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Ivan Beutler 2048 JFSB (801) 422-6416 ivan_beutler@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Beutler’s research examines the influence parents have on the financial wellbeing of the next generation. Examined is the degree to which children observe and absorb attitudes and behaviors from the prosaic financial processes embedded in their home and family life such as: spending or saving, making payments late or timely, and wise use or misuse of credit. Current research also examines critical paths by which teens and early adults come to experience negative outcomes associated with premature affluence, a consumption oriented lifestyle, and dependence on consumer credit. |
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Dean Busby 2086C JFSB (801) 422-8529 dean_busby@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Busby’s research interests include: premarital relationships, longitudinal marital relationships, cross-cultural couple research, and family violence. |
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Jason Carroll 2092C JFSB (801) 422-7529 jason_carroll@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Carroll's scholarship focuses on marriage readiness among young adults, couple formation patterns and the transition to marriage, the effectiveness of marriage education, and modern threats to marriage (such as materialism, pornography, delayed age at marriage, and nonmarital sexuality). Dr. Carroll is currently a Visiting Scholar with the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center where he is serving as a research adviser for an upcoming national media campaign on healthy marriage targeting young adults being conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
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Sarah Coyne 2087 JFSB (801) 422-6949 smcoyne@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Coyne’s research interests include media violence, relational aggression, adolescence, substance abuse, domestic violence. |
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Randal Day 2092B JFSB (801) 422-6415 day@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Day’s scholarship focuses on family processes; fathers in family life; fathers returning to family life after incarceration; and transition into fatherhood. Dr. Day is also the team leader for the flourishing families project. |
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David Dollahite 2054 JFSB (801) 422-4179 david_dollahite@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Dollahite’s research interests include: religion and family life in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families; Latter-day Saint (Mormon) family life; fathering and faith in fathers of children with special needs. |
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Thomas Draper 2102 JFSB (801) 422-4438 draper@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Draper’s scholarship focuses on dyadic and longitudinal variables and methodological issues in Human Development and Family Studies. |
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Steve Duncan 2077 JFSB (801) 422-1796 sduncan@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Duncan’s scholarship focuses on marriage preparation and marriage enhancement; effectiveness of traditional and self-directed marriage and family relations education; family life education program development, implementation, evaluation; and professional training and improving the practice of family life education. |
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Craig Hart 2102D JFSB (801) 422-5939 craig_hart@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Hart’s scholarship focuses on linkage among family processes., parenting practices, and children’s social development, and developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. |
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Alan Hawkins 2050 JFSB (801) 422-7088 hawkinsa@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Hawkins’ research focuses on intervention and policy to help couples form and sustain healthy marriages. |
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E. Jeffery Hill 2052 JFSB (801) 422-9091 jeff_hill@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Hill’s research interests include: work and family harmony; influence of flexible work arrangements (telecommuting, flex-time, part-time work, job sharing, etc.) on work and family outcomes. |
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Thomas Holman 2085 JFSB (801) 422-6704 thomas_holman@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Holman’s scholarly interests include romantic relationship union formation, mate selection, courtship, transition into marriage, adult attachment and romantic relationships, and marital quality. |
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Erin Holmes 2085 JFSB (801) 422-5435 erin_holmes@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Holmes’ research interests include how individuals create and maintain meaningful family relationships. Her work focuses on issues pertinent to co-parenting, fathers, mothers, and the transition to parenthood. |
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Craig Israelsen 2055 JFSB (801) 422-4537 craig_israelsen@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Israelsen’s research interests include: analysis of investment markets and investment products, particularly mutual funds. Inherent in my research is a focus on how the information can benefit families and individuals in their financial stewardship. |
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Jenet Jacob 2061 JFSB (801) 422-6682 jenet_jacob@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Jacob’s research interests include: maternal wellbeing, the interface of work and family life, maternal practice and family centered community building. |
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Richard Miller 2086B JFSB (801) 422-2860 rick_miller@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Miller’s research interest include: marital relationships over the life course, multi-cultural families, marriage and health and aging families. |
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David Nelson 2102C JFSB (801) 422-3016 david_nelson@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Nelson has 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 other potential contributors to childhood aggression such as media violence. |
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Larry Nelson 2091 JFSB (801) 422-6711 larry_nelson@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Nelson has two major areas of research interest. First, he studies factors (e.g., parenting, culture, self-perceptions) related to children's social development with an emphasis in shy and withdrawn behaviors in early childhood. Second, his scholarship focuses on the period of life known as emerging adulthood (18-25 years) and the factors that influence the transition to adulthood such as identity, social competence, culture/religion, personal beliefs, and family relationships. |
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Terrance Olson 2092D JFSB (801) 422-3375 terrance_olson@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Olson’s research interests include: the place of philosophy in the conduct of human science; the place for practice-based evidence in relation to evidence-based practice; law, human responsibility; social science, conceptual foundations of family life education; the intersection of moral dilemmas and self-deception; moral foundations of family interaction; the link between beliefs & behavior; strengthening cultures through ethical conduct . He is a Fellow of the Wheatley Institution [wheatley.byu.edu]. |
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Chris Porter 2093 JFSB (801) 422-5806 chris_porter@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Porter’s research interests include the socialization of behavioral and psychophysiological components of young children's individual characteristics (temperament, emotionality) with particular interest on linkages to individual differences in emerging neural control on children's heart rate variability (i.e., cardiac vagal tone). Additional interests include familial and individual factors influencing the formation of early childhood attachment systems and familial and individual factors influencing the transition to parenting and the emergence of parenting belief systems (self-efficacy). |
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Clyde Robinson 2095 JFSB (801) 422-4065 clyde_robinson@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Robinson’s Research Interests include: cross-cultural parenting styles and dimensions; and young children’s socialization processes and outcomes. |
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Susanne Olsen Roper 2089 JFSB (801) 422-2058 susanne_olsen@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr Roper’s Research interests include: Families of children with chronic conditions and disabilities, and parenting and children’s social development. |
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Laura Walker 2097 JFSB (801) 422-9053 laura_walker@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Walker’s research interests include: the parent-child relationship and positive development during the transition to adulthood (ages 18-25); the parent-adolescent relationship as it relates to adolescents' moral and prosocial behaviors and internalization of values; and how parents respond to conflicting messages of values, and how these parental reactions impact children's and adolescents' values development. |
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Jeremy Yorgason 2079 JFSB (801) 422-3515 jeremy_yorganson@byu.edu |
Research Interests: Dr. Yorgason’s scholarship focuses mainly on family gerontology, health and marriage, later life mental health, and longitudinal and dyadic data analysis. He has also done some research in clinical areas include college student mental health, family therapy with older adults, and in-home family therapy. |