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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Sandra Graham is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a total of 42 publications in Social Sciences and 17 in Psychology. The subfields they focus on include Education, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their specific research topics cover a range of issues related to education and social development. These topics include Early Childhood Education and Development, Parental Involvement in Education, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Education Discipline and Inequality, and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Sandra Graham's recent papers include the following:

  • "An attributional theory of motivation," 2020, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • "Young Adult Adaptability to the Social Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Protective Role of Friendships," 2022, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Do I Fit In: Race/Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School," 2022, Educational Psychology Review
  • "Reducing Prejudice Through Promoting Cross-Group Friendships," 2021, Review of General Psychology
  • "How Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Urban Schools Shapes Intergroup Relations and Well-Being: Unpacking Intersectionality and Multiple Identities Perspectives," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sandra Graham include:

  • Kara Kogachi
  • Jessica Morales-Chicas
  • Negin Ghavami
  • Xiaochen Chen
  • April Z. Taylor

The venues where Sandra Graham has frequently published are:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence (3 publications)
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology (2 publications)
  • Educational Psychology Review (1 publication)
  • Review of General Psychology (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (1 publication)

Awards received by Sandra Graham include:

  • E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2008
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1997

Best Publications

  • Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: evidence for a dual systems model.

    Laurence Steinberg;Dustin Albert;Elizabeth Cauffman;Marie Banich

  • Bullying Among Young Adolescents: The Strong, the Weak, and the Troubled

    Jaana Juvonen;Sandra Graham;Mark A. Schuster;Mark A. Schuster

  • Age Differences in Future Orientation and Delay Discounting

    Laurence D. Steinberg;Sandra Graham;Lia O’Brien;Jennifer Woolard

  • Theories and principles of motivation.

    Sandra Graham;Bernard Weiner

  • Self-blame and peer victimization in middle school: an attributional analysis.

    Sandra Graham;Jaana Juvonen

  • Bullying in schools: The power of bullies and the plight of victims

    Jaana Juvonen;Sandra H. Graham

  • Peer harassment, psychological adjustment, and school functioning in early adolescence.

    Jaana Juvonen;Adrienne Nishina;Sandra Graham

  • Juveniles' competence to stand trial: a comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendants.

    Thomas Grisso;Laurence Steinberg;Jennifer Woolard;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • "Most of the subjects were White and middle class": Trends in published research on African Americans in selected APA journals, 1970–1989.

    Sandra Graham

  • Peer harassment in school : the plight of the vulnerable and victimized

    Jaana Juvonen;Sandra Graham

  • Motivation in African Americans

    Sandra Graham

  • Subtypes, severity, and structural stability of peer victimization: what does latent class analysis say?

    Karen Nylund;Amy Bellmore;Adrienne Nishina;Sandra Graham

  • Age differences in affective decision making as indexed by performance on the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Elizabeth Cauffman;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Laurence Steinberg;Eric Claus

  • The Transition to High School as a Developmental Process Among Multiethnic Urban Youth

    Aprile D. Benner;Sandra Graham

  • Motivational influences on cognition : task involvement, ego involvement, and depth of information processing

    Sandra Graham;Shari Golan

  • Ethnic Diversity and Perceptions of Safety in Urban Middle Schools

    Jaana Juvonen;Adrienne Nishina;Sandra Graham

  • Ethnicity, peer harassment, and adjustment in middle school: An exploratory study.

    Sandra Graham;Jaana Juvonen

  • Are adolescents less mature than adults?: minors' access to abortion, the juvenile death penalty, and the alleged APA "flip-flop"

    Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman;Jennifer Woolard;Sandra Graham

  • An Attributional Intervention to Reduce Peer‐directed Aggression among African‐American Boys

    Cynthia Hudley;Sandra Graham

  • A review of attribution theory in achievement contexts

    Sandra Graham

  • Pity, Anger, and Guilt An Attributional Analysis

    Bernard Weiner;Sandra Graham;Carla Chandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaana Juvonen
Jaana Juvonen University of California, Los Angeles
Bernard Weiner
Bernard Weiner University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Bellmore
Amy Bellmore University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Aprile D. Benner
Aprile D. Benner The University of Texas at Austin
Patrick H. Tolan
Patrick H. Tolan University of Virginia
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
Oscar A. Barbarin
Oscar A. Barbarin University of Maryland, College Park

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