Research Areas

Education Policy

Youth Violence

Early Childhood Adversity

Substance Abuse Prevention

Kenneth A Dodge

Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth A Dodge

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Education: Ph.D Duke University 1978; BA (Awarded with Highest Distinction and Honors in Psychology) Northwestern University 1975

Areas of Interest: child abuse
violence prevention
substance use

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Psychology, Director, Center for Child and Family, , 2002 - present

: Professor of Public Policy Studies and of Psychology, , 1998 - present

: Instructor, Department of Psychology, , 1978

: NIMH Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Fellowship, , 1975 - 1977

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Research Professor, , 2002 - present

University of Oregon: Leona Tyler Distinguished Lecturer, , 2001

West Virginia University: Helen Coast Hayes Lecturer, , 2001

University of New Hampshire: Mary Henessey Blum Memorial Lecturer, , 1998

Vanderbilt University: Adjoint Professor of Psychology, , 1998 - present

: Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, , 1997 - 1998

: Professor of Psychology, , 1988 - 1998

: Associate Professor of Psychology, , 1986 - 1988

University of California, San Diego: Distinguished Lecturer in Human Development, , 1997

University of Texas: Ira Iscoe Lecturer in Human Development, , 1996

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: Fellow, , 1995 - 1996

: Fellow, , 1989 - 1990

Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Professor of Psychiatry, , 1991 - 1998

University of Colorado: Associate Professor of Psychology, , 1985 - 1986

Indiana University: Associate Professor of Psychology, , 1983 - 1985

: Assistant Professor of Psychology, , 1979 - 1983

Duke University Medical Center: Clinical Psychology Internship, , 1978 - 1979

Visiting Positions: Professor, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", 2001; Professor Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2001; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 1992; Irving Harris Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1990; Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University, 1987; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, 1987

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: American Education Research Association Division E Distinguished Research Award in Human Development, 2003
Distinguished Research Award in Human Development, American Education Research Association Division E, 2003
Fellow, Academy of Experimental Criminology, 2003
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003 - present
Most Highly-Cited Scientist, Institute for Scientific Information, Web of Science, 2003, 2004
Senior Scientist Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2002
American Psychological Association Presidential Track Invited Lecturer, 2002
Helen Coast Hayes Lecturer, West Virginia University, 2001
Leona Tyler Distinguished Lecturer, University of Oregon, 2001
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000
Named one of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England, 1999
List of Top 50 Developmental Psychologists, Developmental Review, Citation Counts, July, 1997
Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1997 - 1998
Distinguished Lecturer in Human Development, University of California, San Diego, 1997
Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 1992
Research Scientist Award, NIMH, 1992 - 2003
Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1990
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1989-1990; 1995-1996
Fellow, Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research, 1989
Fellow, American Psychological Association (Divisions 1 & 7), July, 1987
Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University, 1987
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, 1987
Esquire Magazine Register of Outstanding Men and Women Under Forty, 1986
Research Career Development Award, NICHD, 1986 - 1992
Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award for Research in Developmental Psychology, 1985
Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution in Psychopathology, American Psychological Association, 1984
Foundation for Child Development Young Scholar, 1982 - 1983
Indiana University Faculty Research Fellowship, 1981
Lilly Foundation Post-Doctoral Teaching Award, 1981 - 1982
National Research Service Award, Duke University, 1977
NIMH Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975 - 1977
Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University, 1975

Recent Grant Support

Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood, National Institute of Mental Health, 2004/04-2009/01.
Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003/09-2008/09.
Development and Prevention of Substance Use Problems, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003/09-2008/08.
Multi-site Prevention of Conduct Disorder, National Institute of Mental Health, National Inst. of Drug Abuse, 1990/09-2008/08.
Durham Family Initiative, The Duke Endowment, 2002/01-2007/12.
Evaluation of Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care (SOC), North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2004/10-2007/09.
Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center Minority Supplement, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2007/07-2007/08.
Adolescent Drug Use: Development, Prevention and Policy, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Senior Scientist Award, 2002/09-2007/08.
Evaluation of Implementation of the Multiple Response System (MRS), North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2004/11-2007/06.
Economic Analysis of the Fast Track Intervention, National Institute of Mental Health, 2002/04-2007/05.
North Carolina Education Research Data Center to Support the Duke-UNC Research Consortium on Minority Achievement Gaps in N.C., the Southeast, and the Nation, The Spencer Foundation, 2000/10-2007/03.

Professional Service: Social Policy Concentation Committee, 2002-2006; member, Academic Council, 2002-2004; member, Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, November 28, 2003 - May 1, 2005

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Hostile Attributional Bias in Violent Crime, Los Angeles, CA, November 02, 2006; Transaction Development of Adolescent Violence, University of Michigan, June 02, 2006; Children's Mental Health Policy, Raleigh, NC, May 17, 2006; Youth Violence: Development, Prevention, and Public Policy, University of Pittsburgh, April 07, 2006; Deviant Peer Influences in Interventions for Youth, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2006; A Cascade Model of the Development of Substance Use, University of North Carolina, October, 2004; State of the Science of Violence Prevention, National Institutes of Health, October, 2004; Comorbidity and the Prevention of Depression and Conduct Disorder, National Institutes of Health, June, 2004; The Development and Prevention of Serious Violence, Harvard University, February, 2004; "Improving Peer Review in Education Grant Funding", National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2003; "Psychophysiological and Cognitive Regulation of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence", Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2003; "Public Policy and Developmental Psychology", University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2003; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Conduct Problems in Youth", Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2003; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003; "The Prevention of Chronic Conduct Problems in School Children", North Carolina Association of School Psychologists, Raleigh, N.C., 2003; "Toward a Dynamic Developmental Model of the Role of Parents and Peers in Deviant Behavioral Development", Jacobs Foundation Conference, Zurich Switzerland, 2003; "What Prevention Science Can Do for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network", San Diego, California, 2003; Invited address to the White House Conference on Character and Community, Washington,DC, 2002; "The Prevention of School Violence", St. Louis, Missouri, October 2002; "Preventing Chronic Violence Among School Children", US Department of Education, Washington, D.C., August 2002; "Using Developmental Science to Prevent Chronic Violence in Children and Adolescents: The Fast Track Study", Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 2002; "Preventing Chronic Violence in Schools", White House Conference on Character and Community, Washington, D.C., June 2002; "The Fast Track Prevention Trial", US Department of Education, Washington, D.C., March 2002; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence in Children", University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, December 2001; Invited discussant, Symposium on School-based violence prevention effects from preschool through adolescence: Altering development trajectories, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April 2001; "Social Withdrawal, Drug Use, and Aggression in Youth", Milan, Italy, 2001; "Workshop on the Prevention of Problem Behaviors in Youth", Rome, Italy, 2001; "How Chronic Violence Develops", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; "The Development and Prevention of Serious Violence in Children", New York University, New York, 2000; "The Prevention of Violence in Children", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; "Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence in Children and Adolescents", University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 1999; "Parenting Influences on the Development of Antisocial Behavior in Children", NICHD Conference on Parenting and the Child's World, Bethesda, Maryland, 1999; Adolescence violence: Development, prevention, and public policy, Colloquium delivered at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1998; Development and prevention of aggressive behavior, Colloquium at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1998; Development and prevention of aggressive behavior, Colloquium at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1998; Development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, England, 1998; Social cognition and conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998; Biopsychosocial influences on the development of conduct disorder, Colloquium at Yale Univesity, New Haven, CT, 1997; Biopsychosocial models of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Carnegie-Mellon University, 1997; Chronic violence: Development, prevention, and policy, Presentation at the American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, 1997; How chronic conduct problems develop, Symposium of post McCandless Award winners, at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 1997; Keynote address, The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1997; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Emory University, 1997; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium delivered at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1997; The development of chronic violence, Colloquium at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, Distinguished Lecture delivered at the University of California, San Diego, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of California, San Diego, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, American Psychologival Society Meeting, Washington, DC, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Meeting, Paris, France, 1997; The scientific base for developing psychological prevention and treatment interventions for mental and physical disorders, Distinguished Fellow Panel Discussion, American Psychological Society Meeting, Washington, DC, 1997; A biopsychosocial model of conduct disorder, Clinical Psychology at the Century: A Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1996; Biopsychosocial perspectives on the development of conduct disorder, NIMH Prevention Research Conference, MacLean, VA, 1996; Development and prevention of conduct problems in childhood and adolescence, American Institutes for Research, Portola Valley, CA, 1996; Family experience factors in the development of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at the University of California at Riverside, 1996; Invited Keynote Address, Community approaches to preventing violence, 75th Anniversary celebration of the Worcester Youth Guidance Clinic, Worcester, MA, 1996; Social information processing and aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium presented at the University of California at Berkeley, 1996; The development and prevention of conduct problems, Ira Iscoe Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1996; Developmental psychopathology and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995; Prevention of conduct disorder: From theory to practice, Family Court Clinic Conference, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada, 1995; The development and prevention of violence in children, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1995; The development of chronic aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium presented to the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1995; The developmental psychopathology of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, 1995; How does the experience of physical abuse lead a child to become chronically violent toward others?, Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Rochester, NY, 1994; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Presentation and workshop at the annual meeting of the Hawaii Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1994; The developmental psychopathology of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boca Raton, FL, 1994; The role of fathers in children's lives, Panel discussion at the Family Re-Union III Conference, Nashville, TN, 1994; Families and schools together, Forum sponsored by Tennessee Voices for Children, Nashville, TN, 1993; How social rejection leads to antisocial behavior in children, Pre-conference meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993; How social rejection leads to antisocial behavior in children, Annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993; Keynote Speaker, Preventing Chronic Violence, Nashville, TN Forum, 1993; Physical abuse and antisocial behavior in children, Colloquium presented at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993; Plenary Speaker, Addressing the Emotional and Mental Well Being of Children, Conference on Communities, Families, and Schools, Tennessee Voices for Children Public Policy Forum, 1993; Preventing violence in children, Nashville, TN, Forum, 1993; Social information processing and peer rejection factors in the development of behavior problems in children, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, 1993; The transition to school, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1993; Speaker, Vice President Al Gore's Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Fathers in America, 1993; Social information processing and the development of conduct disorder, Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1992; Social information processing mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Ida Beam Lecture delivered at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1992; The development of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1992; The future treatment of conduct disorder, NIMH Conference on Conduct Disorder, Washington, DC, 1992; Mechanisms in the cycle of violence, New Directions Addresses to the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Minneapolis, MN, 1991; Parent training as an intervention competent in preventing conduct disorders, Symposium held at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 1991; Social-information-processing factors in the negotiation of conflict, Colloquium delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1991; Studying mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Mental Health Foundation Conference on the Science and Psychiatry of Violence, Balliol College, Oxford University, England, 1991; A social information processing theory of aggressive behavior development, Colloquium delivered at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1990; Antisocial development and the role of family and social information processing factors, Colloquium delivered at the University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1990; Early physical abuse as a predictor of aggressive behavior and peer relationship problems, Group de Recherche Sur L'Inadaptation Psycho-Sociale Chez L'Enfant. Baie St. St. Paul, Quebec, Canada, 1990; Family and social information procesing factors in the development of aggressive behavior, Colloquium delivered at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1990; Social information processing mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Irving Harris Lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990; The development of chronic aggressive behavior problems in children, Colloquium delivered at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1990; Aggressive behavior in children: Social information processing patterns and family origins, Colloquium delivered at Sanford University, Stanford, CA, 1989; Family influence on the development of aggressive behavior, Colloquium presented at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1989; Origins of aggression in children, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, DC, 1989; Social competence and aggression in children: Family origins, Colloquium delivered at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1989; Social information processing and developmental psychopathology, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1989; The development of aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium delivered at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 1989; The study of dyadic relationships in boys' playgroups, Colloquium presented at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1989; Understanding and preventing chronic violence in children, Bush Center for Public Policy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989; Violence in children and public policy, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Nashville, TN, 1989; Emotional vulnerability in aggressive children, SRCD Study Group on the Development of Affect Regulation and Dysregulation, Nashville, TN, 1988; Peer relations and developmental psychopathology, Fourth Indiana Conference on Clinical Science, Nashville, TN, 1988; Social information processing and hostile and instrumental aggression in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988; Social information processing and juvenile delinquency, Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, OR, 1988; Social information processing in depressed and aggressive populations, University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center Conference on Developmental Psychopathology, 1988; The assessment of social cognition, MacArthur Foundation network on the transition from infancy to childhood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1988; The development of social information processing biases, Colloquium delivered at the Western Psychiatric Institutes and Clinics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1988; The structure and function of reactive and proactive aggression, Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression, Ontario, Canada, 1988; Aggressive behavior disorders, Nashville Family Therapy Consortium, 1987; Assessment of social cognition in violent and emotionally disturbed children, NIMH Conference on Assessment and Treatment of Violent and Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents, Durham, NC, 1987; Assessment of social competence in psychiatric populations, Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research, Chicago, IL, 1987; Social cognition and hostile and instrumental aggression, Sixth International Nags Head Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1987; Social information processing and aggressive behavior, Colloquium presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1987; Social information processing in children, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, University of Utah, Provo, Utah, 1987; The development of aggressive behavior, Nashville Family Therapy Consortium Lecture, Nashville, TN, 1987; The social world of aggressive child, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, California State University, Chico, CA, 1987; Assessment of social competence in the planning of preventive intervention, Consortium on the School-Based Promotion of Social Competence, New York, 1986; Processing approaches to anger and hostility, MacArthur Foundation Network on the determinants and consequences of health-daming and health-promoting behavior, West Palm Beach, FL, 1986; Social information processing patterns and hostile and instrumental aggression, Colloquium delivered at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1986; Affect and social cognition, Nags Head International Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1985; Social competence and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1985; Social information processing and affect in aggressive children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1985; Aggression and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1984; Preventive intervention with school-aged children, Governor's Conference on Mental Health, Indianapolis, IN, 1984; Social information processing and aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University, the University of North Carolina, Purdue University, University of Colorado, and the University of California at Berkeley, 1984; The relation between diagnostic assessment of social skills and subsequent intervention design, Conference on Research Strategies in Children's Social Skills Training. Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1984; A social information processing conceptualization of aggressive behavior in children, Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, MN, 1983; Aggression and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1983; Behavioral determinants of social competence in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 1983; Social information processing and aggressive behavior, Nags Head International Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1983; Social competence and aggressive behavior in children, Midwestern Psychological Association, Detroit, MI, 1982; Social competence and social skills in children, Eighth Annual Henry Lester Smith Conference on Educational Research, Bloomington, IN, 1982; Social competence and sociometric status in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1982; Social information processing variables in the development of altruism and aggression, Sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development, held at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, 1982; The role of social approach behavior in the development of social rejection and isolation in children's peer groups: A multivariate information theory analysis, Midwestern Psychologival Association, Minneapolis, MN, 1982

Doctoral Theses Directed: Julie Kaplow, (2003)

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