PhD @ NCSU Lifespan Developmental Psychology Program

North Carolina State University - Graduate Program in Lifespan Developmental Psychology

We are seeking qualified applicants for our doctoral 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 with expertise in development across the lifespan and particular strengths in the intersections among emotion, social cognition, and everyday cognitive functioning. 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.

Lifespan Developmental Psychology Faculty: 

Jason Allaire

Everyday cognitive functioning of older adults; antecedents of individual differences in basic cognitive

functioning; cognitive interventions; short-term intraindividual variability; health disparities (https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/jcallair) 

Lynne Baker-Ward

Understanding the processes through which children come to interpret, remember, and share their salient personal experiences, with applications to children’s testimony; autobiographical memory and well-being (https://mindlab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/)

**Note: Dr. Baker-Ward will not be accepting students for the 2022 academic year. 

Daniel Grühn

Emotional and cognitive development in adulthood and old age, such as empathy, well-being, emotional complexity; and historical, cultural, and biological influences on emotional development across the lifespan (https://acelab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/) 

Amy Halberstadt

Emotional experience and expression as embedded within family, school, and cultural contexts, and as related to social justice and inequalities; affective social competence (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~halbers/index.html)

**Note: Dr. Halberstadt will not be accepting students for the 2022 academic year 

Dana Kotter-Grühn

Socioemotional development in adulthood and old age; age stereotypes and ageism, perceptions of aging; well-being and self-regulation
**Note: Dr. Kotter-Grühn will not be accepting students for the 2022 academic year 

Kelly Lynn Mulvey

Social-cognitive development; intergroup attitudes; stereotyping and prejudice; theory of mind; social exclusion; resource allocation; social justice; gender; race and ethnicity; peer group dynamics; STEM engagement for underrepresented groups (https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/mulveysocialdevelopmentlab). 

Shevaun Neupert

Daily stressors and their associations with affect, physical health, and memory across the lifespan; socioeconomic disparities in health; statistical techniques for examining change and intraindividual variability (go.ncsu.edu/wellbeinglab) 

We encourage our students to engage in collaborations with research labs in other programs that also have developmental interests. Affiliated faculty with developmental interests include:

Jeni Burnette -- Mindsets and their role in self-regulation and goal achievement using a wide variety of research designs, ranging from interventions to basic experimental methods to longitudinal surveys (http://jeniburnette.com/)

Jing Feng—Human attention and cognition, with applications of cognitive principles to human factors; individual differences and age-related changes in attention and spatial skills, as well as the effects of cognitive training; aging and driving, driver distraction and the design of information displays (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jfeng2/)

Mary Haskett—Bidirectional relations between parenting and children’s social-emotional functioning, with a particular interest in how these relations operate within families experiencing child maltreatment (https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/mehasket)

Elan Hope -- Assets-based approach to investigate identity, ideology, and behavioral factors that promote academic, civic, and psychological well-being for racially marginalized adolescents and emerging adults (http://www.elanhope.com/)

Chris Mayhorn—Memory, decision making, human-computer interaction, home medical device design (https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/cbmayhor)

Anne McLaughlin—Human learning and the application of training, particularly age-related changes in cognition; maintenance of cognitive abilities and the application of feedback during training (https://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/acmclaug)

Kate Norwalk -- Social dynamics of elementary and middle school students, the impact of students’ classroom social dynamics on their social, behavioral, and academic functioning, and ways in which teachers can leverage these naturally occurring dynamics to improve classroom functioning and student outcomes. (https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/knorwal)

Vanessa Volpe – racial/ethnic health disparities; racism; strengths-based and critical approaches, psychophysiology and intensive longitudinal data; Black and Latinx adolescents, emerging, and young adults (https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/vvvolpe) 

Interested students are encouraged to find out more about our program at: https://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/Lifespan/ 

NCSU is located in Raleigh, a dynamic city representing the eastern point of the research triangle. It is consistently rated as one of the best places to live in the US:

http://www.raleighnc.gov/government/content/PubAffairs/Articles/AccoladesRaleigh.html 

The deadline for applications is December 1. For more information, please contact Shevaun Neupert, area coordinator (shevaun_neupert@ncsu.edu).