Center for Child & Family Policy | Duke University

Jennifer Lansford

Research Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Child and Family Policy

Jennifer Lansford's research focuses on the development of aggression and other behavior problems in youth, with an emphasis on how family and peer contexts contribute to or protect against these outcomes. She examines how experiences with parents (e.g., physical abuse, discipline, divorce) and peers (e.g., rejection, friendships) affect the development of children's behavior problems, how influence operates in adolescent peer groups, and how cultural contexts moderate links between parents' discipline strategies and children's behavior problems.

Her work at the Center includes the projects Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Intergenerational Transmission of Treatment Effects; and Optimizing Prevention of Costly Adult Outcomes.

Research Interests:
Youth Violence Prevention, Peer Influence, Parenting

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 2000
• M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1997
• B.A. Duke University - 1995

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Iselin, A-MR; DeCoster, J; DiGiunta, L; Lansford, JE; Dodge, KA; Eisenberg, N; Pastorelli, C; Tirado, LMU; Bacchini, D (2025). Rumination Mediates the Relation of Hostile Attribution to Psychological Maladjustment Among Adolescents from Three Countries.. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 53(6), 861-876. [doi]  [abs]


2. Duell, N; Lansford, JE; Rothenberg, WA; Alampay, LP; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Junla, D; Liu, Q; Long, Q; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Skinner, AT; Sorbring, E; Uribe Tirado, LM; Yotanyamaneewong, S; Steinberg, L (2025). Positive risk taking across the world.. Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 35(2), e70021. [doi]  [abs]


3. Yeo, GH; Lansford, JE; Gassman-Pines, A; Cheah, CSL (2025). How do different food policies impact food insecurity and health? A review and meta-analysis. Food Security, 17(3), 687-702. [doi]  [abs]


4. Lansford, JE; Gorla, L; Rothenberg, WA; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L; Clifton, JDW; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Junla, D; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Skinner, AT; Sorbring, E; Steinberg, L; Uribe Tirado, LM; Yotanyamaneewong, S; Alampay, LP; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D (2025). Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries.. Child development. [doi]  [abs]


5. Magis-Weinberg, L; Arreola Vargas, M; Carrizales, A; Trinh, CT; Muñoz Lopez, DE; Hussong, AM; Lansford, JE (2025). The impact of COVID-19 on the peer relationships of adolescents around the world: A rapid systematic review.. Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 35(1), e12931. [doi]  [abs]

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