Lab Director
Morgan Thompson, Ph.D.
Dr. Morgan Thompson is the director the SPROUT Lab. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. Dr. Thompson received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Auburn University in the Department of Human Development and Family Science.
Dr. Thompson's research explores how children grow and adapt within their families and broader environments. Her work emphasizes risk and resilience processes to understand why some children do well across many different circumstances—like dandelions—while others need very particular conditions to thrive, like orchids. To answer these questions, Dr. Thompson studies children’s socioemotional and bioregulatory (e.g., sleep, stress physiology) development within the family context and how these processes are shaped by the larger ecological systems in which families live. She works across multiple levels of analysis (e.g., family and child behavior, sleep, physiological regulation, eye-tracking) and uses diverse methodologies (e.g., observational, narrative, survey) that incorporate multiple perspectives.
Outside of academia, Dr. Thompson enjoys spending time with her cat, hiking and being in nature, propagating plants, crocheting, and gathering with friends and family!
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Dr. Thompson's research explores how children grow and adapt within their families and broader environments. Her work emphasizes risk and resilience processes to understand why some children do well across many different circumstances—like dandelions—while others need very particular conditions to thrive, like orchids. To answer these questions, Dr. Thompson studies children’s socioemotional and bioregulatory (e.g., sleep, stress physiology) development within the family context and how these processes are shaped by the larger ecological systems in which families live. She works across multiple levels of analysis (e.g., family and child behavior, sleep, physiological regulation, eye-tracking) and uses diverse methodologies (e.g., observational, narrative, survey) that incorporate multiple perspectives.
Outside of academia, Dr. Thompson enjoys spending time with her cat, hiking and being in nature, propagating plants, crocheting, and gathering with friends and family!
KSU Profile | Google Scholar
Graduate Students
Natalia Grossi Ferreira, B.A.
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Hello! My name is Natalia Grossi Ferreira and I am a first year graduate student in the Child Clinical Psychology Program. I graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri – Columbia. I am broadly interested in studying how parenting influences children's socioemotional development and the exploring the determinants of parenting. In my free time, I enjoy playing with my cat, Honey, and watching a good TV-show! |
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Kelly Batten
Dominic Chifulini
Ari Hentzel
Karissa Wahl
Dominic Chifulini
Ari Hentzel
Karissa Wahl
