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Dr. Leigha MacNeill
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Assistant professor of HDFS at Purdue | Social-emotional development and mental health in the family | Penn State PhD | UofR alum | Mom | Boston Sports Fan | She/Her

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I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪
More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...
Guest column: Why science funding matters to Indiana
Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which cover shared resources like buildings, utility bills, computer networks, and support staff. Indiana will los…
www.chicagotribune.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Dr. Leigha MacNeill
New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
leighamacneill.bsky.social
As the outfit suggests, I showed up as a conflicted fan. Still had a great time cheering for both teams and chasing around my toddler with his giant pretzel. #BoilerUp #WeAre
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Now out! Jessie Fu led a practical guide for mobile eye tracking. We present approaches across the lifespan, but have good info for work with infants & kids.

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Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide
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Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide - Behavior Research Methods
Eye tracking provides direct, temporally and spatially sensitive measures of eye gaze. It can capture visual attention patterns from infancy through adulthood. However, commonly used screen-based eye ...
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September 10, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Great to see interest in our research on prenatal stress lability and infant negative affect in @infantstudies.bsky.social #TopDownloadedArticle

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March 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Excited to share my final dissertation paper! Motivated by work suggesting that dopaminergic activity may be a mechanism linking anxiety and effortful control, in a sample of school-age children we (tediously) counted eye blinks during the “Tower of Patience” task as a proxy of dopaminergic activity
Now it’s your turn!: Eye blink rate in a Jenga task modulated by interaction of task wait times, effortful control, and internalizing behaviors
Dopamine is a versatile neurotransmitter with implications in many domains, including anxiety and effortful control. Where high levels of effortful control are often regarded as adaptive, other work s...
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March 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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drkoraly.bsky.social
We're recruiting!

The CAT Lab is looking to grow with a new graduate student for next year: catlabpsu.com

We do pretty cool work & we have yummy snacks.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

👶🧠 #devsci #DevPsy #devpsych #devsky #DevCogNeuro #AffectSci #PsychSciSky
October 12, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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Over 200 respondents on the psychology faculty starting salary transparency survey now! We are blown away by the generosity of so many early career scholars, as well as more senior folks <3

Survey still open and data are free to download if anyone wants to analyze!

#PsychSciSky #thisispedpsych
U.S. Psychology Professor Starting Salary Transparency - Public
What is this? Hello! You might be wondering, what is this? This spreadsheet presents data from an anonymous survey developed by a team of early career scholars with the goal of increasing transparenc...
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September 29, 2023 at 1:39 PM