Office:  Gilmer Hall 226B

Education

2024 Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2019 B.A., B.S., in Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Delaware.

Biography

How do adolescents' peers influence their decisions to engage in high-risk behaviors? My work focuses on individual differences in susceptibility to peer influence (e.g., why might one adolescent be more easily influenced by their peers than another?). My work further examines how individuals may be differentially susceptible to influence from multiple sources, such as their parents, best friends, or romantic partners. With the Adolescent Research Group, I hope to examine these research questions longitudinally, to elucidate the distal correlates of early susceptibility to peer influence. 

Relevant Publications

Field, N. H., & Prinstein, M. J. (2023). Reconciling multiple sources of influence: Longitudinal associations among perceived parent, closest friend, and popular peer injunctive norms and adolescent substance use. Child Development, 94(4), 809-825.

Field, N. H., Choukas‐Bradley, S., Giletta, M., Telzer, E. H., Cohen, G. L., & Prinstein, M. J. (2024). Why adolescents conform to high‐status peers: Associations among conformity, identity alignment, and self‐esteem. Child Development, 95(3), 879-894.

Field, N. H., Nick, E. A., Massing‐Schaffer, M., Fox, K. A., Nesi, J., & Prinstein, M. J. (2024). High and low levels of adolescent peer status are associated longitudinally with socioevaluative concern. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34(1), 114-126.