Janet Kistner

Janet Kistner is a Professor at Florida State University's Department of Psychology, where she currently serves as Vice President for Faculty Development and Advancement and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Her research focuses on developmental psychopathology, particularly examining children's responses to stress and failure, problematic social interactions, and learning/behavior problems in children.

• Key Research Themes: Developmental trajectories of psychopathology, causal attributions, coping styles, rumination, aggression, and academic/social adjustment.
• Methodology: Studies children at risk for psychopathology through longitudinal analyses of self-perceptions and cognitive patterns.

Her recent work (2006-2010) explores sex differences in aggression, rumination subtypes, and the impact of self-perception biases on mental health outcomes. She mentors students in investigating how cognitive patterns like helplessness exacerbate psychopathology risk.

Education: State University of New York at Binghamton (1981)