News

  • Congrats to Emily on joining the 2019 Management for Scientists and Engineers program at the Kellogg School of Management!
  • Interested in working with us this summer? We are accepting applications for a PAID summer undergraduate research assistant position through the Undergrad Research Assistant Program (URAP). No prior research experience needed. For more details and how to apply, click here
  • Congrats to (Dr.) Ryan Svoboda who successfully defended his dissertation on April 12, 2019!
  • Congrats to Klaudia Konieczny, Jordyn Ricard, and Sophie Rodosky who have been awarded been awarded Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grants to work with us this summer!
  • Congrats to LDL alumna Jiaqi (Michelle) Yu who has been accepted to the Marketing PhD program (Consumer Behavior track) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business!
  • Welcome, DJ Rompilla who will be joining the HDSP Ph.D. program at Northwestern University!
  • Congrats to Claire Yee, DJ Rompilla, Emily Hittner, Jacquelyn Stephens, Jason Levin, and Jordyn Ricard as well as LDL alumna Deborah Wu and LDL affiliate Tina Gupta for amazing poster presentations, poster spotlights, and flash talks at the Society for Affective Science (SAS) conference in Boston!
  • Congrats to Maddy Fisher on being accepted into the Kellogg MS in Management Studies (MSMS) program at Northwestern University!
  • Come to one of our favorite conferences in Boston! Society for Affective Science 2019. https://society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/2019-sas-annual-conference/home/
  • Congrats to LDL alumna In Jung (Lizzy) Jang who will be joining Feinberg’s All Of Us Research Program at Northwestern as a Research Assistant!
  • Congrats to Jordyn for being awarded a conference travel grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research to present her work on “Trauma, Psychopathology, and Suicidal Behavior” at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)!
  • Welcome, Claire Yee who is joining us as a Postdoc from Arizona State University where she worked with Lani Shiota!
  • Congrats to Emily and Katie on their paper on how SES moderates effects of cognitive reappraisal on anxiety — now in press at Emotion!
  • Congrats to Jordyn for being selected by the Expo Steering Committee to give an oral presentation of her research at the Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition!
  • Congrats to Jacquelyn for having her poster titled “Time for Bed: Associations between adolescent bedtime and executive functioning” (Authors: Jacquelyn Stephens, Rachael Ellison, Ednah Nwafor, & Emma Adam) accepted to the APS Annual Convention!
  • Congrats to Emily, Claudia, and Katie (LDL Alum) for having their poster titled “Reappraisal in Context: How Socioeconomic Status Moderates Concurrent and Longitudinal Associations with Anxiety” accepted to  the 30th APS Annual Convention!
  • Congrats to Maddy and Olivia on getting their Facial Action Coding System (FACS) licenses!
  • Are you interested in life-span development, emotion, psychophysiology, couples, cognition? Apply for the Human Development and Social Policy Ph.D. Program at Northwestern and work with us.
  • Congrats to Michelle (Jiaqi Yu), an alumna of the Life-Span Development lab, for her admittance to the M.A. in Social Sciences program (psychology concentration) at the University of Chicago!
  • Congrats to Katherine Bae, an alumna of the Life-Span Development lab, for her admittance to the Ph.D. program at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan!