H. Hill Goldsmith

PI: Project 3, Core C

Hill Goldsmith is Fluno Bascom Professor and Leona Tyler Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Goldsmith is also the Coordinator of the Social and Affective Processes Group at the University's Waisman Center. He has received numerous honors and awards, including a Research Career Development Award from NICHD and a MERIT award from NIMH. He was elected Fellow of AAAS and has served in several advisory roles at NIH. At UW-Madison, Dr. Goldsmith has held various leadership positions, including chair of the Department of Psychology.

Goldsmith is recognized as a leading theorist of human temperament and a key empirical contributor to the fields of developmental behavioral genetics and childhood psychopathology. Dr. Goldsmith's Conte Center-related research concerns genetic contributions to children's affective development. The research incorporates perspectives of psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and developmental epidemiology.

Dr. Goldsmith's broader research program involves many UW faculty and colleagues at other institutions. Specific topics include the genetic epidemiology of autism, objective behavioral measurement of temperament and the functional significance of temperament for psychopathology, pediatric sensory over-responsiveness, the roles of gene-environment interplay in childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and longitudinal risk factors for anxiety, depression, and disinhibition. Goldsmith has published approximately 140 professional articles and chapters and has a long history of grant support from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations.

Publications

A list of the publications from Dr. Goldsmith can be found here.