Why do some teens step up to help while others pull back? . Our new study finds that adolescents' physiological responses to emotion, especially in social contexts, like talking about disappointment, shapes their capacity for empathy & prosociality.

Grateful to have chaired such a thoughtful and generative symposium at #SRCD2025. It was a privilege to share the stage with these brilliant scholars to discuss the links between #emotion regulation and #prosociality. Thank you to everyone who joined us! #SRCD2025 #SRCDtweets

RT @SRAdolescence: Curious about the power of creativity during adolescence? For National Creativity Day, we wanted to share the perfect ar….

Just visited the amazing Cultural Resilience Learning Center at UC Irvine! Blown away by their forward-thinking research and the passionate team. Excited to see their work make a real difference!

Feel free to stop by for my talk this Sunday (9:30am) @WPAwesternpsych convention!. I’ll be sharing some recent findings that @JoeVenticinque1 and I have been working on examining adolescents’ prosocial and antisocial behaviors predicting neural susceptibility to peer influence.

Thrilled and honored to be a recipient of the 2024 APS Student Grant Competition Award! . I can’t wait to use the funds to support my dissertation research exploring the #psychophysiology of #adolescent #emotion, #regulation, and #prosocial behaviors. Thank you, @PsychScience !.

RT @SocDevJournal: 🚨 New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨. Childhood and adolescent popularity are uniquely and differentially associated with se….

We’re recruiting adolescents (11-15 years old) for our study! If you know any families in the greater Sacramento area, please feel to spread the word! . To enroll: For more information, email us: herdlab@ucdavis.edu

“Other generations are telling us that we’re a weak generation…But we’re in a new world experiencing new things . They haven’t experienced half of what we’ve experienced.”. This article is a powerful reminder to consider the unique lived experiences of today’s #adolescents.

Thank you so much to @CamHostinar for her amazing seminar on Preparing Materials for the #AcademicJobMarket. Biggest takeaway: conclude the research statement with a future-oriented section to show your fit in their department. I’d love to hear any more tips/advice you may have!.

Thank you all for the helpful advice! It looks like the consensus is keep them on your CV until you’re in a tenure track position. And if you have a lot of small ones, consider consolidating them and totaling the amount.

Attended the UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship Meeting. Took a “CV Workshop.” Main lesson learned, remove small funding amounts (<$1000) from awards and honors. What are your thoughts on this?? As a graduate student, I was holding on to every line of my CV I could!.

Our chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality is officially out! . We review the biopsychosocial processes linking context and regulation with expressions of #prosocial behaviors in #children and #adolescents.

It’s also been a really affirming reminder of how teaching others makes you think more critically about the material you are teaching. I’m so excited to work with them again in the future!.

Just spent 2 weeks in Santiago, Chile consulting a research team from the Universidad del Desarrollo on how to process, analyze, & interpret electrodermal activity (EDA)! . I’m so honored to have been invited to help them out with this data set!

Check out our chapter “The Developmental Psychophysiology of Prosociality!”. We provide and overview of empirical research exploring associations of ANS and HPA axis and #prosocial behaviors in childhood and adolescence.

Mental Health: SGM youth experienced greater mental health concerns compared to cisgender, heterosexual (CH) youth, as well as poorer access to healthcare services.

Parents and Families: SGM youth experienced more rejection and less support from parents during the pandemic. Yet, SGM with supportive parents reported felt less burdensome and stigma.

Coping: several strategies were employed, but finding ways to spend time with others (in-person and online) was the most important strategy for SGM.

Remote learning: The move to virtual learning had positive and negative outcomes for SGM (e.g., less victimization, greater isolation) . Social Media and Virtual Community: used virtual platforms to establish safe spaces and new communities.