School, Home, and Internet contexts of EmotionaL Development Lab

01/29/2019

Interested in knowing more about who we are and what we do? Check out our website!

Our primary line of research investigates the ways that racial-ethnic experiences across contexts are related to ethnic-racial minority youth’s emotional development. These projects allow us to develop culturally-relevant models of emotional development that are informed by the experiences of Blac...

01/15/2019

Happy start of the Spring 2019 semester! The SHIELD lab will be starting a new project this semester so please feel free to like and share our page for updates!

12/31/2018

As 2018 closes, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Lab would like to give a huge congratulations to our senior research assistants that graduated this past December! Raven Ross, Jenna Lerch, Johnathan and Marian, we wish each of you much success in your next chapter. Although you will be tasked with new missions in new places, you will always be agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

10/09/2018

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Lab is ready for the Undergraduate Research Internship Fair tomorrow! Come see us at 1pm in the University Student Commons Virginia Rooms (A-D)

08/22/2018

Huge thank you to the VCU Center on Health Disparities for the 1st Annual Retreat yesterday. The S.H.I.E.L.D. lab was heavily represented with presentations from both our lead undergraduate student Raven Ross and our director Fantasy Lozada. Thanks to all in attendance. Please contact us at [email protected] to learn more about our research!

07/23/2018

Our VCU email address is now live! Contact us at [email protected] for more information about our lab and how to get involved in research either as an assistant or a participant. Thank you for your continued support.

07/12/2018

Learn more about our current lab manager, Deon Brown!

A new study finds parent-adolescent relationships have a larger influence on the age of alcohol and ma*****na use onset for Hispanics than Caucasians. read more...

07/12/2018

Learn more about our lab director, Dr. Fantasy Lozada!

A new study finds parent-adolescent relationships have a larger influence on the age of alcohol and ma*****na use onset for Hispanics than Caucasians. read more...

07/12/2018

07/12/2018

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Lab won big at the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) 64th Annual Meeting!https://psychology.vcu.edu/about/news/ .en.270317