Education & Training
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interest Summary
Research Interests
Communicative behavior in typical development and in children at heightened risk for an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis; history of psychology, history of early American psychology with a particular focus on the life and work of pioneering developmental psychologist, James Mark Baldwin
Representative Publications
Wozniak, R.H., Leezenbaum, N.B., Northrup, J.B., West, K.L., & Iverson, J.M. (2016). The development of autism spectrum disorders: Variability and causal complexity. WIREs Cognitive Science.
Iverson, J.M. & Wozniak, R.H. (2016). Transitions to intentional and symbolic communication. In D. Keen, H. Meadan, N. Brady, & J. Halled (Eds.), Prelinguistic and Minimally Verbal Communicators on the Autism Spectrum (pp. 51-72). New York: Springer.
Wozniak, R.H. & Santiago-Blay, J. (2013). Trouble at Tyson Alley: James Mark Baldwin's arrest in a Baltimore bordello. History of Psychology, 16(4), 227-248.
Winder, B.M., Wozniak, R.H., Parlade, M.V., & Iverson, J.M. (2013). Spontaneous initiation of communication in infants at low and heightened risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders. Developmental Psychology, 49(10), 1931-1942.
Nickel, L.R., Thatcher, A.R., Keller, F., Wozniak, R.H., & Iverson, J.M. (2013). Posture development in infants at heightened versus low risk for autism spectrum disorders. Infancy, 18(5), 639-661.
Wozniak, R.H. (2009). Consciousness, social heredity, and development: The evolutionary thought of James Mark Baldwin. American Psychologist, 64, 93-101.
Wozniak, R.H. (2009). James Mark Baldwin, professional disaster, and the European connection. Rassegna di Psicologia, 26, 111-128.
Wozniak, R.H. (1999). Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914: Historical Essays. Bristol: Thoemmes Press; Toyko: Maruzen Co., Ltd.
Wozniak, R.H. (1992). Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James. Bethesda, MD and Washington D.C.: National Library of Medicine and American Psychological Association.