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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

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 research and teaching are generally concerned with children’s development and include specific interests in children’s play, children's sex segregation, social dominance, and aggression. I also have methodological interests in direct behavioral observations. In my lab students are currently studying preschool children's social dominance, sex segregation, and children’s uses of objects in play and as tools.

Awards and honors include: Fellow in APA (Educational and Developmental Psychology); Traveling Fellow of British Psychological Society; 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.

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 5153—Social Development in Pre-K to Secondary Schools
  • EPSY 8993—Directed Study in Educational Psychology

Selected publications

Pellegrini, A. D. (In press). Play. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.). Oxford handbook of developmental psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Roseth, C. R. & Pellegrini, A. D. (2010). 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.

Pellegrini, A. D. (2009). The role of play in human development. New York: Oxford University Press.

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 & 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. (2007). An observational study of early heterosexual interaction at middle school dances. Journal of Research in Adolescence, 17, 613-638.

Complete c.v. [.pdf]

University affiliations

Adjunct Professor of Child Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

Center for Relational Aggression

Interdisciplinary Program in Interpersonal Relationships               

August 2009

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