Expert Profile
Candice Odgers
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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
![Watch on YouTube: CARTA:Tool Use andTechnology:Candice Odgers-Digital Technology and the Development of the Human Mind](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kXHOZcFHdCU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Watch on YouTube: Generation AI: AICan 2019 Keynote address by Candice Odgers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i5oli1qsyjg/mqdefault.jpg)
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Media Appearances
A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens
MSN (The Atlantic), 7/17/2024
Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health
Freethink, 7/17/2024
Did social media really fuel the youth mental health crisis? ‘The Anxious Generation’ researcher calls the correlation ‘irrefutable’
Fortune, 7/14/2024
A Surgeon General Warning - Will a social media warning really help children’s mental health?
The New York Times, 6/21/2024
What research actually says about social media and kids’ health
The Washington Post, 6/17/2024
The panic over smartphones doesn’t help teens
The Atlantic, 5/21/2024
Jonathan Haidt Blamed Tech for Teen Anxiety. Managing the Blowback Has Become a Full-Time Job.
The Wall Street Journal, 5/10/2024
Opinion: Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?
The New York Times, 5/1/2024
The Battle Over Gen Z Minds - Sad, Bad Or Mad?
Forbes, 5/1/2024
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
Articles
Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use, Perceived Impairments, and Well-Being in a Representative Sample
The Journal of Pediatrics
Biological embedding of experience: A primer on epigenetics
PNAS
Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all
Nature
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Systematic social observation of children’s neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost‐effective method
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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