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Core
Research and Training Faculty
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 | Abeles,
Norman, Professor
Not accepting students for 2008-2009.
Applied research on aging
including
the relationship between objective and subjective memory and memory
complaints in community dwelling older adults. He also studies the
relationship between
white matter lesions and neuropsychological functioning in older
adults. Additional research interests include:
social support and cognitive functioning in older adults; process and
outcome in psychotherapy. |
 | Bogat, G.
Anne, Professor
Risk and resilience factors
among women and children living with partner violence. With Professors
Levendosky, von Eye, and Davidson, she conducts a longitudinal study of
about 200 women and children, who were first assessed during pregnancy.
She also maintains an active interest in youth mentoring, particularly
as it relates to gender.
Links: Mother Infant Study
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 | Buchanan,
Nicole, Assistant Professor
Research focuses on harassment, with an
emphasis on the ways in which
status variables (e.g., gender, ethnicity, age) influence the nature of
harassment, victim's response, and psychological outcomes. Most of her
research focuses on special populations, such as racialized sexual
harassment among women of color, harassment among college students, and
gendered bullying among middle and high school students. |
 | Burt, S.
Alexandra, Assistant Professor
Origins and development
of antisocial/externalizing spectrum behaviors over childhood,
adolescence and into early adulthood. Within this, she is especially
interested in gene-environment interactions, or how risk and protective
processes in the child’s environment impact the expression of genetic
predispositions towards this type of behavioral response. She is
conducting twin and adoption studies which include measures of
molecular (DNA) as well as child’s behavior and environment.
Links:
MSU Twin Studies
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 | Caldwell,
Robert A., Professor
Prevention of mental
and social disorders, especially child abuse and neglect. He also
studies the implementation and evaluation of community based prevention
programs.
Links: Ecological-Community Interest Group
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 | Ingersoll, Brooke R.
In typical development, social-communication skills emerge in a predictable pattern,
with nonverbal skills, such as imitation and joint attention, preceding language
development and theory of mind. Children with autism exhibit significant impairment
in these early, non-verbal social-communication skills, as well as delayed and
deviant language and social development. My research is focused on the study of
atypical patterns of early social-communication development and the design and
evaluation of interventions aimed at improving these skills in young children
with autism.
Links: Curriculum Vitae
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 | Karon, Bertram P., Professor
Not accepting students for 2008-2009.
Effectiveness of
psychotherapy, schizophrenia,
psychoanalytic theory, and effects of discrimination.
Links: Social-Personality Interest Group
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 | Klump,
Kelly, Associate Professor
Studies adult and adoloscent twins to understand
the role of genes and environment in the development of eating
disorders. She collects information
on psychological characteristics, environmental and family influences,
hormone functioning, and candidate genes to understand these processes.
Links: Academy for Eating
Disorders (AED),
MSU Twin Studies
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 | Leong, Fred, Professor
Culture and mental health and cross-cultural
psychotherapy with a special focus on Asian and Asian American
populations. He is also affiliated with the Industrial-Organization
Psychology Interest Group where he is involved in research on cultural
and
personality factors related to career development, work adjustment, and
occupational stress.
Links: Industrial/Organizational Interest Group
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 | Levendosky,
Alytia A., Professor
Family violence and the effects on women and children from infancy through
middle-childhood. Longitudinal investigation of risk and resilience in women and
their children exposed to domestic violence. This research began with pregnant
women and has been following the women and children for 5 1/2 years. In
addition, she is currently funded to examine the effectiveness of a group
therapy program for women and children exposed to domestic violence.
Links: Mother Infant Study,
Ecological-Community Interest Group
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 | Nigg, Joel T., Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Not accepting students for 2008-2009.
Etiology of attention deficits and
hyperactivity (ADHD) in children, adolescents, and adults. An
integrative multi-level approach is taken, which includes an emphasis
on neuropsychological and cognitive mechanisms (e.g., executive
functioning) as well as both molecular genetic and family process
correlates. A recent new direction includes greater emphasis on sex
differences and hormones as moderators of the development of these
problems.
Links: ADHD Project
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 | Semrud-Clikeman,
Margaret, Professor
Focuses on three areas of research:
First, she is interested in social competence in children both
from a diagnostic point of view as well as with neuroimaging. Second,
she
is involved in neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations with
children with ADHD as well as differences between subtypes. Finally,
she
is interested in the way children with learning
disabilities understand their world. |
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