6/17/2025
My overarching research interest is the promotion of healthy adolescent development among marginalized youth. Specifically, my work has focused on identifying opportunities to build on pre-existing strengths in youths’ lives,…
6/17/2025
Social and cognitive development including pretend play, theory of mind, media effects on executive function, Montessori education UNLEASH (Undergraduate Research) We study how children's pretending, fantasy, imagination and interactions with media influence…
6/17/2025
The Meliza Lab is interested in understanding the extraordinary ability of sensory systems to learn complex patterns in a diverse and unstable world. We are particularly interested in how the…
6/17/2025
The implicit cognition research group integrates basic psychological research, methodological and technological innovation, and public education to advance understanding of implicit cognition - thoughts and feelings that exist outside of…
6/17/2025
Charlotte J. Patterson is a Professor in the UVA Department of Psychology and in the Center for Children, Families, and the Law, and is Director of UVA’s interdisciplinary program, Women,…
6/17/2025
I am interested in examining the latent structure of complex abilities across the lifespan, understanding cognitive processes underlying test performance in younger and older adults, health-related measurements and optimal scale…
6/17/2025
UNLEASH (Undergraduate Research) We study how people reason and make decisions. These processes have important consequences in everyday life, and we keep an eye towards how they can inform the legal…
6/17/2025
The Program for Anxiety, Cognition and Treatment (PACT) lab studies cognitive processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathology, particularly anxiety disorders. We are especially interested in automatic cognitive processing, and…
6/17/2025
I am interested in psychological phenomena related to diversity. I am particularly interested in how people develop competencies for life in diverse spaces. To that end, I have studied (1)…
6/17/2025
Humans are inordinately cooperative beings, and our ultra-cooperative, moral nature is thought to account for our success as a species. My research focuses on the ontogenetic emergence of the moral…
