Her research interests include the processes that link being the victim of bullying to later mental health and school adjustment and those factors that may mitigate, or heighten, the risk of maladjustment among peer victimized youth, including individual differences in social cognition, stress responses and coping strategies, interpersonal relationships with peers and adults, and features of the classroom context. Most recently, she has begun using eye tracking to study how differences in visual attention patterns to social cues moderate the link between being bullied and externalizing and internalizing problems. In a second line of research, Dr. Troop-Gordon has been studying the social cognitive and interpersonal processes linking high social status among peers to aggression and enhanced emotional well being.