Shawn Whiteman

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

Human Development and Family Studies

Dr. Shawn D. Whiteman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS). He joined the faculty in HDFS at Utah State in 2016 after spending the first 11 years of his career at Purdue University. Broadly, Dr. Whiteman conducts research on the connections between family socialization processes and youth’s health and socio-emotional adjustment. He is specifically interested in how siblings directly and indirectly act as sources of social influence and social comparison within families and how their family experiences foster similarities and differences in their relationship qualities, attributes, and health-related behaviors.

Dr. Whiteman’s research program is productive and impactful. To date, Dr. Whiteman has published 51 peer reviewed articles (15 since 2016) and 13 academic chapters and encyclopedia entries (four since 2016).Furthermore, his work is highly cited: He has an h-index of 28 and 3,182(1,385 since 2016) citations according to Google Scholar. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Whiteman has secured almost $3 million ($2.4 million since 2016) in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his work. As a Co-Investigator he has contributed to grants totaling over $4 million from sources such as the NIH and Department of Defense.