Pamela Davis-Kean

Dr. Davis-Kean is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Quantitative Methods from Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development.

Dr. Davis-Kean's research and publications range from examining the self-concept of ability in mathematical achievement to how the socioeconomic status of parents (primarily parent educational attainment) relates to their parenting beliefs and behaviors. This research has been published in major developmental and family journals. She has been noted since 2022 as one of the top 2% of cited researchers in Developmental and Family Studies research. Dr. Davis-Kean is currently the President of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). 

 

Dr. Davis-Kean has been continually funded by NSF and NIH. Many of these grants have been to create new multidisciplinary collaborations.  For a decade, she directed an NSF grant to support an Integrative Development Science Center (CAPCA) focused on replication across longitudinal studies in multiple countries. She is an advocate and frequent speaker on the use of Open Science methods to increase rigor, transparency, and data sharing in the developmental and education science communities.