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This study examines how intellectual humility, open-mindedness, and reflectiveness develop as children transition into adulthood.

This study seeks to identify the interpersonal and communal factors that support Black youth thriving.

This study proposes a 5-minute mindfulness-based intervention to decrease students’ urge to use social media and increase their positive self-image.

This study investigates whether naive realism is grounded in people thinking that they have "better" information than the other side.

This study explores psychological attributes that may contribute to students enrolling their post-secondary "safety schools"

This study collects student perceptions of care in educator-student relationships.

This study looks at the effects of colleges/universities that recognize the value of students' lower-SES backgrounds on their perceptions of college.

This study investigates whether girls’ lower sense of mattering causes gender disparities in computer science.

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 examines whether affirming independence and community values differently influence students' emotional well-being and school outcomes.

This study examines the pervasiveness of appearance-related math stereotypes and their impact on math engagement

This survey explores middle and high school students’ beliefs and behavior about the natural world.

This study investigates whether girls’ lower sense of mattering in computer science predicts and causes gender disparities in computer science.

We build an understanding of how authority figures can begin to build positive relationships with students while maintaining their authority.

This study investigates whether teachers showing intellectual humility helps students feel more accepted and comfortable asking questions in class.

This study is designed to help students motivate themselves.

The researchers in this study want to know about the types of support you receive from your teachers, family, and peers.

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 associations between social media use and character.

This study examines the effects of humanlike features in an online learning program on student motivation and learning.

This is a brief activity designed to help students reflect on successes and failures

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

This study is designed to test the psychometric qualities of the revised Character Growth Index, a measure of 20 character strengths.

This study is designed to assess how changing the framing of students' grade at the beginning of term or on each assignment before they have done anything influences motivation, persistence, and achievement.

This study is designed to compare the effects of short online programs for promoting mental health and wellness.

This study examines how students reason about dis/advantageous circumstances and merit.

This activity is designed to help students identify and fulfill their study wishes

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 is designed to test a measure of students’ perceptions of school conditions in order to include student voice in school decision-making.

This study is designed to understand whether social risk taking behavior changes as a function of the number of peers within a social group.

In this study, students will be asked to read letters and answer some questions about their thoughts and emotions. The goal of this study is to examine positive activities and well-being.

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

The current study tests the hypothesis that raising awareness about social media companies' exploitation of addictive design features can motivate teens to reduce social media use. We have created an awareness-raising intervention that frames reducing social media use as a way to reject these addictive designs and to demand better technology from social media companies. Compared with an educational message emphasizing long-term benefits of reducing social media use and a no-treatment control condition, we hypothesize that the awareness-raising message will increase adolescents' awareness of addictive design features and hypocritical business practices and, in turn, their motivation to reduce social media use and learn new strategies to facilitate this goal, including the choice to download a smartphone application that monitors daily social media use. We also hypothesize that this greater motivation will lead to behavior change two to four weeks later.

This study tests a measure of many social, emotional, and behavioral skills that research has linked with student success in school, work, and life.

This study is designed to help students set goals to improve their sleep.

This study seeks to 1) identify how Black youth understand and respond to racism in the current sociopolitical climate and 2) assess racial coping and cultural protective factors in alleviating the adverse impacts of racism on their psychological well-being over time.

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

This study examines whether time pressure contributes to gender differences in standardized test performance in mathematics.

This is a 25 minute activity designed to help promote students' interest in school subject by encouraging them to consider how course material is connected to their daily lives and future goals.

This study will investigate how well different self-report mindfulness measures perform in comparison to each other as well as in relation to students' desirable psychological and educational outcomes.