Professor of Psychology; Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Davis-Kean is not accepting graduate students for 2024-2025.
Additional Research Interests: Parenting, Socioeconomic Status, Quantitative Methods, Population Studies, Social Cognition/Self-Concept
Dr. Davis-Kean is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Quantitative Methods from Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development.
Dr. Davis-Kean's research and publications range from examining the self-concept of ability in mathematical achievement to how the socioeconomic status of parents (primarily parent educational attainment) relates to their parenting beliefs and behaviors. This research has been published in major developmental and family journals. In 2022, she was named as one of the top 2% of cited researchers in Developmental and Family Studies research. Dr. Davis-Kean has been on multiple editorial boards and is currently the Deputy Editor at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). She co-edited a book titled Socializing Children through Language.
Dr. Davis-Kean has been continually funded by NSF and NIH. Many of these grants have been to create new multidisciplinary collaborations. For a decade, she directed an NSF grant to support an Integrative Development Science Center (CAPCA) focused on replication across longitudinal studies, across multiple countries. She is an advocate and frequent speaker on the use of Open Science methods to increase rigor, transparency, and data sharing in the developmental and education science communities.