Professor Huesmann leads the University of Michigan Aggression Research Program, and has appointments as a Professor of Communications Studies and as Senior Research Scientist at the Research Center for Group Dynamics of the Institute for Social Research. He is a fellow and past president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the International Communication Association.
Professor Huesmann's research interests include aggressive behavior and development of aggressive behavior in children. He is a nationally known authority on the role of media violence in the development of aggressive, violent and criminal behavior, especially among children and young adults. He is also interested in social cognition and informational processing models of social behavior; multivariate statistics, structural modeling, growth curve analysis.