Psychological Sciences

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Children and Families Lab

We are currently contacting families who previously participated in our infant study when their infants were 4, 6, and 8 months of age to participate in our follow-up study. Please contact us for more information! 

We are finished recruiting families for our infant study. Please see here for more information, and here for our COVID-19 confidentiality statement. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Children and Families Lab examines the development of both adaptive and maladaptive outcomes in children. Our research examines how individual differences in children (e.g., physiological reactivity, temperament) and parent characteristics (e.g., physiological reactivity, parenting & the marital relationship) contribute to the development of emotion regulation and aspects of the parent-child relationship. We are also interested in the role of the father in his child's development, something that is less studied than the role of the mother. 

We utilize longitudinal designs and multiple methods (e.g., experimenter-report, parent-report, physiological methods, observational coding, etc.) in order to examine social and emotional development. Families come into our lab located on WKU's main campus in Kelly Thompson Hall to participate in our studies.