Candace Lapan
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    • Current Research
    • Social Comparison
    • Emotion & Social Judgments
    • Emotion & Cognitive Performance
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Curriculum Vitae ​(updated 2/15/2022)

Current and Former Research Affiliations

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  • Performance Understanding & Person Perception in Youth (P.U.P.P.Y.) Lab - Wingate University
  • ​Social Development Lab - University of Virginia
  • ​Development and Understanding of Children's Knowledge (D.U.C.K.) Lab - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Network Profiles

  • ResearchGate
  • ​LinkedIn
  • Google Scholar

About Candace

Candace Lapan is a Developmental Psychologist who received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wingate University.

Her research merges social, cognitive, and educational psychology examined through a developmental lens. Her main line of research examines how the emotional experience of social comparison affects children's self-perceptions. The goal of her research is to uncover developmental changes in self-perceptions and the underlying mechanisms responsible for these changes. Her interests extend to the development of emotion more broadly, including basic processes (e.g., emotional experiences implicated in cognitive functioning and social cognition) as well as applied issues (e.g., academic success, servive-learning, Social Emotional Learning curriculum development).

​Candace's work has appeared in journals such as
​Child Development, Infant and Child Development, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

New Book!

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​My latest publication is now available! The book chapter “Wear Long Sleeves and Say Bless You:” Working as an “Other” in Conservative Academia appears in the book The Changing Faces of Higher Education: From Boomers to Millennials (Vernon Press, 2022) is now available!

Interested in a sample? Reach out! 

​You can purchase it from the following outlets:
  • Vernon Press
  • Amazon


Research Interests
  • Social Comparison
  • Service-Learning
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Stereotyping and Prejudice
  • Impression Formation
  • Selective Social Learning
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  • About
  • Research
    • Current Research
    • Social Comparison
    • Emotion & Social Judgments
    • Emotion & Cognitive Performance
    • Publications
  • Teaching
  • Blog
  • Services
  • Contact