David Witherington
 Associate
Professor
Email: dcwither@unm.edu
Office: Logan 112
Office Hours: Mondays, 1-3 p.m.
Phone: 277-4805
Degree Received
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Research Interests
Emotional development;
perception-action development; development of intentionality
and self in infancy. Current research focus in emotional development
centers on the development of anger in infancy, longitudinally
charting transformation in the organization of infant anger and
investigating the processes by which transitions in infant anger
occur. Current research focus in perception-action development
centers on the early development of prospective control, or future-oriented
action, with emphasis on how experience with newly developing motor
skills facilitates new levels of future-orientation in infant action.
Specific projects involve study of visually-guided reaching in
relation to anticipatory grasping and study of independent walking
in relation to anticipatory postural adjustments during standing.
In addition, new projects on the psychological consequences of
walking experience and on the mechanisms underlying young infants'
preference for attractive faces are now underway. Work in both
emotional development and perception-action development targets
the nature of intentional action in infancy and the development
of an “ecological self” more broadly.
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