Kenneth A. Dodge

Kenneth Dodge
Born	(1954-07-20) July 20, 1954
Alma mater	North Western University, B.A., Psychology, 1975; Duke University, Ph.D., Psychology, 1978
Occupation	Director, Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy; William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Employer	Duke University
Spouse(s)	Claudia Jones
Awards	2012 J.P. Scott Award for Lifetime Contribution to Aggression Research, International Society for Research on Aggression[1] 2010 The Science to Practice Award, Society for Prevention Research[2] 2009 Fellow, Society for Experimental Social Psychology[3] 2003 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science[4] 2003 Most Highly Cited Scientist, Institute for Scientific Information, Web of Science[5] 2002-2013 Senior Scientist Award, NIDA[6] 1985 Boyd McCandless Award for Scientific Contribution to Developmental Psychology[7] 1984 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution, American Psychological Association[3]
Website	childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/people/profile/?t=faculty&p=dodge

Kenneth Dodge is the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and the founding director of the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy.^[3]

Background

Kenneth Dodge was born on July 20, 1954, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at Northwestern University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in psychology at Duke University in 1978.^[8]

Career

Dodge has directed the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University since its founding in 1999. There, he leads efforts to bring scientific research on children and families into the policymaking arena.^[8] Dodge, a clinical and developmental psychologist, is a widely cited expert on the development of aggressive behavior and chronic violence in children.^[9] Through his research, Dodge concluded that early physical abuse can result in biased patterns of social information processing in children, and in subsequent aggressive behavior.^[10] Based on these findings, Dodge and his colleagues established the Fast Track Project, a comprehensive program designed to prevent young adult chronic violence by working with high-risk children to develop their academic and social skills.^[11][12] He was also instrumental in creating Durham Connects, a program that provides free in-home nurse visits to all infants and their families in Durham County, North Carolina.^[13] The program has been shown to greatly decrease infant emergency medical care in a child’s first year of life.^[14] Dodge has published more than 400 scientific articles, and, in 2003, he was recognized by the Web of Science as being among the top 0.5 percent of “Most Highly-Cited Scientists”.^[5] His awards include the J.P. Scott Award for Lifetime Contribution to Aggression Research from the International Society for Research on Aggression,^[1] and the Senior Research Scientist award from the National Institutes of Health.^[4] Additionally, Dodge serves on the editorial board for the journals Clinical Psychological Science,^[15] Parenting: Science and Practice, and Aggressive Behavior.^[16][17] Prior to arriving at Duke, Dodge served on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Colorado and Vanderbilt University.^[8]

Selected service committees

• Member, American Psychological Association Task Force on Violent Media (2013– )^[18]
• Member, Board of Directors, North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (2013– )^[19]
• Elected Member, Board of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research (2012– )^[20]
• Elected Member, Governing Council for the Society for Research in Child Development (2011– )^[21]
• Co-author, Brief of Amici Curiae to the United States Supreme Court on Behalf of Petitioners, Evan Miller v. State of Alabama, Kuntrell Jackson v. State of Arkansas (January 2012)^[22]
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, America’s Promise (2004– ) ^[23]

Selected works

• Dodge, K.A., Goodman, W.B., Murphy, R.A., O’Donnell, K., Sato, J., & Guptill, S. "Implementation and Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting". American Journal of Public Health, November 2013.
• Dodge, K.A., Goodman, W.B., Murphy, R.A., O’Donnell, K., & Sato, J. "Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting: Impacts on Child Emergency Medical Care at Age 12 Months". Pediatrics, December 2013, 132, S140-\S146.
• Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Lansford, J.E., Miller, S., Pettit, G.S., & Bates, J.E. "A Dynamic Cascade Model of the Development of Substance-Use Onset". Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 74, Serial No. 294, 2009.
• Dodge, K.A., Dishion, T.J., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds.). Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions. New York: Guilford Press, 2006.
• Dodge, K.A., Pettit, G.S., McClaskey, C.L., & Brown, M. "Social Competence in Children". Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Serial No. 213, Vol. 51, No.2, 1986.
• Dodge, K.A., Godwin, J., & Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. "Social-Information-Processing Patterns Mediate the Impact of Preventive Intervention on Adolescent Antisocial Behavior". Psychological Science, 24(4), 456-65, 2013.
• Dodge, K.A., Goodman, W.B., Murphy, R., O’Donnell, K., & Sato, J. "Toward Population Impact From Home Visiting". Future of Children, 33(3), 17-23, 2013.
• Crick, N.R., & Dodge, K.A. "A Review and Reformulation of Social Information-Processing Mechanisms in Children's Social Adjustment". Psychological Bulletin, 115, 74-101, 1994.
• Dodge, K.A., Bates, J.E., & Pettit, G.S. "Mechanisms in the cycle of violence". Science, 250, 1678-1683, 1990.
• Dodge, K.A. "Social Cognition and Children's Aggressive Behavior. Child Development, 51, 162-170, 1980.

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