Assistant professor of HDFS at Purdue | Social-emotional development and mental health in the family | Penn State PhD | UofR alum | Mom | Boston Sports Fan | She/Her
https://shinelab.owlstown.net/
Dr. Leigha MacNeill
I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪
More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...
New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As the outfit suggests, I showed up as a conflicted fan. Still had a great time cheering for both teams and chasing around my toddler with his giant pretzel. #BoilerUp #WeAre
Now out! Jessie Fu led a practical guide for mobile eye tracking. We present approaches across the lifespan, but have good info for work with infants & kids.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide
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Great to see interest in our research on prenatal stress lability and infant negative affect in @infantstudies.bsky.social #TopDownloadedArticle
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share my final dissertation paper! Motivated by work suggesting that dopaminergic activity may be a mechanism linking anxiety and effortful control, in a sample of school-age children we (tediously) counted eye blinks during the “Tower of Patience” task as a proxy of dopaminergic activity
We're recruiting!
The CAT Lab is looking to grow with a new graduate student for next year: catlabpsu.com
We do pretty cool work & we have yummy snacks.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
👶🧠 #devsci #DevPsy #devpsych #devsky #DevCogNeuro #AffectSci #PsychSciSky
