David A. Nelson
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Contact Information
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Research
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A social development focus that encompasses the following themes: subtypes of childhood aggression, victimization, and prosocial behavior (including gender differences); relational aggression in family relationships (parenting, marriage); 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 personal growth of college students in international service-learning experiences
Education
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B.S.
Human Development
Brigham Young University
1995
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Ph.D.
Child Psychology
University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development
1999
Professional Affiliations
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Marriage, Family and Human Development
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Child and Family Studies Labs
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Family Studies Center
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Publications
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Coyne, S. M., Nelson, D. A., Lawton, F., Haslam, S., Rooney, L., Titterington, L., Trainor, H., Remnant, J., & Ogunlaja, L.
(2008).
The effects of viewing physical and relational aggression in the media: Evidence for a cross-over effect.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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Nelson, D. A., Springer, M. M., Nelson, L. J., & Bean, N. H.
(2008).
Normative beliefs regarding aggression in emerging adulthood.
Social Development.
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Nelson, D. A., Mitchell, C., & Yang, C.
(2008).
Intent attributions and aggression: A study of children and their parents.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
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Nelson, D. A., Nelson, L. J., Hart, C. H., Yang, C. & Jin, S.
(2006).
Parenting and peer group behavior in cultural context.
Peer Relationships in Cultural Context.
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Young, E. L., Boye, A. E., & Nelson, D. A.
(2006).
Relational aggression: Understanding, identifying, and responding in schools.
Psychology in the Schools.
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Nelson, D. A., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., Olsen, J. A., & Jin, S.
(2006).
Aversive parenting in China: Associations with child physical and relational aggression.
Child Development.
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Nelson, L. J., & NELSON, D. A.
(2005).
The relational nature of eternal identity.
Helping and healing our families: Prophetic principles of marriage and family life.
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NELSON, D. A., Robinson, C. C., & Hart, C. H.
(2005).
Relational and physical aggression of preschool children: Peer status linkages across informants.
Early Education and Development.
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Yang, C., Hart, C.H., NELSON, D.A., Porter, C.L., Olsen, S.F., Robinson, C.C., & Jin, S.
(2004).
Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese sample: Associations with boys' and girls' negative emotionality and aggression..
Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement.
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Crick, N. R., Casas, J. F., & NELSON, D. A.
(2002).
Toward a more comprehensive understanding of peer maltreatment: Studies of relational victimization..
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
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Crick, N. R., & NELSON, D. A.
(2002).
Relational and physical victimization within friendships: Nobody told me there'd be friends like these..
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
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NELSON, D. A., & Crick, N. R.
(1999).
Rose-colored glasses: Examining the social information-processing of prosocial young adolescents..
Journal of Early Adolescence.
Awards
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Child Psychology Training Grant Fellowship
National Institutes of Mental Health (#T32MH15755)
1998
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Jonathan Baldwin Turner Graduate Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1995
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Mary Lou Fulton Young Scholar
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University
2007
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