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

This study examines girls’ and boys’ interest in science and their attitudes about science learning during the transition from middle to high school.

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

This study explores how student perceptions of classroom conditions relate to student learning, academic mindsets and outcomes.

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.

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

This study will examine whether students can harness the immediate pain of school work - the felt difficulty and struggle - to increase persistence in school work.

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 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 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 examine the malleable risk and protective factors associated with positive substance use expectancies.

This study seeks to demonstrate that teacher practices that fulfill adolescents' need for respect can lead to greater engagement and motivation.

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

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.

This study will use student feedback and ratings to identify which teacher practices are respectful with the aim of informing future interventions.

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

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 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.

We will test whether improving mental health literacy can decrease mental health stigma, and improve attitudes towards help-seeking and intention to seek help, by framing content in terms of helping others and developing a mental health vocabulary.

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

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 the relations between school-level ecosystem indicators for human flourishing and students' overall success and well-being.

Students will be asked to complete a survey in which they evaluate a behavior, write their thoughts about this behavior, and complete several questionnaires about their beliefs and attitudes.

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

This study is designed to assess how thinking about people relates to friendship

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 aims to investigate various profiles of achievement-related beliefs and motivation in language arts and STEM fields.

This study is designed to assess whether students interacting with the WeBE animated videos and reflection questions grow in moral character strengths of perspective taking, empathy, and moral courage.

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)

The study is designed to assess the protective role of resilience on early predictors of substance use.

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 is designed to examine how students' beliefs about different fields relate to their motivation.

This study will help us understand how activities can be presented in different ways to be maximally impactful for students' academic success.

This study is designed to investigate the factors that shape student perceptions of their teacher's mindset beliefs.

This study explores which attributes of a role model makes students think they can also be successful.

This study is designed to investigate gender differences in self-promotion and possible ways to close these gaps.

This study is designed to assess the external validity of the "Adaptive Cognitive Evaluation" (ACE), executive functions mobile assessment and develop a normative data set for executive functions.

This study is designed to assess how children perceive the consequences of forgiveness and punishment.