Updated 1-8-03

                                                              CURRICULUM VITAE

 

                                                               Margaret Friend

 

Present Position

 

            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

 

Patent

 

Friend, M. (2001). Computer Program Products for Assessing Language Comprehension in Infants and Children.

Provisional patent filed with the U.S. Patent Office.

 

Publications

 

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.

 

Invited Presentations

 

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.

 

Student Research Presentations

 

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.