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Roger Bakeman

Roger Bakeman

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Roger Bakeman

Emeritus    Psychology

Overview

Education

Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin, 1973

Specializations

Social development of infants and toddlers, observational methodology and data analysis

Biography

Running throughout my work is a concern with social interaction: how it is observed, how it is described, and how it is analyzed.

With Lauren B. Adamson I have observed infants and toddlers interacting with their mothers to study how such infants communicate—and how joint attention is transformed—before and as formal language is acquired in typically developing toddlers and toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down Syndrome.

With Vicenç Quera I have written a book, Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences (2011) as well as articles, an earlier book, and computer programs that describe general approaches and specific analytic strategies for the sequential analysis of systematic observational data. Our program, the General Sequential Querier (GSEQ) can be downloaded at sites.gsu.edu/bakeman/gseq/ or mangold-international.com/en/products/software/gseq.

And with John M. Gottman I wrote an earlier book, Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis (2nd ed., 1997) explaining procedural and analytic strategies for observational studies in general.

I have also worked with a number of colleagues, primarily analyzing archives of video-recorded interaction and other data. With Margaret O. Caughy, Margaret T. Owen, Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, and colleagues analyzing the communication development of Mexican American children; with Natacha Akshoomoff and colleagues analyzing cognitive development of children born preterm; with Sherryl Goodman analyzing interaction of mothers at risk for depression; with John Peterson analyzing effects of stress, coping, HIV status, psychosocial resources, and depressive mood in African American gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men; with Michael Compton analyzing effects of mental health awareness training (CIT, crisis intervention team) on police officers; and with Kim Oller analyzing functional flexibility of infant vocalization and the emergence of language.

Finally, with Josephine V. Brown (GSU, emeritus) I have observed preterm and fullterm infants and mothers interacting and have studied effects of early interaction patterns on their subsequent development.

Publications

Publications

Full Publication List, Google Scholar

Books and Selected Book Chapters

  • Bakeman, R., & Quera, V. (2023). Behavioral observation. In H. Cooper, M. N. Coutanche, L. M. McMullen, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: Vol. 1. Foundations, Planning, Measures, and Psychometrics (2nd ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-4338-4123-1) https://doi.org/10.1037/0000318-000
  • Bakeman, R., & Quera, V. (2011). Sequential analysis and observational methods for the behavioral sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139017343
  • Bakeman, R. (2006). The practical importance of findings. In K. McCartney, M. R. Burchinal, & K. L. Bub (Eds.), Best Practices in Quantitative Methods for Developmentalists (pp. 127–145). Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 71(3, Serial No. 285). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5834.2006.07103001.x
  • Bakeman, R., & Robinson, B. F. (2005). Understanding statistics in the behavioral sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410612625
  • Bakeman, R., & Gottman, J. M. (1997). Observing interaction: An introduction to sequential analysis (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527685

Recent Methodological Publications

  • Bakeman, R. (2022). KappaAcc: A program for assessing the adequacy of kappa. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01836-1
  • Bakeman, R., & Goodman, S. H. (2020). Interobserver reliability in clinical research: Current issues and discussion of how to establish best practices. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(1), 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000487
  • Bakeman, R., Quera, V., & Gnisci A. (2009). Observer agreement for timed-event sequential data: A comparison of time-based and event-based algorithms. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 137–147. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.41.1.137
  • Quera, V., Bakeman, R., & Gnisci, A. (2007). Observer agreement for event sequences: Methods and software for sequence alignment and reliability estimates. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 39–49. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03192842
  • Bakeman, R. (2005). Recommended Effect Size Statistics for Repeated Measures Designs. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 37, 379–384. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03192707

Selected Recent Publications

  • Suma, K., Caughy, M. O., Bakeman, R., Washington, J., Murray, B. K., & Owen, M. T., (2024). Active Direction: A New Observational Measure of African American Parenting.  Infant Behavior and Development, 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101955
  • Normand, S., Lambert, M., Bakeman, R., Guiet, J., Brendgen, M., & Yee Mikami, A. (2024). Targeting Peer Contagion Dynamics in Children with ADHD: Effects from a Two-Site Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 53(3), 473–488. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2335633
  • Adrian, J. A., Sawyer, C., Bakeman, R., Haist, F., & Akshoomoff, N. (2022). Longitudinal Structural and Diffusion-Weighted Neuroimaging of Young Children Born Preterm. Pediatric Neurology, 141, 34–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2022.12.008.
  • Compton, M. T., Krishan, S., Broussard, B., Bakeman, R., Fleischmann, M. H., Hankerson-Dyson, D. H., Husbands, L., Stewart, T., D’Orio, B., Oliva, J. R., & Watson, A. C. (2022). Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions.  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 83(4), 101814 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2022.101814
  • Liu, W., Perkhounkova, Y., Hein, M., Bakeman, R. (2022). Temporal relationships of person- and task-centered dementia care and mealtime behaviors: Sequential analysis. Innovation in Aging, 6(Suppl 1): 134. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.533
  • Normand, S., Lambert, M., Guiet, J., Brendgen, M., Bakeman, R., & Yee Mikami, A. (2022). Peer Contagion Dynamics in the Friendships of Children with ADHD. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13597
  • Pace, A., Rojas, R., Bakeman, R., Adamson¸ L. B., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Caughy, M. O., Owen, M. T., Suma, K. (2022). A longitudinal study of language use during early mother-child interactions in Spanish-speaking families experiencing low income. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(1):303–319. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00329
  • Adamson, L. B., Caughy, M. O., Bakeman, R. Rojas, R., Owen, M. T., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Pacheco, D., Pace A., Suma, K. (2021). The quality of mother-toddler communication predicts language and early literacy in low-income Mexican American children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 56, 167–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.03.006 0885-2006
  • Adamson, L. B., Suma, K., Bakeman, R., Kellerman, A., & Robins, D. L. (2021). Auditory joint attention skills: Development and diagnostic differences during infancy. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101560
  • Adamson, L. B., Bakeman, R., Suma, K., & Robins, D. L. (2020). Autism adversely affects auditory joint engagement during parent-toddler interactions. Autism Research, 14(2), 301–314. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2355
  • Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Caughy, M. O., Rojas, R., Bakeman, R., Pacheco, D., Owen, M. T., Adamson, L. B., Suma, K., & Pace, A. (2020). Culture, parenting, and language: respeto in latine mother-child interactions. Social Development, 29(3), 689–712. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12430
  • Compton, M. T., Bakeman, R., ..(submitted).  Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions.  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.
  • Adamson, L. B., Bakeman, R., Suma, K., & Robins, D. L. (2019a). An expanded view of joint attention: Skill, engagement, and language in typical development and autism. Child Development, 90, e1–e18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12973
  • Adamson, L. B., Bakeman, R., Suma, K., & Robins, D. L. (2019b). Sharing sounds: The development of auditory joint engagement during early parent–child interaction. Developmental Psychology, 55(12), 2491–2504. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000822
  • Hirsh-Pasek, K., Adamson, L. B., Bakeman, R., Owen, M. T., Golinkoff, R. M., Pace, A., Yust, P. K. S., & Suma, K. (2015). The contribution of early communication quality to low-income children’s language success. Psychological Science. 26(7), 1071–1083. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615581493