Matthew Belmonte, Assistant Professor
Matthew Belmonte's research
has applied EEG and fMRI to explore brain physiology in people with
autism spectrum conditions and in their family members. He also has
interests in the development of computational methods for statistical
analysis of fMRI and EEG time series, and in the relation of cognitive
science to literary representation.
Email: mkb4@cornell.edu
Charles J.Brainerd, Professor
Research Areas: Cognitive Neuroscience; Memory and Cognitive Development; Mathematical Modeling; Psychology and Law
Dr. Brainerd's research focuses on the relations between memory and higher reasoning processes and on extension of research findings to important applied domains, such as false memory and the law. His is co-developer with another HD Professor, Valerie F. Reyna, of fuzzy-trace theory, an interdisciplinary model of memory and cognition.
Email: cb299@cornell.edu
Marianella Casasola, Associate Professor
Research Areas: Infant Cognition, Language Development
Dr. Casasola's research focuses on several aspects of infant cognitive development and early word learning and in particular, the interaction between cognition and early language learning. Some of Dr. Casasola's research, conducted in collaboration with colleagues, has examined infants' understanding of object solidity and infant perception of physical causality.
Email: mc272@cornell.edu
Cornell Infant Studies Laboratory
Stephen J. Ceci, Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology
Research Areas: Children and the Law, Intelligence, Developmental Psychology
Dr. Ceci is working on two interrelated topics: The development of intelligence in everyday settings (including transfer of learning), and children's cognitive competence to testify in court. Both lines of research focus on the powerful role of context in these naturalistic settings.
Email: sjc9@cornell.edu
Richard A. Depue, Professor
Research Areas: Brain and Behavior, Developmental Neuroscience, Emotional Development
Professor Depue's work is on the neurobiology and neurochemistry associated with the structure of personality, emotion, and cognition. He is particularly interested in the personality traits of positive emotionality (extraversion)and Behavioral Stability as they relate to dopamine and serotonin functions, respectively. Finally, the manner in which these systems are modulated by life experiences across the lifespan is addressed.
Email: rad5@cornell.edu
John J. Eckenrode, Professor
Research Areas: Child Maltreatment, Prevention, Stress and Coping
One of Dr. Eckenrode's research areas is child maltreatment. His research has focused on the characteristics of official child maltreatment reports, the academic effects of child abuse and neglect, and the long-term effects of a program of home visitation on the development of high-risk mothers and their children. Dr. Eckenrode also has a longstanding interest in research focusing on several issues related to stress and coping, particularly the role of social supports.
Email: jje1@cornell.edu
Gary W. Evans, Professor, DEA/HD
Research Areas: Life Course Development, Social/Personality Development
Professor Evans is interested in how the physical environment affects the health and well being of children and families. Current research is focused on environmental stress (crowding, noise, housing, commuting), children's environments (housing, schools, daycare, playgrounds), and the developmental consequences of poverty.
Email: gwe1@cornell.edu
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Stephen F. Hamilton, Professor
Research Areas: Youth Development, Youth and Work
Professor Hamilton's research focuses on the ecology of adolescent development and the transition to adulthood. He is especially interested in work and community service as opportunities for learning, mentoring, policies and programs that promote youth development, and international comparisons.
Email: sfh3@cornell.edu
Cynthia Hazan, Associate Professor
Research Areas: Attachment Processes, Mating Phenomena
The subject of Dr. Hazan's research is human mating, which she studies primarily from the perspective of ethological attachment theory. Her current projects focus on normative attachment processes as well as the general nature and function of attachment bonds. Drawing upon work in the area of social bonding in a variety of mammalian species, she is developing and testing a new theoretical model of what it means--at both the psychological and physiological levels--for two individuals to be attached.
Email: ch34@cornell.edu
Barbara Koslowski, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Research Areas: Cognitive Development, Scientific Reasoning
Professor Koslowski's general interest is in the area of cognition and cognitive development. More specifically in the sorts of theories of evidence -- tacit as well as explicit -- that children and adults rely on when assessing causal explanations. Corollary concerns are with whether these theories are rational (or at least pragmatically sensible) and with the extent to which the theories approximate formal theories of scientific inquiry as well as the actual practice of working scientists.
Email: bmk2@cornell.edu
Tamar Kushnir, Assistant Professor
Dr. Kushnir's
research examines mechanisms of learning in young children. Her previous work
has addressed 1)how children use statistical evidence to learn new causal
relations, 2)how new evidence interacts with children's prior causal beliefs,
and 3)how causal learning is influenced by children's developing social
knowledge and also by their own experience of action. She continues to explore
the role that children's developing knowledge - in particular their social
knowledge - plays in learning, a question with implications for the study of
cognitive development as well as for early childhood education.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, Assistant Professor
Dr. Loeckenhoff's research focuses on age differences in personality and
emotions and their influence on mental and physical health across the life
span. Current research topics include age differences in healthcare choices and
the role of personality in health behavior.
Barbara C. Lust, Professor
Research Areas: Language Development, Cognitive Development
Dr. Lust's research concerns the study of the child's acquisition of language, studied from a cross-linguistic perspective. Children acquiring more than 20 languages of the world are studied in the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab. Her research program, which is interdisciplinary, seeks both to identify the universals which characterize child language acquisition across all languages, and to explicate the nature of development of language during the time between birth and early childhood.
Email: bcl4@cornell.edu
Cornell Language Acquisition Lab
Joseph Mikels, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Emotion-Cognition Interactions, Aging, Judgement and Decision Making Dr. Mikels research program represents a multi-level analysis of the interface between emotion and cognition, and how emotion-cognition interactions relate to and underlie complex social behavior. His laboratory, the Emotion and Cognition Laboratory, conducts behavioral, neuroimaging, and life-span studies examining how emotion interfaces with cognitive processes such as working memory and selective attention. In another line of research, the lab studies the role of emotion-cognition interactions in complex decision making, and how the decision quality of older adults could be improved.
Email: jmikels@cornell.edu
Emotion and Cognition Laboratory
Anthony D. Ong, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Stress, Resilience, and Health
Dr. Ong's research focuses on identifying the multiple pathways through
which emotional, psychological, and socio-cultural processes contribute
to positive health across the life course. The construct of resilience
emerges as a conceptual theme that cuts across many studies. A central
goal is to understand how certain individuals show maintenance,
recovery, or even improvement in adaptive outcomes despite the presence
of challenge and adversity.
Email: ado4@cornell.edu
Resilience and Lifespan Development Laboratory
Karl A. Pillemer, Professor
Research Areas: Aging, Elder Abuse, Intergenerational Relationships
Professor Pillemer's research interests center on human development over the life course, with a special emphasis on family and social relationships in middle age and beyond. A major program of research involves family members who provide care to Alzheimer's disease victims, examining the relationships among social network structure, social suppor and psychological well-being. A second major interest is in intergenerational relations in later life, with a focus on determinants and consequences of the quality of adult child -- parent relationships.
Email: kap6@cornell.edu
Valerie F. Reyna, Professor
Research Areas: Judgment and Decision Making; Risk and Rationality; False Memory; Aging and Cognitive Impairment; Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr. Reyna’s research focuses on dual processes in memory, judgment, and decision making, on how these processes change with age and expertise, and on their implications for risky decision making in law, health, and medicine. She is co-developer with another HD professor, Charles Brainerd, of fuzzy-trace theory, a theory of memory and its relation to higher cognitive processes.
Email: vr53@cornell.edu
Laboratory for Rational Decision Making
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Steven S. Robertson, Professor
Research Areas: Infancy, Fetal Development and Motor Development.
Professor Robertson’s general research area is developmental psychobiology; he uses a range of techniques to address the relations between the mind and body during development. Specific projects aim to understand the coupling of attention and spontaneous motor activity in very young infants using EEG, eye tracking, and body movement sensors. In collaboration with students, he is currently following a cohort of children studied as infants to assess whether attention-movement coupling in infancy is related to attention problems in childhood. In addition to the work in his own laboratory, he maintains active collaborations with colleagues in developmental psychobiology and applied mathematics.
Email: ssr4@cornell.edu
Robertson Infant Lab
Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Professor and Department Chair
Research Areas: Youth and Adolescence, Sexuality, Sexual Minorities
Dr. Savin-Williams' current research interests focus on the normative sexual development of adolescents and youths and on the psychological strength, resiliency, and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youths and adults. Emphasis is placed on differential developmental trajectories among sexual minorities in terms of their identity development, relations with family and peers, romantic relationships, and gender nonconformity.
Email: rsw36@cornell.edu
Sex & Gender Lab
Qi Wang, Associate Professor
Research Areas: Cognitive Development, Culture and Development, Memory
Dr. Wang's research interests are at the intersection of cognitive and social development, focusing on the development of autobiographical memory, self, and emotion knowledge as well as their interactions. She has conducted studies to examine the impact of the larger cultural context and the immediate family narrative environment on these aspects of development.
Email: qw23@cornell.edu
Social Cognition Development Lab
Elaine Wethington, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Areas: Life Course Development, Health and Behavior, Stress and Coping
Dr. Wethington's research interests are in the areas of stress and the protective mechanisms of social support. Her current projects address: 1) events and changes involving social networks and the sources of support; 2) stressful life events and other crises in midlife and beyond; 3) the positive consequences of life events and other transitions (i.e. the development of maturity and the sense of personal growth; and 4) the assessment of social isolation, community participation, and support derived from religion among older people.
Email: ew20@cornell.edu
Wendy Williams, Professor
Research Areas: Intelligence, Academic Success Identification, assessment, and training of practical intelligence and tacit knowledge; influences on intellectual development; academic curriculum development, enrichment, and assessment; creativity training and assessment; prediction of academic success and teacher evaluation; leadership evaluation and development; managerial development and competence.
Email: wmw5@cornell.edu
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