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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...

Former Graduate Students Erica Hanes earned her MA in Psychology from UC Merced in 2024. She received her BA in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University. During her time at UCM, she researched aspects of culture and stress among Latino/a adolescents. Erica is excited to...

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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Location: SSM 324 Email: familylab@ucmerced.edu Contact Professor Main directly at: amain@ucmerced.edu

Principal Investigator Professor Alexandra Main's research focuses on social and emotional development of children and adolescents within the family context. Specifically, she is interested in the development of empathy and emotion regulation and how these processes are shaped by temperament, family...