CURRENT STUDIES
Welcome to the
Kennesaw State University Infant Studies Lab
The infancy lab at KSU focuses on the study of rapid developmental changes in babies and in parent-child interaction.
Our research, however, would be not be possible without the cooperation of the community. And so, we are appealing to you for assistance by participating with your children in some of our on-going projects.
We are typically running at least one formal study at any given time. There are usually fairly specific things that we look for in the subjects we recruit for each study (for example, babies within a particular age range, or with a certain level of crawling experience). Most studies take one hour or less. This time includes filling out forms, a warm-up play time for your baby, and actual testing time. Some studies are done stricitly through the mail.
Participation in our studies usually involves a single visit of 30-50 minutes to our research lab located on campus. Appointments are available based on your availability from Monday to Saturday from 8 am to 6 pm.
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ABOUT DR. NICOLE MARTIN
Dr. Nicole Gendler Martin received her B.A. from Mills college in 1996, M.A. in marriage, family, and child counseling from Golden Gate University in 1999, her M.S. in 2001 and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from The University of New Mexico in 2005. Dr. Martin has previously taught at UNM and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, worked from 2005-2009 at Hilbert College in Hamburg, NY.
She joined the Kennesaw State Psychology faculty in 2009. Her research examines emotional development in infants, maternal adjustment to adoption, and attachment. Dr. Martin has spent the last several years working in the counseling field with children, adolescents and families.
Dr. Martin and her husband are proud parents to an amazing child adopted from Vietnam. Due to this experience, she has become a strong advocate for adoptive families.
Dr. Nicole Martin's most recent publication was The Development of Affect Specificity in Infant's Use of Emotion Cues in the journal Infancy.
EMOTION DEVELOPMENT
STUDY INFORMATION
Ages: 12-18 months.
Location: Kennesaw State University Campus
Toward the later half of the first year, infants begin to systematically relate people—their attentional focus, their intentions and goals, their emotional signals—to objects and events in the environment in what amounts to a revolution of social cognition (Rochat, 2001). Infants learn that in looking to their parent, they can gain information about how to react to a given emotional signal a parent gives off. How do infants begin to understand what a particular emotional expression means? When do they learn that emotions have qualitatively different meaning behind them?
To the left are brief synopsis of the studies currently being conducted. Please feel free to click on the links to be directed to each study's individual website. If you are unsure whether or not your child would qualify for any of the studies, please refer to the FAQ questions page. Furthermore if you have any questions please feel free to email the individuals running the study through the contact link.
PARENTHOOD THROUGH ADOPTION
Ages: 0-5 years.
Qualification: married couples, international adoption
Locational: mail, international
They say that every new child added to a family changes that family forever. Adopting a child creates a unique avenue for building families. We are conducting a longitudinal study on the transition women go through as they being to integrate the new child into their family. We will be interviewing women before they adopt (about 6 weeks prior to traveling), after they return home (6 weeks after adoption date) and six months post-adoption. To participate in this study, we need you to contact us prior to travel. We are recruiting worldwide.
CONTACT
For general information, please contact the Kennesaw State University Infant Studies Lab Department.
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FAQ
Who Am I contacting?
Your message will be recieved by Dr. Nicole Martin or a senior member of her research team.
When Will I Recieve a Response?
Please allow at least 72 hours to recieve a response.
MORE RESEARCH
For questions on additional research currently in the process of being published please contact the Kennesaw State University Infant Studies Lab.
