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Debbie Laible is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University. Her research examines the socialization of moral development, prosocial behavior, and racial attitudes in children and adolescents. Utilizing a family stress framework, she investigates how economic risk, maternal mental health, and child self-regulation intersect to shape parent-child communication and moral outcomes, with a focus on ethnic variability in these processes.
- Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; B.A. in Psychology (Summa Cum Laude) from Brandeis University.
Dr. Laible's work emphasizes the dual importance of broad relational qualities (warmth, security) and specific relational processes (emotion discourse, guilt induction) in fostering moral understanding. She explores how White children and adolescents acquire racial attitudes from parents and how these influence compassionate vs. discriminatory behaviors, collaborating with researchers like Drs. Spinrad, Eisenberg, and Carlo.
Her scholarship, published in top journals such as Child Development and Developmental Psychology, includes longitudinal studies on maternal sensitivity, parent-child communication, and the development of moral emotions. She has secured grants from the Timberlawn Foundation, NICHD, and the Templeton Foundation.
- Email: del205@lehigh.edu
- Phone: 610.758.5914
- Office: Chandler-Ullmann room 126
Dr. Laible leads the Emotional Development Lab, focusing on how relationships shape children's emotional and moral growth. Her recent work examines cross-racial prosociality, color-blind vs. color-conscious racial ideologies, and the moderating role of child self-regulation in parenting effects.
