For the first spotlight in the new year, we are delighted to introduce Dr. Jin Li (Jin_Li@Brown.edu) in the Department of Education and Human Development at Brown University. Dr. Li originally came from China. She received her undergraduate degree in German from Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1982 and taught German language and literature there. Read more about January 2017 Spotlight, Jin Li, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Dr. Daniel Ewon Choe in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Choe‘s research interests center on the development of children’s self-regulation and externalizing behavior (e.g., aggression, hyperactivity), their complex associations with parents’ mental health and caregiving, and their contributions to the onset of psychopathology, specifically Read more about December 2016 Spotlight, Daniel Ewon Choe, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Dr. Yijie Wang, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Fordham University and, beginning January 2017, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University. Dr. Wang is the current student/early-career representative at the Asian Caucus. Her research interests center on the development of adolescents, particularly Read more about November 2016 Spotlight, Yijie Wang, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Dr. Ruby Takanishi, a senior research fellow with the Early and Elementary Education Policy Program at New America. She is the author of First Things First! Creating the New American Primary School. Takanishi is the former president and CEO of the Foundation for Child Development, a grant-making philanthropy that launched Read more about October 2016 Spotlight, Ruby Takanishi, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Eddie S. K. Chong (echongsk@umd.edu), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park as our member in spotlight. Chong’s research interests broadly include issues related to stigmatized groups (sexual minorities in particular) across the lifespan and cultures. More recently, he is interested in examining systemic Read more about September 2016 Spotlight, Eddie S. K. Chong, M.A.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Stacey N. Doan, Ph.D. (sdoan@cmc.edu) in the Department of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Doan received her PhD from Cornell University. Integrating emotional, socio-cultural and developmental perspectives, her work focuses on examining the biological, social and individual correlates of physical health and psychological well being. She is Read more about August 2016 Spotlight, Stacey N. Doan, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Vaishali Raval, Ph.D. (ravalvv@miamioh.edu) in the Department of Psychology at Miami University, Ohio. Dr. Raval received her PhD in clinical developmental psychology from University of Windsor and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cultural psychology and human development at the University of Chicago. Her research interests involve understanding parenting, Read more about July 2016 Spotlight, Vaishali Raval, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Yiyuan Xu, Ph.D. (yiyuan@hawaii.edu) from the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. from University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on understanding cultural variation in children’s social development using a goodness of fit theoretical framework that conceptualizes Read more about June 2016 Spotlight, Yiyuan Xu, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Qi Wang, Ph.D. (qiwang@cornell.edu) from the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. Dr. Wang’s research integrates developmental, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives to examine the mechanisms responsible for the development of autobiographical memory. She has undertaken extensive studies to examine how cultural variables sustain autobiographical memory by affecting information processing at the Read more about May 2016 Spotlight, Qi Wang, Ph.D.[…]
This month, we are delighted to introduce Jayanthi Mistry, Ph.D. (jmistry@tufts.edu) from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development at Tufts University. Dr. Mistry received her doctorate degree from Purdue University in 1983 and then completed an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Utah. Her current research projects include investigations of multiple Read more about April 2016 Spotlight, Jayanthi Mistry, Ph.D.[…]