Center for Families

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies to go remote with little warning, many firms are mandating that their employees return to the office (RTO) five days a week.

Ximena Arriaga – Why might women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) become more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior? Women’s interest in casual sex may satisfy relational expectations and connection needs, while avoiding the types of close attachments that previously were violent.

Leanne Nieforth – Equine-facilitated learning and psychotherapy services are traditionally a human-centered activity that leverages anthropomorphizing for the benefit of humans and at the expense of equine welfare. Feminist theories can be used to critically analyze human use of anthropomorphizing in these settings.

Travis Dorsch – The influence of families on siblings’ experiences and outcomes has been well documented outside of sport, with research dedicated to topics such as socialization, relationship quality, adjustment, resource dilution, and behavioral genetics.

Sharon Christ, Kristine Marceau, Trent Mize – When researchers require some statistical expertise or data analysis know-how, The Methodology Center at Purdue (MCAP) is there. A collaboration between the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), the center consists of four co-directors, 15 core faculty, and more than 100 affiliated faculty researchers.

UPDATED – Purdue University men’s basketball center Will Berg, a hospitality and tourism management major in the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS), knows the importance of family meals. In a February 2024 feature in the Purdue Exponent, Berg opened up about his love of cooking that started with regular dinners with his father, Martin — a joy that he then shared with other Purdue men’s basketball players.  

Travis Dorsch, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies at USU, is passionate about the research he and his doctoral students, Kat Adams and Katie Alexander, have been conducting for a contract they were awarded from Lasso Safe, a nonprofit global coalition working towards the proactive assurance of athlete safety and wellness.

Patti Thomas – This study adds to the literature on the relationship between social relationships and cognitive function by using social integration theory to examine whether a sense of community belonging at different ages is related to cognitive function in later life.

Sharon Christ – Siblings of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often have weaker language skills compared to peers with typical development (TD). However, whether their language-relevant audiovisual skills are also atypical is unknown.

Arielle Borovsky – Recent studies suggest that language users generate and maintain multiple predictions in parallel, especially in tasks that explicitly instruct participants to generate predictions. Here, we investigated the possibility of parallel gradedness of linguistic predictions in a simple reading task, using a new measure—imbalance—that captures the probabilistic difference between multiple sentence completions.