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Alexandra Main Principal Investigator Professor Alexandra Main received her PhD from UC Berkeley and completed her postdoctoral work at UC Merced. Her research focuses on social and and emotional development of children and adolescents within the family context. Specifically, she is interested in...

Bolded authors denote Family Development Lab members.

Abigail Bolter is a fifth year PhD Candidate. She earned her BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz, and as an undergraduate she researched plagiarism and other academic misconduct. As a graduate student, Abigail is interested in adolescents transitioning into adulthood, shared responsibility between...

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Former Graduate Students Abigail Bolter earned her PhD in Psychology from UC Merced in 2023. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology, where she worked in Dr. Audun Dahl’s lab studying academic dishonesty. After that, she pursued an M.A. in psychological sciences from UC Merced...

Understanding Parental Involvement Study In collaboration with Dr. Mary Lewis at Oakland University and Dr. Wendy Rote at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, we are examining how parenting shapes adolescents' and young adults' social and emotional development using online and in-person...

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Email: familylab@ucmerced.edu Contact Professor Main directly at: Email: amain@ucmerced.edu or (209) 228-2429