The PaCK lab recently attended the 2026 APA conference, where undergraduate research assistant Madeleine Salazar Acosta and third-year graduate student Jewelian Fairchild presented a poster, “Exploring Empathy as a Moderator in Parenting Styles Across Generations.” Undergraduate research assistant Juliana Spencer and fourth-year graduate student Paige Munshell presented a poster titled “Attributions and Emotion Regulation: Effects on Child Behavior Problems.” Paige also presented a poster titled “Frustration Tolerance to Observed Parenting: A Moderated Mediation Analysis, for which she received the Division 37 2026 Student Poster Award in recognition for an outstanding poster.

Third year graduate student delivered two presentations at the 2026 International Society for Research on Aggression! Her presentations were titled “Intimate partner violence and psychological and physical parent-child aggression: Cross-lagged analysis comparing mothers and fathers” and “Intergenerational transmission of child abuse risk: cognitive mediators in a multigenerational study.”

Third year graduate student Jewelian Fairchild recently attended the 2026 New Hampshire Violence Prevention Conference, where she delivered two presentations: “Early parenting stress and later abuse risk: Dyadic analysis of mediation by maternal and paternal negative attributions,” and “Intergenerational Transmission of At-Risk Parenting across the Transition to Parenthood: A Person-Centered, Multi-Generational Study.”

Second-year grad student Jewelian Fairchild and Dr. Rodriguez recently presented at the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) conference in New Orleans, LA! They presented a talk titled “Re-envisioning Physical Child Abuse Risk: Emerging Evidence for a Dual-Processing Socio-Emotional Information Processing Theory” and a poster titled “Associations Between Maternal History of Child Abuse and Later Child Abuse Risk Toward Sons and Daughters Across Time.”

The PaCK lab recently attended the Southeastern Psychological Association 2025 conference!

Undergraduate research assistant Kassandra De Jesus presented her senior honors thesis as a oral paper presentation, titled “Parents’ ADHD and Parenting Style: Relation to Child ADHD Symptoms”

Undergraduate research assistant Vanessa Achamfuor presented her senior honors thesis as a oral paper presentation, titled “Moderators of Intergenerational Patterns in African American Parenting Styles”

Undergraduate research assistant Juli Spencer presented a poster titled “Prenatal Factors and Parental Reports of Child Behavior Problems”

First year graduate student researcher Jewelian Fairchild presented a poster titled “Perceived Child Behavior: Role of Abuse Risk and Abuse History” and an oral paper titled “Parenting Stress and Abuse Risk: Mediating Role of Negative Attributions”

Second year graduate student researcher Paige Munshell presented work from her Master’s Thesis as an oral paper titled “Parenting and Partner Violence as Predictive of Family Dysfunction” as well as a poster titled “Relations Between Intimate Partner Violence and Parent-Child Interactions Across Infancy”