We are seeking qualified applicants for our graduate program in Lifespan Developmental Psychology at North Carolina State University, and we would appreciate your assistance in bringing our program to the attention of potential students. The program as well as the Department of Psychology has an active and growing group of faculty who are interested in adult development and aging, with particular strengths in the examination of the intersection between emotion, social cognition, and everyday cognitive functioning. Additional interests center on the use of technology to improve lives and promote cognitive health. Students in the program obtain a strong grounding in theory, research, and methodology in Lifespan Development, and are supported through graduate research and teaching assistantships.
The Lifespan Development program is one of the constituent members of the Center for Developmental Science, and it maintains an affiliation with the UNC-system-wide Institute on Aging.
Interested students are encouraged to find out more about our program at: http://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php
NCSU is located in Raleigh, which is consistently rated as one of the best places to live in the US:
http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_306_202_0_43/http%3B/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/category/Resident/Raleigh_At_A_Glance/About_Raleigh/Cat-2CA-2007423-142554-Raleigh_Recognition__Rec.html
For more information, please contact the program coordinator (Tom Hess919-515-1729; thomas_hess@ncsu.edu) or any of the program faculty.
Primary program faculty and interests:
Jason C. Allaire: older adults' cognitive and everyday functioning; cognitive variability; cognitive training, health and cognition. (jason_allaire@ncsu.edu)
Lynne E. Baker-Ward: cognitive development in childhood; development of autobiographical memory and narrative competence; children's testimony in legal settings. (lynne_baker_ward@ncsu.edu)
Daniel Grühn: socio-emotional development in adulthood and aging; emotional reactivity, memory and emotions, psychophysiological assessment, and health. (Daniel_Gruehn@ncsu.edu)
Amy G. Halberstadt: socio-emotional development; family experience and expression of emotion; parental beliefs about children's emotions; children's impact on parents; children's affective social competence; gender-role influences on social and emotional development through the lifespan. (amy_halberstadt@ncsu.edu)
Thomas M. Hess: social cognition in adulthood; memory and aging in context, including stereotype threat and affective influences; decision making and aging. (thomas_hess@ncsu.edu)
Shevaun D. Neupert: daily stressors and their associations with affect, physical health, and memory across the adult lifespan; psychosocial and socio-demographic differences in reactivity to stressors; statistical techniques and methods for examining change and intra-individual variability. (shevaun_neupert@ncsu.edu)
Affiliated faculty with interests in aging:
Christopher B. Mayhorn: aging; applied cognition; human-computer interaction. (chris_mayhorn@ncsu.edu)
Anne Collins McLaughlin: age-related differences in learning; training for older adults; cognitive ergonomics. (anne_mclaughlin@ncsu.edu)
Thomas M. Hess
Professor
Department of Psychology
754 Poe Hall
North Carolina State University
Box 7650
Raleigh, NC 27695-7650
Office Phone: (919) 515-1729
Fax: (919) 515-1716
Email: thomas_hess@ncsu.edu
Adult Development Lab Homepage:
http://www.ncsu.edu/psychology/graduate/conc/develop/adultdevelopment/index.php
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