Dr. Paquette MacEvoy's areas of interest are: children's peer relations, with a particular focus on children's friendships and experiences of aggression in the peer group; children鈥檚 social and emotional development; developmental and gender differences in the value kids place on having friends; how children cope with conflicts in their friendships; loneliness among children and adolescents; interventions to improve children's friendships; and gender differences in how children express anger and aggression toward their peers.
Dr. Paquette MacEvoy has written extensively on her research including, 鈥淔riendship Expectations and Children鈥檚 Friendship-related Behavior and Adjustment鈥� (Merrill-Palmer Quarterly); 鈥淐hildren鈥檚 Sympathy for Peers Who are the Targets of Peer Aggression鈥� (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology); and the following co-authored articles: 鈥淲hen Friends Disappoint: Boys' and Girls' Responses to Transgressions of Friendship Expectations鈥� (Child Development); 鈥淟oneliness鈥� (Encyclopedia of Adolescence); 鈥淏ullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention; 鈥淚nitial Validation of a Knowledge-Based Measure of Social Information Processing and Anger Management (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology); 鈥� Low-Level Aggression in the Schools: Issues and Interventions鈥� (Current Topics In Pediatrics in the Schools); and 鈥淐hildren鈥檚 Peer Relations, Social Competence and School Adjustment: A Social Tasks and Social Goals Perspective (Advances in Motivation and Achievement).听
