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Social Science Research Institute Members and Their Interests

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A
Abuse/maltreatment Active lifestyles Adult learning
After-school activities Aggression Aging
Aging in place AIDS Alcohol and alcoholism
Asthma Autism Spectrum
 
B
Behavior problems Bilingualism Biotechnology
Built environment Bullying
 
C
Cancer Civic engagement and democratic participation Cognition
Cognitive decline Cohabitation Community and economic development
Compulsive behavior Conflict Crime
Criminal justice Curriculum development
 
D
Decision making Delinquency Demography
Depression Diabetes Disabilities
Disease prevention Divorce Domestic violence
Drug abuse and prevention Drugs/addictions Dyslexia
 
E
Early intervention Eating disorders Economic disadvantage
Economic well-being Economics Education
Elder abuse/neglect Emotion Emotional problems
Employment End-of-life issues Energy (social, economic, community, policy)
English as a second language (ESL) Environment Environment and health
Environmental education Ethnicity Exercise
Extracurricular activities
 
F
Family law Family/families Father-child relations
Food safety Foster care Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
 
G
Gangs Gender Genetics
Geographic information Gerontology GIS applications in the social sciences
Grief and loss Group relations
 
H
Head injury Head Start Health
Health and stress Health and the environment Health care/services
Health disparities Health education Health policy
Healthy aging HIV Homeless
 
I
Identity Imaging Immigration
Information processing Intergenerational relations Intergovernmental
International relations Intervention
 
J
Juvenile justice
 
K
 
L
Language sciences Law and children Leadership
Learning Learning disabilities Leisure time
Life skills Life-span Literacy
Locus of control
 
M
Marital conflict Mathematics education Memory/metacognition
Memory loss Menopause (pre-, peri- post-) Mental health
Mental health services Methodology Moral development
Mother-child relations Motivation
 
N
Neighborhoods Neurobehavior Neuroendocrinology
Neuroimaging Neuroimmunology Neurology
Neuroscience Nutrition
 
O
Obesity Old age Oncology
Osteoporosis
 
P
Pain Parent-child relationships Parenthood
Parenting Peers/friendship Personality
Physical activity Policy Poverty
Prescription medication Prevention Problem solving
Program development/evaluation Psycholinguistics Psychopathology
Public policy
 
Q
Qualitative research methodology Quality of life
 
R
Rehabilitation Religion Risk/resilience
 
S
Safety (community and individual) School violence Schools
Science education Service learning Service utilization
Sexual abuse Sexual orientation Sexuality
Single parenthood Sleep Smoking
Social class/SES Social development Social justice
Social skills training Social vision Socialization
Spatial ability Sports Statistical/mathematical modeling
Stereotyping (race/gender) Stress
 
T
Television/media Tobacco Trauma
 
U
Unemployment University student development University student health
University student mental health University-community collaboration Urban development
 
V
Values Veterans' issues Violence/violent behavior/prevention
Virtual reality Visual perception
 
W
Welfare Well being Work
Workforce Writing
 
X
 
Y
Youth development Youth programming
 
Z
 
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ADHD African Americans Asian Americans
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(non-human species)
Deaf or
hearing impaired
Developmentally
delayed
Dyslexic Emotionally disturbed
Ethnic/racial Gifted Hispanic
Immigrants Intact Families Language delayed
Learning disabled Minority Native American
Pre-term/low birthweight Reading
delayed/disabled
Rural
Single-parent families Suburban Tourette syndrome
Urban Women Other
     

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