Life-Span Developmental Psychology
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Research Topics
Faculty and graduate students in the developmental area are conducting research in a variety of topical areas with age groups across the life span. An alphabetical list of key words associated with current research projects appears below with a link to the faculty member’s web page. Faculty in the clinical, clinical child and behavior analysis graduate programs share many of the same research interests. Such faculty often serve as members of developmental students’ thesis and dissertation committees.
Adolescence Gentzler, Strough
Adult development and aging Patrick, Strough
Anxiety Montgomery-Downs
Assessment of infants Karraker
Attachment Karraker, Gentzler
Caregiving Karraker, Patrick
Childhood Gentzler, Montgomery-Downs
Cognition Montgomery-Downs, Patrick
Decision making Patrick, Strough
Depression Gentler, Karraker, Montgomery-Downs
Emotion Gentzler, Karraker
Emotion regulation Gentzler, Karraker
Everyday problem solving Patrick, Strough
Family caregiving Patrick
Friendship Strough
Gender Karraker, Strough
Grandparenting Patrick, Strough
Health Patrick
Infancy Karraker, Montgomery-Downs
Memory of emotional experiences Gentzler
Midlife Patrick
Mood Montgomery-Downs
Parenting Karraker
Parent-child communication Gentzler
Positive Emotion Gentzler
Polysomnography Montgomery-Downs
Postpartum Montgomery-Downs
Problem solving Strough
Psychomotor vigilance Montgomery-Downs
Sadness Montgomery-Downs
Second hand smoke Montgomery-Downs
Sleep Karraker, Montgomery-Downs
Social cognition Karraker, Patrick, Strough
Spirituality Patrick
Snoring Montgomery-Downs
Stereotyping of premature infants Karraker
Stress and coping Gentzler, Karraker, Strough
Successful aging Patrick, Strough
Temperament Gentzler, Karraker