A listing of the current Research Fellows in the lab and their interests.

Alisa Almas, Ph.D. I received my Ph.D. in Psychology (Developmental) from the University of Toronto in 2009. In general, I am interested in social development during childhood and adolescence, and the influences of both parents and peers on this process. My current work is focused on examining these various factors in temperamentally inhibited children and the influence of interacting with peers in daycare. As well, I am examining factors that may affect the social competence of institutionalized children in Romania during their peer interactions. Email: aalmas@umd.edu

Kathryn (Kate) Amey Degnan, Ph.D. I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in 2006. My overall area of interest involves the development of social competence in early childhood. More specifically, I am interested in examining how child temperament, characteristics of the mother-child relationship, and interactions of these multiple factors lead to child behavior and psychopathology. In each of these areas, I strive to use measures of both maternal and child factors across multiple levels of analysis (i.e., biological, individual, and family). Email: kdegnan@umd.edu

Connie Lamm I received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Human Development/Program in Neuroscience in 2008. Broadly, I am interested in examining the neural correlates of self-regulation, both individual and developmental differences. More specifically, I am interested in how differences in the circuitry activated during regulatory functions are related to childhood psychopathology, such as anxiety disorders. Email: Connie.Lamm@gmail.com

Bethany Reeb-Sutherland I received my Ph.D. in Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience) from the University of New Mexico in 2006. I am interested in identifying physiological markers that may moderate the relation between temperamental biases and the development of anxiety disorders. In addition, I am interested in examining the relation between early learning and the development of social behavior during the first year of life. Email: breeb@umd.edu