates of peer cooperation.
Dr. Meredith Rowe Early language development ; Parental beliefs and practices concerning children's language; Language development of underprivileged children.
Dr. Kenneth Rubin Social development; Developmental psychopathology; Peer relationships; Parenting and parent-child relationships; Culture.
Dr. Judith Torney-Purta Social/political cognition; Civic education cross-nationally; Cross-cultural and inter-cultural studies; Research related to social policy; Interaction in technology-rich environments; Social studies and history learning.
Dr. Min Wang Language and reading acquisition; Cross language and writing system comparisons; Second language/bilingual literacy development.
Dr. Kathryn Wentzel Social motivation; Academic motivation and self-regulation, goal setting; Interpersonal relationships with teachers, peers, and parents and school adjustment; Adolescent development.
Dr. Allan Wigfield Development and socialization of motivation and self-concept; Gender differences; Achievement motivation; Self-regulation and learning; Motivation for literacy.
