Profile
Dr. Peter Marks
Title: Professor of Psychology
Department: Psychology
Degrees:
Ph.D., Child Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2010
M.A., Child Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2007
B.A., Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California 2005
M.A., Child Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2007
B.A., Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California 2005
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Courses Taught
- Psychology 101: General Psychology
- Psychology 201: Research Methods
- Psychology 296: Life-Span Psychology
- Psychology 350: Psychology of Aging
- Psychology 350: Adolescence
- Psychology 350: Psychology of Media
- Psychology 496: Parent, Peer, and Media Socialization
Research Interests
My primary research area is in child and adolescent peer relationships, particularly adolescent status and popularity. I want to know what popularity is, why it is so important to adolescents, and how it affects adolescent thinking and behavior. As part of my interest in popularity and peers, I have been involved in research analyzing aggression, physical attractiveness, friendship, and academic achievement. More recently, my published research has been focused on methodology, measurement, and analysis of peer relationships and interpersonal behavior, with a goal of improving the quality of future investigations.
Select Publications
Marks, P. E. L., Babcock, B., van den Berg, Y. H. M., & Cillessen, A. H. N. (in press). Effects of including versus excluding nonparticipants as potential nominees in peer nomination measures. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42.
Babcock, B., Marks, P. E. L., van den Berg, Y. H. M., & Cillessen, A. H. N. (2018). Implications of systematic nominator missingness for peer nomination data. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42, 148-154.
Marks, P. E. L. (2017). Introduction to the special issue: 20th-century origins and 21st-century developments of peer nomination methodology. In P. E. L. Marks & A. H. N. Cillessen (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development: No. 157. New directions in peer nomination methodology (pp. 7-19). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Cillessen, A. H. N., & Marks, P. E. L. (2017). Methodological choices in peer nomination research. In P. E. L. Marks & A. H. N. Cillessen (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development: No. 157. New directions in peer nomination methodology (pp. 21-44). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Marks, P. E. L., Cillessen, A. H. N., & Babcock, B. (in press). Relations between alphabetized name order and nomination counts in peer nomination measures. Social Development.
Marks, P. E. L., Babcock, B., & Cillessen, A. H. N. (2015). On the empirical identification and evaluation of “expert nominators.” International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39, 186-193.
Babcock, B., Marks, P. E. L., Crick, N. R., & Cillessen, A. H. N. (2014). Limited nomination reliability using single- and multiple-item measures. Social Development, 23, 518-536.
Marks, P. E. L., Babcock, B., Cillessen, A. H. N., & Crick, N. R. (2013). The effects of participation rate on the internal reliability of peer nomination measures. Social Development, 22, 609-622.
Marks, P. E. L., Cillessen, A. H. N., & Crick, N. R. (2012). Popularity contagion among adolescents. Social Development, 21, 501-521. Cillessen, A. H. N., & Marks, P. E. L. (2011). Conceptualizing and measuring popularity. In A. H. N. Cillessen, D. Schwartz, & L. Mayeux (Eds.), Popularity in the peer system (pp. 25-56). New York: Guildford Press.