Interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow Erika Lunkenheimer, Ph.D., researches parent–child interaction and child self-regulation from a developmental psychopathology framework. She is interested in how adaptive and maladaptive parenting behaviors relate to trajectories of children's self-regulation, school readiness, and behavior problems in early childhood. She also studies dyadic parent–child interaction processes as mechanisms of change in preventive family intervention. Her research involves the use of dyadic and dynamic systems analytic methods to capture patterns of microsocial interpersonal interaction.