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Dr. Leigha MacNeill

@leighamacneill.bsky.social

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 https://shinelab.owlstown.net/

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Guest column: Why science funding matters to Indiana Last week the government cut β€œindirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which cover shared resources like buildings, utility bills, computer networks, and support staff. Indiana will los…

I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community πŸ§ͺ
More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...

18.02.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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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...

05.01.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I’d love to be added! Thank you!

27.11.2024 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for making this! Could I please be added?

24.11.2024 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

17.11.2024 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for putting this together! Could I please be added if there’s space?

15.11.2024 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 ...

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.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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10.09.2024 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to see interest in our research on prenatal stress lability and infant negative affect in @infantstudies.bsky.social #TopDownloadedArticle

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

19.03.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

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 β€œTower of Patience” task as a proxy of dopaminergic activity

11.03.2024 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

πŸ‘ΆπŸ§  #devsci #DevPsy #devpsych #devsky #DevCogNeuro #AffectSci #PsychSciSky

12.10.2023 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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

29.09.2023 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

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