Social Development & Wellbeing Lab

This summer, we were delighted to welcome to new Research Coordinators to the Social Development and Wellbeing Lab! Please give Katie and Adriana a warm welcome, we're so glad they're here 🌟🌱🧠 Read more about our phenomenal team at socialdevlab.com/our-team

The Social Development & Wellbeing Lab is hiring! Dr. Rodman is reviewing applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, a PhD student, and a Post-Baccalaureate Research Coordinator to join our team in Summer or Fall 2026. 🔗 Learn more: socialdevlab.com/get-involve…

We are happy to announce that we are now recruiting teenage participants for the Connect Study. We use MRI brain imaging, phone measurement, and psychological assessments to understand social development in teens. Please share! 🧠🌱📲 Learn more @🔗 socialdevlab.com/connect-stu…

Welcome @Ella_Akridge and @KatieOshins to the Social Development & Wellbeing Lab! This summer, we gained two new members of our team, both recent graduates of @EmoryUniversity. Both did great work at Emory; Ella w/ Emory REACT Lab and Katie w/ @aliocohen

3rd Year PhD student, Haley Hegefeld, and Post-Bacc RC, Bianca Caproni, recently presented some of the Social Development and Wellbeing Lab's work @FluxSociety 2025 Congress in Dublin, Ireland. 🇮🇪🧠 🔗Read more: socialdevlab.com/flux-2025

We had a blast having a joint lab dinner with new faculty member at Northwestern, @katieinsel , and her lab members from the Child & Adolescent Translational Science (CATS) lab. Follow the exciting stuff coming outta there!

Jay Burns, post-bacc lab manager, presented his project "Will you like me? Neural activation associated with anticipating social feedback." Jay will be applying to graduate school this year, so keep an eye out for this rockstar!

Grace Cotter (@GraceKCotter ), a post-bacc research coordinator in lab, presented her project "Left out & lit up:  Age-related differences in the neural correlates of social rejection.' Grace will be applying to graduate school this year! Keep an eye out for this rising star!

Haley Hegefeld, PhD student in the lab, presented new research entitled "Age-related differences in the associations between self-protection from social evaluation and mental health: A computational approach."

We presented research at #flux2024, our first conference as a lab!  Thanks @FluxSociety for putting on an incredible showcase of cutting edge Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience research. We can't wait for Dublin 2025! Check out some of our research below:

We're growing! Excited to welcome Bianca to our team this summer 🥼

Want to learn about science behind the scenes? Come join our advisory council! ✨🧠🥼 More info here: socialdevlab.com/youth-advis…

Congratulations to our grad student Haley Hegefeld for receiving Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award, from the National Science Foundation!

Congratulations to our lab manager Jay Burns for winning the US and Canada regional award in Psychology from the @UndergradAward ! He presented his undergraduate thesis this week in Dublin, Ireland

Want to learn more about these amazing people? Check out our website socialdevlab.com/our-team

Meet our team! Introducing the inaugural members of the Social Development and Wellbeing Lab 🥼

Welcome to the Social Development and Wellbeing Lab at Northeastern! We are interested in adolescents development in a social context. Here’s a little more about us ✨🧠