Project RAISE

Project RAISE is a collaboration with Angela Duckworth’s Character Lab Research Network, a consortium of schools across the country that works collaboratively with scientists to advance character development research. Across several cohorts, we have conducted multiple longitudinal school-based studies with adolescents. Our primary aim is to understand which aspects of social media use promote positive development and which appear to hinder development, across multiple interpersonal, psychological, and academic domains of adjustment. 

An example of a lab paper from Project RAISE is Maheux et al. (2021), "#Grateful: Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ social media use and gratitude during the COVID‐-19 pandemic," published in Journal of Research on Adolescence. The paper mentioned in the Project ROSE section (Ladd et al., 2022) also used data from Project RAISE.