Graduate faculty members associated with the interpersonal relationships research minor (IRel)
Ellen Berscheid
Regents' professor, Department of Psychology
- Satisfaction and stability in romantic relationships; emotional experience in relationships; relationship cognition.
W. Andrew Collins
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Child
Development, Institute of Child Development
- Parent-child relationships; development of intimacy and romantic relationships; relationships and developmental change.
Nicki Crick
Professor and director, Institute of Child Development,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and Emma Birkmaier
Educational Leadership Professor (2005-08)
- Relational and physical aggression; peer victimization; the role of gender in development; social cognition.
Byron Egeland
Irving B. Harris professor, Institute of Child Development
- Parent-child relationships and child adaptation; relationship based intervention with parents of young children; adolescent and young adult romantic relationships.
Patricia A. Frazier
Professor, Department of Psychology
- Coping with traumatic life events; social support and coping processes in couples.
Vladas Griskevicius
Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
- Evolutionary strategies, courtship, status seeking and
competition,
persuasion and social influence, product choice and consumer
behavior.
Dean Hewes
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
- Interpersonal communication in romantic and other close relationships, methodology.
Susanne Jones
Associate professor, Department of Communication Studies
- Production and perception of emotional support messages.
Ascan Koerner
Associate professor, Department of Communication Studies
- Cognition and communication, interpersonal communication, marital and family communication, communication and conflict.
Richard M. Lee
Associate professor, Department of Psychology
- Asian-American identity and family; acculturation and ethnicity; multicultural counseling; personality and adjustment.
Ann Meier
Assistant professor, Department of Sociology
- Family and Life Course; Adolescent & Young Adult Development; Stratification
Anthony D Pellegrini
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Peer relationships and issues of human evolution, such as peer dominance, friendships, bully-victim, and heterosexual relationships.
Martha Rueter
Associate professor, Department of Family Social Science
- Family psychopathology, parent-adolescent problem solving, rural adolescent suicide and mental health, transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Jeffry A. Simpson
Professor, Department of Psychology
- Attachment processes, human mating, empathic accuracy, idealization in relationships, and social influence in relationships
Mark Snyder
Professor, Department of Psychology
- Social, social perception and interpersonal behavior, the self and social relationships, self-monitoring processes, social influence and attitude change, personality and social interaction, social and psychological aspects of volunteerism.
L. Alan Sroufe
William Harris Professor, Institute of Child Development
- Infant caregiver attachment; emotional development; assessment of relationship quality; developmental psychopathology.
Ruth Thomas
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Research on parent education that assists parents in developing their parent-child relationship.
Kathleen
D. Vohs
Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Logistics
Management
- Heterosexual relationships, self-regulation processes, self-esteem and related processes
Revised January 2007