Past & Current

Research Projects

Researcher, speaker, author and founder of
Center for Scholars & Storytellers.

Media, Kids and Character Development
How stories can best shape positive youth development. This research was done in collaboration with Common Sense Media with support from The Bezos Family Foundation.
Common Sense Media Research Report
Unconscious Bias and Storytelling
We are currently working on research to uncover storytelling strategies to reduce unconscious bias.
An article about a storytelling strategy to reduce race bias
Crowd Sourced Content Analyses
Our first wave of this work was on values on popular tween TV. We are now looking at a follow up study on values, as well as gender roles for boys.
Fame and Tween TV

OTHER RESEARCH

If you’d like to know more about our research and relevant work of others, please subscribe. If you are interested in working with me as a student, please visit my faculty page to learn more about my work.  I also offer internships for UCLA students with the Center for Scholars & Storytellers.

Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke.
“I come bearing good news: Out teens are not growing into brain-dead zombies or emotionally stunted sociopaths.”
– UCLA  psychologist Yalda T. Uhls, commenting on more than a decade of research that shows that the Internet does not erode children’s intelligence or emotional connection to the world.
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