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Brief biographies of JPS Officers & Board Members

Officers

President: Nancy Budwig
Past President: Elliot Turiel
Past President: Larry Nucci
Vice President, Meeting Planning: Eric Amsel
Vice President, Publicity: Constance Milbrath
Vice President, Information Technology: Chris Lalonde
Secretary: Colette Daiute
Treasurer: Ashley Maynard

Board of Directors

2005-2008: Saba Ayman-Nolley, Mark Bickhard, Marc Lewis, Judi Smetana, Unni Wikan
2006-2009: Stephanie Carlson, Katherine Nelson, Larry Nucci, Bryan Sokol, Cecilia Wainryb
2007-2010: Merry Bullock, Terezinha Nunes, Geoffrey Saxe, Elliot Turiel, Phil Zelazo
2008-2011: Michael Chandler, Stacey Horn, Lynn Liben, Cynthia Lightfoot, Chris Moore
Honorary Members: Willis Overton, Barbara Presseisen

Eric Amsel (Vice-President, Meeting Planning)

Eric Amsel is Social and Behavioral Sciences Endowed Professor of Psychology at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. His recent research addresses developmental changes in the forms and functions of counterfactual reasoning, which is defined broadly as reasoning about states of affairs known to be false. One line of research explores cognitive developmental differences between pretending on the one hand and supposing or hypothesizing on the other. Sustaining such a distinction seems central in preserving a developmental sequence that has its origin in subjective and idiosyncratic thought and moves in the direction of increasing logic and objectivity. A second line of research examines the development of children’s experience of the counterfactual emotion of regret, its relation to the moral emotions of guilt and shame, and adolescents’ anticipation of potential sources of regret in the process of decision-making. This line of research focuses attention on the dynamic developmental relations between cognitive and emotional processes and the importance of such relations in children’s growing psychosocial maturity.
weber.edu/eamsel

Saba Ayman-Nolley (Board Member 2005-2008)

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www.neiu.edu/~deptpsyc/saba.htm

Mark Bickhard (Board Member 2005-2008)

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www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/mhb0.html

Nancy Budwig (President)

Nancy Budwig's research focuses on language development and language socialization. Her research on language development is grounded in a functionalist perspective, highlighting the ways in which language forms are acquired in tandem with learning to communicate. This work has aimed to better understand the protracted nature of children's organization of linguistic forms and the functions they serve. In a second set of studies, Budwig has focused on the role of language in socialization. Here emphasis shifts from language as the domain of study, to viewing language as a system through which the child comes to co-construct meaning. This research examines ways children's participation in language practice contributes to the construction of culturally relevant senses of personhood. Current research on language development and language socialization has drawn upon culture comparisons of American, German and Hindi-speaking children interacting with their caregivers and peers.
www.clarku.edu/faculty/nbudwig/

Merry Bullock (Board Member 2007-2010)

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Stephanie Carlson (Board Member 2006-2009)

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Michael Chandler (Board Member 2008-2011)

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Colette Daiute (Secretary)

Colette Daiute is a Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She studies social development in research projects on literacy development, youth conflict, and uses of technology for cognitive and social processes. Based on the idea that human development and expression are interdependent with the contexts where they occur, Dr. Daiute has also focused on issues of diversity in development and the role of methods in shaping research results. Dr. Daiute’s publications include The development of literacy through social interaction (Jossey-Bass, 1993); Narrative analysis: Studying the development of individuals in society, (Sage Publications, 2004, C. Daiute, & C. Lightfoot); Youth perspectives on violence and injustice, (Special issue of the Journal of Social Issues, 2003, C. Daiute, & M. Fine,), and Global perspectives on youth conflict and resilience (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2005).
web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/socpersonality/Colette.htm

Stacey Horn (Board Member 2008-2011)

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Chris Lalonde (Vice-President, Information Technology)

Chris Lalonde is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoia. His research interests center on social-cognitive development in childhood and early adolescence. He is currently engaged in two streams of research. The first examines young children's developing theories of mind and their understanding of the interpretive nature of knowing. These studies aim to describe the nature of the cognitive competence that underpins such skills, as well as the manner in which children utilize these skills in interpersonal and social situations. The second stream of research focuses on identity formation in late childhood and early adolescence. Here he is interested in the differing ways that culture shapes young persons' thoughts about matters of identity and selfhood and in particular, in identity formation among Aboriginal youth and its relation to suicide.
www.uvic.ca/psyc/lalonde/

Marc Lewis (Board Member 2005-2008)

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Lynn Liben (Board Member 2008-1011)

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Cynthia Lightfoot (Board Member 2008-1011)

Cynthia Lightfoot is an Associate Professor and Program Director of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University, Delaware County. Her publications and professional presentations focus on adolescent peer culture, risk-taking, and identity development. Recent publications include The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking (1997, Guilford Press), Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization (1997, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; edited with Brian Cox), and "Changing times: Essays on the development of self and culture", a special issue of the journal, Culture and Psychology (edited with Maria Lrya).
www.de.psu.edu/academics/faculty/lightfoot/

Ashley Maynard (Treasurer)

Dr. Maynard’s research is broadly focused on the interplay of culture and human development. Her primary research interests are in the areas of sibling socialization, the impact of the daily routine on development, and cultural learning environments. Working in Hawaii and in Maya Mexico, Dr. Maynard uses both ethnographic and experimental methods to examine developmental processes in their cultural contexts. One line of her current research looks at the developing abilities of older siblings to teach their younger siblings to do everyday activities. A related study examines the transfer of models of teaching found in school to the home environment. A second line of Dr. Maynard’s research examines the interplay of cultural tools and cognitive development. One cross-cultural study in this area is examining the development and transfer of the ability to perform mental transformations on concrete objects. Another line of Dr. Maynard’s work aims to understand the role of culture in the development of the understanding of gender roles.
www2.hawaii.edu/~amaynard/

Constance Milbrath (Vice-President, Publicity)

Constance Milbrath works in several research areas. One major focus has been on individual differences in the conceptual and artistic underpinnings of drawing and aesthetic competence in children of different ages. This research is grounded in a constructivist framework and is aimed at better understanding the divergent developmental pathways of children with exceptional talents. Milbrath also is currently studying adolescent romantic relationships under an NICHD grant. Combining methods of cognitive anthropology and quantitative discourse analysis, the focus is on examining the culture of romantic relationships and the cultural models adolescents use to reason about their relatiionships. A third area of research is the development of a clinical instrument aimed at assessing structure of personality and structural change in personality organization. This area of interest grew out of Milbrath’s involvement as a MacArthur Foundation scientist with the Center for Stress and Personality in Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School.

Chris Moore (Board Member 2008-2011)

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Katherine Nelson (Board Member 2006-2009)

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Larry Nucci (Board Member 2006-2009)

Larry Nucci’s research focuses on moral and social development. Much of his work has focused on the ways in which individuals across cultures differentiate between legitimate moral and normative regulation, and those aspects of personal behavior that individuals consider as matters of personal discretion and privacy. This work on the personal domain has included a number of cross-cultural studies in Latin American and Asian settings. This work has determined that efforts to identify zones of privacy are endemic to children and adults across a wide range of cultures. More recently, Nucci, has begun to address issues of moral education and the assessment of sociomoral growth.
MoralEd.org

Terezinha Nunes (Board Member 2007-2010)

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Willis F. Overton (Honorary Board Member)

Willis F. Overton is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. USA. He is the current editor of Monographs of the SRCD, and a past President of the Jean Piaget Society. Dr. Overton's interests include, Historical and contemporary approaches to developmental metatheory, theory & methodology; person-centered action systems approaches to cognitive, emotional, personality development, and psychopathology; the development of representation in early childhood, and reasoning in childhood and adolescence.
astro.ocis.temple.edu/~overton

Barbara Presseisen (Honorary Board Member)

During her career, Dr. Presseisen trained many educators in critical thinking and problem solving, and edited various publications on the teaching of thinking, Holocaust education, and reasoning in history and social studies instruction. Her work includes a series on thinking skills for elementary students, published volumes Learning and Thinking Styles, At Risk Students and Thinking, and Unlearned Lessons: Current and Past Reforms for School Improvement. She has taught at Swarthmore College and Temple University and serves on several boards and advisory organizations.
www.nobellearning.com/nobel

Geoffrey Saxe (Board Member 2007-2010)

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Bryan Sokol (Board Member 2006-2009)

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Elliot Turiel (Board Member 2007-2010)

Elliot Turiel is pursuing research in the development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority and rules in school settings, as well as culture and social development. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow.
www-gse.berkeley.edu/program/CD/Faculty/Turiel.html

Cecilia Wainryb (Board Member 2006-2009)

Dr. Wainryb is Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah. Her research interests include the development of moral reasoning and social development in childhood and adolescence. Much of her work concerns moral reasoning and interpretation in different cultural settings.
www.psych.utah.edu/wainryb/wainryb.html

Unni Wikan (Board Member 2005-2008)

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Philip David Zelazo (Board Member 2007-2010)

Philip David Zelazo (PhD, Yale, 1993) holds a Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, where he is Director of the Program in Cognitive Science. His research is focussed primarily on the typical and atypical development of consciousness and executive function in children, and he has been exploring both more cognitive aspects of executive function (associated mainly with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and more affective, motivational aspects of executive function (associated more with ventral and medial regions of prefrontal cortex). He is Editor of the Journal of Cognition and Development and Series Editor of the Developing Mind Series (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers).
psych.utoronto.ca/~zelazo/