Social Development & Wellbeing Lab

We are hiring! 🌟 Join the Social Development & Wellbeing Lab as a Post-Bacc Research Technician (starting Summer 2026). Learn more at: socialdevlab.com/prospective-re…. 🔗 Interested applicants may fill out this form: forms.gle/nx2doqRdaHaxJr…

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-involved

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-study

🚨 Check out a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology co-authored by @arodman123 Sequeira, S.L., Rodman, A.M., Nesi, J. et al. Social threat and adolescent mental health. Nat Rev Psychol (2025). doi-org.ezproxy.neu.edu/10.1038/s44159… 🔗rdcu.be/eFQD7

🔗Read more about Ella & Katie at socialdevlab.com/our-team

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 are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join our team at to work on a NIMH/Templeton-funded intensive longitudinal study that uses fMRI, EMA, & passive phone sensing to understand adolescents’ social worlds and their wellbeing! More information here:

We're hiring a lab manager! Get hands-on experience running an NIMH-funded intensive longitudinal study about risk/resilience in adolescence (fMRI, smartphones/watches, EMA). Gain new technical skills, refine interests, and conduct independent research. Learn more below:

In an NIMH/Templeton funded intensive longitudinal study, we will use fMRI & passive smartphone sensing to understand the social, psychological, and neurobiological changes that shape adolescent development and wellbeing/mental health. Exciting data pouring in, so join the fun!

Interested in the social lives of adolescents and their wellbeing? Dr. Rodman will be reviewing applications for a PhD student to begin in Fall 2025! Learn more here: socialdevlab.com. We'll also be hiring at the post-bac and postdoc levels Summer/Fall 2025, more info soon

@GraceKCotter 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!

@GraceKCotter 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!

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:

🚨New publication alert🚨 Check out this exciting research on affective and phone use in adolescents here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Congrats to everyone involved!🎉🪩

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