Marion K. Underwood is an American psychologist and dean of

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's College of Health and Human Sciences, a position she assumed on August 1, 2018.Huckaby, M. (April 20, 2018)
"UT Dallas dean to take helm of Purdue's Health and Human Sciences"
Purdue University press release, retrieved November 20, 2018.Staff writer (April 23, 2018)
"Purdue names health and human sciences dean"
''Inside INdiana Business''. Retrieved on November 20, 2018.Piper, J. (May 31, 2018)
"Transitions: Missouri State campus selects its first female chancellor, U. of Southern California resigns"
''The Chronicle of Higher Education''. Retrieved on November 20, 2018. She is a researcher in social aggressionCNN Press Room (September 10, 2015)
"CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° breaks news about teens and social media in provocative two-year long investigation"
Retrieved on November 20, 2018. and is a fellow of the

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Career

Underwood graduated from

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in 1986 and received her Ph.D. in

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1991. She joined the faculty at

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

in 1991, where she received tenure.Marion K. Underwood CV
(November 2017), retrieved on November 20, 2018. From 1998 to 2018, she had various roles at the

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. In 2008, she was named to an Endowed Chair, as Ashbel Smith Professor."Endowed Chairs & Professorships"
UT Dallas. Retrieved on November 20, 2018. From 2015 to 2018, she served as dean of graduate studies and associate provost. Her research has been funded by the

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since 1995.Society for Research in Child Development (2019)
"Lunch with the Leaders Biographies"
2019 Biennial Meeting Program. Retrieved on December 13, 2018. She studies social aggression (also known as

relational aggression Relational aggression or alternative aggressionSimmons, Rachel (2002). ''Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls''. New York, New York: Mariner Books. pp. 8–9. . Retrieved 2016-11-02. is a type of aggression in which harm is cause ...

) in children and teens as well as adolescents' use of social media, text messaging, and other digital forms of communication. Her work has been seen on

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, ''

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'', and ''

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'', among others.Dell'Atonia, K. (October 5, 2015)
"Seven ways parents can help 13-year-olds start their social media lives right"
''The New York Times''. Retrieved on December 13, 2018.Senior, J. (August 4, 2018)

''The New York Times'', Opinion. Retrieved on December 13, 2018.Roberts, K. (February 26, 2014)
"The psychology of begging to be followed on Twitter"
''The Atlantic''. Retrieved on December 13, 2018.

BlackBerry project

As part of a longitudinal study, Underwood provided free

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s to ninth-graders in exchange for permission to study the teens' text messages.''ScienceDaily'' (September 9, 2013)
"Antisocial texting by teens linked to bad behavior"
Retrieved on December 13, 2018. On average, each student sent 1,321 text messages per month (about 43 per day).Bristol, T. (August 2, 2011)

''Journal Review''. Retrieved on December 13, 2018. Underwood and her colleagues found that less than 2% of text messages had antisocial content (such as rule-breaking, drug use, physical aggression, or property crimes.) Many of the text messages included teens "building each other up" and providing support.

Selected works

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References

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