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November 20, 2024
Christine Harradine earned both her MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a long-time member of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) family. As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with her to learn more about her work at FPG. FInd out what she had to say.
November 18, 2024
Executive functions play a role in future academic achievement, interpersonal skills, and emotion regulation. To understand how to best measure these skills in young children, FPG Advanced Research Scientist Laura Kuhn and colleagues compared three performance-based measures of executive functions that have been developed for preschoolers. The results of that work were published in “A Comparison of Three Executive Function Batteries in a Preschool-Aged Sample."
November 14, 2024
The James J. Gallagher Award is given annually to two employees of UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) in recognition of their contributions and dedication to the FPG community. This year, FPG is pleased to recognize both Technical Assistance Specialist Jessica Amsbary and Research Associate Sarah Wackerhagen for their outstanding service to the Institute.
November 11, 2024
Anhedonia, the inability to anticipate or experience pleasure, can emerge during adolescence and often precedes the onset of more severe psychopathology such as mood disorders and psychosis. FPG Faculty Fellow Aysenil Belger and colleague Danielle Roubinov, an associate professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, will lead an innovative study of the predictors of anhedonia in young people.
