Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics; Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
About
My research focuses on integrating knowledge about developmental processes, population patterns in developmental health, and social factors affecting individual and population development.
The first program of research (funding from NICHD, Keating is PI) focuses on adolescent cognitive and brain development, including neurocognitive and neuroimaging methods, aimed at understanding the neurodevelopmental pathways in adolescent and early adult health risk behavior. We collected self-report and neurocognitive task data on a cohort of 15-17 year-olds (N=2017), and have completed two subsequent waves of data collection with them. A targeted subsample of this group (high and average risk-takers) is also participating in a longitudinal neuroimaging study (fMRI, DTI, resting state, and EEG/ERP), with the first wave completed and the second wave underway.
The second program of research focuses on the impacts early life adversity and exposures, from prenatal through infancy, encompassing both psychosocial stressors and physical exposures. This is part of the national ECHO study (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, funding from NIEHS), in which a Michigan consortium is a research site, and includes 2 cohorts for which data collection continues. Keating’s role as a Co-Investigator is to focus on neurodevelopmental outcomes of early adversity and exposures, and the mechanisms through which they “get under the skin”, including epigenetic pathways.
Current course offerings include a graduate seminar on adolescent development, and undergraduate courses in Psychology of Adolescence, Advanced Research in Adolescent Development, and a First Year Seminar on stress and resilience.
Representative publications
Maslowsky, J., Owotomo, O., Huntley, E. & Keating, D. P. (2019) Adolescent risk behavior: Differentiating reasoned and reactive risk-taking. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0978-3
Keating, D. P. (2017). Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity – and How to Break the Cycle. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
2019 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association
[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250075048]
[https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/book?tab=4]
Keating, D. P., (2016). The transformative role of epigenetics in child development research, Child Development, 87 (1), 135-142.
Keating, D. P. (2016). Social inequality in population developmental health: An equity and justice issue. In S. Horn, M. Ruck, & L. Liben (Eds.): Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological
Issues, Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 50, 75-104. UK: Academic Press.
Keating, D. P. (2014). Adolescent thinking in action: Minds in the making. In J. Brooks-Gunn, R. M. Lerner, A. C. Petersen, & R. K. Silbereisen
(Eds.), The developmental science of adolescence: History through autobiography. NY: Psychology Press. (Pp. 257-266).
Falk, E.B., Hyde, L.W., Mitchell, C., Faul, J., Gonzalez, R., Heitzeg, M.M., Keating, D.P., Langa, K., Martz, M.E., Maslowsky, J., Morrison, F.J., Noll, D. C., Patrick, M., Pfeffer, F.T., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Thomason, M.E., Davis-Kean, P., Monk, C.S., Schulenberg, J. (2013). Neuroscience meets
population science: What is a representative brain? Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 110(44):17615-22.
Maslowsky, J., Buvinger, E., Keating, D. P., Cauffman, E., & Steinberg, L. D. (2011). Cost-benefit judgment mediates the relationship between sensation seeking and risk behavior among adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(7), 802-806.
