Principal Investigators


Alytia A. Levendosky

Alytia Levendosky received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995. Her research focus is in family violence, particularly its effects on parenting and the mental health of children from infancy though middle childhood. She is an Associate Professor in the psychology department at MSU.

G. Anne Bogat

G. Anne Bogat is a clinical psychologist who received her PhD from DePaul University in 1982. She is currently Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the psychology department at MSU. Her research interests include family violence, youth mentoring, and person-oriented methodologies.

Alexander von Eye

Alexander von Eye received his PhD in psychology at the University of Trier, Germany, in 1976. His areas of interest include statistical methods of the analysis of categorical and longitudinal data, computational statistics, and modeling. On the psychological side, he is interested in development accross the human life span, in particular family and cognitive development. He has held faculty positions in Germany, at Penn State, and he joined MSU in 1993.

William S. Davidson II

William S. Davidson II received his Ph.D. in 1976 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include domestic violence, juvenile delinquency, and advocacy programs for juvenile offenders. He is a University Distinguished Professor and Professor and Chair of the Ecological Psychology program in the department of psychology at MSU. He also has served as the Editor of American Journal of Community Psychology since 1998.

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