Faculty
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Stephanie Carlson
Cognitive development, executive function, theory of mind, symbolism/pretend
play, culture
612-625-6127
smc@umn.edu
Dante Cicchetti **
Developmental psychopathology, developmental
neuroscience, molecular genetics, child maltreatment,
mood disorders, personality disorders
612-625-4455
cicchett@umn.edu
W. Andrew Collins
Socialization, social cognition, family relations
612-624-1551
wcollins@umn.edu
Nicki Crick *
Department chair, director of the
Institute
Relational and overt aggression, peer
victimization, social information processing, gender
612-625-8879
crick001@umn.edu
Byron Egeland
Developmental psychopathology, abuse and maltreatment
612-624-5273
egela001@umn.edu
Xiaojia Ge
Emotional and behavioral
development in adolescence, developmental
psychopathology, and
biological and social environmental interaction
612-626-6171
gexj@umn.edu
Michael K. Georgieff
Department of Neonatology, Pediatrics
Effect of fetal and neonatal iron deficiency on brain
development and neurocognitive outcome; the effect of
prenatal stress and intrauterine growth retardation on
the developing memory system.
612-626-2971
georg001@umn.edu
Abigail
Gewirtz
Children's exposure to traumatic events, parenting,
prevention research (dissemination and implementation)
612-624-1475
agewirtz@umn.edu
Megan R. Gunnar ***
Social and biological aspects of development
612-624-2846
gunnar@umn.edu
Canan Karatekin
Clinical child neuropsychology, information processing,
working memory, attention, executive functions
612-626-9891
karat004@umn.edu
Melissa Koenig
Language acquisition, cognitive development, pragmatics
and social cognition, word learning
612-625-6251
mkoenig@umn.edu
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Michael P. Maratsos
Director of graduate
studies
Language development, psycholinguistics
612-624-1027
marat001@umn.edu
Ann S. Masten *
Developmental psychopathology, stress and coping,
humor
612-624-0215
amasten@umn.edu
Herbert L. Pick, Jr.
Perceptual development, learning
612-624-2062
herbpick@umn.edu
Arthur J. Reynolds
Early educational interventions, early childhood
development, evaluation research, prevention science,
and school & family influences on development
612-625-4321
ajr@umn.edu
Maria D. Sera
Cognitive and linguistic development
612-624-2856
sera@umn.edu
L. Alan Sroufe
Socioemotional development, developmental
psychopathology
612-624-1035
srouf001@umn.edu
Kathleen Thomas
Cognitive development, implicit learning, pediatric
neuroimaging, functional MRI
612-624-0526
thoma114@umn.edu
Richard A. Weinberg
Behavior genetics, assessment, preschool education
612-624-3575
weinb002@umn.edu
Albert Yonas
Perceptual development
612-624-6805
yonas@umn.edu
Steven R. Yussen
Director of undergraduate
studies
Cognitive development, reading processes, schooling,
development
612-626-9844
syussen@umn.edu
Philip David Zelazo
Cognitive development and developmental cognitive neuroscience
612-625-5957
zelazo@umn.edu
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* Distinguished McKnight University Professor
** McKnight Presidential Chair and Professor, Institute of
Child Development and Department of Psychiatry
*** Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University
Professor
Emeriti faculty
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William R. Charlesworth
PhD, 1962, Cornell University
Ethology, cognition, motivation
Willard W. Hartup
EdD, 1955, Harvard University
Social behavior and personality development
hartup@umn.edu
Shirley G. Moore
PhD, 1960, State University of Iowa
Social behavior and personality development, preschool
education
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Anne
D. Pick
Perceptual development and cognitive processes
612-624-2070
annepick@umn.edu
Mildred C. Templin
PhD, 1947, University of Minnesota
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Adjunct faculty
Dale Blyth,
Minnesota 4-H Youth Development
Adolescent development in school and community context; policy
and practice
around youth development.
Sandra
Christenson, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Development of effective interventions for students with
learning and behavior problems and on facilitation of
home-school-community collaboration in education of students
with and without disabilities.
Martha Farrell Erickson,
Center for Early Education and Development
Parent-child attachment, child abuse prevention, and
community-based
approaches to strengthening families.
Harold Grotevant, Dept. of Family Social Science
Adolescent personality and identity development within dyadic
and family contexts, and especially a focus on relationships in
adoptive families.
Susan Hupp,
Dept. of Educational Psychology
Development of mastery motivation in young children with
developmental disabilities.
William G. Iacono, Dept. of Psychology
Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological makers
of
schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and
development of
psychopathology, lie detection.
Robert Krueger, Dept. of Psychology
Clinical and personality psychology, personality disorders,
behavior
genetics, classification of mental disorders, quantitative
methods.
Gloria Leon, Dept. of Psychology
Risk for the later development of eating disorders; stress and
coping in extreme environments.
Monica Luciana, Dept. of Psychology
Neurochemical (dopamine and serotonin) substrates of human
cognition and
affect, neurobehavioral assessment of prefrontally-guided
behaviors in
adults and adolescents, working memory, drug abuse, affective
disorders.
Scott
McConnell, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Children's development of necessary skills for social
interaction and school adjustment, including intervention
procedures.
Charles Oberg, Dept. of Pediatrics
Health services research and policy for low-income and
underserved populations.
Anthony Pellegrini, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Human development in education, social psychology
Elsa Shapiro, Dept. of Pediatrics
Neuropsychological characteristics of dementia in childhood and
response to new treatments; effects of lead overburden on the
neuropsychological development of attention, memory, and
aggressive behavior; and the neuropsychology of emotional
recognition and expression.
Auke Tellegen, Dept. of Psychology (retired)
Identification and psychometric assessment of basic dimensions
of mood and temperament/personality; recent developments in the
use of the MMPI-2, particularly the assessment of invalidating
response patterns and the psychometric and conceptual
restructuring of the basic MMPI-2 clinical scales.
Judy
Temple, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Public economics, economics of education, early childhood
education, cost-benefit analysis, policy evaluation.
Paul van
den Broek, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Comprehension and memory for events in children and adults; the
role of inferential processes in the understanding of events as
they are portrayed in texts and in television programs.
Maureen Weiss,
School of Kinesiology
Kinesiology: sport psychology; co-director,
Tucker Center for Research on Girls
& Women in Sport
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