
Biography
- Areas Of Focus
Children’s social cognitive development; moral development
- Education
University of Pittsburgh 1991
Ph. D., Major in Developmental PsychologyUniversity of Pittsburgh 1983
Bachelor of Science, Major in Psychology
Courses that I teach or have taught at Arcadia include:
Introduction to Psychology (PY111)
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child (PY209)
Developmental Psychology (PY212)
Senior Seminar (PY490-PY491)
Education Stories: Films About Successful Classrooms (US220)
Research Summary
My specialty area is the development of social cognition during the preschool and middle childhood years. My research interests include moral development, development of social attribution processes, cultural and ethnic variations in person perception, the influences of actor race and actor gender on children’s social judgments, and the socio-emotional development of African American children. I have conducted a number of research studies, presented papers at conferences, and published journal articles. My study on the influences of actor race on person perception formed the basis of a segment for a televised program on racial bias which aired on the Discovery Channel (co-produced by Dateline NBC) in March 2000.