Positive Social Development Lab
at Virginia Tech
Our Projects
Learn more about the projects taking place in the PSD Lab below
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College Students' Stress, Wellbeing, and Prosociality
The purpose of this study is to understand the relations between college students’ stress, wellbeing, relationships, and prosocial behavior. (IRB# 23-1302)
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Cultivating Kindness:
Mapping the socialization landscape
of prosocial development in early adolescence.
The purpose of this study is to explore factors that influence prosocial behavior among middle schoolers in the New River Valley area. (IRB #24-390)
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Latine Youth's Cultural Assets and Positive Social Development
The purpose of this study to examine the effects of Latine youth and parents’ culture related experiences and stress on youth’s social emotional development, moral development, and psychological well-being. (IRB #24-342)
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Collaborative Projects
•Prosociality in Times of COVID-19: A Cross-National Investigation of Prosocial Attitudes and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Crisis
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•Longitudinal Study of Children’s Cognitive, Emotional &Prosocial Development in Türkiye
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•Adolescents’ Prosocial and Moral Development in Nicaragua
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•Undergraduates’ Relationships with their Parents and Sense of Wellbeing in Türkiye
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•College Students’ Prosocial Behaviors and Moral Development
