Graduate Student Interests

 

Laura Armstrong, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study)
  Interests: Role of parent-child emotion communication in the development of emotion regulation and dysregulation.

Anneliese Bass, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Ginger Moore
  Project: Interventions in Early Childhood
  Interests: Early parent-child relationships in typical and at-risk populations; intervention and prevention; the effects of parent psychopathology on child development.

Rebecca Brooker, Developmental
  Advisor: Kristin Buss
  Project: T.I.K.E.S. (Toddlers into Kindergarteners Emotions Study)
  Interests: Individual differences in socioemotional development; the development and use of emotion regulation, gender differences in the development and use of affective behaviors, genetic bases for affective components of temperament, psychophysiological correlates of distress and regulation. Master's Title: Individual Differences in Toddler's Regulatory Abilities: Evidence for Links between Systems.

Adam Christensen, Developmental

  Advisor: Rick Gilmore & Lynn Liben
  Project: Development Across Domains
  Interests: Cognitive and perceptual development in infancy and early childhood.

Amy Dribin, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Kristin Buss
  Project: T.I.K.E.S. (Toddlers into Kindergarteners Emotions Study)
  Interests: Social and neurophysiological contributors to the development of emotion regulation in young children; development of anxiety problems; relationships between emotion regulation, executive functioning, and psychopathology.

Megan Goslin, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Sandra Azar
  Project: The Role of Social Support and Co-Rumination in Child adjustment to Divorce
  Interests: Divorce, child abuse, and co-parenting in abusive vs. non-abusive families.

Sarah Hall, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study)
  Interests: Development of emotion regulation: emotion dysregulation & psychopathology; emotion regulation as a mediator between risk and competency. Master's Title: Emotion Regulation: Development and Link to Behavior Problems in Toddlers.

Rachel Hutt, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Ginger Moore
  Project: T.I.K.E.S. (Toddlers into Kindergarteners Emotions Study)
  Interests: Early parent-child relationships and interactions; the influence of different types of parent-child interactions on child emotion regulation and development. Master's Title: Parental socialization of positive affect and emotion regulation in infants during peek-a-boo.

Sarah Karalunas, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Cynthia Huang-Pollock
  Project: Child Attention & Learning Lab
  Interests: Motivational and neuropsychological correlates of ADHD. Master's Title: Testing the Dual-Pathway Hypothesis: Relationships between Delay Aversion, Working Memory, and Response Inhibition in ADHD.

Lauren Killeen, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Douglas Teti (HDFS) and Pamela Cole
  Project: EEG and ERP Approaches in the Study of Parenting and Emotion Regulation
  Interests: Neurophysiological correlates of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of parenting; At risk parenting; Parental emotion regulation. Master’s Title: The Association Between Parent-Child Interactions and Marital Quality in Families of Young Children.  (Master’s Thesis Advisor, Keith Crnic)

Kerry Makin-Byrd, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Karen Bierman
  Project: Research with Amy Marshall
  Interests: The development of aggression. Master's Title: Cognitive Model of Dating Violence. Dissertation Title: Development of General and Romantic Aggression.

Lauren Myers, Developmental

  Advisor: Lynn Liben
  Project:
  Interests: Cognitive development, children's developing understanding of symbols (e.g., pictures, drawings, map symbols, written notations), symbol-mediated communication, spatial cognition, theory of mind development and intentionality understanding. Master's Title: Can You Find It? Children's Understanding of Symbol-Creators' Intentions in Graphic Representations. Dissertation Title: The Mind on Paper: The Role of Interpretive Mind and Iconicity in Children's Symbolic Development.

Christina Nagashima, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Sandra Azar
  Project: Child to Parent Violence
  Interests: Family violence, specifically, adolescent to parent violence and domestic violence. Master's Title: Pathways to Adolescent to Parent Violence.

Caroline Pemberton, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study)
  Interests: The role of language development and parent-child interaction in young children's use and understanding of emotion regulation. Master's Title: Toddler Linguistic Skill and Mother-Toddler Discourse as Predictors of the Later Understanding of Emotion Regulation Strategies in 3-Year-Olds.

CJ Powers, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Karen Bierman
  Project: FAST Track
  Interests: The effects of peer relationships and classroom context on the development of social competence and aggression.

Stephon Proctor, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Sandra Azar
  Project: The Role of Self-Complexity and Anger in the Occurrence of Reactive Aggression.
  Interests: Child Maltreatment, Forensic Psychology, Aggression.

Anna M. Radzioch, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study), C.A.L. (Child Attention & Learning Lab)
  Interests: Emotional regulation during early childhood. Master's Title: Predictors of toddlers' ability to emotionally recover from a challenge.

Elizabeth Reitz, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study); The Transitions to Parenthood; M.O.M.S. (The Minds of Mothers Study)
  Interests: The development of competent parenting within at-risk situations. This includes when couples maintain boundaries between marriage and coparenting relationships, how the complexity of maternal thought about her child contributes to sensitivity and structuring behaviors, and how parenting hassles affect positive and negative parenting throughout the toddlerhood and preschool years.

Hannah Schofield, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Karen Bierman
  Project: Fast Track
  Interests: Aggression and risk behavior in children and adolescents. Master's Title: Predictors of risky sexual activity in girls: Developmental contributions of behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and pubertal factors.

Patricia Tan, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Pamela Cole
  Project: D.O.T.S. (Development of Toddlers Study)
  Interests: Family process contributions to the development of anxiety and anxious symptoms during childhood.

Marcela Torres, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Karen Bierman
  Project: Head Start REDI
  Interests: Social-emotional development in early childhood, early prevention of aggressive behavior problems, and promotion of school readiness. Master's Title: Relational versus Overt Aggression in Preschool Children: Gender Differences, Social Adjustment and Implications for Peer Relations.

Andres Viana, Child Clinical

  Advisor: Brian Rabian
  Project: Childhood Anxiety Project
  Interests: Etiology, course, treatment, and prevention of anxiety disorders in children. The role of families in either protecting or contributing to the development of anxiety disorders in children.