Developmental Science Research Areas

The Developmental Science faculty members focus their research questions on one or more of the following topics:

  • Social development
  • Parent-child relationships
  • Peer relationships
  • Social cognition
  • Moral reasoning
  • Emotions and emotion regulation
  • Social withdrawal and aggression
  • Intergroup attitudes and relationships
  • Exclusion and inclusion
  • Language and literacy
  • Motivation
  • Psychopathology
  • Fatherhood
  • Temperament and personality development
  • Development of at-risk children (e.g. low income, maltreated, drug-exposed)
  • Social-political cognition, civic education
  • Linking research and public policy
  • Interaction with technology
  • Prevention research and program evaluation
  • School adjustment
  • Development of self-concept
  • Cultural influences on development
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