Keith E Whitfield, Professor
Research Summary:
Dr. Whitfield's research on individual differences in minority aging employs a two prong approach that includes studying individual people as well as members of twin pairs. Dr. Whitfield’s research examines the individual variation in health and individual differences in cognition due to health conditions. Dr. Whitfield has worked with researchers from Sweden, Russia, and the United States to examine how social, psychological, and cultural factors of cognition and healthy aging. He has completed a study that involves examining health and psycho-social factors related to health among adult African American twins from North Carolina. His current research project is a longitudinal study of cognition and health among older African Americans.
Representative Publications:
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- Whitfield, K., Jonassaint, C., Brandon, D., Stanton, M., Sims, M., Bennett, G., Salva, J., & Edwards, C.L. (In Press).
Does John Henryism Mediate the Relationship Between Personality and Cardiovascular Health in African Americans?. Journal of the National Medical Association.
- Tan, E. J., Tanner, E., Seeman, T., Frick, K., Xue, Q.L., Carlson, M., Wang, T., Rebok, G.W., McGill, S., Whitfield, K.E., Fried, L.P. (In Press).
Marketing Public Health through Older Adult Volunteering: Experience CorpsR as a Social Marketing Intervention. American Journal of Public Health.
- Gamaldo, A. A., Allaire, J. C., Sims, R. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (In Press).
Assessing mild cognitive impairment among older African Americans. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
- Sims, R. C., Whitfield, K. E., Ayotte, B. J., Gamaldo, A. A., Edwards, C. L., & Allaire, J. C. (In Press).
Subjective memory in older African Americans. Experimental Aging Research..
- Aiken-Morgan, A.T., Marsiske, M., Dzierzewski, J., Jones, R.N., Whitfield, K. E., Johnson, K.E. & Cresci, M. (In Press).
Race-related cognitive test bias in the ACTIVE study: A MIMIC Model Approach. Experimental Aging Research..
