Research Area of Specialization: Individual Development — Childhood
- Leann Birch
- A contextual approach to the development of problems of eating and energy balance: The links among parents' own eating and weight status, parenting practices, and child outcomes from infancy through adolescence, with a current focus on the emergence of dieting and problems of energy balance in girls during middle childhood and early adolescence.
- Ann Crouter
- Interrelationships of parents' employment situations, family processes, and children's and adolescent's social development; gender socialization in middle childhood and adolescence.
- David Eggebeen
- Social demography of children; intergenerational support over the lifecourse; fatherhood.
- Scott Gest
- Links between reading skills and social competence in elementary school; peer relations; early reading tutoring as a preventive intervention; longitudinal study of patterns of risk and adaptation from childhood to adulthood; behavioral inhibition and related internalizing dimensions of personality and psychopathology.
- Mark Greenberg
- Intervening in the developmental processes in risk and non-risk populations with a specific emphasis on aggression, violence, and externalizing disorders; promoting healthy social and emotional development; school-based prevention; development of deaf children.
- Kathryn Hynes
- Child and family policy topics including welfare reform, child care, after-school programs, and maternity leave; parents' work-family strategies; social and economic contexts influencing the transition to fatherhood.
- Susan McHale
- Family relationships and family roles (particularly gender roles) in childhood and adolescence; differential socialization of siblings.
- Cynthia Stifter
- Socio-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschool children, specifically focused on emotion regulation and the emergence of behavior problems. Other research areas: developmental psychophysiology, infant crying and colic, parental regulation strategies.
- Douglas Teti
- Socioemotional development in infancy and early childhood, parenting, and intervention strategies designed to promote early development and parent-child relations.