Profiles in "Social and Emotional Development" Expertise Area

  • Ladd's research explores children's social development and peer relationships.
  • Hanish studies children's peer relationships; aggression and bullying; and school-related contexts and outcomes.
  • Spinrad's research focuses on the socio-emotional development of young children, particularly the relations of children’s self-regulation abilities to children’s social adjustment.
  • Diana Jacobson designed the graduate pediatric curriculum for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. She is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of primary care and community experience.
  • Jodi Swanson teaches social science research and statistical methods, human development and relationships across the lifespan, and family processes.
  • Responsible Innovation Lab facilitator, Senior Product Manager in the Enterprise Technology Office, Responsible Innovation Capstone professor, WPC MS-ISM graduate student.
  • Field teaches both in-person and online courses in the Sanford School. He also conducts research on children and adolescents’ social cognitions.
  • Casey Sechler is the Associate Director, Research for the Global Sport Institute where she advances the Institute’s research initiatives.