Last May 29-31, undergraduate students from the lab attended and presented their research at the Life History Research Society international conference in Montreal, Canada!
McKenna Nhem presented her Honors research. She conducted a scoping review on environmental sensitivity to social environments in adult mental health. After reviewing 31 studies and over 100 interactions, she found that most studies focus on genotype as an individual sensitivity factor and internalizing problems as a mental health factor, with most studies not testing sensitivity based on recommended statistical analyses.
Zoe Childers-Rockey and Emily Flesher presented research they conducted as research assistants. They examined the feasibility, cost, and representativeness of social media recruitment for a pregnancy cohort. They found that social media is an efficient recruitment method, and that while the sample was more diverse than community-based samples, it was less diverse than the US Census.
