Julia Braungart-Rieker
Professor
Department of Psychology
Degrees
B.S., Syracuse University; M.S., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Research Profile
Braungart-Rieker is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on social and emotional development during infancy and early childhood. In particular, she is interested in the development of children's abilities to regulate and manage emotions. Using longitudinal designs, she examines the extent to which children's characteristics (e.g., temperament), parenting practices, the spousal relationship, contextual factors (e.g., family earner status), and the fathers' role in the family relate to outcomes such as children's ability to manage distress, parent-child attachment security, and children's social competence. One of her current research projects, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is a longitudinal study that focuses on tracking individual changes in infants' abilities to regulate their emotions and the factors that help explain why some children have a harder time managing their emotions than others. Her publications have appeared in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Family Psychology, Applied Developmental Psychology, Infancy, and other scholarly outlets. Braungart-Rieker is also the Director of the Center for Children & Families.
Contact Information
119B
Haggar Hall
(574) 631-6914
jbraunga@nd.edu
http://psychology.nd.edu/people/faculty/braungart-rieker-julie/
