Current Position Professor of Psychological Sciences
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| Contact Information Address: Purdue University
Department of Psychological Sciences
703 Third Street
Rm. PSYC 1244
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081
Phone: (765) 494-6992 Fax: (765) 496-1264 E-mail: wachs@psych.purdue.edu
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| Other Contact Information LeAnne Williams at (765) 494-6901 or lewillia@psych.purdue.edu
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| Research Interests My research emphasis is on the role of family, biological and individual influences upon the development of infants and young children. At the family level my research focuses on the role of "environmental chaos" upon infant development and parenting. At the biological level my research focuses on the role of chronic mild malnutrition and micronutrient deficiences (e.g., iron deficiency) on infant social-emotional development. At the individual level my focus is on the measurement and consequences of variability in early temperament. Of particular interest is how the impact of environmental chaos or nutritional deficiencies are moderated by individual difference characteristics such as temperament, or how social and biological environmental influences interact to influence development. My research is carried out in both the United States and in developing countries.
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Recent Representative Publications Wachs, T.D. (2006). Contributions of temperament to buffering and sensitization processes in children's development. In: B. Lester, A. Masten & B. McEwen (Eds). Resilience in Children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1094, 28-39. Walker, S., Wachs, T.D., Meeks-Gardner, J., Lozoff, B., Wasserman, G., Pollitt, E., Carter, J., & the International Child Development Steering Group (M. Black, P. Engle, S. Grantham-McGregor, B. Lozoff, TD Wachs & S. Walker) (2007). Child development: Risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries. The Lancet, 369, 145-157. Wachs, T.D., Chang-Lopez, S., Walker, S., & Meeks-Gardner, J. (2007). Relation of birth weight, maternal intelligence and mother-child interactions to cognitive and play competence of Jamaican two-year old children. Intelligence, 35, 605-622. Wachs, T.D., Kanashiro, H. & Gurkas, P. (2008). Intra-individual variability in infancy: Structure, stability and nutritional correlates. Developmental Psychobiology, 50, 217-231. Wachs, T.D. (2009). Models linking nutritional deficiencies to maternal and child mental health. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition-Supplement, 89, 935s-939s. Wachs, T.D., Black, M. & Engle, P. (2009). Maternal Depression: A Global Threat to Children's Health, Development and Behavior and to Human Rights. Child Development Perspective, 3, 51-59. Evans, G.W. & Wachs, T.D. (Eds). Chaos and its influence on children's development: An ecological perspective. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. In Press.
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