Supervises adult clinical psychology practica. Conducted recent studies on problems in long-term marriages and on the impact of cancer on marriage and family relationships. Has studied retrieval cues and text memory, aging and memory for prose, response bias in remembering prose, holistic forgetting, and qualitative distortions in the remembering of prose. Conducted a seven-nation study of daily life in old age. Researched the influence of social relationships in averting depression among elderly cancer patients.
Current work focuses on transracial adoption and marriage across the life course.
Has expertise in competitive youth sports, the academic achievement of athletes, and gender differences in athletes. Consults coaches and athletes, is sport psychology consultant to U.S. gymnastics women's national team and is editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Conducted experiments examining how people make evaluations when missing important information. Researches the effects of social and instructional factors on students' cognitive processes, learning, self-regulation and motivation, with emphasis on applying social cognitive learning theory. Research areas include employee selection and staffing, evaluation, training and development, equal employment opportunity, promotion and turnover, job design, auditing and benchmarking, work group design, compensation, negotiation, and general personnel research.