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Life-Span
Developmental
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> Infant Research
Lab

> The Family
Relationships in
Late Life Project

> Institute for
Behavioral Research
(IBR)

> Gerontology Institute

> List of all affiliated
LSDP faculty

> List of all current
developmental
graduate students

> Graduate student handbook

> Educational
Psychology

> Child and Family
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Faculty: Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Gail Williamson, Program Chair

Core Faculty have primary appointments in the LSDP.

Name Email Area of Interest
Janet Frick jfrick@uga.edu infant visual attention
Patricia Miller

phmiller@uga.edu

strategies, memory, attention, gender
Anne Shaffer ashaffer@uga.edu maltreatment and family stress
Gail Williamson lgmw@uga.edu caregiving, coping with illness, gerontology

Department Affiliated Faculty have joint appointments in other programs as well as the LSDP. They frequently serve as committee members and/or major professors for LSDP graduate students.

Name Email Area of Interest
Irwin Bernstein isbern@uga.edu primate social organization
Ronald Blount rlblount@uga.edu children's health; coping with pain
Dorothy Fragaszy doree@uga.edu flexible behavior in primates

Adjunct Faculty in other departments serve as committee members and/or major professors for LSDP graduate students receiving their degree in Psychology.

Name Email Area of Interest
Hui-Chin Hsu hchin@fcs.uga.edu parent-infant communication, cultural differences
Douglas Kleiber dkleiber@uga.edu
leisure and human development; mental health and aging
Paula Schwanenflugel pschwan@uga.edu development of reading skills, metacognition
Phillip D. Tomporowski ptomporo@uga.edu effects of physical activity on cognitive development and aging

Emeritus Faculty, although officially retired, continue to serve as advisors on graduate student committees in their areas of expertise.

Name Email Area of Interest
Robert H. Pollack   bpollack@uga.edu  developmental,  cognitive
David R. Shaffer dshaffer@uga.edu social and personality development

 

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