Recent news from the lab
March 18th, 2024
Alle Ehrhardt Defends dissertation
Congratulations to DR. Alle Ehrhardt, who successfully defended her dissertation! Dr. Ehrhardt’s dissertation, titled “Adolescents’ Friendship Stability and Health Following the Transition to High School,” included two studies examining changes in adolescents’ friendships and their links with health across high school.
February 3rd, 2024
Dr. schacter named an aps rising star
Dr. Schacter was named a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS Members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Schacter!
November 2nd, 2023
Graduate Students win poster awards
Congratulations to doctoral students Alle Ehrhardt, Faiza Bakth, and Je’Nae Johnson for presenting their research at the Wayne State Department of Psychology Graduate Poster Day. Alle and Faiza also received first tier awards for their presentations!
October 24th, 2023
ARC Lab represents at Giant Step Teen conference
The ARC Lab was well-represented at the Giant Step Teen Conference! Graduate students Je’Nae Johnson, Alle Ehrhardt, and Faiza Bakth served as conference facilitators, and Dr. Schacter was faculty advisor for the conference. Learn more about the conference here.
August 21st, 2023
Welcome back to School, from the ARC Lab!
The ARC Lab gathered to celebrate the start of a new school year and recent lab achievements, including Alle Ehrhardt successfully proposing her dissertation, Faiza Bakth passing her qualifying exams, and Denise Baloi graduating from Wayne State. We are wishing everyone a smooth start of the Fall 2023 semester!
August 18th, 2023
Dr. Schacter RECEIVES ALBERTI CENTER EARLY CAREER AWARD
Dr. Schacter has been selected to receive the 2023 Alberti Center Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Bullying Abuse Prevention Award. The award recognizes an individual who has made exemplary scholarly contributions to the field of bullying abuse prevention and conducted research that has the potential to influence practice and policy. Congratulations, Dr. Schacter!
April 13th - 15th, 2023
ARC LAB presents research at sra conference
Graduate students Faiza Bakth and Alle Ehrhardt, as well as Dr. Schacter, presented their research at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference in San Diego, California. Great job everyone on their hard work!
April 11th, 2023
WSU psychology Department Undergraduate poster day
Congratulations to ARC Lab undergraduate research assistant Nour Ghosn for presenting her research at the Wayne State Psychology Department’s Rodney Clark Memorial Undergraduate Research Day! Her poster is titled “How does Adolescent Ethnic/Racial Discrimination Vary by Ethnicity/Race, Cross-Ethnic Friendships, & School Context?”.
April 2023
Faiza bakth wins paper award
Congratulations to graduate student Faiza Bakth on winning the Steven A. Lewis Memorial Research Award. This WSU Psychology Departmental award recognizes outstanding and creative contributions to research in human psychology. Well done Faiza!
March 9th, 2023
Alle ehrhardt wins excellence in teaching awards
Join us in congratulating Developmental Science graduate student Alle Ehrhardt on winning the Garrett T. Heberlein Excellence in Teaching Award, which is the only university-wide teaching award for graduate students, making it highly competitive, as well as the Psychology Department’s own Graduate Teaching Award. We are so proud of Alle for being a compassionate, exceptional teacher!
March 3rd, 2023
Graduate students present at Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute's Lifespan Alliance Day
Congratulations to ARC Lab graduate students Faiza Bakth, Alle Ehrhardt, and Je’Nae Johnson for presenting their wonderful research at Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute's Lifespan Alliance Day. Special congratulations to Alle for winning the "Best Presentation in Adversity & Resilience" award!
October 1st, 2022
Dr. Schacter receives American Psychological Foundation (APF) visionary grant
Dr. Schacter has received an APF Visionary Grant which can fund one-year projects up to $20,000 to support research for the project titled “Improving Health Outcomes Among Adolescents with Asthma: Examining the Real-Time Effects of Peer Support”, using EMA to assess peer social support in adolescents with asthma.
September 15th, 2022
Dr. Schacter has NICHD R21 grant funded
Dr. Schacter has had a grant funded from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for the study, “Effects of peer victimization in physiological markers of threat sensitivity in adolescents”. This investigates associations among peer victimization, physiological response to threat, and adolescent anxiety. Dr. Hilary Marusak from the WSU department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences will serve as a co-PI on this project. Congratulations!
AUGUST 1st, 2022
Alle Ehrhardt publishes paper with Dr. Schacter
Congratulations to ARC Lab doctoral student Alle Ehrhardt on publishing a new paper with Dr. Schacter! The paper is titled “On shaky grounds: Peer victimization predicts friendship instability across the ninth grade school year” and was published in the Journal of Adolescence.
April 15th, 2022
Undergraduate ras present at PSI chi poster day
Congratulations to ARC Lab undergraduate research assistants Fatima Naeem and Nour Ghosn for presenting their research at the Wayne State Psychology Department’s Psi Chi Poster Day! Their poster is titled “Exploring Associations Between Peer Victimization and Asthma Outcomes among Adolescents and Young Adults.”
Feb 25th, 2022
Alle ehrhardt receives lifespan alliance day poster award
Congratulations to ARC Lab doctoral student Alle Ehrhardt on winning a “Best Presentation” award at the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute and Institute of Gerontology 2022 Lifespan Alliance Day! Alle’s poster, presented as part of the Adversity and Resilience session, is titled “Exploring Longitudinal Associations between Adolescent Peer Victimization, Friendship Instability, and Internalizing Symptoms.”
Feb 15th, 2022
Faiza bakth publishes new paper
Congratulations to ARC Lab doctoral student Faiza Bakth on publishing a new first-author paper! Faiza’s paper, “Investigating the relation between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement among Cherokee adolescents: Cultural socialization as a moderator,” is now in press at Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
May 14th, 2021
Shivapriya Chandu receives UROP research Funding
Congratulations to ARC Lab undergraduate RA Shivapriya Chandu on receiving an Undergraduate Research Award through Wayne State’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)! Shivapriya received funding to support her project “Can Cross‐Ethnic Friendships Protect Adolescents' Social‐Emotional Well‐Being during the Transition to High School? Exploring the Role of School Ethnic Context”.
May 5th, 2021
Congrats, Graduates!
We are incredibly proud of our senior undergraduate research assistants for graduating from Wayne State University! Congratulations to Hira Haider, Jamila Miah, and Anna Sampson. Hira and Jamila ended the year by completing Honors Psychology Theses and presenting their work at Undergraduate Psi Chi Poster Day. Anna Sampson will be starting medical school at Michigan State University this fall. Go grads!
March 25th, 2021
Graduate Students Faiza Bakth & Alle Ehrhardt Present at GSO Presentation day
Congratulations to ARC Lab graduate students for their fantastic presentations at the Wayne State Psychology Department’s Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Presentation Day! Faiza presented “Ethnic-Racial Centrality and Regard in Cherokee Youth: Cultural Socialization as a Moderator”, and Alle received a 1st place win with her presentation, “It’s Not You, It’s Me: Connecting Past Peer Victimization to Emerging Adult Depressive Symptoms Via Romantic Self-Blame.”
December 2nd, 2020
Review paper published in pediatrics
A new paper authored by Dr. Hannah Schacter has been published in Pediatrics as a state-of-the-art review. You can check out the new paper, “Effects of peer victimization on child and adolescent physical health” on the journal website or send an email request (hannah.schacter@wayne.edu) for the full-text.
november 11th, 2020
Graduate student alle ehrhardt presents at virtual poster day
ARC Lab graduate student Alle Ehrhardt presented her research at the Wayne State Department of Psychology virtual Graduate Poster Day. Her poster is titled “It’s Not You, It’s Me: Testing Romantic Self-Blame as a Novel Mechanism Linking Past Peer Victimization to Emerging Adult Depressive Symptoms” and you can download a pdf copy here. Congrats, Alle!
November 9th, 2020
PRIDE STUDY LAUNCH
Our first wave of data collection is now underway for the Promoting Relationships and Identity Development in Education (PRIDE) study! This longitudinal online study, which follows approximately 450 9th graders across one year, examines adolescents’ social-emotional adjustment and health across the high school transition.
June 1st, 2020
WSU ARC LAb & THINK LAb launch path study
In collaboration with Dr. Hilary Marusak’s THINK Lab, the ARC Lab has launched a new online survey study to learn about adolescent peer relationships and health. The Peer Adjustment and Teen Health (PATH) study is open to any parents and their 10-14 year-olds living in Metro Detroit. To learn more, click here for the study flyer.
april 16th, 2020
ARC Lab undergraduates present at virtual poster day
ARC Lab research assistants Anna Sampson and Jamila Miah presented their research at the virtual Wayne State Psychology Undergraduate Poster Day. Their poster is titled “Recollections of Peer Victimization in Adolescence: Do They Predict Emerging Adults’ Rejection Sensitivity and Romantic Conflict Resolution?” and you can download a pdf copy here. Great work, Anna and Jamila!
march 31st, 2020
Dr. Schacter receives University Research grant
Dr. Schacter has received a $10,000 Wayne State University Research Grant from for her project “Psychobiological Pathways from Bullying to Health”. The project will use daily diaries and wearable technology to examine acute links between peer stress, sleep, and physiological arousal among adolescents in the Detroit Metro area.
march 10th, 2020
Representing at wsu stem day
Dr. Schacter presented “Myths of Adolescence: What Does Psychology Say About the Teenage Brain?” at this year’s Wayne State University STEM Day. Local middle school students participated in hands-on activity to learn about adolescent development, including a group brainstorm of stereotypes about teenagers.
June 20th, 2019
Dr. Schacter Awarded srcd small grant for early career scholars
Dr. Schacter and Dr. Adam Hoffman have received research funding through the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Small Grants Program for Early Career Scholars. They will be launching the Promoting Relationships and Identity Development in Education (PRIDE) study this fall, which will test the efficacy of a novel, identity-based self-affirmation intervention for diverse high school students. They are especially interested in understanding how to mitigate the negative effects of discrimination and bias-based mistreatment among adolescents. For more information about getting involved with this new project, please visit the join the lab page.
June 17th, 2019
Dr. Schacter attends summer Institute on Biological APproaches in the Social Sciences
Last week, Dr. Schacter traveled to Northwestern University where she received a crash course in biological approaches for social science research. Highlights of the workshop included Q&As with faculty and graduate student experts, meeting other interdisciplinary early career scholars, and hands-on opportunities to try new methods (including self-administered dried blood spot sampling!). The workshop, led by Drs. Greg Miller, Emma Adam, and Thomas McDade, was funded through the Russell Sage Foundation.
June 10th, 2019
Adolescent Relationships in Context (ARC) Lab launch
Dr. Hannah Schacter will be joining the Developmental Science Area of the Wayne State University Department of Psychology in Fall, 2019 as an Assistant Professor. She is very excited to launch the Adolescent Relationships in Context (ARC) Lab, which will study how teens’ social experiences contribute to their health and well-being across school, home, and online environments. The name “ARC Lab” was chosen to highlight the lab’s emphasis on understanding how teens develop and change over time.
Dr. Schacter will be recruiting highly motivated undergraduates to join the ARC Lab as research assistants starting Fall 2019.
She will also be recruiting a graduate student to begin in Fall 2020.
Please feel free to contact Dr. Schacter with any questions or general interest in the lab!