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Julia Braungart-Rieker
B.S.,
1987:
M.S., 1990, Ph.D., 1992: The
Julie
is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on social and emotional
development during infancy and early childhood. In particular, she is
interested in the development of children’s abilities to regulate and manage
emotions. Using longitudinal designs, she examines the extent to which
children’s characteristics (e.g., temperament), parenting practices, the
spousal relationship, contextual factors (e.g., family earner status), and the
fathers' role in the family relate to outcomes such as children's ability to
manage distress, parent-child attachment security, and children's social
competence. Julie’s most current research project, which has been funded by the
National Institutes of Health, is a longitudinal study that focuses on tracking
individual changes in infants’ abilities to regulate their emotions. In
particular, she and her graduate students are examining the degree to which
cognitive, socio-emotional, and familial factors relate to differential
patterns of change over time. Additional research projects include how parental
stress is related to parents’ perceptions of their children’s behaviors, and
the interrelationships between parenting, temperament and early language
development. Julie has published her work in peer-reviewed journals such as
Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology,
Infancy, Psychological Inquiry, Development and Psychopathology, Journal of
Applied Developmental Psychology, and others.
In
terms of teaching, Julie’s courses range from more basic psychology courses
such as “Developmental Psychology” and “Research Methods” to more specific
upper-level and graduate courses—“Infant/Child Development,” and
“Socio-Emotional Development”. In 1999, Julie was selected as a “Master Mentor”
by the Graduate Council; she has also received two Kaneb
Teaching Awards—in 1999 and 2003.