Anthony Volk
Associate Professor
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Volk is a developmental scientist interested in the area of parenting, bullying and personality. These broad areas of research lend themselves to a broad scope of theoretical and methodological approaches. A strong believer in multidisciplinary studies, Dr. Volk's overall interest is to gain an evolutionary, neurological, medical, cultural, social, and historical understanding of why parents do what they do. Dr. Volk's degrees in biology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and developmental psychology reflect an effort to gain that comprehensive understanding. For more information on Dr. Volk's research, please visit his research page. There are four main areas in which Dr. Volk focuses his primary research: infant-parent interactions, First Nations parenting, adolescent bullying and the evolution of childhood.
Research Interest
Bullying and Victimizaton; Parenting; Infant-Child Facial Cues; Personality and Psychopathy; Historical and Cross-Cultural Research; Evolutionary and Ecological Psychology
Publications
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Franklin, P., & Volk, A. A. (2017). Resemblance. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp.1-3). New York: Springer.
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Volk, A. A. (2017). Consolidating familial power. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp.1-2). New York: Springer.
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Volk, A. A. (2017). Function of Adoption. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-5). New York: Springer.
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Volk, A. A. (2017). Forms of Adoption. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp.1-5). New York: Springer.
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Volk, A. A. (2017). Adoption Preferences. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-4). New York: Springer.
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Farrell, A., Schiralli, K., & Volk, A. A. (2017). Factors that influence bullying. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-4). New York: Springer.
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Volk, A. A. (2017). Bullying when it’s hot? The CLASH model and climatic influences on bullying. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E40.
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Visser, B. A., Book, A., & Volk, A. (in press). Measuring the next president’s personality using an expert raters method. Sage Research Methods Cases Psychology.
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Volk, A.A., Veenstra, R., & Espelage, D. L. (2017). So you want to study bullying? Recommendations for enhancing the validity, transparency, and compatibility of bullying research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 36, 34-43.
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Franklin, P., & Volk, A. A. (2017). A review of infants' and children's facial cues' influence on adults' perceptions and behaviors. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 1-26.
