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This study aims to look at how and when well-being skills develop in adolescents, and the degree to which their presence is associated with positive outcomes.

This study will examine whether students’ beliefs about motivation are related to their grades and engagement in school.

Character Lab Research Network seeks to close the gap between science and practice by determining the most impactful ways to cultivate the strengths students need to thrive. The Student Thriving Index was developed to provide a comprehensive “snapshot” of student social, emotional, academic, and physical thriving at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. We deliver this data back to our school partners using interactive dashboards so they can best understand how their students are doing and tailor their educational practices accordingly.

This study is designed to assess whether the ability to assess emotions in others predicts responsiveness and social well-being.

This study is designed to assess how socia media postings reflect efforts by youth to establish identity and group connection during these times of social divisiveness.

This project looks at whether students receive advice that perpetuates gender gaps in high school and post-secondary education decisions and, if so, what can be done to help close these gaps.

This study will examine the association between online racial discrimination and academic wellbeing, and the buffering effect of school-related subjective wellbeing indicators on this association.

The study is designed to assess adolescents' sense of feeling needed and useful in their social worlds.

The study is designed to examine the malleable risk and protective factors associated with positive substance use expectancies.

This study is designed to test a measure of students’ perceptions of school conditions in order to include student voice in creating a school that supports healthy whole child learning and development.

We examine how stereotypes that construe communion as feminine relate to adolescents’ values, positive relationships at school, and, ultimately, academic performance.

The 25 minute activity is designed to help youth reflect on their attitudes about others in the world and their own happiness and emotional health.

This study examines how youth balance helping others with striving for their own success.

Character Lab Research Network seeks to close the gap between science and practice by determining the most impactful ways to cultivate the strengths students need to thrive. The Student Thriving Index was developed to provide a comprehensive “snapshot” of student social, emotional, academic, and physical thriving at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. We deliver this data back to our school partners using interactive dashboards so they can best understand how their students are doing and tailor their educational practices accordingly.

This study is designed to understand the impact of COVID-19 and racial unrest on the developmental relationships of students and examine the link between developmental relationships and youth character outcomes.

This study will help us understand how students' responses to the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire relate to and predict their actual school outcomes over time, including academic, behavioral, emotional, and social success.

This study will help us understand what teachers can say and do in the classroom to increase students' motivation and academic performance.

The study is designed to assess the ideologies of mathematics and their sense of self as mathematics knowers and doers.

We are examining the perceptions that influence students' choice among different learning activities.

This study is designed to test a short, individual self-assessment of student wellbeing for use by classroom teachers.

This study is designed to assess how perceptions of teachers' implicit theories of intelligence affect student evaluative concerns, academic help-seeking, and performance.

This study aims to assess how students figure out who is a credible source of encouragement.

This study is designed to assess how thinking about people relates to friendship

This study investigates whether adolescents raised in multiethnic or interfaith households score significantly higher than their peers on a number of different civic and character measures including empathy, social responsibility, and perspective-taking.

This study will test a behavioral measure of expressed intellectual humility for adolescents.

This study is designed to investigate the relationship between students' self-control and sleep behaviors.

We plan to link humor intelligence with academic performance and to identify developmental stages of humor intelligence.

This study is designed to investigate the factors that shape student perceptions of their teacher's mindset beliefs.

This study assesses how two race-related resilience strategies impact Black American and Black immigrant (African, Caribbean, and Afro-Latinx) youths’ subject-specific grades and overall GPA.

This study will is designed to explore what promotes and inhibits students' willingness to admit ignorance and fallibility in classrooms.

This study is designed to assess the external validity of the "Adaptive Cognitive Evaluation" (ACE), executive functions mobile assessment and develop a normative data set for executive functions.