Expertise

Dr. Casper’s Child and Adolescent Peer Relations and Interactions (CAPRI) Research Lab involves research at the interface of traditionally “positive” (e.g. friendships) and “negative” (e.g. antipathetic relationships, enmities, victimization, bully/victim relations) adolescent and emerging adult peer relationships and interactions. A more specific focus is on the different roles that members of the peer group play when aggression or bullying occurs in the school context and the social-psychological implications of these interactions for the peer group members. 

Communities
Human Development
Degrees
PhD, University of Arizona, Family Studies and Human Development, 2013
MS, University of Arizona, Family Studies and Human Development, 2009
MA, University of Maryland, Counseling, 2001
BS, University of Maryland, Psychology, 1998
Keywords
child psychology aggression developmental psychology adjustment psychology academic achievement victimization adolescent peer relations participant roles in aggression friendship antipathetic relationships bullying