PEANUTs Lab

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Happy Thursday!🙂Did you know that the way parents regulate their emotional responses plays a pivotal role in shaping their children's temperament?🌟 Fostering positive emotional reactions and self-regulation equips children with tools for a balanced and healthy temperament.🌈

Meet ✨ Christina Personette✨ Christina is a senior from Norman, Oklahoma, majoring in Psychology. She aspires to pursue PhD in clinical psychology and is interested in areas of child trauma and psychopathology. Fun Fact: Christina's favorite cheese is all cheese!

Introducing Our First Fall Recommended Reading🍂: "The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe" by Dr Steven Novella! ✨ This popular science book provides us with the tools and knowledge needed to think critically and evaluate the validity of scientific and pseudoscientific claims. 💡

Meet ✨ McKenna Nhem✨ McKenna is a junior from Plano, Texas, majoring in Psychology. McKenna aspires to pursue PhD in clinical psychology . Fun Fact: McKenna's favorite cheese is Gouda.

Last night, two review teams working with our Honors students celebrated the progress made in their systematic screening and extraction processes over the summer! We are excited to see the results of these projects in the year to come.

Last night, several members of the Experiences of Pregnancy team celebrated a successful end to participant recruitment! Excited for the ongoing data collection over the next months!

Hey there, amazing students, dedicated professors, and our wonderful school families!😃We're stepping into a brand new semester.Let's make it one to remember! Whether you're starting a new adventure or continuing your journey, remember: every day is a chance to grow and shine.🌟

Recruitment is open for one more day! 10 weeks pregnant or less? You can still join our study to help us understand mental health and well-being in pregnancy. Find out more and enroll at experiences-study.com

We would love to congratulate one of our lab assistants, Nkatheko Mafu, for receiving the M. Blanch Adams and M. Frances Adams Memorial Scholarship and David C. Steed Heritage Scholarship in Arts and Sciences. Congratulations and well done Nkatheko! Keep up the good work!👏

Meet ✨ Emily Flesher✨ Emily is a sophomore from Rogers, Arkansas, with majors in Psychology, Sociology and Art and minors in Data Analytics and Applied Statistics. Emily aspires to become a Social Science Researcher. Fun Fact: Emily's favorite cheese is Mozzarella.

Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin challenges the notion of self-care as a centered around buying products and experiences and guides the reader to identify their values as well as maintain firm boundaries in their life through a self-compassion lens.

Meet ✨ Annika Testerman✨ Annika is a senior from Norman, Oklahoma, double majoring in Criminology and Psychology. Annika aspires to become a Forensic Psychologist or Behavioral Analyst. Fun Fact: Annika's favorite cheese is Feta.

With our ongoing Experiences of Pregnancy study, we are sharing a fun fact!🫄 There is a birth peak in the US at 8:00 A.M! This peak is driven by scheduled c-sections. Find out more on Scientific American: blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/why-… #babies #pregnancy #birth #FunFacts

Meet ✨ Ashley Wells✨ Ashley is a graduate from Moore, Oklahoma majoring in Psychology. Ashley aspires to become a Counseling Psychologist. Fun fact: Ashley's favorite cheese is Pepper Jack Cheese.

This review led by Honors student McKenna Nhem examines individual factors in adults that may capture sensitivity to social environments in the prediction of mental health. This will help us better understand for whom environmental influences have an impact on mental health.

Meet ✨ Riggs Gorman✨ Riggs is a junior from Bartlesville, Oklahoma majoring in Psychology & Composition of Dance and Music. Riggs aspires to become a Psychiatrist. Fun fact: Riggs’ favorite cheese is any cheese that's on a pizza.

We are still recruiting! If you are 10 weeks pregnant or less, you may be eligible to participate in our study on mental health and well-being during pregnancy. Find out more and join at experiences-study.com

This study will follow participants during pregnancy and postpartum to explore whether associations between social environments and mental health in pregnancy depend on individual sensitivity factors.    Our research assistants have been hard at work recruiting participants!

Meet ✨ Nicole Barton✨ Nicole is a senior from Edmond, Oklahoma majoring in Psychology. Nicole aspires to become a children's clinical psychologist . Fun fact: Nicole’s favorite cheese is white cheddar.