About: Life Fellows

Antonia Abbey (USA) received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan and a faculty position at Pennsylvania State University, she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Community Medicine at Wayne State University. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University. Toni was trained at a time when social psychologists were beginning to evaluate their theories in real world settings and her dissertation examined how rape victims’ attributions affected their adjustment. She switched her research focus to understanding the etiology of perpetration in order to generate knowledge needed to design evidence-based primary prevention programs. Most of her research has been funded by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She has served on a variety of U.S. national advisory committees focused on sexual assault prevention and etiology for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute of Justice, and the Pentagon. In 2016, Dr. Abbey received the American Psychological Association Division 35 Strickland Daniel Mentoring Award. She is a past Associate Editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly and past Editor-in-Chief for Psychology of Violence.

Kenneth A. Dodge (USA) received his Ph.D. in psychology (clinical and developmental) from Duke University. After serving in faculty positions at Indiana University, the University of Colorado, and Vanderbilt University, he joined the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in 1998 as the William McDougall Distinguished Professor. Ken is interested in how violent behaviors develop across the life span and across generations, how cognitive and brain mechanisms mediate violent behaviors, how these behaviors can be prevented in children and parents, and how public policy can be shaped to improve population outcomes. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the NIH-funded Fast Track randomized controlled trial, a multi-site intervention experiment testing the efficacy of a 10-year-long program designed to prevent serious problem behavior in high-risk children. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH Merit Award-funded Family Connects randomized trial, a universal home-visiting intervention at birth to lower the population rate of child maltreatment. He has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, Ken received ISRA’s J.P. Scott Award for Lifetime Contribution to Aggression Research. He has served as an elected Council Member of ISRA since 2016.

Terrie E. Moffitt (USA) received her PhD in psychology at the University of Southern California and completed her postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She is Professor of Social Development, King’s College, London, and Nannerl Keohane University Professor of Psychology, Duke University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in neuropsychological assessment. She is the associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in Britain. She is an elected fellow of the US National Academy of Medicine, Association of Psychological Science, American Society of Criminology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Political & Social Sciences, the British Academy, and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. She is recipient of the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the Stockholm Prize, the Klaus Jacobs Prize, the NARSAD Ruane Prize, the 2022 Grawemeyer Prize for her work on mental health, and the Matilda White Riley Award. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Basel, University of Leuven, University of Cyprus, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also enjoys working on her poison-ivy farm in North Carolina.