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David A. Nelson

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Research

  • 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

  • B.S. Human Development Brigham Young University 1995
  • Ph.D. Child Psychology University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development 1999

Professional Affiliations

  • Marriage, Family and Human Development 1
  • Child and Family Studies Labs 2
  • Family Studies Center 3

Publications

  • NELSON, D. A., & Crick, N. R.. Rose-colored glasses: Examining the social information-processing of prosocial young adolescents.. Journal of Early Adolescence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Young, E. L., Boye, A. E., & Nelson, D. A.. Relational aggression: Understanding, identifying, and responding in schools. Psychology in the Schools.
  • Nelson, L. J., & NELSON, D. A.. The relational nature of eternal identity. Helping and healing our families: Prophetic principles of marriage and family life.
  • 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

  • Child Psychology Training Grant Fellowship National Institutes of Mental Health (#T32MH15755) 1998
  • Jonathan Baldwin Turner Graduate Fellowship University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1995
  • Mary Lou Fulton Young Scholar College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University 2007

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