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Dr. Kelly Marin Assistant Professor of Psychology

 

Education:

• Ph.D, Emory University, 2008
• M.A., Emory University, 2004
• B.S., Southwest Texas State University, 2001

Research Interests:

Autobiographical memory development, identity development, and emotion understanding.

A major challenge of development is to organize and create meaning from personally significant experiences. I explain this process from a social constructionist perspective, arguing that the ways in which individuals organize and create meaning is through the construction of autobiographical narratives. My work investigates individual differences in both the structure and content of such narratives. By examining autobiographical narratives I gain insight into how children and adolescents understand who they are, how they make sense of personal events, and how they understand and regulate their emotions.

My initial research focused on the relation between co-constructed family narratives and children’s emerging self as both an individual and a member of a unified family.

More recently, my colleagues and I have begun to expand upon our earlier research on family narratives and self-understanding. Whereas the earlier research focused on middle childhood, my current research focuses on the fascinating and complex period of adolescence.

Publications:

Bohanek, J.G., Marin, K.A., Fivush, R. (2006). Family Narratives and the Development of Self-understanding in Early Adolescence, 28,153-176.

Bohanek, J.G., Marin, K.A., Fivush, R., & Duke, M.P. (2006). Family Narrative
Interaction and Children’s Self-Understanding. Family Processes, 45(1), 39-54.

Fivush, R., & Marin, K.A. (2007). Place and power: A feminist perspective on self-event connections. Human Development, 50, 111-118

Fivush, R., Marin, K.A., Crawford, M., Reynolds, M., & Brewin, C.R. (2007).  Children’s Narratives and Well-being. Cognition and Emotion, 21 (7), 1414-1434.

Marin, K.A., Bohanek, J.G., and Fivush, R., (2008). Positive Effects of Talking About the Negative: Family Narratives of Negative Experiences and     Preadolescents’ Perceived Competence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18 (3), 573-594.

 

Courses Teaching:

• PSCY 205 - Statistics
• PSYC 315 - Research Methods 1
• PSYC 203 - General Psychology  

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-3860
• Office: DLS 448
• Fax: (718) 862-8044

 

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