Associate Professor

Faculty Psychology Department

Faculty Developmental and Biological Psychology

Faculty/Consultant Child Study Center

mabell@vt.edu

540-231-2546
Psychology
333 Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Office Hours:
M 2:30-3:30
T 9:30-10:30
Th 9:30-10:30
Other times by appointment

Read My Curriculum Vita (PDF)

Research Lab website --- The C.A.P. Lab
http://www.psyc.vt.edu/labs/devcogneuro

Background

1996-2001 Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
1993-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of South Carolina
1993 Research Associate, Child Development Research Lab, University of Maryland
1992 Ph.D. Human Development, University of Maryland
1983 M.S. Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee
1978 B.S. Home Economics Education, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN

Research/Professional Interests

Developmental changes in brain-behavior relations during infancy and early childhood; developmental cognitive neuroscience (executive function, EEG, ECG); individual differences in development; integration of cognition and emotion in early development.

Recent Courses Taught

6944 - Adv Topics in Dev Psyc ("Cognition-Emotion Interactions in Early Dev.")
6944 - Adv Topics in Dev Psyc ("Developmental Affective Neuroscience")
5544 - Cognitive Development ("Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience")
4034 - Advanced Developmental Psychology (infant & child)
2034 - Developmental Psychology (life-span)

Publications

1) Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2010). Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

2) Bell, M.A., Greene, D.R., & Wolfe, C.D. (2010). Psychobiological mechanisms of cognition-emotion integration in early development. In S.D. Calkins & M.A. Bell (Eds.), Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition (pp. 115-132). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

3) Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2010). Putting the domains of development into perspective. In S.D. Calkins & M.A. Bell (Eds.), Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition (pp. 3-13). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

4) Bell, M.A., & Calkins, S.D. (2010). Integrating emotion and cognition in developmental research. In S.D. Calkins & M.A. Bell (Eds.), Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition (pp. 247-251). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.