If you'd like to see some of the projects I have been on, please click here (you will be redirected to the lab site).
Other things.I have a few other projects/papers in the works with Jeffrey Hunger, with Daniel McKinnis, Jenn Ponder, and on my own. These projects focus on understanding the effects of anti-gay legislation on LGB's, which isn't entirely different than what we do in lab, however our aim is to use advanced statistical models, based on theoretical perspectives, to identify working predictors of well-being and mental health outcomes.
Daniel McKinnis and I are, for the most part, addressing the same questions in terms of anti-gay legislation but for LGB's in relationships. We are mostly interested understanding whether being in satisfying relationships helps these individuals to cope better than their single counterparts.
I'm also working with Jenn Ponder, PhD. on a project that seeks to identify the long-term benefits of training future elementary school teachers using an action-oriented civic engagement model that promotes understanding and an orientation toward incorporating civic knowledge and skills into elementary school classrooms. Specifically, through a classroom democratic processes, students elect an issue that is most relevant to them and build a grass-roots project around promoting awareness and making efforts to remedy the problem identified.
On my own, I’m playing with something called the Opener scale and looking at the extent to which personality and measures of empathy predict a person’s ability to elicit intimate self-disclosure from others. This is purely for structural equation modeling fun and I haven’t ascertained the extent to which it adds anything valuable to disclosure research. :P
Additionally, I’m planning something real big that shall not be named. ;)