Erika Bagley
Graduate Student

Areas of Research: My research interests are in the effects of poverty, race and parenting behaviors on the transition to adulthood; the ways in which public policy and interventions can promote upward mobility; mixed method approaches to understanding development.
Advisor: Vonnie C. McLoyd Ph.D
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Areas of Research : My research interests fall broadly under two themes: 1) the development of working memory in typically developing toddlers and preschoolers; and 2) the examination of short and long term memory processes in young children that are not developing typically, specifically children at-risk for developmental disorders (such as autism) or diagnosed with developmental disorders.
Advisor: J. Steven Reznick Ph.D
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Areas of Research :
Advisor: Lorraine Taylor Ph.D
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211 Davie Hall
Psychology Dept. UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270

Areas of Research: Education
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Social and emotional development in toddlerhood and early childhood; the development of effortful control and executive attention; the development of emotional regulation and physiological regulation; the effects of parenting behaviors and parenting cognition on children's social and emotional development.
Advisor: J. Louis Gariepy Ph.D
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Areas of Research: My primary research interests relate to developmental cognitive neuroscience, and specifically, the neurobiology and neuropsychology of autism. Working within a developmental framework, I plan to explore the neurological correlates of memory, attention, and social cognition in infants and toddlers at-risk for developing autism.
Advisor: J. Steven Reznick Ph.D
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Areas of Research: The development of deliberate memory strategies in elementary school children; the links between basic memory strategies and academically-based study skills; the ways in which schools and teachers may facilitate the emergence and refinement of children's strategies.
Advisor: Peter A. Ornstein Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Socioeconomic status, poverty, social mobility, the
intersection of race and class.
Advisor: Vonnie C. McLoyd Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Poverty
Advisor: Vonnie C. McLoyd Ph.D
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Areas of Research: My broad research interest is in the development of memory in young children. Specifically, I am interested in the development of memory strategies in young school-aged children as well as in the role of mothers' elaborative conversational style in children's event memory."
Advisor: Peter A. Ornstein Ph.D
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Areas of Research: My interest include children's memory development: How children's brain's store and retrieve or fails to retrieve memory. Specializing in suggestibility of memory, the role of emotion in memory distortions and cross-cultural differences in autobiographical memories.
Advisor: Peter A. Ornstein Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Education
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Influence of Poverty on Adolescent Development and the Transition to Adulthood; Adolescent Employment and Schooling.
Advisor: Vonnie C. McLoyd Ph.D
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Areas of Research: The development of memory in early childhood.
Advisor: Peter A. Ornstein Ph.D
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Areas of Research: From a sociobiological perspective, the relationship between stress experienced by the developing child and subsequent behavior problems, and the protective factors which can attenuate this relationship.
Advisor: J. Louis Gariepy Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Education
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes Ph.D
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Areas of Research: The links between children's early attachment and their later functioning among peers and in marriage. The influences of family systems on children's cognitive and social emotional development. The ethnic and sociocultural influences on child socialization and development.
Advisor: Martha J. Cox Ph.D
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Areas of Research: Education
Advisor: Vonnie C. McLoyd Ph.D & Beth Kurtz-Costes Ph.D
Links: Conference Posters