Faculty

Developmental Psychology Faculty

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John Bates

John Bates

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
development of children's behavior problems and competencies; family interaction processes; child temperament, social, cognitive and affective characteristics; socioeconomic variables; developmental psychopathology; parent behavioral training

Natasha Chaku

Natasha Chaku

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
adolescence; cognition; puberty; positive development; quantitative methods

Brian D'Onofrio

Brian D'Onofrio

Sharon Stephens Brehm Endowed Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
Developmental psychopathology, pharmacoepidemiology, behavior genetics/genetic epidemiology, dissemination and implementation

Emily Fyfe

Emily Fyfe

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Pedagogy

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
cognitive development; math cognition; learning and transfer; problem solving; experimental educational research methods

Elizabeth Gunderson

Elizabeth Gunderson

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
mathematical development; numerical cognition; spatial skills; motivation; gender stereotypes; parent-child interactions

Karin H. James

Karin H. James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Graduate Studies

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
action and perception interactions during learning; development of object recognition; effects of handwriting on cognitive development, perceptual expertise, gesture processing and active learning in adults

Tom James

Tom James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging

Daniel P. Kennedy

Daniel P. Kennedy

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Imaging Research Facility

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

Research Interests
social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI

Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2025**

  • amoussat@iu.edu
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Research Interests
Psychotic disorders, motor processes, sensorimotor integration, cerebellum, translational science, intervention, demographics and individual differences, risk factors, behavioral tasks, neuroimaging

Linda Smith

Linda Smith

Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests
perceptual and cognitive development in infancy and young children; the development of visual object recognition; word learning