Connection
Our research explores the ways that people develop, seek,
establish, and rebuild connection with one another across a variety of
contexts. Examples of this work involve the following projects.
Raising Grateful Children
We have conducted two primary studies that examine the development of
gratitude in children and what parents can do to foster gratitude in their
children.
Gratitude Conversations
is an online tool for parents to
improve their communication with their tweens and teens, focusing on talking
about times when children are grateful as well as when they miss the
opportunity to be.
The Good Gifts Program
is a four-session group intervention, developed under the leadership of Lutheran Social Services, that encourages practices of gratitude,
generosity and hope in opportunity youth who have experienced homelessness.
