Dr. Annie Murray-Close is the Robert B. Lawson Green & Gold Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont. Dr. Murray-Close is a developmental psychologist and her research focuses on the development of aggressive behaviors and peer victimization in childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. Much of Dr. Murray-Close’s research explores forms of aggression more relatively common among girls and boys (i.e., relational aggression), in addition to forms more typical in boys (i.e., physical aggression). Relational aggression, defined as behaviors that harm others through the manipulation of interpersonal relationships, includes malicious gossip, giving others the “silent treatment,” or threatening to end a friendship. Dr. Murray-Close is particularly interested in psychophysiological processes that may contribute to aggressive behavior as well as alterations in stress system functioning that may emerge due to adverse experiences with peers.
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