Lois Wladis Hoffman Collegiate Professor of Psychology
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About
Dr. Volling is the Lois Wladis Hoffman Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on early social and emotional development, parent-child interaction, and family relationships. She has conducted extensive research on the role of fathers and children's development and continues to work with international collaborators, students, and post-doctoral fellows to advance research in father-child relationships. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Family Transitions Study (FTS), a longitudinal investigation examining changes in family functioning and the firstborn’s adjustment after the birth of a second child, which has received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Fetzer Foundation.
Dr. Volling will not be admitting graduate students for Fall 2025.
If you want to learn more about the research, check out some of these recent publications from the Volling Lab.
Beyers-Carlson, E., Schoenebeck, S., & Volling, B. L. (2022). Mother of one to mother of two: A textual analysis of second-time mothers’ posts on the BabyCenter LLC website. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:859085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859085
Volling, B. L. & Palkovitz, R. (2021). Fathering: New perspectives, paradigms, and possibilities. Psychology of Men and Masculinities, Special issue on Fathering, 22(3), 427-432. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000354
Volling, B. L., Oh, W., Gonzalez, R., Bader, L. R., & Tan, L. (2023). Changes in children’s attachment security to mother and father after the birth of a sibling: Risk and resilience in the family. Development and Psychopathology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421001310
Volling, B. L., Gonzalez, R., Oh, W., Song, J-H., Yu, T., Rosenberg, L., Kuo, P. X. Thomason, E., Beyers-Carlson, E., Safyer, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017). Developmental trajectories of children’s adjustment across the transition to siblinghood: Pre-birth predictors and sibling outcomes at one year. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 82(3), Serial No. 326. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12307
