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Diana Baumrind

Research Psychologist
Areas: Family Socialization Project
Office: 1215 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-3603
E-mail: N/A
Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1927 in New York, elder of two daughters of an educated Jewish middle-class couple, I had strong intellectual ties to my father and uncle, sons of Eastern European immigrants, militant atheists and Marxists. As the oldest in an extended family of female cousins I inherited the role of eldest son which allowed me to participate in serious conversations, disregard gendered conventions, and mingle with articulate activists, such as Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson.

I attended Hunter College, where I fraternized with progressive instructors including philosopher John Somerville, social psychologist Bernard Riess, and anthropologist Otto Klineberg. Newly married in 1948 I left New York for graduate school at UCB where I studied developmental, clinical and social psychology with David Krech, Hubert Coffey, and Timothy Leary before he tuned in and turned on, earning my PhD in 1955. Extending my interest in leadership style from therapy groups to the family I identified the authoritative structured parental leadership style that integrates directive elements of the authoritarian style with responsive elements of the democratic style.

I chose a research career supported by multiple large grants because its flexible hours enabled me to balance care for my three daughters, political activism, and scholarship. I continue to work and work out assiduously.

Officially retired, I receive the minimal funds I need to support my work from the Jean MacFarlane fund. I am senior author of a comprehensive manuscript in the final stage of review concerning the long-term effects of preschool coercive versus confrontive power-assertive parenting that explain the differential effects of authoritarian versus authoritative parenting. I am preparing a review of the historical roots and current status of the authoritative construct with Prof. Nadia Sorkhabi. I am on the editorial board of Parenting: Science and Practice, do ad hoc reviews for several other scholarly journals and for NSF, NIH and the William T. Grant Foundation, which are among the agencies that have generously funded my work. I am a consultant for the Task Force on Corporal Punishment for the American Psychological Association. I review requests from the Henry A. Murray Center at Harvard-Radcliffe from investigators to use our case records and archival data which are housed at the Center. We are completing additional archival data for them. I am on the Executive Committee of IHD.

Margaret Bridges

Researcher, Institute of Human Development
Office: 1117 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-9163
Email: mbridges@berkeley.edu

Dr. Bridges research interests include the differential effects of preschool (and other interventions) on children from varied family backgrounds-particularly effects on their social and emotional development, as they interact with family characteristics.

Curriculum Vitae

Silvia Bunge

Assistant Research Psychologist
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience and developmental cognitive neuroscience; cognitive control and prefrontal function.
Office: 210L Barker Hall
Phone: (510) 643-0173
Email: sbunge@berkeley.edu

Dr. Bunge directs the Cognitive Control and Development Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Her laboratory studies how children and adults control their thoughts and actions to achieve their goals, a set of cognitive abilities known as cognitive control. The Bunge laboratory studies the neural mechanisms of cognitive control in healthy children, adolescents, and adults, as well as in several pediatric and adult patient populations. For more information, please visit the lab website: http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/

For a list of our current developmental studies, please see:
http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/Kids/index.htm

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Journalists can contact me at sbunge@berkeley.edu

Joe Campos

Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Psychology Department
Areas: Cognitive, Developmental
Specialties: social-emotional development in infancy, especially infants' social referencing and perception of emotion; and the relation of motor development to cognitive, social, and emotional development
Office: 1233 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-9975
Email: jcampos@berkeley.edu

The research of Professor Joseph J. Campos centers on infancy because "as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined." Infancy is a time of origins of the basic perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social functions of the human, so the study of infancy is fundamental to the study of man. In the lab, the studies we conduct center on what accounts for the enormous changes in the infant's responsiveness to emotional factors between five and 18 months of age, and why the infant seems to undergo a "psychological revolution" upon acquiring the onset of crawling.

Infant Studies Center Email: babycenter@berkeley.edu

Mary Cavanaugh

Assistant Research Criminologist
Office: 329 Haviland
Phone: (510) 642-8039
Email: mcavanaugh@berkeley.edu

Mary M. Cavanaugh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC, Berkeley. Her primary research focuses on examining the origins of violent behavior in male and female offenders, and in designing and testing preventative interventions that may decrease the potential risk for violence in intimate relationships. She has been a practitioner in the field of family violence facilitating batterers' intervention and sexual offender programs in cooperation with Adult Probation and Parole Departments and victim service agencies.

Norm Constantine

Clinical Professor (Ph.D., University of Oregon)
School of Public Health, Division of Community Health and Human Development
Areas: Adolescent health and development, research methodology, policy-oriented translational research
Specialties: Adolescent health policy, sexuality education and sexual health services, motivated reasoning, policy use and misuse of research evidence, measurement and evaluation
Office: 237 University Hall
Phone: (925) 284-8118
Email: nconstantine@berkeley.edu
Website: http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/constantine.php

Norm Constantine is a research psychologist focusing on adolescent health and development, measurement and research design, and the study of policy use and misuse of research evidence.

His current research program comprises two mutually supportive strands. The first involves policy-oriented translational research on adolescent sexual health issues. This entails conducting rigorous research that is systematically translated into evidence-based policy advocacy messages, materials, and supports. These are used to educate state and local policy makers and other California stakeholders about adolescent sexual health policies and practices, via direct advocacy as well as mediated advocacy involving state, local, legislative, and media partners. The second strand examines the role of social cognitive processes in research evidence use and appraisal, investigating how implicit (rapid, intuitive, and preconscious) and explicit (slow, logical, and conscious) reasoning processes are employed by policy influentials in appraising and applying research evidence, and how these processes are influenced by (and influence) prior beliefs and information, moral values and judgments, ideological commitments, and interests and obligations.

Research Projects

California Adolescent Sexual Health Policy Project, funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
No Time for Complacency Adolescent Sexual Health Policy Advocacy Initiative, funded by The California Wellness Foundation
California Foster Youth Sexual Health Needs Assessment, funded by the Walter S. Johnson Foundation
Los Angeles Sexuality Education Initiative: School-Based Cluster Randomized Trial, funded by Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, with additional support from various foundations
Evidence-Use in the Sex Education Debates Study, funded by the W. T. Grant Foundation

Phil and Carolyn Cowan

Carolyn Pape Cowan

Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Emerita
Researcher, Institute of Human Development
Co-Director of three longitudinal preventive intervention studies: Supporting Father Involvement, Becoming a Family, and Schoolchildren and Their Families
Research Interests: Establishing links between the quality of the relationship between parents and their children's development. Evaluation of preventive interventions to strengthen couple relationships, foster more effective parent-child relationships, and bolster children's development - particularly during major family transitions.
Areas:School Children and Their Families Project
Office: 1109 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-5608
Email: ccowan@berkeley.edu

Phil Cowan

Emeritus Professor of Psychology(Ph.D., University of Toronto)
Areas: Clinical, Developmental
Specialties: family systems, couple relationships, parenting styles, child cognitive and emotional development, preventive intervention
Office: 1109 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-6439
Email: pcowan@berkeley.edu

Phil and Carolyn Cowan have been studying the impact of couples group interventions with parents for the long-term well-being of children. Two clinical trials of couples becoming parents (Becoming a Family) and couples with a first child entering school (Schoolchildren and their Families) have been completed, each with 100, primarily middle class families. Over the last 5 years, in collaboration with colleagues at Yale and Smith College, the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention, and Family Resource Center staff in 5 California counties, they have enrolled more than 500 families from different ethnic groups (Supporting Father Involvement) in a comparison of couples groups and fathers groups. The curriculum in both approaches is focused on multiple aspects of family life and relationships. Led by trained mental health professionals, the groups have increased fathers' positive involvement in the daily lives of their children, and, as in the first two intervention studies, maintained the quality of relationship between the parents, and decreased the risk of developing behavior problems in the children.

Supporting Father Involvement
Supporting Father Involvement. In five counties in California, using a randomized clinical trial design, this project is evaluating the effectiveness of fathers groups and couples groups in low-income families. The aim of the project, now supported by results, is to increase fathers' positive involvement in the daily life of their children, to strengthen couple relationships, and to decrease the risk of developing behavior problems in the children.

Anne E. Cunningham

Professor (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan)
Graduate School of Education
Office: 4307 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-7974
Email: acunning@berkeley.edu
Website: http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/AECunningham/AECunningham.html

Major Research Project

Teacher Quality: The Role of Teacher Study Groups as a Model of Professional Development in Early Literacy for Preschool Teachers (Early Literacy Teacher Quality Project)): With the support of an IES grant from the Department of Education, we are developing and refining a Teacher Study Group model of professional development for preschool teachers, with a focus on early literacy. By grounding our model in the dimensions that contribute to significant changes in teachers' instructional practices and creating opportunities for rich context-driven reflection and discussions, we believe that participating teachers will be able to increase their relevant knowledge base, alter inaccurate beliefs, and thus transform their pedagogy. We expect that our iterative process of revision will generate an increasingly successful forum for preschool teachers to enhance early literacy knowledge and practices and thus emergent literacy outcomes for young low-income children.

Research Interests

Cognition, Development, and Learning
Literacy Development
Learning Disorders and Special Education
Teacher Development, Education, and Certification

Susan Ervin-Tripp

Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Studies, Psychology Department
Areas: Cognitive, Developmental
Specialties: pragmatics, social psychology of language use, bilingualism, developmental sociolinguistics
Office: 508 Evans
Phone: (510) 841-6803
Email: ervin-tr@cogsci.berkeley.edu

My work in the past ten years has focused on two themes: First, the relation between language use and the development of linguistic forms. The idea here is that language is learned from two sources-from the ability of children to notice forms and their meanings, including social meanings, and to structure them into grammars, and from the social occasions in which they hear and use forms, that is, what one might call the enabling conditions for language learning. Both are necessary for learning, but the relation between them has been left out of the picture. Second, the developmental changes in the structure of the interpersonal talk of children. We have been studying children's natural conversations alone with friends for both their organization and for their linguistic features in various languages and cultural settings. This work has included the study of types of talk by children such as narratives, humor, and play organizing, how these are jointly created and interwoven by conversational partners, and how the parts are indicated. Because we have studied best friends, we have also noticed differences in boys' and girls' talk. Currently, I am returning to an additional theme of my early work, bilingualism, and we have added bilingual children to our studies of the enabling conditions for language learning and of the development of the organization of talk.

Bruce Fuller

Professor
Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation
Office: 3527 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-9163
Email: b_fuller at berkeley.edu
Websites: pace.berkeley.edu
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/bfuller/

Working inside policy organizations and the academy over the past three decades, Bruce Fuller has asked how public action best strengthens families and schools. Trained in political sociology, Professor Fuller's recent projects center on small-scale organizations that sprout across diverse communities, such as charter schools and preschools, which often spread in response to the clumsy or gray character of central states. Yet, decentralized institutions can disempower central governments, a worrisome scenario for those concerned with equity. Professor Fuller's current research delves into how young children are socialized in diverse Mexican-American homes, and what neighborhood organizations effectively advance their development.

Alison Gopnik

Professor (ph.D. Oxford University)
Head of Change, Plasticity and Development Area
Cognitive Development, Causal Knowledge and Learning, Intuitive Theories and Theory Formation , Philosophy and Psychology
Office: 3317 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-2752
Email: Gopnik@berkeley.edu
Website: www.alisongopnik.com

I study how young children learn about the world and other people. In particular, I formulated the "theory theory" the idea that young children learn by making up everyday theories to explain the evidence they see. More recently, I have described the theory theory computationally, using formal models of causal inference, especially Bayes nets. Currently in my lab we are exploring how children use causal inference to develop a "theory of mind".

Cognitive Development Lab

We study how children learn about the causal structure of the world. Current topics include children's understanding of personality traits, imitation and free will.

Steve Hinshaw

Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)
Areas: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity, and Development
Specialties: Childhood behavior disorders, developmental psychopathology. Attention deficits and hyperactivity; aggressive behavior, peer relations, family interactions, and neuropsychological risk factors; psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for children with ADHD; process and outcome research in child interventions; assessment, diagnosis, and classification of child disorders; definitions of mental disorder; stigma associated with mental disorder.
Office: 3210B Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-8586
Email: hinshaw@.berkeley.edu
Website: http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/shinshaw.html

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his doctorate from UCLA; he was a post-doc UC San Francisco. His work focuses on developmental psychopathology, including peer and family relationships, neuropsychological risk factors, multimodal interventions, and stigma related to mental disorder. He has directed summer research camps and conducted longitudinal studies for over 25 years. Hinshaw has authored over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews plus 7 books, including The Years of Silence are Past: My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder, The Mark of Shame: Stigma and Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change, and The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures. The recipient of numerous grants from NIMH, he is editor of Psychological Bulletin, the most cited journal in psychology.He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Letters and Sciences, UC Berkeley, in 2001.

Research Projects

Young Adult Follow up of Girls with ADHD
Multimodal Treatment (MTA)
Stigma and Mental Illness
Intervention for ADHD-Inattentive Type

Current projects focus on longitudinal follow-up of girls and boys with ADHD; family, peer, and neuropsychological risk factors; analysis of long-term effects of multimodal treatments; clinical trials of psychosocial treatment for inattentive type of ADHD; stigmatization of mental illness; mental health problems in teenage girls (and related sociocultural factors); resilience and protective factors.

Carla L. Hudson Kam

Assistant Professor
Office: 3431 Tolman Hall, 2-8615
Phone (Office): (510) 642-8615
Phone (Lab): (510) 642-7401

Carla Hudson Kam studies language acquisition, that is, how children and adults learn languages. She is particularly interested in input: what counts as input, whether some types of input is better than others, why learners sometimes fail to learn certain types of patterns in input. She also investigates differences between child and adult learners, asking why children are better at learning languages than adults.

Major Research Projects

Constraints on learning from inconsistent input (funded by NICHD): Children often change certain types of patterns in language as they learn them, and this project seeks to understand the conditions under which these changes occur and further, asks why learners impose the changes they do when they do. We propose that learners fail to acquire some kinds of patterns due to limitations in general cognitive processes important for learning, such as working memory.

Gesture as input in language acquisition: Typically we think of the input for language acquisition as consisting of the language that children hear (or see in the case of signed languages). However, learning occurs within a rich communicative context and aspects of this context might provide information that learners can utilize. This project examines the information present in co-speech gesture and investigates whether children and adults can make use of that information.

Dacher Keltner

Professor, Psychology Department (Stanford University)
Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center
Areas: Social/Personality; Change, Plasticity & Development
Specialties: Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture

My own studies have focused on the social functions of emotion, arguing that emotions enable individuals to respond adaptively to the problems and opportunities that define human social living. I am also exploring the determinants of power and status. My final research interest lies in the study of how humans negotiate moral concerns

Jonas Langer

Professor Emeritus, Psychology Department (Ph.D., Clark University)
Areas: Cognitive, Developmental
Specialties: cognitive development in infancy and early childhood, primate cognition
Office: 1127 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-6629
Email: jlanger@berkeley.edu

My research on the evolution and development of cognition in human and nonhuman primates is currently expanding from two- to three-pronged. The first studies the origins and development of physical (e.g., causal), logical (e.g., classificatory), arithmetic (e.g., numerical) cognition in humans from early infancy on. The second studies the comparative development of these cognitions in humans, chimpanzees, and monkeys. The third, which is entirely new and just beginning, studies the maturation of brain activity (using fMRI measures) in 4 to 18 year old humans that attends their central conceptual development (e.g., of quantitative conservation judgments and of proportional reasoning).

Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education & African American Studies
Areas: Culture and Development, Equity, Race, Mathematics Learning
Office: 5641 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-5547
Email: nailahs@berkeley.edu

Professor Na'ilah Suad Nasir's research centers on how issues of culture and race influence the learning, achievement, and educational trajectories of African American and other non-dominant students in urban school and community settings. She is interested in the intertwining of social and cultural contexts (cultural practices, institutions, communities, societies) and the learning and educational trajectories of individuals, especially in connection with inequity in educational outcomes.

Major Research Projects

Learning and Identity in Juvenile Halls Schools: In this line of work, Nasir is examining processes of schooling and identity for incarcerated youth.

Racial Stereotypes and Math Learning: In this set of studies, Nasir is focusing on the ways that upper elementary and middle school students understand and/or endorse racial stereotypes about who can do math, and the relation between stereotype endorsement and a range of outcomes.

Larry Nucci

Research Educator
Areas: Adolescence, Child Development, Moral and Ethical Studies, School Culture, Social and Emotional Development
Phone: (510) 643-6922
Email: nucci@.berkeley.edu

Larry Nucci studies children's social and moral development. An aspect of his work has focused on children's judgments about issues they consider to be personal matters of privacy and discretion. This research has been carried out in a number of contexts including Latin America and Asia. Findings from this research have broad implications for parenting and educational practice. He is Senior Editor of the journal Human Development and a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Development. He was a Fulbright Scholar and serves in an advisory capacity to several organizations concerned with children's moral and character education including the Character Education Partnership, The Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education, and the US Department of Education.

Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, he was a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he currently holds the title of Emeritus Professor, and continues as the co-Director of the Office for Studies in Moral and Social Development and Education.

Current Research Project

The development of morality and compassionate love in children (with Elliot Turiel): Funding, Fetzer Foundation

Liz Owens

Research Psychologist
Areas: Clinical Child Psychology
Specialties: Developmental psychopathology; attention deficits and hyperactivity in children, including home-and-school-based behavioral treatments; randomized clinical trials for the treatment of childhood mental illness; parenting skills and styles.
Office:1225 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-1985
Email: lizowens@berkeley.edu

I have been a research scientist at IHD for 10 years, previously receiving my B.A. in biology from Stanford University and my M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. I work primarily on two projects: a long-term longitudinal study of girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a randomized clinical trial for children with inattentive-type ADHD. On both projects I serve as a statistical consultant and data analyst. On the latter, I also serve as the licensed clinical psychologist, working with parents individually and in groups, as well as providing consultation to teachers. In addition to my interests in ADHD, I am interested in the development of externalizing problems in young children, resilience among children at risk for developing psychopathology, and the effects of maternal depression on children.

Jane P. Perry

Research Coordinator
Office: 2425 Atherton Street
Phone: (510) 642-7031
Email: jpperry@berkeley.edu

Humans by their very nature are storytelling creatures, conveying essential meanings about themselves and their worlds through gestures, words, and cadenced utterances. I am an ethnographer, conveying in narrative format what it means to be children and teachers out on the playground, to be finally alone in a busy household, to use children's peer play culture as a subtext to their story dictations, and to learn in a play-based classroom. I guest lecture and conduct workshops on children's peer play culture and the negotiated learning experience between that culture and the teaching culture, especially outdoors and through children's own narratives.

Through a collage of participant observations, audio recordings, dreams, and text I also write poetry and short stories, and produce audio story collages.

Current Research Project

Using Young Children's Story Plays to Assess the Development of Narration: www.redroom.com/author/jane-p-perry

Geoff Saxe

Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Graduate School of Education
Specialization: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cultural Studies, Mathematics Education
Office: 4315 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 643-6627
Email: saxe@berkeley.edu

Geoffrey Saxe is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Earning his Ph.D. in Psychology (cognitive development) from UC Berkeley in 1975, Professor Saxe has held postdoctoral and faculty positions at Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1976-1977), The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1977-1981), UCLA (1981-1997). He is past Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Human Development, and has served on the editorial boards for various journals, including Cognition and Instruction, Cognitive Development, and the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. He is an elected to the National Academy of Education, and he has been selected as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, and he serves on the advisory board of the Glen Lean Ethnomathematics Centre, University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. He serves or has served on various standing committees and task forces and review panels for private and public foundations, including the Institute of Education Sciences, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the OERI, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. Professor Saxe has published empirical articles, monographs, and book on issues on the development of mathematical thinking both in and out of school contexts.

Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, Professor Saxe's current empirical work is focused on the development of a research-based curriculum unit on integers and fractions, informed by interview, tutorial, and classroom-based studies. He is also completing a book on the Social History of Number-Studies in Papua New Guinea.

Dan Slobin

Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Science, Institute of Human Development
Specialties: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross- cultural
Office: 4203 Tolman
Phone: (510) 643-7807
Email: slobin@berkeley.edu

Slobin-Papers on Aphasia

Slobin-Papers on language & Cognition

Slobin-Papers on language acquisition and change

Slobin-Papers on sign language

Dan I. Slobin is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at UC Berkeley, still actively involved in research and writing, as well as travel and non academic personal writing. Professionally he is a cognitive/functional psycholinguist who explores the interfaces between child language, cognition, and linguistic typology. He began his career at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in the early sixties, being shaped by the emerging "cognitive revolution", and receiving a Ph D in social psychology in 1964. Since then he has been at the University of California at Berkeley, carrying out research on child language development in across linguistic and crosscultural perspective.

Slobin's research sites include the U.S., Turkey, Israel, Croatia, Spain, and the Netherlands, conducting research on early child language in a range of spoken and signed languages. His students and collaborators have carried out research in dozens of countries. A major focus of the work is ways in which languages differ in their mappings between concepts and linguistic forms - what Slobin calls "thinking for speaking."

In recent years he has become especially concerned with typological/functional linguistics and with the manual/visual modality of sign language and co-speech gesture. For the past twenty years or so he has been collaborating with his Dutch partner, Nini Hoiting, at the Royal Institute for the Deaf in the Netherlands, investigating the linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf.

Elliot Turiel

Jerome A. Hutto Professor (Ph.D., Yale University)
Graduate School of Education
Areas: cognition and development
Office: 4317 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-4201
Email: turiel@berkeley.edu

Elliot Turiel holds the title of Jerome A. Hutto Professor of Education. He is in the Graduate School of Education and an affiliate in the Department of Psychology. He is currently Co-Director of the IHD. His research focuses on moral and social development, with an emphasis on domains of judgment, the relations of morality and culture, and opposition and resistance to cultural practices perceived as unjust.

Professor Turiel studies ways children, adolescents, and adults attempt to counter inequalities (such as ones based on gender) with overt and covert activities aimed at subverting and changing practices that favor those in positions of power in the social hierarchy. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health, and a Fellow of the Van Lear Jerusalem Institute. He has served as President of the Jean Piaget Society.

Julia Walsh

School of Public Health
Area: Child health in developing countries, cost-effectiveness & cost-benefit of of health interventions, prematurity and low birth weight among hispanics.
Office: University Hall 207L
Phone: (510) 642-1629
Email: jwalsh@berkeley.edu

Rhona S. Weinstein

Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate School (Ph.D., Yale University)
Area: Clinical Science
Specialties: Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and the development of competence; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; educational equity,school reform, and the prevention of school failure.
Office: 2107A Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-2055
Email: rhona_weinstein@berkeley.edu

Rhona S. Weinstein is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley, where she was formerly director of the Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic. Weinstein's research focuses first, on the contextual and multi-layered dynamics of academic expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies, as they impact educational opportunities and the development of minority and poor children, and second, on school reform for educational equity. Weinstein has been involved since its inception in Berkeley's efforts, in collaboration with Aspire Public Schools, to create an early college secondary school for "first in the family to go to college" youth (CAL Prep) which opened its doors in August 2005.

Research Projects

Longitudinal studies of teacher expectancy effects: moderators and mediators (with Christine Rubie-Davies, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Phil and Carolyn Cowan, UCB)
The implementation of small group advisories in a high-expectation middle school (with Nilofar Sami and Zena Mello)
An examination of the first three years of an early college secondary school.

Qing Zhou

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Arizona State University)
Psychology Department
Areas:Developmental psychopathology, with an emphasis on the roles of temperament, emotion-related processing, and family socialization in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology and competence; cultural influences on socio-emotional development.
Office: 3210 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-2151
E-mail: qingzhou@berkeley.edu