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Northern Illinois University

Parenting, Affect, and Development Laboratory

Parent and child

Parent-Child Lab

The Parent-Child Lab has two major objectives:

  1. The conduct of research that contributes to our understanding of parents, children,
    and their social interactions
  2. Training undergraduate and graduate students in the research process.

Studies conducted in the lab focus on different facets of the parent-child relationship as well as processes that contribute to developmental and individual differences in the ways parents and children behave in social relationships.