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School Motivation (i.e. academic disengagement, perceptions of academic task difficulty, perceptions of academic task importance) School Behavior (i.e. attendance, suspension) School Performance (i.e. Grades post-intervention, grade changes over time) Well-being (i.e. Happiness, mood)

This study examines the influence of external anchors on student self-expectations and how those expectations impact performance.

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.

This study is designed to assess how information about someone’s likelihood to apologize/forgive affects the willingness of students to initiate and return apologies in mutual blame conflicts.

The proposed research explores how students react when the educational context affirms the identity or background of other students from a different social group.

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 compare the effects of short online programs for promoting mental health and wellness.

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 study is designed to assess how viewing photos in addition to a narrative can impact students' attitudes towards the environment, as well as their self-reported future behaviors.

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 help students set goals to improve their sleep.

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.

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

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

This project aims to learn what type of information would be useful for teachers and students to share with one another to improve teacher-student relationships.

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.

We want to investigate whether if-then plans can help students counter the detrimental effects of negative performance feedback by promoting the pursuit of learning goals.

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 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.

This study will test an intervention designed to enhance wise reasoning in high school students.

This study is designed to assess whether affirming afrocentric values is more effective for Black adolescents than traditional value-affirmation intervention tasks.

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 seeks to understand how students update their impressions of a fellow student after learning about their advantage or disadvantage.

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.

This study is designed to assess how reading impacts the way students think.

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

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 tests ways to increase low-performing students' willingness to engage in a useful learning strategy that can be used in remote learning, i.e., written reflection.

We evaluate how framing feedback in comparison to peer performance impacts student engagement.

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 is designed to nurture a researcher in every student to help them embrace unfamiliar tasks and uncertain challenges.

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 is designed to assess the effect of a short online program for promoting mental health and wellness.

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 is about learning how students make sense of school.

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

This study is designed to assess how perceived difference from a past self affects confidence in one’s ability to grow from past weakness in a school subject, willingness to take concrete steps toward academic growth, academic motivation, and academic performance in a challenging school subject.

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