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5136 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 647-3683
 Steve Peck received his B.A. in Psychology from the California
State University, Long Beach in 1985; his M.A. in Experimental Social
Psychology from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1990; and his
Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from the University of Michigan in
1995. He uses a combination of variable- and pattern-centered methodological
approaches to study how multilevel systems of personal and environmental
contents, structures, and processes interact to promote or undermine more
or less healthy forms of human development. Work on multilevel systems
theory focuses on (a) integrating social, psychological, and biological
approaches to theories of human development and (b) integrating general
linear modeling with pattern-centered approaches to statistical modeling.
Work on the relations between extracurricular activities and healthy
development focuses on the extent to which youth characterized by various
combinations of personal and social risk can increase the probability of
cultivating healthy forms of development by engaging in various forms of
constructive activities and social settings. Work on the buffering effects
of racial/ethnic identities focuses on disentangling the effects of
person-level racial/ethnic identity on the perception and experience of
discrimination from the effects of context-level racial/ethnic identity
(and corresponding discrimination episodes) on mental and physical health
and development.
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