Current Research Projects
The project is awarded to Dr. Xiao via the Society in Research for Child Development (SRCD) Small Grants for Early Career Scholars. In this three-year longitudinal project, we are examining early adolescents' prosocial behavior and attitudes toward diverse others.
Project PBinJ-College is awarded to Dr. Xiao via the Educating Character Initiative, Wake Forest University, supported by Lilly Endowment Inc. This is a one-year short-term longitudinal study over Fall and Spring semester on college students’ learning experiences and social experiences and how they are related to students' development of kindness.
Previous Research Projects
Children's Attitudes, Relationships, and Education (CARE)
The CARE project aimed to understand the thoughts and feelings behind girls’ and boys’ behaviors with own- and other-gender peers, including the attitudes, emotions, expectations, and self-perceptions they bring to their peer interactions. The project was led by Dr. Carol Lynn Martin.
APPLE
APPLE is a longitudinal project funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and awarded to Dr. Carol Lynn Martin. It is designed to understand how gender integration relates to 4th - 6th grade students' school-related engagement, academic perceptions, and achievement.
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Kindness in Development (KID)
KID was designed to assess children's sympathy toward people who are similar to or different from themselves. This will help us understand how children behave kindly towards others. The project was led by Drs. Tracy Spinrad and Nancy Eisenberg.
