Meet Our Research Groups
Dr. Enrique Varela and his lab members: Kathryn Moore, Lauren Hensley, Heather Brandt, and Christiane Creveling.
Dr. Varela's research group focuses on the development of anxiety in youth with a particular emphasis on cultural, familial, and cognitive influences in this process. Current research examines 1) individual and contextual factors that serve to maintain maladaptive post trauma responses over long periods of time, and 2) the relationship between emotion processing and anxiety development from a cross-cultural perspective. They have a special interest in the mental health of Latino youth and a component of their research involves data collection in Latin America.
Dr. Michael Cunningham and his lab members: Samantha Francois, Rosa Maria Mulser, Charles Corprew, Kyle Hucke, and Trask-Tate Angelique. Dr. Cunningham's research group's primary research interests include examining adolescent development in diverse contexts. Specifically, they examine gender-specific attitudes and behaviors associated with resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents.
Dr. Jeffrey Lockman's Lab
Backrow: Sascha Kahrs
Second row: Wendy Jung, shubho sarkar, Jeff Lockman, LeeAnn Carnes
Front row: Qi Li, Sara Redahan, Jackie Smink, and Chelsea Gilliam.
Dr. Lockman's research group's research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. The research lab studies the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Further, their research includes work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features.
Dr. Stacy Overstreet and her lab members: Tara Matthews, Berre Burch, Jill West, Jennifer Kuhn, Amie Grady, and Kelly Holmes. Dr. Overstreet and her research group's interests focus broadly on children at risk for maladjustment due to the presence of chronic stressors in their lives. Dr. Overstreet's lab is currently conducting research aimed at understanding the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans youth. In addition,they are conducting a study examining attentional deficits and neuroendocrine functioning in youth with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Lisa Szechter's lab:
From the back left, the lab members are: Elizabeth Carey, Daniel
McGinnis, Emily Disston, Rachele Whorley, Alison Terry, Jenna Rosen,
Kathryn Naglick, Maura Donnelly, Corinne Libby, Jessica Wiener, and Dr. Lisa Szechter.
Dr. Szechter and her research group are interested in how children learn in out of school environments. Their current work is addressed to examining the nature of parent-child and school group visits to LIGO SEC, an informal science education center housed in an active gravitational-wave observatory. Dr. Szechter is particularly
interested in the relationship between informal learning experiences and children's attitudes toward science.
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