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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 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.

Students’ beliefs about the role of self-promotion in STEM fields

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 will investigate how students' perceptions influence their behaviors.

This study examines how students respond to different types of career and educational advice.

By having students reflect on how their identities may uniquely equip them to take on and overcome academic challenges, we aim to support students from diverse backgrounds to see themselves as the types of students who can excel in education.

This study builds a "Rosetta Stone" to convert student test scores across countries that take different exams, allowing us to measure learning around the world.

This study is designed to examine how students' career aspiration and educational expectation would influence college-going behavior.

This study examines how Hispanic/Latinx students’ beliefs about racial/ethnic groups relate to their STEM motivation and interests.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

This study is designed to better understand the costs and benefits of digital versus face-to-face social interactions in teens.

This study will determine how teachers can motivate students by helping them bring important parts of themselves to the classroom.

This study is designed to assess how writing impacts social skills.

Participants complete a task based on the television show 'Girl Meets World,' in which they reason about the characters' friendships and genders.

This study focuses on the developing and validating a measure of purpose for high school students.

This study explores adolescents' goals and self-regulation strategies.

This study is designed to assess the causal impact of student beliefs about the efficacy of a classroom intervention on the actual success of the intervention.

This study investigates whose encouragement students seek out and whose encouragement motivates them.

This study is designed to learn how self compassion affects students' study strategies and growth mindsets.

This study tests whether an intervention can motivate students to take remedial action - or engage in effective learning behaviors - in response to academic setbacks.

This study is designed to understand how children learn from science role models.

This study explores whether students listen most to motivational advice from someone who knows both their abilities and the content area in which they are offering advice.

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 identify the optimal number of "blessings"; that students should count in a gratitude intervention.

The purpose of the present session is to bring students to reflect on and internalize their communities' strengths in order to foster resilience when facing obstacles.

This study assesses whether environmental material designed to meet adolescents’ psychological needs can (1) motivate their engagement in environmentalism, (2) support their psychological wellbeing, and (3) reduce perception of climate-related content as politically polarizing.

This study explores students' perceptions of math tutoring.

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

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 assesses whether informing students about websites that provide information on colleges change their college preferences.

This study is designed to help us understand how having peers and teachers defend students from peer victimization can support students' subjective wellbeing and valued school-related outcomes.

This study is about learning how students make sense of school.

This study is designed to understand adolescent risk perceptions of health risk and health promotion behaviors, whether they can be changed, and how they are related to risk taking in social and non-social contexts.

This study is designed to assess how knowledge of one's own cognitive and non-cognitive traits impacts their in-school performance.

This project examines whether students can learn the science behind self-control and if this knowledge leads to shifts in well-being and achievement.

This study is designed to assess whether adopting a growth mindset and getting teacher perspective improves students' relationships with teachers, view of the teacher's fairness, degree of connection to the school environment, and motivation to learn.

This study is designed to test how factors that influence patience contribute to academic success.

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 examines the relationship between students' perceptions of their classrooms and their academic experiences.

How does emphasizing the importance of effort affect task persistence and the interpretation of task failure?