Students graduating from the BPSG area advance to faculty and research positions in diverse areas within psychology ... in their health, behavior, and brain function. It is an exciting time for ...

Risk-taking emerged as a beneficial strategy in high-reward ancestral contexts. ADHD traits may reflect once-adaptive ...

Genes aren’t destiny. The ARCH × Φ model explains how brain wiring, motivation, culture, and timing interact—multiplying risk ...

developmental psychology, and family science. We are interested in understanding how genetics, hormones, and prenatal and postnatal environments contribute to the development of child behavior and ...

The program aims to provide Psychology PhD students the biomedical perspectives and skills necessary to join interdisciplinary research teams addressing behavioral and mental ... that employs ...

The relationship between parenting practices and behavior problems in very young children was investigated via the Parent Behavior Checklist (PBC; Fox, 1994). Results indicated that parents' use of ...

Professor Hewitt's work centers on the use of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of twins and families to study behavioral development, and genetic and environmental influences on behavior, ...