Tag: Undergraduate Research

Get Off Your Phone?? By Why?! Commentary on the Personal, Societal, and Corporate Motivations of Smartphone Use via Notifications and Creative Outlets

Our relationships to our phones are complicated...

America’s Quietest Emergency: Exposing, identifying and analyzing suicide contagion in institutions of higher learning

Social influence processes can induce desired or undesired behavior change in individual members of a group...

Bayesian Methods Tutorials for Psychological Research

Methods for collecting psychologically relevant data and modeling these data are rapidly advancing. Bayesian statistical methods have emerged as a set of particularly useful techniques, both within cognitive psychology and more broadly in psychological science...

Summer 2024 Undergraduate Opportunities

Undergraduate students are encouraged to contribute their own research interests and life perspectives while developing advanced research projects alongside a fast-moving collective of graduate students, post-docs, and faculty working at the edges of the possible.

The Change Lab Web Design Proposal

Lavender Chen

Analyzing Psychological Dynamics in the Multilevel Modeling Framework

A psychological dynamic is a conceptualization of psychological activity that includes a psychological state and the perturbation of that state by some dynamic. I studied psychological dynamics by quantitatively operationalizing and modeling them as follows:

No Evidence that Digital Activity is Related to Long or Short-term Changes in Depressive Symptoms

Individuals are engaged with digital activity on their smartphones through all stages of moods or wellness periods. Prior research into mental health’s relation to smartphone use has been mixed.