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Taking a break from the hustle and bustle of academia, our lab takes a break at Starbucks during our first epic ‘Paper-in-a-Day’ session!

As part of USC’s Diversity, Access, and Inclusion program, Julissa Duran joined our lab from the summer from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Here she is presenting her summer project with Sofi Cardenas, one of our graduate students who also volunteered as a summer DIA mentor.

As part of USC’s Gateway Scholars program, Yesenia did a summer project in the lab on parent’s prenatal attachment styles as a predictor of their subsequent parenting practices. She presented her results at the end-of-summer conference.

Adam presented a poster titled “Prenatal anxiety and postpartum relationship satisfaction within first-time parents” at the Association for Psychological Science in Boston May 25-28, 2017.

Dr. Saxbe gave two presentations, including one entitled “HPA linkage within expectant couples: moderation by dyadic adjustment and plasma oxytocin” at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial conference on April 8, 2017 in Austin, Texas. Sarah Stoycos, a NEST Lab PhD candidate, gave a talk on “Externalizing behaviors and cortisol predict neural activity during a go/no-go inhibition paradigm.” Hannah Lyden, also a PhD candidate, presented on “Expectant father’s prenatal testosterone and postpartum relationship and parenting outcomes.” Mona Khaled also presented a poster at SRCD titled “Fathers’ attachment style predicts prenatal stress over the transition to parenthood.”

Mona and Geoff presented the following research at the International Convention of Psychological Science in Vienna, Austria March 23-25, 2017: “Physiological correlates and health implications of interpersonal emotion dynamics.”