Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD.
Morris is a Temple University graduate!!
Morris worked with Larry Steinberg from 1996 through 2000 and received her doctorate from Temple.
Morris is Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Psychology Department at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana. At the broadest level, Dr. Morris' research focuses on understanding contextual influences (e.g., family, school, peer, neighborhood) on children and adolescents' social and emotional development. Dr. Morris is interested in examining developmental pathways that lead to successful development (e.g., social competence and prosocial behavior) and the development of psychopathology. Included in this work is an examination of contextual influences on children's emotion regulation, and how emotion regulatory skills affect the development of prosocial and problem behavior. Dr. Morris also examines the role of child characteristics, such as temperament and physiological indicators of regulation and reactivity, in socio-emotional development. Dr. Morris' most recent projects include a) an examination of how children's early experiences in school affect their social and academic functioning; b) the creation and evaluation of a parent education program aimed at helping parents learn skills for managing their own and their children's emotions. Dr. Morris is also co-director of the Parent Education Center at UNO.
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Most cited publication (65):
Steinberg, L. & Morris, A.S. (2001). ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT. Annual Review of Psychology, 52(1), 83-110. |
Myers, S.S., Robinson, L.R., & Morris, A.S. (2004). Between Parent and Child. Family Relations, 53(4), 418-418.
Silk, J.S., Sessa, F.M., Morris, A.S., Steinberg, L., & Avenevoli, S. (2004). Neighborhood Cohesion as a Buffer Against Hostile Maternal Parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 135-146.
Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Morris, A.S., Fabes, R.A., Cumberland, A.S., Reiser, M., Gershoff, E.T., Shepard, S.A., & Losoya, S. (2003). Longitudinal Relations Among Parental Emotional Expressivity, Children's Regulation, and Quality of Socioemotional Functioning. Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 3-19.