Erin T. Mathis graduated from the North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Health, Medicine and Human Values. Erin has previous research experience working at Duke’s Center for Developmental Epidemiology on the Preschool Aged Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA), a structured psychiatric interview that evaluates the presence of psychopathology, environmental risk factors, and resiliency in preschoolers. Erin also has research experience working in a developmental psychology lab at North Carolina State University that examines the relationship between parents’ beliefs about their children’s emotions and how their beliefs relate to the way parents raise their children and their children’s future life outcomes.

Erin currently works as a research assistant at iRT on the Pre-School Emotion Recognition project which aims at developing a computer-based tool to measure emotion recognition skills in preschool-aged children. In order to develop the tool, Erin has become a Facial Action Coding System (FACS) certified coder. The emotion recognition tool will improve the ability of professionals to identify children with emotional knowledge deficits, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving emotional knowledge and reducing aggressive and delinquent behaviors.