Clinical research on the developmental psychopathology of children and adolescents, including risk factors for adult psychopathology and precursors of particular clinical symptoms
Clinical research on the etiology of anxiety and depression in adults and the relative effectiveness of therapies in controlling them
Health research on the role of stress, coping variables, personality and attitudinal factors as they influence health, illness and pain perception
Health research on the role of illness as a transition from healthy aging into frail old age
Health research on the experience, interpretation of and derived meaning of major illness by the elderly
Health research on the impact of various risk factors and disease states on cognitive function and the influence of cognition and suggestion on pain
Research on the perception of motion, depth, texture and color, spatial vision, and visual search, with special emphasis given to the role of attention
Studies of attention, memory, language, concepts and categorization, reading, skill acquisition, second language skills, and musical performance skills
Developmental aspects of cognition, including the origins of a theory of mind in infancy and early lexical and conceptual development in monolingual and bilingual children
Research in cognitive neuropsychology with special emphases on the role of attentional strategies, on auditory information in perceptual and cognitive processing, on the nature of cognitive deficits, and on neuropsychological mechanisms and thought disorders, using neuropsychological methods such as brain wave recording and brain imaging
Research is based on normal as well as clinical, neuropsychological and other special populations
Research on the origins, nature, determinants, and interaction of cognitive, emotional, perceptual and motor abilities; personality characteristics; and social skills
Research on language acquisition and bilingualism in children and adolescents
Socio-emotional and cognitive processes in normal and high risk infants and young children
Family and peer relations among children and adolescents
Sex differences and sex-role socialization in children and adolescents
Predictors of adjustment in children and adolescents, in particular across developmental transitions
Research on aging, examining adaptation to age-related changes and transitions
Lifestyle factors that maintain competence in elderly women and men
Changes and continuity in aging with respect to cognitive abilities, language, social functioning, subjective well-being and personality
