Frederick J. Morrison, Ph.D.
Frederick J. Morrison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Combined Program in
Education and Psychology and Research Professor, Survey Research Center,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann
Arbor, Michigan 48109.
Fredrick J. Morrison is a professor of psychology and a professor in the Combined
Program in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan. In
recent years, his research has focused on understanding the nature and sources
of children's cognitive, literacy, and social development throughout the school
transition period. His work ranges from conducting basic research studies utilizing
natural experiments and large-scale,
longitudinal, descriptive studies of
children's developmental trajectories to developing, implementing, and evaluating
two major interventions aimed at improving children's learning during
the preschool and early school years. Recently, he has been exploring schooling
effects on brain and behavior measures of children's self-regulation.