E. Mavis Hetherington

E. Mavis Hetherington is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Hetherington is a past President of Division 7, the Developmental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and of the Society for Research in Child Development in Adolescence. Professor Hetherington has been editor of Child Development, associate editor of Developmental Psychology, and is currently associate editor of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. She has authored and edited many books in the area of child development, two of the most recent being The Separate Social World of Siblings, with Reiss and Plomin, and Family Transitions, with Cowan. Her research interests are in the areas of childhood psychopathology, personality and social development, and stress and coping in families. Professor Hetherington is well known for her work on the effects of divorce, one-parent families, and remarriage on children’s development.

Ross D. Parke

Ross D. Parke is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is a past President of Division 7, the Developmental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and in 1995 received the G. Stanley Hall Award from this APA division. Professor Parke was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997. He is currently editor of the Journal of Family Psychology and has served as editor of Developmental Psychology and as associate editor of Child Development. Professor Parke is the author of Fatherhood; co-author of The Throwaway Father, with Armin Brott; and co-editor of Family-Peer Relationships: In Search of the Linkages, with Gary Ladd, Children in Time and Place, with Glen Elder and John Modell, and Exploring Family Relationships with Other Social Contexts, with Sheppard Kellam. Parke’s research has focused on early social relationships in infancy and childhood. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and is well known for his early work on the effects of punishment, aggression, and child abuse and for his work on the father’s role in infancy and early childhood. His current work focuses on the links between family and peer social systems and on the impact of economic stress on families of diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Mark A. Schmuckler

Mark A. Schmuckler received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, working with Eleanor J. Gibson and Carol L. Krumhansl. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, he moved to the University of Toronto at Scarborough, where he is a professor of psychology. Schmuckler is currently an associate editor for the journal Music Perception, as well he is on the editorial board of Psychomusicology. Schmuckler’s research efforts have been divided into two streams of research.The first focuses on the processes involved in perceptual and motor development, as well as perceptual-motor integration, looking specifically at the role of perceptual information during motor skill acquisition and motor performance. In his second line of work, Schmuckler explores the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in adults’ apprehension of musical structure, focusing specifically on the perception and production of pitch structures.