About SSEA
SSEA Leadership
President (2019-2021):
Larry J. Nelson, Brigham Young University
Dr. Larry J. Nelson is Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham
Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the
University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Nelson studies factors that lead to
flourishing or floundering in the transition to adulthood with a particular
interest in parenting, social competence, social withdrawal, identity, beliefs,
and culture. He also studies factors (e.g., parenting, culture,
self-perceptions) related to children's social development with an emphasis in
shy and withdrawn behaviors in early childhood.