Professor of Psychology; Research Professor, CHGD
Area: Developmental, Combined Program in Education and Psychology

Psychology Office: 2272 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-647-3717

Alternate Address: SRCD 3131 S. State # 302
Alternate Phone: 734-998-6578

Email: jwhagen@umich.edu

My current work is concerned with cognition and motivation in students from preschool and elementary to high school and college age. Research from the SEARCH institute on positive development in youth provides one of the bases for our current projects. Several populations are included, i.e. university students, students with learning difficulties, and varsity student athletes. Another project involves analyses of the content of the journals in child development, in which we have trends from 1930 to the early 2000’s. Current research focuses on characteristics of the children studied as well as content areas.

I am a past Executive Officer of the Society for Research in Child Development (1989-2007).

Representative Publications

• Hagen,J.W., & Pashak, T.J. (2008).  Recognizing Emerging Adulthuud as a Distrinct Period of Life.  Children, Youth, and Families News, 6, 4-6.
• Hagen, J.W., Lamb-Parker, F. (in press). “Head Start.” In Haith, M. and Benson, J. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development (30 ms. pp). San Diego: Elsevier.
• Hagen, J.W. (2007). “The Label Mental Retardation (MR) Involves More Than an IQ Score.” A commentary on Kanaya and Ceci (2007). Child Development Perspectives, 1(1), 60-61.
• Lamb-Parker, F., Hagen, J.W., Jaspen, D., & Lebrun, L.A. (Eds) (2007) Promoting Positive Development in Young Children. New York: Columbia University.
• Cameron, C. & Hagen, J.W. (2005). “Women in Child Development: Themes from the SRCD Oral History Project.” History of Psychology, 8(3), 289-314.