Developmental Research Lab

Dr. Denham's Research Lab

Dr. Susanne Denham and her graduate and undergraduate assistants are currently working on three different projects. Most recently, Dr. Denham and the lab members have undertaken a study in response to a growing need for social-emotional assessments for school readiness. The goal is to develop a comprehensive battery of social-emotional competence measures for educators and researchers to use to determine whether children will be able to adequately function in a school setting. Lab members are also currently collecting and analyzing data for a longitudinal study regarding children’s emotional competence. This is a study that has followed children from preschool to middle school, and examines how early childhood emotional competence, combined with parent and friend contributions, predicts current social and emotional competence. Finally, lab members are analyzing data for the Forgiveness project, a study that examined how children in primary school overcome transgressions affectively, cognitively, and behaviorally.

Dr. Pasnak's Research Lab

Dr. Perez-Edgar's Research Lab

Dr. Winsler's Research Lab