Since 2008

Published Research

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

If you are interested in my research, below are links to published research. We recently published a follow up to our camp study.

Published Research

Mobile Technologies and Their Relationship to Children’s Ability to Read Nonverbal Emotional Cues: A Cross-Temporal Comparison

Abstract Key social learning occurs during early childhood with lasting...
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Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues

Abstract A field experiment examined whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face...
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21st century media, Fame, And other future aspirations: A national survey of 9–15 year olds

Abstract Past research found that messages in popular television promote...
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Learning from Paper, Learning from Screens:

Abstract Electronic screens on laptop and tablet computers are being...
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Adolescents’ Online Self-Presentation Strategies:: Turkey and the United States

Abstract Studying how social network site (SNS) users from different...
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Benefits and Costs of Social Media in Adolescence

Abstract In 2015, American adolescents aged 13 to 18 years...
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How Parents Mediate Children’s Media Consumption

Abstract Children spend many hours a day consuming a variety...
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Applying an affordances approach and a developmental lens to approach adolescent social media use

Abstract Social media use among adolescents is nearly ubiquitous. Researchers,...
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Violence Rating Prediction from Movie Scripts

Abstract Violent content in movies can influence viewers' perception of...
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