Research at the D&P Lab focuses on the transactional nature through which children’s interactions with their family, community and culture can shape the course of development. Specifically, we are interested in how the integration of biological, psychological and environmental factors can inform our understanding of the development of memory and self among children. Guiding our research is a developmental psychopathology perspective, which emphasizes the interface between normal and atypical development. As such, our research focuses on at-risk populations including children from low-income families and children from maltreating families. Our research integrates methods from cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology, and utilizes a multiple-levels-of analysis approach towards the study of child development and child psychopathology.