General Information

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Doctoral student in Human Development and Family Studies
Master's student in Applied Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University


Contact Information:
113 S. Henderson Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

klr250@psu.edu


Education:

  • BA (2001) University of Rochester: Major: Psychology, Minor: Biology  
  • MS (2005) The Pennsylvania State University: Human Development & Family Studies
  • MAS (2009) The Pennsylvania State University: Applied Statistics
  • PhD (2010, expected) The Pennsylvania State University: Human Development & Family Studies
  

Research Interests:

Social and contextual processes that shape the development of deviant behavior (e.g., aggression, delinquency, substance use), children's and adolescents' peer relationships, developmental methodology, statistical methods to study social networks and deviant behavior (and the connections between them) across time and contexts

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Teaching Interests:

 
Developmental Science:
Prevention science, child / adolescent development, introductory psychology, human development across the lifespan, peer relationships, social relationships

Research Methods:
Introductory research methods, introductory statistics, regression,
measurement, experimental design and analysis, ANOVA, multilevel modeling, social network analysis  

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