• Developmental cognitive neuroscience
• Frontal lobe development during infancy and early childhood
• Development of memory, inhibition, attention, temperament, and self-regulation during infancy and early childhood
• Developmental psychophysiology (EEG, ECG)

• Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent development
• Age: Adolescence

• Effects of family and friend relationships and life events on psychological well being
• Age: Adulthood and old age

• Children's social competence
• Developmental processes in teaching and learning
• Age: Young children and young adulthood

•  Adaptive and maladaptive child and adolescent social-emotional and cognitive development
•  Gene-environment processes; behavioral genetics
•  Parenting; parent-child relationships
•  Cross-cultural studies

• Marriage and Family Therapy
• Risk and resilience in grandparent-headed families
• Age: Older Adulthood

• Parents' emotional socialization (parents' variation in emotional expression, positive emotional expression, emotion talk, and beliefs about emotions)
• Social cognition, affective social competence, and prosocial behaviors

• Psychosocial determinants of health care use, including interventions to improve adherence to medical regimens, primary care appointment keeping, and health services research
• Injury prevention
• Research designed to prevent the transmission of cytomegalovirus from child to parent, with the goal of preventing developmental and neurological problems associated with maternal CMV infection while pregnant
• Adjustment to chronic illness, including diabetes, asthma, and cancer
• Promotion of children's health and development by changing risk factors and encouraging protective behaviors

• Fostering development in children and young adults through constructivist, inquiry-based teaching and learning methods
• Age: Young children, young adults

• Intergenerational processes between early childhood and late adulthood
• Age: Early childhood and late adulthood

• Impact of traumatic events on children and their parents
• The ascertainment of mediators and moderators of distress including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Dynamic relationships among personality, social relationships, and psychological well-being across the life span
• Family and peer relations as risk and protective factors
• Impact of relationship stress (e.g., parental divorce, child maltreatment, and parental psychopathology) on child development
• Life-span developmental research methodology focusing on quantitative methods for studying variability and change

• Research methods (e.g., structural equation modeling, latent growth curve modeling, hierarchical linear & nonlinear modeling, latent class modeling)
• Heterogeneity of internalizing and externalizing behavior trajectories
  Age: Adolescence

• Women and Technology
• Children, Youth, Families and Technology Impacts
• Adolescent Decision Making
• Academic Benchmarking
• Age: Adolescence and adulthood

• Inquiry-based, emergent, and social-constructivist methods of teaching and learning
• Teacher development
• Age: Early childhood - birth to 5

• Social learning theory and its application to diverse child and adolescent behavior problems, with speical reference to self efficacy and outcome expectancy
• Assessment and treatment of childhood internalizing disorders and externalizing disorders in children. Research explores the onset, expression, causes, correlates, and developmental course of these disorders
• The role of anxiety in mitigating or attenuating the expression and course of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, with special reference to Gray's theory of behavioral inhibition and reward dominance
• Fear and its expression in boys and girls of varying ages and ethnicities in different countries and cultures. Cross-cultural work in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, South America, and North America
• Development, evaluation and promulgation of empirically supported clinical assessment and treatment practices. Research examines recent advances in evidence-based practice and the promises and pitfalls of these developments in clinical research settings

• Infants' (1 month to 12 months) attention to auditory events, as indexed by both behavioral and psychophysiological measures
• Infants' perception of infant directed speech
• The influence of pitch and rate of speech on infant attention,arousal, and emotional responsivity
• Infants' recognition of their mothers' and fathers' voices and faces
• Unimodal vs. multimodal information in infants' perception of native and non-native speech sounds
• Acoustic and linguistic characteristics of mothers' and fathers' speech to infants across the first postnatal year

• Marriage and Family Therapy Education
• Qualitative Research and Evaluation
• Family Therapy, Substance Abuse, and HIV
• Ethical and Professional Issues in MFT

• Intersection of health and social support in late life
• Age: Late life

• Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)
• Development and prevention of antisocial behavior, childhood behavior problems, and psychopathology (anxiety disorders, depression, and personality disorders), with emphasis on corresponding biological bases
• Consequences of childhood abuse, violence victimization/exposure, other trauma, and emotion dysregulation
• Psychophysiology
• Biological and social contributions to the development of behavioral and emotional problems such as aggression, anxiety, and depression
• Psychophysiological profiles that may underlie different forms of aggression in children; neuropsychological deficits associated with antisocial behavior; impact of community violence exposure; and risks for repeat victimization.

• Factors associated with parenting behaviors (e.g., parent personality, marital relations, and family stress)
• Children's behavioral and emotional self-regulation and parenting styles
• Age: Young children

• Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with specific interests in nutrition and exercise