M. Belinda Tucker is a social psychologist and is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also a faculty associate in the Bunche Center for African American Studies. She also holds an appointment in the Center for Culture and Health in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Tucker directs the Family Research Consortium IV, which is a national network of family mental health scholars, as well as the postdoctoral training program associated with the FRC IV. Tucker has a primary interest in understanding the changing character, role, and functions (social and psychological) of family in this society generally, and how they may be differentially experienced by distinct cultural groupings. Other research topics being explored are inter-ethnic relationships, mid-life adaptation among developmentally disabled adults, and adolescent development, and the impact on families of incarceration.