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College of Education & Human Development Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology
250 Education Sciences Building - 56 East River Road - Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
Tel: 612-624-1698 - Fax: 612-624-8241
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Anthony D. Pellegrini

(sabbatical Spring 2009)

Psychological foundations: human development in education, social psychology

Ph.D., Ohio State University

Office: 164 Education Sciences Building
Tel. 612-625-4353
E-mail: pelle013@umn.edu

My interests include observational research methods, children's peer relations, and social contextual influences on classroom achievement. In my lab group (comprised of M.A. and Ph.D. students) we're currently studying longitudinally preschool children's social behavior and dominance, sex segregation and theory of mind using direct observations of children in their classrooms.

Awards and honors include Fellow in APA (Educational and Developmental Psychology); Traveling Fellow of British Psychological Society. Keynote Lecturer for British Psychological Society: Developmental and Educational Psychological Section Meeting; Fellow, National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy; NIH/Senior International Fellow; University of Georgia Creative Research Medal in Social Science. Spencer Foundation Graduate Student Mentor, 1999 and 2003.

Pellegrini's Human Development Lab

Courses I teach
(all EPSY courses)

  • EPSY5141—Aggression in Schools
  • EPSY 5216—Introduction to Research in Educational Psychology
  • EPSY 8216—Seminar: Research Processes in Psychological Foundations of Education
  • EPSY 5142—Seminar in Children's Play
  • EPSY 8993—Directed Study in Educational Psychology

Selected publications

Pellegrini, A. D., Roseth, C., Mliner, S., C. Bohn, Van Ryzin, M., Vance, N., Cheatham, C. L. & Tarullo, A. (2007). Social dominance in preschool classrooms. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121, 54-64.

Pellegrini, A. D., Dupuis, D., & Smith, P. K. (2007). Play in evolution and development. Developmental Review, 27, 261-276.

Pellegrini, A. D & Long, J. L., Roseth, C., Bohn, K. & Van Ryzin, M. (2007). A short-term longitudinal study of preschool children’s sex segregation: The role of physical activity, sex, and time. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121, 282-289.

Pellegrini, A. D & Long, J. L. (In press). An observational study of early heterosexual interaction at middle school dances. Journal of Research in Adolescence.

Pellegrini, A. D. & Dupuis, D. (In press). Schools and models of development: The place of recess. In J. Meece and J. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of research on schools, schooling, and human development. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Pellegrini, A. D & Ostrov, J. (In press). Using observational methods to study children’s and adolescents’ development. In G. Melton, A. Ben-Arieh, and J. Cashmore (Eds.), Handbook of child research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Pellegrini, A. D & Roseth, C. (In press). Methods for assessing involvement in bullying in preschool and middle school: Some empirical comparisons. In E. Vernberg and B. Biggs (Eds.), Preventing and treating bullying and victimization. New York: Oxford University Press.

Complete c.v. [.pdf]

University affiliations

Biological Basis of Behavior Group (BBBG)

Possible funding for prospective students: Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research (MITER)

March 2009

 

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