David Schultz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2000 Clinical Psychology
M. Div., Yale University, 1993

Area: Social development in early childhood (ADP & HSP)

Office: MP 338
Phone: (410) 455-2414
E-mail: dschultz@umbc.edu
Fax: (410) 455-1055

Website:http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kod1/Psychology_Lab/Home.html

Research Interests

Dr. Schultz is interested in why some young children tend to get into peer conflict. In particular, he has examined how young children interpret and think about social interactions, especially the emotions others experience. For example, he has developed the construct of anger attribution bias. Some children tend to interpret others' nonverbal cues as indicating anger more often than other children do, and this interpretational bias seems detrimental for their social functioning. Dr. Schultz wants to determine how closely children's emotionality/temperament corresponds with their emotion processing patterns. For example, do children prone to experience anger themselves necessarily develop an anger attribution bias? Might children not prone to experience anger (e.g., generally happy children) develop this attribution bias? The answers to these and related questions may hold important consequences for interventions designed to promote young children's emotional and social competence.

Selected Publications

Schultz, D., Izard, C.E., & Bear, G. (in press). Children's emotion processing: Relations to emotionality and aggression. Development & Psychopathology.

Schultz, D. & Shaw, D. S. (in press). Boys' maladaptive social information processing, family emotional climate, and pathways to early conduct problems. Social Development.

Schultz, D. , Izard, C.E., Ackerman, B.P., & Youngstrom, E.A. (2001). Emotion knowledge in economically-disadvantaged children: Self-regulatory antecedents and relations to social maladjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 53-67.

Schultz, D., Izard, C.E., & Ackerman, B.P. (2000). Children's emotion biases: Relations to family environment and social adjustment. Social Development, 9, 284-301.