Social and emotional development lab
Social and Emotional Development Lab

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Research focus

We are a research group Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and we focus on children and adolescents. We investigate how their mental health, well-being, attitudes towards others and relationships with peers develop. For example, we examine how exclusion and bullying arise in groups, or, on the contrary, how positive relationships and helping others develop. We are also interested in how peer relationships translate into psychological well-being. We also address interdisciplinary topics, such as the dynamics of complex systems. Our lab was established in the summer of 2022 and is open to those who share our interest in rigorous research, open science, and innovative methods. Our work has practical implications that include providing useful information for psychologists in practice and teacher training.

Research principles

We are guided by ethical principles and standards, such as the EFPA or Helsinskou deklarací. We subscribe to the principles of open science (power analysis, preregistration, sharing anonymised data and analytic code to ensure that our findings can be replicated). Before conducting empirical research, we usually carry out a systematic literature review, and in the case of intervention research we also develop a theory of change. For data collection we typically use standardised instruments localised into Czech (or we carry out the Czech validation ourselves). We manage data in accordance with the principles of the GDPRFor data processing and analysis we primarily use the statistical software R nd we manage our code on GitHub.