Graduate Students
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Juliette Berg |
intersection of child development and social policy; social intervention design and evaluation; international research and policy |
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Emily Bostwick |
language, literacy, and narrative development in young dual-language learners |
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Jessica Cressen |
influence of cultural stereotypes regarding race/ethnicity and gender on social, emotional, and academic development during adolescence |
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Eric Finegood |
neural development; early life stress and the development of executive function in young children |
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Allison Friedman |
early childhood education; influence of classroom processes and context on child development and learning; development of executive function and self-regulation skills; teacher-student relationship; teacher stress |
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Taveeshi Gupta |
parent and peer socialization of gender stereotypes across international contexts; psychological well being of adolescents |
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Joy Kennedy |
cognitive and language development in cultural context; temporality in children’s narratives; early childhood intervention |
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Ha Yeon Kim |
academic and social-emotional development of immigrant origin students; influence of classroom climate and peer relationship in academic and social development |
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Yana Kuchirko |
cross-cultural variation in parent-child interaction; language socialization in early childhood; language development |
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Ashley Smith Leavell |
fathers' impact on gender socialization of young children; impact of culture and context on gender identity development |
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Rufan Luo |
cultural differences in parent-child interaction in early childhood; association between early parenting and children's cognitive and social outcomes; Chinese parenting |
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Rachel McKinnon |
development of self-regulation and executive functioning in early childhood; school readiness; context of economic disadvantage |
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Marie Onaga |
identity development of immigrant youth; risk and resilience; language, culture, and contexts of adolescent development |
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Alyssa Pintar Ph.D. student aip252@nyu.edu |
influence of individual differences on stress and coping; effects of early adversity; school intervention effectiveness; development of self-regulation within normative and maladaptive trajectories |
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John Protzko |
intelligence; rationality; interaction of genetics and environment |
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Sukhmani Singh |
experience of immigrant youth in educational contexts; importance of relationships |
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Brian Spitzer |
the influence of implicit beliefs on academic achievement; stereotype threat; motivation; adolescent development; using brief targeted interventions to reduce the racial achievement gap |
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Catalina Torrente |
individual and contextual factors shaping socio-emotional competence and aggressive tendencies of behavior; risk and protective factors; experimental evaluation of school-based intervention programs in the U.S. and abroad |
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Alexandra Ursache Ph.D. student alexandra.ursache@nyu.edu |
development of executive function; impacts of stress and poverty on behavioral and neural development |