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Our faculty are actively involved in funded research and are productive, highly-cited scholars. Our interdisciplinary approach and collaborative nature lends itself to a variety of research interests including but not limited to:

  • Aggression              
  • Attachment orientation
  • Aggression
  • Attachment orientation
  • Belief Systems
  • Child and adolescent peer relations
  • Child-free adults
  • Cooperation
  • Discrimination and prejudice
  • Health disparities
  • Life satisfaction
  • Moral development
  • Parent-child relationships
  • Personality development
  • Personality genomics
  • Replication
  • Romantic relationships
  • Self-esteem
  • Social network analysis
  • Stereotype knowledge and use
  • Well-being

 


Labs & Research Projects

ACES Lab: Dr. Kaston D. Anderson Jr.

Advancing Community Empowerment and Social Justice

ACES Lab

Cesario Social Cognition Lab: Dr. Joseph Cesario

Studying the cognitive, psychological, and behavioral responses related to information about social groups.

Social Cognition Lab

Moral Minds Lab: Dr. Meltem Yucel

Examining morality across different stages of life and in cultures around the world, learning how our social and moral thinking is shaped by the environments we grow up in.

Moral Minds Lab

Network Science: Dr. Zachary Neal

Developing methods for understanding social, economic, urban, transportation, and mathematical networks.

Networks

Origins of Personality Lab: Dr. Ted Schwaba

Studying the complex transactional tangle of genetic and environmental effects that combine to form our personalities.

Origins of Personality Lab

Personality and Well-Being Lab: Dr. Richard Lucas

Investigating a number of questions about personality processes, the factors that are associated with high levels of subjective well-being, and the associations between the two.

Personality and Well-Being Lab

Social Networks in Schools: Dr. Jennifer Watling Neal

Understanding the role of students' peer networks in shaping behavior, personality, and well-being and the role of educators' networks in facilitating the adoption and use of new programs and practices.

Social Networks in Schools

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