A long-standing major focus of my research has been on the development of children's Mastery Motivation, indicated by their persistence and pleasure in attempting to master challenging problems. More recently, I have drawn upon my broad research and teaching experience to write textbooks and articles on Research Methods and the use and interpretation of SPSS. I have published 9 books and about 90 journal articles and book chapters on these topics.

Over the years, I taught or coordinated a wide variety of courses in psychology, child development, consumer and family studies, and education. These include: introductory, developmental, educational, social, and experimental psychology; research methods; applied statistics;consumer behavior; and seminars in higher education. At NICHD, the College of Charleston, and Colorado State (CSU), I have mentored a number of graduate students, interns, and post doctoral-level investigators in psychology, human development, and merchandising. Since 1992, I have been adviser and/or the quantitative methodologist on over fifty Ph.D. dissertations in many aspects of education and human resource studies. I have also served on many other M.S. and Ph.D. committees at CSU as well as provided research advice to numerous graduate students.

As you can see from my vita, from the 1960's to 1995, I had extensive administrative experience in higher education, including as an assistant and associate dean, director of institutional research, program officer at NIH and department head at CSU.

I have been married for almost 50 years to Hildegarde Swanson Morgan, have two married children, Art and Lisa, and three grandchildren, Morgan, Samantha and Nia. In addition to family, I have a personal interest in genealogy and have visited all 391 U.S. National Parks since 1997.