Prospective research assistants, join us!
If you are a UChicago undergraduate or master’s student looking to join the lab and get research experience, please contact us. Research assistants in the lab can work on a range of types of projects,...
View ArticleNew Paper about Relationship Science Research Samples
We published a new paper in JPSP with Emma McGorray, Alexandra Garr-Schultz, and Eli Finkel about who the typical participants are in relationship science research samples. Across two time periods and...
View ArticleNew Paper about Recruiting Lower-SES Participants
We have a new paper in press at AMPPS with collaborators David Silverman and Rebecca Carey on best practices around recruiting and working with lower-SES participants. In this paper, we suggest that...
View ArticleCEDAR Lab at SESP
Dr. Lydia Emery presented work from the CEDAR lab at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) annual conference in Madison, WI. Her talk focused on how couples’ identities differ based on...
View ArticleCEDAR Lab at SPSP
Dr. Lydia Emery presented work from the CEDAR lab at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference in San Diego; at the Close Relationships Pre-Conference, she gave a data blitz...
View ArticleCEDAR Lab in the New York Times
Lab Director Lydia Emery spoke to the New York Times about how to support a friend going through a divorce, highlighting research about rediscovery of self after a breakup.
View ArticleNew Paper about Attachment and Loss of Self
We have a new paper in press at JPSP with Erin Hughes, Emma McGorray, Wendi Gardner, and Eli Finkel. We find that people high on attachment avoidance perceive change due to their close relationships as...
View ArticleMystie Saturday Joins UChicago First-Year Scholars Program
First-year PhD student Mystie Saturday has joined the 2024-2025 cohort of First Year Scholars in the Social Sciences Division. Congrats, Mystie!
View ArticleNew Paper about Attachment and Couple Identity Clarity
We have a new paper in press at EJSP with Erica Slotter, Alexis Audigier, and Wendi Gardner about attachment avoidance and couple identity clarity. People who are high on attachment avoidance struggle...
View ArticleNew Paper about Contextual Approaches to Social Class
We have a paper in press at the Journal of Social Issues with Nicole Stephens and Sarah Townsend about the value of taking a contextual approach to understanding social class. We describe what it means...
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