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Your topic is Daphne Bugental who works in the field of developmental and evolutionary psychology with a focus on vulnerable populations who experience stigma and neglect. Here is a link to her faculty profile: https://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/bugental The group members are: Anthony Randazzo and Arlybeth Rodriguez. Please work in this sandbox.

Daphne Bugental is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of social psychology, Child Psychology and focuses on closed relationships, in particular relationships in families. Bugental's research was recognized by the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award. She served through 2007 as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and is past Associate Editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2006-2009 Chair, Department of Psychology.

Biography
Bugental went to graduate school at The University of California, Los Angeles where she obtained her Ph.D in social psychology. She did her fellowship at the University of Iowa Social Psychophysiology Program.

Currently, she is working as a Psychology Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During her time at UCSB, she has served as area head of Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology and co-head of Social Psychology, and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Human Development. She has also served as Department Chair and Associate Dean/Acting Dean of the Graduate Division.

Some of her interests are:


 * Aggression, Conflict, Peace
 * Close Relationships
 * Evolution and Genetics
 * Interpersonal Processes

She is a past Associate Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She is a fellow of APA (social psychology, and developmental psychology), APS, and SPSSI (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues).

As a fellow Bugental received:


 * Society for Experimental Social Psychology
 * American Psychological Society
 * American Psychological Association (Social Psychology; Developmental Psychology)
 * Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Research conducted in my lab is concerned with the mechanisms that regulate social interaction, combining perspectives drawn from social, developmental, and evolutionary theory. In particular, our research has focused on the responses shown to populations often subject to social stigma or neglect, for example, children born at medical risk, individuals with disabilities, and older adults.

Her research and teaching contributions have been recognized by the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award and the (UC) Presidential Award for Service to Undergraduate Research.

Some awards and grants that Bugental recieved were:


 * Recipient of "Researcher of the Decade" award (Santa Barbara County Health Care Services) in 1997
 * UC Presidential Award for Excellence in Supporting Undergraduate Research in 1996
 * 1998-1999 UC Policy Seminar Award ($42,500) (P.I.)
 * 2001-2009 National Institutes of Mental Health ($2,000,000) "A Biosocial Model of Childhood Disability"

Research
Bugental is known for the Parent Attributions Test: The Parent Attribution Test (PAT) was developed to assess the perceived causes of caregiving success and failure. Respondents are asked for the importance they assign to potential causes of success or failure in a hypothetical caregiving situation. Scores on the PAT have been found to predict similar response patterns among both mothers and non-parental women. In both cases, those with a low perceived balance of control over caregiving failure (low PCF) have been found to be more reactive than other women to the "threat potential" of children. That is, the responses predicted for low PCF women are only observed when they are placed in an ambiguous or challenging caregiving or teaching interaction with children, or when they are asked to think about or anticipate an ambiguous or challenging interaction with children. Subjects report their perception of the relative importance of a set of potential causes of caregiving success, and a second set of potential causes of caregiving failure. Scoring is based upon 4 attributional categories: factors that are controllable by the adult, factors that are uncontrollable by the adult, factors that are controllable by the child, and factors that are uncontrollable by the child. The PAT may also be conceptualized as a chronically-accessible relationship schema. As such, it shares characteristics with other "biases" in the cognitive construction of relationships. The PAT is not intended for diagnostic use with individual parents. It was developed as a research instrument. It only predicts the extent to which parents with particular attribution patterns are at risk for use of harsh parenting tactics with “at risk” children (e.g., preterm children, children whose temperament pattern or medical condition poses a challenge).

Representative Publications

 * Bugental, D. B., Blue, J., & Cruzcosa, M. (1989). Perceived control over caregiving outcomes: Implications for child abuse. Developmental psychology, 25(4), 532.


 * Bugental, D. B. (2000). Acquisition of the algorithms of social life: A domain-based approach. Psychological bulletin, 126(2), 187.
 * Centers, R., & Bugental, D. E. (1966). Intrinsic and extrinsic job motivations among different segments of the working population. Journal of Applied Psychology, 50(3), 193.