CURRICULUM
VITAE
Margaret
Friend
2003-Present
Associate Professor
Department
of Psychology
San
Diego State University
Joint
Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders
San
Diego State University and University of California, San Diego
Center
for Research in Language
University
of California, San Diego
1997-2003
Assistant
Professor
San
Diego State University
Previous Positions
1995-1997
NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute
of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley
1995
NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow: Section
de Psychologie, Université de Genéve, Switzerland
1994
NICHD
Postdoctoral Fellow: Human Interaction Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry,
University
of California, San Francisco
1992-1994
Post-Graduate Researcher: Department
of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Education
1994, Ph.D., Phi Beta Kappa,
Developmental Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Thesis: "From prosodic to paralinguistic function: Implications for
affective development"
1991, M.S., Developmental
Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Thesis: "A comparison of content-masking procedures for obtaining
judgments of discrete
affective states"
1986, B.A., cum laude,
Psychology Honors Program, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Thesis: "Differences in the interpretation of discrepant messages by
normal and disturbed children"
Teaching
2003 Phi Beta Kappa, Recognition of Excellence in
Teaching
1997- present
Graduate Seminar in
Emotion Theory and Emotional Development
Psychology of Infant and
Child Development
Language Development
Advanced Laboratory in
Developmental Psychology
Thesis Supervision
1996-1997 University of California, Berkeley,
Postdoctoral Fellow
Undergraduate
Thesis Supervision
1995-1997University
of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellow
Undergraduate
Research and Directed Readings
Research Awards
2002-2004
NICHD
Small Grant, #1-R03-HD39751-01R, “Visual
Preference and Receptive Vocabulary in Infancy”
2001-2002
The
San Diego Foundation Blasker Grants Program Award, “An Infant-Based
Assessment of Early
Language Comprehension”
1998
San Diego State University Faculty
Development Award “Perception of Faces in Infancy and Early
Childhood.”
1994-1997
NICHD 3-Year Individual Postdoctoral
Fellowship, NRSA #1-F32-HD07893
"Affective communication during
early language acquisition"
1991
APA Travel Award, Developmental
Psychoacoustics Conference, Seattle, WA
1988-1990
NICHD Institutional Predoctoral
Fellowship, NRSA #T32-HD07318
1989
NICHD Visiting Scholar Fellowship,
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT
1986
Florida Educational Research and
Development Council Award #H EX H 85
"Differences
in the interpretation of discrepant messages by normal and disturbed
children."
Professional Memberships
Society for Research in Child
Development
International Society in Infant
Studies
Cognitive Development Society
Friend, M. (2001). Computer
Program Products for Assessing Language Comprehension in Infants and Children.
Provisional patent filed with the
U.S. Patent Office.
Friend, M. (2004, in press). On the implications of
curvilinear trajectories for cognitive development.
Journal of Cognition and Development,
special issue on curvilinear development.
Friend, M. & Keplinger, M. (2003). An
infant-based assessment of early lexicon acquisition.
Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 302-309.
Friend,
M. (2003). What should I do? Language, paralanguage, and behavior regulation in
early
childhood. Journal of Cognition and
Development, 161-183.
Friend, M., & Keplinger, M. (2001/2002). An infant-based assessment of early lexicon acquisition
(Version
1.0) [Computer Software]. San Diego, CA: San Diego State University.
Friend,
M. (2001). The transition from affective to linguistic meaning. First
Language, 21, 219-243.
Friend,
M. (2000). Developmental changes in sensitivity to vocal paralanguage. Developmental
Science, 3,
148-162.
Friend,
M. and Bryant, J. B. (2000) A developmental lexical bias in the interpretation
of discrepant messages.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46,
140-167.
Friend,
M. and Farrar, M. J. (1994). A
comparison of content-masking procedures for obtaining judgments
of discrete affective states. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 96, 1283-1290.
Friend,
M. and Davis, T. L. (1993). The
appearance-reality distinction:
Children's understanding of the
physical and affective domains. Developmental Psychology, 29,
907-914.
Farrar,
M. J., Friend, M.J., and Forbes, J.N. (1993). Event knowledge and early
language acquisition.
Journal of Child Language, 20,
591-606.
2004 Cognition, Brain, Behavior, and Development Colloquium Series,
Department of
Psychology, San Diego State University
2002
Developmental Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychology, University of
California,
Riverside
2002
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social-Cognitive-Emotional Development,
University of California,
San Diego
2002
MacArthur Child Development Inventories Board of
Advisors Annual Meeting, San Diego
2000 MacArthur Child Development Inventories Board of Advisors Annual
Meeting, San Diego
1998
Project in Cognitive and Neural Development,
Language Research Center, University of California,
San Diego
1997 Developmental Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology,
University of California, Berkeley
1995 Departmental Colloquium, Department of
Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
1994 Second Friday Seminar, Institute of Human
Development, University of California, Berkeley
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
Friend, M. (2004). The contributions of age and language acquisition to the emergence of a language bias
in
social referencing. In B. Morton (Chair), Understanding developmental
changes in perception of emotion in speech:
A converging methods approach, Symposium to be presented at the International Society for Behavioral Development,
Ghent, Belgium.
Friend,
M., Alongi, J., and Stecher, D. (2003). The utility of an extensive preferential looking
assessment of language
comprehension at 12 months of age.
Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah.
Friend,
M. (2002). Language
acquisition and social referencing: the emergence of a lexical bias. In M. Friend (Chair),
Affective and linguistic meaning from infancy through
early childhood, Symposium conducted at the meeting of the
International Society for the Study of
Behavioral Development, Ottawa, Canada.
Keplinger,
M. & Friend, M. (2002). Assessing vocabulary
comprehension in late infancy: Sustaining compliance with an
engaging computer interface. International Conference on
Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada.
Friend,
M., & Diaz, K. (2001). Relation
between parent report and child performance on vocabulary comprehension.
Early Lexicon Acquisition Conference,
Lyon, France.
Friend,
M. (2001). The transition from
affective to linguistic meaning in infancy and early childhood. Feelings
and Emotions:
The Amsterdam Symposium, The Netherlands.
Friend, M. & Beltran, M.
(2001). Behavior regulation by
language and paralanguage at 15 months.
Society for Research
in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Friend, M., Edwards, S., Diaz, K.,
& Bouwmeester, D. (2001). Consistency
of parental report: A comparison of checklist
and
exemplar-based measures of receptive vocabulary. Society for Research in
Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Friend,
M., Edwards, S., & Payawal, L. (1999). Exploration of experimental and
parental report measures of receptive vocabulary.
Cognitive Development Society, Chapel
Hill, NC.
Friend,
M. & Korsholm, L.., Heyming, H. (1998). The transition from affective to
linguistic meaning. International Conference in
Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Friend,
M. & Mahelona, C.L. (1997). The functional significance of facial,
vocal, and lexical signals:
Bridging
the gap between infancy and early childhood. Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.
Friend,
M. (1995). From prosodic to paralinguistic
function: Implications for affective development.
Geneva Emotion Week, Geneva, Switzerland.
Friend,
M. (1995). From prosodic to
paralinguistic function: Implications
for affective development.
Society
for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.
Farrar,
M.J. and Friend, M. (1993). Acoustical
markers of negative evidence.
Society for Research in
Child Development, New Orleans, LA.
Friend,
M. (1991). The use of acoustic information to discriminate between intended
affective states.
Society for Research in Child Development,
Seattle, WA.
Friend,
M. and Davis, T. (1991). The relationship between children's understanding
of physical and
affective appearance-reality
distinctions. Society for Research
in Child Development, Seattle, WA.
Ayers, K., Friend, M., Davis, T. FitzGerald, D., Forbes, J., Nassau, G., Rennert, E., Seier, W., & Zlokovich, M. (1990).
Children's understanding of the
appearance-reality distinction in physical and affective domains. The Conference on Human
Development, Richmond, VA.
Farrar,
M. J., Friend, M., & Forbes, J., (1990). Event expertise and early
lexical development. The
Conference on Human Development, Richmond,
VA.
Farrar,
M. J., & Friend, M. (1989). Event knowledge and early semantic development:
a comparison of
experts and novices. The Society for Research in Child
Development, Kansas City, MO.
Friend,
M. and Becker, J. A. (1987). Differences in the interpretation of discrepant
messages by normal and disturbed children.
Society for Research in Child Development,
Baltimore, MD.
Keplinger,
M., Rosas, P., & Friend, M. (April, 2003). The composition of early
vocabulary comprehension in American-English
and Mexican-Spanish. Society for
Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Friend, M., Keplinger, M., Rosas, P., Hill, E., & Abdallah, N. (April, 2003). Early language comprehension in
American-English and Mexican-Spanish. College
of Sciences Open House, Future Aztecs Day, San Diego State University.
Keplinger, M. & Friend,
M. (May, 2002). Parent prediction of child performance as a function of word
class. 16th Annual
California
State University Student Research Competition and Conference. Long Beach, CA.
Diaz, K. & Friend, M.
(May, 2002). Parent evaluation of child language acquisition: The effects of
perceived contextual flexibility
on parent report consistency. 16th Annual
California State University Student Research Competition and Conference. Long
Beach, CA.
Friend,
M., Edwards, S., Diaz, K., & Bouwmeester, D. (April, 2001). Consistency of parental report: A
comparison of checklist
and exemplar-based measures of
receptive vocabulary. College of
Sciences Open House, Future Aztecs Day, San Diego State University.
Payawal, L. & Friend,
M. (April, 2000). Validation study on children’s perception of facial
expressions in line drawings and photographs.
College of Sciences Open
House, Future Aztecs Day, San Diego State University.