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
Kids having smartphones is likely fine and may even be beneficial (Opinion)
Tampa Bay Times, 3/25/2025
How COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids
Scientific American, 3/11/2025
Anxious Generation’s Jonathan Haidt privately told politician that researchers hid teen social media harm effects
Crikey, 12/12/2024
OC500: Candid Odgers
Orange County Business Journal, 11/17/2024
Americans under 30 are miserable compared to Boomers: ‘The future is looking pretty bleak’
CNBC, 8/28/2024
Seven Insights From Teens About Social Media and Mental Health
Greater Good Magazine, 8/19/2024
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