Center for Families

Ellen Ernst Kossek – “Women who pause their careers often underestimate the emotional adjustment their families will face when they return. Children, in particular, may interpret the change as a kind of loss—even if it ultimately strengthens the family in the long term.”

Sooyeon Jeong – As social robots get more deeply integrated intoour everyday lives, they will be expected to engage in meaningful conversations and exhibit socio-emotionally intelligent listening behaviors when interacting with people. Active listening and backchanneling could be one way to enhance robots’ communicative capabilities and enhance their effectiveness in eliciting deeper self-disclosure, providing a sense of empathy,and forming positive rapport and relationships

Jorge Banda – Can a customized computer-driven 12-month short message service (SMS) counseling platform increase weekly walking minutes among adults to levels comparable with those receiving telephone counseling from a trained human advisor?

Laura Schwab Reese – Every year in the United States, it’s estimated that more than 1 in 7 children face violence or neglect in their home. These experiences often go unreported. Some children don’t recognize their experiences as abuse. Others are ashamed. Many fear what will happen next if they speak out.

The Center for Families at Purdue University has launched a powerful new resource to support work-family research: the Kanter Zotero Library. This curated collection includes the over 400 peer-reviewed articles that have been nominated for the prestigious Rosabeth Moss Kanter...

Trent Mize – Sociological social psychology and the study of human sexuality have largely developed as distinct fields of study. Yet, they share considerable overlap in topics of inquiry, such as identity and status processes; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; and stress processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels, respectively.

Kimberly Updegraff – Sibling relationships are often a person’s longest—preceding most friendships and romantic relationships—so the magnitude of sibling influence can’t be ignored

David Purpura – Many children in the United States fail to meet proficiency benchmarks on mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) tests in elementary school despite those tests being related to future outcomes. Thus, strategies are needed to identify and support children at risk for failing to reach proficiency in mathematics and ELA that consider multiple school readiness domains.

Breanya Hogue – This collaborative self-study examines bi-directional mentoring interactions between two faculty, a graduate teaching assistant, and a preservice teacher within a literacy methods course to examine the impact on shaping teacher identity and mentoring roles.

Arielle Borovsky, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, will serve a three-year term as president of the Cognitive Science Society executive committee, effective Aug. 1. The mission of the society is to promote cognitive science as a discipline and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and education.