Double jeopardy: Child and school characteristics that undermine school readiness and predict disruptive behavior at school entry

Kenneth A. Dodge is the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also the founding and past director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, as well as the founder of Family Connects International.  Dodge is a leading scholar in the development and prevention of aggressive and violent beha

My current research interests fall into three primary areas. First, we are engaged in a series of studies examining dysfunctional social-cognitive processes of aggressive children and adolescents. Recently, we have examined the unique and shared social cognition problems of severely violent vs. moderately aggressive boys, and we have explored how certain aspects of social information processing (e.g. attributions are predictive of reactive aggression, while other components (e.g. outcome