Keywords: Longitudinal data analysis, data mining, structural equation modeling, mixture modeling

Keywords: theory of mind; social cognitive development; divorce; fathers; parent-child relationships

Keywords: knowledge acquisition; reading comprehension; writing; strategies; self-explanation; writing assessment; intelligent tutoring systems; tutoring; games; computational linguistics; learning analytics

Keywords: resilience to major life stressors; psychosocial and health development; healthy aging; midlife; longitudinal research methodology

Keywords: cognitive development, word learning, attention, language acquisition, statistical learning, bilingualism

Keywords: gene-environment interplay, substance use, family relationships, adolescence, young adulthood, ethnic/racial minority, health disparities

In our lab, we investigate how infants and young children learn about the world around them. Current projects in the lab explore the development of curiosity, social cognition, and communication from 5 months to 7 years

Keywords: anxiety; children; adolescents; prevention; treatment; culture; diversity; minority; ethnicity