Psychology and Child Development Department faculty research contributes to enhancing the health of individuals, families, and communities through a scientific understanding and application of psychology and child development.
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Submissions from 2008
A Behavioral Intervention Tool for Recreation Managers, Shawn Meghan Burn and Patricia L. Winter
The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes, Patrice L. Engle and Maureen M. Black
Social Power and Emotional Experience: Actor and Partner Effects Within Dyadic Interactions, Carrie A. Langner and Dacher Keltner
How Personalized and Socialized Power Motivation Facilitate Antisocial and Prosocial Decision-Making, Joe C. Magee and Carrie A. Langner
Submissions from 2007
Environmental Intervention Handbook for Resource Managers: A Tool for Proenvironmental Behavior Change, Shawn M. Burn and Patricia L. Winter
Strategies to Avoid the Loss of Developmental Potential in More than 200 Million Children in the Developing World, Patrice L. Engle, Maureen M. Black, Jere R. Behrman, Meena Cabral de Mello, Paul Gertler, Lydia Kapiriri, Reynaldo Martorell, Mary Eming Young, and International Child Development Steering Group
Robots and Rodents: Children's Inferences About Living and Nonliving Kinds, Jennifer L. Jipson and Susan A. Gelman
New Approaches on the Horizon: Comments on Jaaniste, Hayes, and von Baeyer's “Providing Children With Information About Forthcoming Medical Procedures: A Review and Synthesis”, Jennifer Jipson and Barbara G. Melamed
Scapegoating in Group Psychotherapy, J. Kelly Moreno
Review: An End to Qualia? Dennett's Defense of Heterophenomenology, Jason A. Williams
Student Research in Psychology Courses, Jason A. Williams
Global VOR Gain Adaptation During Near Fixation to Foveal Targets, Jason A. Williams, Bruce Bridgeman, Tadg Woods, and Robert Welch
Submissions from 2006
Group Therapy for Abused and Neglected Youth: Therapeutic and Child Advocacy Challenges, Janine Wanlass, J. Kelly Moreno, and Hannah M. Thomson
Submissions from 2005
Ambivalent Sexism, Scriptural Literalism, and Religiosity, Shawn Meghan Burn and Julia Busso
Men’s Conformity to Traditional Masculinity and Relationship Satisfaction, Shawn Meghan Burn and A. Zachary Ward
Effects of Subtle Heterosexism on Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals, Shawn M. Burn, Kelly Kadlec, and Ryan Rexer
Group Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Retrospective Case Study, Janine Wanlass, J. Kelly Moreno, and Hannah M. Thomson
Submissions from 2003
Mother-Child Conversation and Children's Understanding of Biological and Nonbiological Changes in Size, Jennifer Jipson and Maureen A. Callanan
How To Know What Kids Already Know: Doing Research With Young Children, Jennifer Jipson and Janice Jipson
Submissions from 2002
Maps, Globes, and Videos: Parent-Child Conversations about Representational Objects, Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer L. Jipson, and Monika Stampf Soennichsen
Infant Feeding Styles: Barriers and Opportunities for Good Nutrition in India, Patrice L. Engle
Submissions from 2001
Learning Words through Overhearing, Nameera Akhtar, Jennifer Jipson, and Maureen A. Callanan
Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent-Child Activity, Kevin Crowley, Maureen A. Callanan, Jennifer Jipson, Jodi Galco, Karen Topping, and Jeff Shrager
Explanatory Conversations and Young Children's Developing Scientific Literacy, Jennifer Jipson
The Motivational Basis of Concessions and Compromise: Archival and Laboratory Studies, Carrie A. Langner and David G. Winter