BRUCE J. ELLIS

Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at University of Utah, Salt Lake
📚 PROFESSOR at University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Skills & Expertise

Stress Analysis Stress Responses and Diseases Grant Acquisition Research Collaboration Evolutionary modeling Developmental psychology Life history theory Child development research Stress-responsivity modeling Developmental Neurobiology Adolescent Development Physiological Stress

Research Interests

Parenting style Social Psychology Research Methods Health Psychology Cognition Life history strategy Developmental psychology Childhood adversity Stress resilience Family dynamics Biobehavioral adaptation Fatherhood Adolescent behavior Educational practices Health outcomes Human adaptation Learning processes Childhood stress Resilience strategies Adaptive individual differences Stress-health relationships Developmental psychobiology Neurobiological susceptibility to environmental influence Evolutionary psychology Cognitive adaptations to stress Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology Biosocial Development Adolescent Health Applied Statistical Analysis

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💼 Experience

Professor of Psychology and Anthropology

University of Utah, Salt Lake · March 2016 - Present

Director

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) · March 2016 - March 2019
  • Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress

Professor

University of Arizona (UA) · March 2004 - March 2016
  • Professor and John & Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families, Division of Family Studies and Human Development, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona.

Senior Lecturer

University of Canterbury (UC) · March 1999 - March 2004
  • 2002- Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, 2004 New Zealand 1999- Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, New 2001 Zealand

Research Associate

Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville · March 1996 - March 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor

Central Michigan University (CMU), Michigan · March 1995 - March 1996

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant

University of Michigan · March 1991 - March 1995

🎓 Education

Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville

Post Doctorate in NIMH Developmental Psychopathology Training Program · 1999

University of Michigan

Ph.D. in Psychology · 1995

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo

B.S. in Social Science · 1987

🚀 Projects

Stress-Adapted Skills
Agency Name: Jacobs Foundation. University of Utah || Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Funded: Yes || Amount: $20,100
2020- Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Willem Frankenhuis, Radboud University). 2021 Stress-Adapted Skills. Jacobs Foundation. University of Utah subcontract: $20,100. Dates: Jan 1, 2020—Dec. 31, 2021.

🏆 Awards & Achievements (1)

🏆 Distinguished Contributions to Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development Award
Awarded by: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) || Year: 2019
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Professional Memberships (1)

University of Utah, Salt Lake
Member: Faculty Advisory Council, || Join dt: 2023 - Present
Country: United States

📚 Publications (44)

Journal: American Psychologist • September 2022
Narvaez et al. (2022), in their article “Evolving Evolutionary Psychology,” argue that mainstream evolutionary psychology is based on misguided neo-Darwinian adaptationist thinking and an antiquated c...
Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology Developmental Systems Theory Life History Theory Neo-Darwinian Adaptationism Information-Processing Mechanisms Mind-as-Computer Framework Evolutionary Psychology Developmental Theory Adaptationist Perspective Domain-Specific Mechanisms Psychological Metatheory Evolutionary Explication Developmentally Informed Theory Evolved Cognitive Mechanisms Evolutionary Framework
Journal: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting Book • September 2021
This chapter emphasizes the significance of parental behavior and household dynamics in shaping children's development and behavior. It underscores the advantages of adopting an evolutionary-developme...
Parental Behavior Household Dynamics Evolutionary-Developmental Model Darwinian Principles Parenting Natural Selection Evolutionary Developmental Psychology Developmentalists Child Development Proximate-Level Research Survival Reproduction Ecological Circumstances Parenting Strategies Methodological Approaches Developmental Psychology Social Psychology Psychology
Journal: Perspectives on Psychological Science • September 2021
We review the three prevailing approaches—specificity, cumulative risk, and dimensional models—to conceptualizing the developmental consequences of early-life adversity and address fundamental problem...
Adversity Early-Life Stress Threat Deprivation Harshness Unpredictability Experience-Driven Plasticity Dimensional Models Developmental Consequences Neurodevelopmental Principles Evolutionary-Developmental Framework Specificity Models Cumulative Risk Models Adaptive Responses Maladaptive Responses Brain Development
Journal: Developmental Psychology • September 2008
Girls growing up in homes without their biological fathers tend to go through puberty earlier than their peers. Whereas evolutionary theories of socialization propose that this relation is causal, it...
Evolutionary Psychology Behavior Genetics Father Absence Father-Child Relations Divorce Puberty Early Menarche Paternal Dysfunction Family Disruption Residential Separation Sibling Comparison Design Genetic and Environmental Control Early Childhood Exposure Developmental Psychology Familial Factors Biological Disruption
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences • October 2024
Guided by concepts from life history (LH) theory, a large human research literature has tested the hypothesis that exposures to extrinsic mortality (EM) promote the development of faster LH strategies...
Age at First Birth Age at Menarche Current-Future Tradeoff Energetics Evolutionary Demography Extrinsic Mortality Fertility Life History Strategy Life History Theory Puberty Quality-Quantity Tradeoff Two-Tiered Model Environmental Influence Ambient Cues Energetic Stress Small-Scale Societies Developmental Processes External Cues Accelerated Reproduction Countervailing Effects
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