Areas of Research : Resiliency, Socialization and Identity Development in Minorities and At-Risk-Youth.
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes,Ph.D
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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 : I am broadly interested in the ways in which proximal (i.e. maternal depression) and distal factors (i.e. financial resources, racism, neighborhood quality) influence parenting in African American families. Additionally, I am interested in the adaptive function of certain parenting practices (i.e. racial socialization) that promote children?s successfully navigation of the multiple contexts (i.e. school, home) in which their development takes place.
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:My primary research interests relate to developmental cognitive neuroscience.  I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the developmental process, developmental constructs, marker tasks, brain development, infant cognition, and autism.  For descriptions of projects that I contribute to, see below.
Advisor: J. Steven Reznick Ph.D
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http://www.bbi.unc.edu/staff.html
http://www.babysibsimaging.org/ 

Areas of Research :
Advisor: Steve 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 : Poverty and family processes.
Advisor: Martha J. Cox Ph.D
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229 Davie Hall
Psychology Dept. UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270

Areas of Research : The effects of environmental risk on young children's neuropsychological development, the design of public policy to ameliorate these effects.
Advisor: J. Louis Gariepy Ph.D and Martha Cox, Ph.D.
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Areas of Research: My research interests are in academic achievement and educational attainment for minority youth; identity development and socialization practices in minority families; and gender characteristics in schooling and socialization experiences.
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes 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 retrieves 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: 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: My primary research interest involve cognition or cognitive development in children with autism or at risk for being diagnosed with autism. My interest also include special abilities in individuals with autism such as drawing or artistic talent
Advisor: J. Steven Reznick Ph.D
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Areas of Research:I am interested in the development of perceptual and motor skills and attention in infants and young children at risk for developing autism. I am also interested in the development of sensory issues and repetitive behaviors in autism and other developmental disorders.
Advisor: J. Steven Reznick Ph.D
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Areas of Research:My primary research interest is the contextual effects of neighborhoods, schools and family structure on the academic achievement and motivation of black children from poor and working-class families.
Advisor: Beth Kurtz-Costes Ph.D
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Areas of Research:My research interests are focused on identifying unique factors that may influence the academic motivation of African American adolescents.  Some of the factors that I am currently exploring are racial socialization, discrimination, beliefs about the utility of education, and attributions.
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:
Advisor: Martha Cox, Ph.D.
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