Dr. Richard E. Heyman is a Research Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on 30 grants/contracts from federal funders, including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and Department of Defense. He is the author of over 80 publications in scientific journals and scientific books. Dr. Heyman's research program has focused on the development and maintenance of family problems, with a strong focus on family maltreatment and relationship distress. Dr. Heyman's current studies investigate these phenomena from the most microsocial (e.g., Do automatic, overlearned processes drive anger escalation in couples? What dyadic processes underlie both anger de-escalation and coercive escalation? Are these processes or abusive beliefs largely responsible for partner abuse in community couples?) to the most macrosocial (e.g., Is it possible to drive down the prevalence of partner abuse, child maltreatment, suicidality, and substance problems by intervening on a population's risk factors, not on the problems themselves?). Dr. Heyman's research program includes a keen interest on methodological issues, especially on identifying and rectifying problems with measurement tools. Dr. Heyman directs the Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System coding center, which codes couples observations for the FTRG and for labs across the world.
