Current Projects

Parents Under Pressure Study

The PUPS study, conducted by grad student, Ali, is examining the impact of parent-directed social media on parents' well-being. Parents are asked to share their experiences of engaging with parent-directed content on social media. The study involves a 1-hour visit to the lab for compensation. Reach out if you're interested in sharing your experiences as a parent/primary caregiver!

Designing a new early childhood measure of socioemotional development

As part of a UNL Grand Challenges project, we're working to develop a new measure of socio-emotional development for children aged 3 - 5 years. We're looking for as many early educators and parents/primary caregivers as possible to try the new measure with their children. Teachers/parents read an electronic story book with the child, fill in a short survey about the child's development, then tell us what they think about the measure.

Relation of early childhood educators' emotional wellbeing to children's self-regulation

With funding from NICHD and the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, we are working with collaborators in the College of Educational and Human Sciences at UNL to determine the relation of early childhood educators' own emotional wellbeing to children's self-regulation. These questions are supporting the development of the CHIME intervention, which aims to enhance early childhood educators' wellbeing, reflective practice, and socio-emotional learning.

Neural bases for reasoning about biological models

In the Neural basis of Modeling (NEMO) study, we've partnered with researchers in Life Sciences education at UNL to examine how biology students' brains respond to learning about biological models. We are looking specifically at whether students use brain regions related to executive function when reasoning about models in biology. The NEMO study is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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