Attitude development and change Immigrant experiences Identity development

Contact Information Phone: 207-786-6088 Email: karonson@bates.edu Office: 378 Pettengill Hall

• Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2003
• M.A. University of Michigan, 2000
• B.A. Ithaca College, 1996

Professor Aronson is broadly interested in how people come to understand complex social constructs like race and how this understanding influences interpersonal interaction and psychological well-being. Her current work is focused in three areas:

• Effective interventions for enhancing intercultural relationships during childhood, adolescence and emerging adulthood
  • The development and assessment of story book and multimedia based interventions in collaboration with local elementary schools, community agencies, and Bates College.
• The dynamic nature of acculturation and the ways in which Somali and Non-Somali Mainers experience immigration during childhood and adulthood.
• Identity development during adolescence and adulthood, and how children see race.
  • How individuals from racial, ethnic and religious minority groups come to understand what it means to them to be a member of a particular group and the connection between identity and important life outcomes.
  • How children process and understand race as well as appropriate, effective and productive ways to discuss this topic with them.

• PSYC 211 Personality Psychology
  
• PSYC 320 Adolescence
  
• FYS 319 Emerging Adulthood (the psychology of 18-25-year-olds)
  
• PSYC 372 Racial and Ethnic Identity Development
  
• PSYC 261 Research Methods
• ED/PY 262 Community-Based Research Methods
  

Scottham, K., Cooke, D., Sellers, R., & Ford, K. (2010). Integrating process with content in understanding African American racial identity development. Self and Identity, 9(1), 19-40. doi:10.1080/15298860802505384

Scottham, K., & Smalls, C. (2009). Unpacking racial socialization: Considering female African American primary caregivers' racial identity. Journal of Marriage & the Family, 71(4), 807-818. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00636.x

Scottham, K., Sellers, R., & Nguyên, H. (2008). A measure of racial identity in African American adolescents: The development of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity--Teen. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 14(4), 297-306. doi:10.1037/1099-9809.14.4.297

Seaton, E., Scottham, K., & Sellers, R. (2006). The Status Model of Racial Identity Development in African American Adolescents: Evidence of Structure, Trajectories, and Well-Being. Child Development, 77(5), 1416-1426. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00944.x