At Temple University:

SOCIAL Exclusion and aggression in teens (SEAT)

In this study, adolescents learn about their peers, and have the opportunity to share information about them with those same peers. They then interact with three peers online and have the opportunity to respond with a noise blast during this interaction. Participants chat with these peers while they are in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) so we can identify both when and how during a social interaction brain networks interact to predict aggressive behavior.

Learning from Evaluation And Recall of iNteractions (LEARN)

This study examines how adolescents learn about their peers through interacting with them online. We measure how youth think each social interaction will go, how much they like each peer, and how they respond to their peers during social interactions. We do this while participants are in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) to measure how the brain functions while youth learn about their peers. The fMRI can tell us what parts of the brain are active while youth engage in social interactions.

Social Doors

This study examines how the brain responds to winning money and experiencing rewarding social experiences. To do this, we have participants play games for money and interact with peers while in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI). We also compare how participants recall their experiences. This allows us to investigate what influences positive or negative bias in our memory for social events.

THe Psychosocial Impact of Coronavirus on University Populations (PICUP)

What has it been like since you started living your life online? How has being home affected your relationship with family, friends, faculty, and colleagues? What are you worrying about? As large-scale changes to our day to day lives continue to unfold in response to COVID-19 (the coronavirus), there is a critical need to understand how these changes impact the academic, financial, psychological, and social experiences of students, faculty, and staff at Temple University.

We launched a longitudinal study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our community.

The SDN Lab prioritizes the well being of our community. In-person and online resources for mental health care at Temple University and in the Greater Philadelphia Area can be found here.

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Forming Reputations & Investigating Electrophysiological Network Dynamics (FRIEND)

This study examines how adolescents learn about their peers through interacting with them online. We measure how much they like each peer, how they would describe each peers, and how they respond to their peers during social interactions. We do this while participants have an electroencephalography (EEG) cap on to measure how the brain functions while youth learn about their peers. The EEG can tell us about the timing of different brain processes while youth engage in social interactions.

eyeCHAT

In this study, adolescents learn about their peers, and have the opportunity to share information about them with those same peers. They then interact with three peers online and have the opportunity to respond with a noise blast during this interaction. Participants chat with these peers while we measure their facial expressions and eye movements using facial movement and eye tracking programs. We examine if different eye gaze and facial expression patterns can predict aggressive behavior during social interactions.


At Stony Brook:

TRAIN 

TRAIN stands for “Teen Risk for Anxiety Investigated through Neuroscience.” The purpose of this study is to understand how children's brain and body respond to thinking and feeling. Adolescence is a time when people begin to think and feel differently, and we are interested in understanding those changes. Around 600 adolescents (ages 11 to 14) will be included in this study.