Culture, Family & Development Lab
Our lab examines how culture and family processes influence mental health and development across the lifespan.
LAB NEWS
*New Lab Instagram Page Launched!*
10/2025 Our lab had two submissions accepted for the SRA Biennial Meeting in Toronto:
Stephen Chen will be chairing a symposium with Stacey Doan and Charissa Cheah. "Synthesizing the Spiritual and the Material: Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being in Racial-Ethnic Minority Adolescents and Emerging Adults".
Tingjen Hsieh '25 will be presenting a poster from the CAFE Project on coping responses in Chinese American adolescents. Congratulations, Tingjen!
9/2025 "Effortful control is associated with ethnic minority children’s pro-wealth biases and explanations across social domains." has been published in Developmental Psychology, with Michelle Wang '17 as first author. This paper grew out of Michelle's senior honors thesis -- congratualtions, Michelle!
7/7025 Michelle Wang '17 was back on campus as one of our Summer Science Program's invited speakers.
6/2024 "Parental expressions of love in Chinese American immigrant families: Implications for children’s attachment security” has been published in Developmental Science. This paper was part of Aya Williams's doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Aya!
5/2024 A paper from the Family Development Project, "Ethnic-racial socialization in Chinese American immigrant families: Associations with middle childhood ethnic identity" has been published in Social Development. Congratuations to our two former project coordinators, Sylvie Wong and Emily Zhang!