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Description
General Considerations
First-Year Requirements
Second-Year Requirements
Third-and-Fourth Year
Requirements
Admission to Candidacy
Teaching Experience
Faculty and Research Interests
Graduate Students
Fellowships in Developmental Psychology
Childrens' Research Lab
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Dr. Jacqueline Woolley is the Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee for the Developmental Psychology Program. If you have particular questions about admissions to the Developmental program you should write to her at:
Dept. of Psychology
University Station A8000
Austin, Texas 78712-0187
University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
or call her at (512) 471-6261. She will organize a "Graduate Admissions Weekend" sometime in the spring semester of each year. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to come to Austin that weekend to visit our campus, see the facilities, and meet the Developmental faculty and graduate students.
CORE FACULTY
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Rebecca Bigler, Ph.D.
Professor
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Social cognition
-Gender roles
-Stereotypic attitudes and attitude change
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Catharine Echols, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Language development
-Early cognitive development
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Judith Langlois, Ph.D.
Charles and Sarah Seay Regents Professor in Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Social and personality development
-Social information processing in infants
-The origins of social stereotypes
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Cristine Legare, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Cognitive development
-Conceptual development & causal reasoning
-Knowledge acquisition & learning
-Culture & cognition
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Jacqueline Woolley, Ph.D.
Professor
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Conceptual development in preschool and elementary school children
-Concept of mind
-Fantasy-reality differentiation
-Religious cognition
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David Yeager, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Social cognitive development
-Motivation
-Aggression
-Adolescence
-Research methodology
-Psychological interventions
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Jessica Church-Lang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
· Functional imaging of typical & atypical development, emphasis on Tourette Syndrome
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Information will be posted as it becomes available.
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
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Colin Bannard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Research interests:
-Language development
-Early social cognition
-Social learning and cultural transmission
-Mathematical models of all the above
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Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Ph.D.
Professor of Music and Human Learning
School of Music
Research interests:
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Robert Crosnoe, Ph.D.
Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts
Sociology
Research interests:
-Child/adolescent health
-Education
-Socioemotional development,
-Immigration
-Socioeconomic inequality
-Peers
-Public policy
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Susan Empson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & C&I Associate Chair
College of Education
Research interests:
- Elementary children's mathematics thinking
- Sociocognitive theories of learning
- Classroom processes
- Teacher development
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Cesar Delgado, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Research interests:
- Cross-cultural comparison of metric-native and English unit-native middle and high school students' conceptions of size and scale.
- Undergraduates’ Knowledge of Scales of Space and Time.
- Middle School Students' Understanding of Size and Scale.
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Karen Fingerman
Professor
School of Human Ecology
· Research interests:
· Family relationships
· Middle age
· Old age
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Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Human Ecology
Research interests:
- Contextual influences of poverty, violence, neighborhoods, schools, and public policies on social and emotional development
- Parenting impacts on social, emotional, and cognitive development
- Early childhood education for children in low income families
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Paige Harden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology
Research interests:
-Adolescence
-Pubertal development
-Dating and sexual relationships
-Externalizing psychopathology
-Behavior genetics
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Nancy Hazen-Swann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Human Ecology
Research interests:
- attachment, parenting and children’s social competence
- family interaction patterns and child psychopathology
- fathering and co-parenting
- intergenerational transmission of family systems
- links between family and peer relationships
- peer play, and social aggression with peers in early childhood
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Jody Jensen, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Education
Research interests:
- Children''s motor skill development
- Children and exercise
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Su Yeong Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Human Ecology
Research interests:
- intersection of family and cultural contexts in shaping adolescent development
- focus on Chinese American and Mexican American families in the United States
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Helen Martin
Associate Professor
College of Education
Research interests:
- Adaptive Expertise
- Computational Thinking
- Challenged Based Instruction
- K12 Engineering Education
- Virtual Manipulatives
- Online learning Environments
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Richard Meier, Ph.D.
Department Chair & Professor
Linguistics
Research interests:
-Language acquisition
-American Sign Language
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A. Rebecca Neal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology
Research interests:
-Social and communication development in infants and young children
-Early identification of developmental delay in at-risk populations
-Autism
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Anthony Petrosino
Associate Professor
College of Education
Research interests:
- Children's experimentation strategies
- Eengineering education
- Cognition and instruction
- Social context
- Scientific and mathematical reasoning
- At-risk populations
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Marie Suizzo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Educational Psychology
Research interests:
· Cultural models of parenting and parent-child relationships during early childhood and adolescence
· Parental academic socialization and its effects on children's and adolescents’ academic motivation and achievement
· Parental racial/ethnic socialization across ethnic groups
· Home and family background (socio-economic status, parental education) effects on children’s development
· Fathering and father-child relationships across cultures
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Uri Treisman, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Affairs
Director, Charles A. Dana Center for Mathematics and Science Education
Research interests:
- Education Policy
- Mathematics education
- Economics of education
- Educational equity
- Education program design and evaluation volunteerism
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Elliot Tucker-Drob, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology
Research interests:
-Individual differences in cognitive development in infancy through adolescence
-Behavioral genetics of cognition, personality, and achievement, with an emphasis on gene-by-environment interaction
-Ecological contexts of child development
-Cognitive aging
-Quantitative methods for developmental research
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EMERITUS FACULTY
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Leslie Cohen, Ph.D., (Retired)
Developmental Psychology
Research interests:
-Infant perceptual and cognitive development
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Aletha Huston, Ph.D
School of Human Ecology
Research interests:
-Effects of public policies on children's development with a particular focus on children in poverty
-Child care for young children and mass media
-Educational uses of television for children
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