Faculty Collective-Scott Plunkett
Scott W. Plunkett is a professor in the Department of Psychology. He has a PhD in Human Environmental Sciences with an emphasis in family relations and child development. He has two lines of research. First, he examines individual, family, peer, school, and community factors that relate to the mental health and academics of Latino, African American, Armenian, and Iranian adolescents and emerging adults. Second, he is actively involved in evaluating university mentoring programs and community family life education programs. Students in his lab get experience with collecting, coding, and entering self-report survey data and qualitative data. Students also get experience running basic statistics, developing surveys and corresponding codebooks and spreadsheets, creating online surveys, and conducting reviews of literature. They can also edit research monographs using the data, develop conference presentations, and publish manuscripts. (http://www.csun.edu/plunk/alab/index.html)