What happens when
students argue over the internet
rather than face-to-face?
Does computer-mediated cooperative learning work the same way as face-to-face?
Do children resolve peer conflicts constructively or destructively?
In my research, I examine the way peers affect each other’s motivation, achievement, and behavior, with the goal of understanding the social-psychological mechanisms underlying these processes and developing practical strategies to ensure that peers promote rather than inhibit each other’s success.
- - Costs and benefits of cooperative learning as a universal school-based approach to adolescent substance use prevention. Journal of Community Psychology.
- - A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- - The longitudinal relationship between peer relations and empathy and their joint contribution to reducing bullying in middle school: Findings from a randomized trial of cooperative learning. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion.
- - Reconsidering Jigsaw social psychology. Journal of Educational Psychology.
- - Enlisting peer cooperation in the service of alcohol use prevention in middle school. Child Development.
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2020
- - KQED Mind Shift: What the Research Says About the Academic Power of Friendship
- - Cary Roseth Named CEPSE Department Chair
- - Top of Mind Radio: Are teachers the best motivators?
- - MSU Today: Peers, More Than Teachers, Inspire Us to Learn
- - Outstanding Contributions to Cooperative Learning Award
2018
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2015