David A. Nelson
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Contact Information
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Research
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A social development focus that encompasses the following themes: subtypes of childhood aggression, victimization, and prosocial behavior (including gender differences); contributions of humor to social status; correlates of sociometric status; cross-cultural similarities and differences in family environment and children's social development; social cognition (social information-processing patterns and biases) and origins of such; and personal growth of college students in international service-learning experiences
Education
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B.S.
Human Development
Brigham Young University
1995
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Ph.D.
Child Psychology
University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development
1999
Professional Affiliations
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Marriage, Family and Human Development
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Child and Family Studies Labs
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Family Studies Center
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Publications
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NELSON, D. A., & Crick, N. R..
Rose-colored glasses: Examining the social information-processing of prosocial young adolescents..
Journal of Early Adolescence.
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Yang, C., Hart, C.H., NELSON, D.A., Porter, C.L., Olsen, S.F., Robinson, C.C., & Jin, S..
Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese sample: Associations with boys' and girls' negative emotionality and aggression..
Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement.
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NELSON, D. A., Robinson, C. C., & Hart, C. H..
Relational and physical aggression of preschool children: Peer status linkages across informants.
Early Education and Development.
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Crick, N. R., & NELSON, D. A..
Relational and physical victimization within friendships: Nobody told me there'd be friends like these..
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
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Crick, N. R., Casas, J. F., & NELSON, D. A..
Toward a more comprehensive understanding of peer maltreatment: Studies of relational victimization..
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
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Nelson, D. A., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., Olsen, J. A., & Jin, S..
Aversive parenting in China: Associations with child physical and relational aggression.
Child Development.
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Young, E. L., Boye, A. E., & Nelson, D. A..
Relational aggression: Understanding, identifying, and responding in schools.
Psychology in the Schools.
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Nelson, L. J., & NELSON, D. A..
The relational nature of eternal identity.
Helping and healing our families: Prophetic principles of marriage and family life.
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Nelson, D. A., Nelson, L. J., Hart, C. H., Yang, C. & Jin, S..
Parenting and peer group behavior in cultural context.
Peer Relationships in Cultural Context.
Awards
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Child Psychology Training Grant Fellowship
National Institutes of Mental Health (#T32MH15755)
1998
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Jonathan Baldwin Turner Graduate Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1995
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Mary Lou Fulton Young Scholar
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University
2007
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