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Emotion and Neurodiversity Laboratory

The Emotion and Neurodiversity Laboratory studies how neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals understand and experience their emotions. Autistic children and adolescents experience anxiety and depression at much higher rates than the neurotypical population, for reasons we do not fully understand. Our studies leverage cognitive neuroscience to address this problem - by identifying possibile linkages, and points of divergence, between the neurobiology of autism, and that of anxiety and mood disorders. Our research also examines how anxiety and depression may appear fundamentally differently among autistic individuals, and in ways that may be difficulty to detect. A further goal of this research is to identify whether many of the behaviors and neurobiological profiles traditionally associated with autism may be better understood in terms of emotion processes, as opposed to more traditional, deficit-based models of social difficulty.

Energy Justice Lab

Researcher of energy justice, the energy transition, and decarbonization strategies

Gender-Based Violence Research Group

The Gender-Based Violence Research Group (GBVRG) is Dr. Millan AbiNader’s lab. Dr. AbiNader performs mixed-methods research to understand the social ecology of GBV, with particular attention to intimate partner violence-related fatalities. The GBVRG works on various projects, from collaborating with local anti-violence nonprofits on evaluations to quantitative data analysis of national administrative data.

Philadelphia Zoo Primate Research Assistant(s)

Dr. Caroline Jones is accepting applications for undergraduate research assistants to collect primate behavioral data at the Philadelphia Zoo from January to May 2025. Students will learn to use ZooMonitor software to record behaviors of white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar).

Research on Meaning-Making: Text-Analysts-to-Program Assistants

A Child Development, English/Language Arts/Literacy intervention is underway to understand the developmental effects of PK-3 literacy materials on the development of learner-esteem, perspective-taking, self-esteem, imagination and/or future orientation.

International Monetary History

How did the international monetary system evolve in the 1970s after the dollar went off gold?

Visual and Textual Depictions of Philanthropists

Donor Representation Through the Ages: An Examination of Visual and Textual Depictions of Philanthropy and Power in Historical Context

Handy Femida
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