Can parents help reduce racial biases?
Psychology graduate student, Katharine Scott intends to find the answer by focusing her research on a multitude of forces that lead to the creation and perpetuation of children’s biases and how to counteract them.
Study: Witnessing arrest of father causes stress in children
Graduate student Luke Muentner was part of a team that showed children suffered increased stress, which often exacerbated developmental and health problems.
Children develop racial biases as early as preschool—can parents Help reduce these biases?
Graduate student Katharine Scott wants to find out. Working in both Kristin Shutts’s Social Kids Lab and Patricia Devine’s Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab, Scott’s research led to a discovery of the multitude of forces leading to the creation and perpetuation of children’s biases.
Helping children thrive by combating language impairments
Associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Audra Sterling shares her research focused on understanding the strengths and weaknesses within language for children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Righting the screen time ship
The iSchool's Rebekah Willett discusses her research on child, families and the impact of digital media culture.
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