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Melissa R. Herman

Ph.D. Stanford University

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Recent Scholarship:

"Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multi-Racial Adolescents," Child Development, 75:3 (2004).

"How Neighborhoods, Families, Peer Groups, and Schools Jointly Affect Changes in Early Adolescent Development," with T D Cook, M Phillips, and R A Settersten, Child Development, 73:4 (2002).

"The Influence of Family Regulation, Connection, and Psychological Autonomy on Six Measures of Adolescent Functioning," with S M Dornbusch and J R Herting, Journal of Adolescent Research, 12:1 (1997).

"Adolescent Domains of Achievement," with S M Dornbusch, and J A Morley, Psychosocial Development During Adolescence: Advances in Human Development, 8 (1996).

"Single Parenthood," with S M Dornbusch, and I Lin, Society, 33:5 (1996).

Interests:

Adolescent development
Multi-racial children
Achievement
Racial identification

Last Updated: 1/5/07