Jennifer E. Lansford
S. Malcolm Gillis Distinguished Research Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, USA. President-Elect of the Society for Research in Child Development and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Behavioral Development.About the author:
My program of research is directed toward understanding how cultural contexts moderate the influence of socializing agents (e.g., parents, peers) on trajectories of social and behavioural development from childhood to adulthood. My work integrates longitudinal methods of developmental psychology with theories from social cognition and developmental psychopathology.
What I want to achieve:
I want my research to advance understanding of children’s development within broader family and cultural contexts. I then want to be able to use these research findings to inform parenting interventions and family policies to reduce children’s behaviour problems and promote children’s well-being.
My previous positions:
- Chair of U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- Chair of U.S. National Institutes of Health Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention Study Section.
- Consultant, UNICEF, Standards of Parenting Programs.
Awards & accomplishments:
- Fellow of the American Psychological Association
- Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
- Fellow of the International Science Council
- American Psychological Association Division 7 Mary Ainsworth Award for Excellence in Developmental Science