Expert Profile
Candice Odgers
Professor Psychological Science
Candice Odgers is a developmental psychologist who studies adolescents’ mental health and development.
Areas of Expertise
- Early Adversity
- Quantitative Psychology
- Social Inequality
- Technology and Young People
- Digital Inequality
- Developmental Psychology
- Adolescent Mental Health
Biography
Candice Odgers is a developmental psychologist who studies adolescents’ mental health and development. Her research team tracks adolescents’ daily mental health and device use via smartphones and has built new virtual tools for capturing the neighborhoods where children live and attend school.
Media
Media Appearances
The Anxious Generation wants to save teens. But the bestseller’s anti-tech logic is skewed
The Guardian, 4/27/2024
The Battle Over Gen Z Minds - Sad, Bad Or Mad?
Forbes, 5/1/2024
Opinion: Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
The New York Times, 5/1/2024
Jonathan Haidt Blamed Tech for Teen Anxiety. Managing the Blowback Has Become a Full-Time Job.
The Wall Street Journal, 5/10/2024
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Nature, 4/29/2024
Why Are Teens Depressed? It's Not Social Media
Reason, 2/11/2024
UCI Seeks National Benchmark for Children Learning AI
Orange County Business Journal, 10/2/2023
Social media fueling youth mental health crisis? CIFAR researcher cites other causes
CIFAR, 8/25/2023
What's the right age to get a smartphone?
BBC, 9/14/2022
‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
The New York Times, 4/23/2022
The Metaverse’s Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?
The Wall Street Journal, 1/9/2022
Senators to grill Instagram chief over platform’s effect on children
The Hill, 12/7/2021
Better research into Instagram, WhatsApp effects on young users needed, academics say
USA Today, 12/6/2021
Is social media the main issue affecting our children's mental health?
WFTS, 10/14/2021
Are Facebook and Instagram as Bad for Teens as We Fear?
Psychology Today, 10/13/2021
Articles
Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1/1/1970
Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use, Perceived Impairments, and Well-Being in a Representative Sample
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1/1/1970
Adolescents’ perceptions of family social status correlate with health and life chances: A twin difference longitudinal cohort study
PNAS, 1/1/1970
Biological embedding of experience: A primer on epigenetics
PNAS, 1/1/1970
Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all
Nature, 1/1/1970
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 1/1/1970
Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1/1/1970
Systematic social observation of children’s neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost‐effective method
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1/1/1970
Education
University of Virginia
PhD, Psychology, 2005
Simon Fraser University
MA, 2001
Simon Fraser University
BA, 1999
Accomplishments
- Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Early Career Award
- Janet Taylor Spence Award
- Excellence in Mentorship Award
- Early Career Contributions Award
- Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research
Affiliations
- Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology : Editorial Board
- Perspectives on Psychological Science : Editorial Board