Wondering how to help K-12 students become more kind, helpful, and respectful? The prosocial lab has launched a new website! Checkout our data and see stories from teachers to learn more about strategies that work.

Connect with us at www.ProsocialClass.org

Want to learn more about how to promote student prosocial behavior and teacher wellbeing? Checkout these sessions with my colleagues in the Prosocial Education lab! @mizzouprosociallab.bsky.social #AERA2025

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What kind of research was cancelled by Dept of Ed?
Bread & butter work to improve kids' achievement & lives:
🚸Enhancing math & writing instruction
🚸Helping kids w disabilities transition after HS
🚸Reducing teacher shortages

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We found that strong relatedness with both the instructor and peers are uniquely associated with specific types of help-seeking behavior. We also found that some of the associations of competence and autonomy with students’ help-seeking behavior depended on their relatedness with instructors.

New publication 🔔 It was fun contributing to this paper and it’s currently open access in JEP! The need for relatedness in college engineering: A self-determination lens on academic help seeking. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

New MILES Lab article just got published in JXE! doi.org/10.1080/0022...

50 free online copies available via this link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T6E6C...

Or via ResearchGate: t.co/JsW8pITCSW

👋Starting to recreate my #edpsych network. My work is at the interface of adolescent development and educational psychology where I study how early adolescents’ social experiences at school shape their academic beliefs and behavior.