Current Projects
The MOPC team engages in a wide range of research. Undergraduate research assistants serve as collaborators to build upon existing projects and develop their own, new research avenues. The research summarized below are three examples of this collaboration initiative.
This study aims to understand volitional personality change in college students as they graduate and transition to life after college. College graduates transitioning to the workforce completed a 13-week, light, psychoeducation intervention designed to increase volitional personality change motivation via weekly email newsletters. Findings underscore the limitations of this particular psychoeducational intervention approach and help to fill in the boundary conditions of when and how personality change is possible. Additionally, the study's pre-registered replication of key questions in volitional personality change aims to lay a foundation for future research.
Neurodiversity VPC Study
This study looks at self-improvement goals made by neurodivergent individuals. Through the implementation of community-based participatory research, the study seeks to include the unique perspectives of a group that has been traditionally excluded from psychological research. With the qualitative information gained from the study related to goal formation, it is possible to compile a list of resources supporting neurodivergent individuals, a resource that is commonly requested by the friends and family of neurodivergent individuals.
The International Situations Project is a large-scale cross-cultural study assessing personality traits, situational experience, and daily behavior among over 15,000 college students in 85 cities, 65 countries, 1 region, speaking 40 languages across 6 continents. Collectively, this study has assessed within and between-country differences in optimism, happiness, volitional personality change goals, situational experience, daily behavior, and religiosity. See the OSF project here.
Great Opportunities and Resources!
We Grow Together
The MOPC Lab tirelessly seeks to provide its members with opportunities and resources to aid in their professional and personal growth. Aside from connections with leading academic minds and access to information about current job postings in the psychology field, members have the opportunity to create and present original research at renown conferences such as the WPA and SPSP.
