For my areas of interest: For over 10 years, my research has focused on how both independence and interdependence are played out in children’s developmental experiences. This work culminated in a book, Always Separate, Always Connected: Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development (2006). I am now building on that work by exploring issues of freedom from a psychological perspective. In addition, I completed a book on development with Oxford University Press, titled Exploring the Dynamics of Human Development: An Integrative Approach. I am now working on conceptualizing “the whole person” in terms of individual, social, cultural, bodily, and environmental processes, and in ways that are applicable to psychology in general.
