Rebecca is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Wayne State University under Dr. Chris Trentacosta.
Rebecca’s primary responsibility is to assist with contacting families to schedule data collection visits and coordinating mailings that are used to obtain children’s naturally shed baby teeth.
Rebecca’s research interests focus on returning individual research results (RIRR) to parent and child participants in developmental science, particularly within the realm of environmental health. Through her work in the DYAD lab, she aims to help bridge the gap between research and the community by ensuring families receive essential information about their environmental exposures. She believes the research enterprise is responsible for supporting participants by recognizing their contributions and providing meaningful insights that can influence their health and well-being.
Key Interests:
- Returning Individual Research Results (RIRR): Exploring effective strategies for reporting environmental exposure findings to parents and children.
- Ethical Considerations in Research: Addressing the ethical and practical challenges of sharing research results to ensure responsible communication and participant trust, in line with the APA Code of Conduct’s principles of beneficence, respect for autonomy, and justice.
- Environmental Health: Investigating how environmental factors affect health outcomes and the importance of communicating these findings to the communities most impacted.
- Community Engagement: Building trust and collaboration between research institutions and communities facing health equity barriers to inform and shape relevant policy and practice.