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.