Amanda S. Morris, Ph.D.
Regents Professor of Human Development and Family Science, OSU-Tulsa
Human Development and Family Science, OSU-Tulsa; Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, OSU-CHSPhone: (918) 594-8207
amanda.morris@okstate.edu
Biography
Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Child
Development at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and a Core Scientist at the Laureate
Institute for Brain Research (LIBR). Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist with
research interests in parenting, socio-emotional development, and infant and early
childhood mental health. Her research focuses on the role of emotion regulation in
children’s adjustment and the ways in which children learn successful regulation skills.
Another focus of her work is on child and family resilience, and she is particularly
interested in how early experiences shape later development with an emphasis on the
parent-child relationship.
Dr. Morris is Associate Editor for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and co-investigator
of the multi-site NIH-funded Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Research Mentor, Level IV, and is a certified
Trainer of Trainers for Active Parenting programs as well as a contributing author
to the new edition of Active Parenting, the First Five Years. Dr. Morris has authored
numerous articles and chapters on child and adolescent development and is co-editor
of the book Authoritative Parenting: Synthesizing Nurturance and Discipline for Optimal
Child Development.
Education
- B.A., Southwestern University, Psychology
- Ph.D., Temple University, Developmental Psychology
- Post-doc, Arizona State University, Psychology
Research Interests
- Parenting
- Social and emotional development
- Child and adolescent development
- Infant mental health
- Emotion regulation
- Adverse childhood experiences and resilience