The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami invites applications for Fall 2022 (https://dev.psy.miami.edu/). The application deadline is December 1st. Students are fully funded and receive excellent research training for careers in academia and beyond. Our program focuses on understanding children’s cognitive, language, social, and interested in earning emotional development in typically-developing, atypically-developing, and at-risk populations. Our developmental studies typically include bilingual children and children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Our outstanding faculty are committed to graduate training and mentorship. The following faculty are accepting students:
Jennifer C. Britton, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Jenn is a neuroscientist who focuses on understanding the intersection of anxiety (e.g., approach-avoidance, threat processing), the developmental and neural correlates of emotional flexibility, and treatment (e.g., fear and extinction learning, attention bias modification).
Daryl B. Greenfield, Ph.D., Professor. Daryl conducts collaborative research to understand the development of scientific thinking in early childhood. He focuses on low-income minority children, using STEM as a foundational focus for school readiness, and creating new technology for early childhood assessment.
Daniel Messinger, Ph.D., Professor. Daniel investigates early interaction to better understand healthy and disturbed development. He employs objective measurements of big behavioral data to understand emotional, social, and language development in the context of poverty and autism.
Lynn K. Perry, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Lynn works both in the lab and in preschools to investigate the influences of linguistic (shape bias and iconicity) and social (peer input and turn-taking with adults) regularities on language development in children with and without hearing loss.
Rebecca Bulotsky Shearer, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Rebecca conducts partnership-based research with early childhood programs to promote social-emotional skills, school readiness, and early school achievement through classroom-level investigation and intervention.
Elizabeth A. Simpson, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Liz studies early infant social cognitive development in humans and monkeys, including studies of neonatal imitation and face perception. She uses behavioral (e.g., eye-tracking) and physiological (e.g., salivary oxytocin) measures to track infant development longitudinally from birth.