Join us for the UNC Developmental Psychology Ph.D. Program Info Session! 🎓

Learn about curriculum, funding, application tips, and life in Chapel Hill from faculty and students.
🗓️ Oct 26 | 1–2:30 PM EST
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📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.

Each measure related to distinct changes. For example: meaning was associated with connectivity changes in insula, thalamus, and frontal pole, positive parenting feelings with ACC, supramarginal gyrus, and caudate, and parenting stress with cerebellum and postcentral gyrus.

In 35 of these fathers, we did brain scans before and after birth.We found increases in resting-state connectivity in temporal poles, angular gyrus, and thalamus, and decreases in frontal pole and ACC - the first longitudinal analysis of resting state connectivity in new fathers!

In 88 new fathers, there was a roughly even split in whether their personal meaning (the sense that life has purpose and coherence), increased or decreased (contrary to our expectations!) Postpartum meaning was strongly associated with parenting stress.