Associate Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics
Research Associate Professor, The Center for Human Growth and Development Assistant Professor, Psychology
5211 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-763-0490
Dr. Davis-Kean's research focuses on the influence of SES on
the construction of home environments; the importance of looking at
race and culture when understanding families and child development;
the role that families, schools, and significant figures play (multi-context)
in the development of children; the development of self-esteem across the
lifespan; and gender and math achievement. Davis-Kean also has expertise in
methodology and statistics primarily focusing on psychometric properties of
questionnaires and large-scale data collection of data on families and
children. Davis-Kean is the Director of the Center for the Analyses of
Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood (CAPCA) that examines important
developmental questions by replicating analyses across multiple developmental
datasets both in the US and abroad.
