Peer Relations Lab - Lehigh University

One week ago these amazing senior lab members crossed the stage and graduated from Lehigh University! These students transcribed hours of video-recorded friendship interactions, edited hundreds of segments of physiological data, conducted (and in many cases led) behavioral coding, and pursued innovative, independent research questions of their own. I could not be more grateful or proud of all they’ve done and accomplished. They will go on to be educators, mental health professionals, researchers, child development specialists, and health care providers. Congrats Class of 2025, we can’t wait to see what you do next!

Last Friday our Mountaintop Creative Inquiry students presented their research on adolescents’ experiences with social media at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference. Our studies examined friends’ conversations as a context for studying social media experiences and proposed new methods for examining adolescents’ emotional reactions to social media.