publications

2025

Lee, H., Tulagan, N. B., Lee-Poon, G., Starr, C. R., Rubach, C., Safavian, N., Goldstein, M. G., Eccles, J. S., & Simpkins, S. D. (under review). Racial/ethnic differences in math subjective task values among boys, girls, and overall: Replication evidence across high school and datasets. ZDM – Mathematics Education. #ZDMI-D-25-00021 

Starr, C. E., Tulagan, N. B., & Simpkins, S. D. (2025). Black and Latinx parents' STEM support matters: How patterns of parent support relate to adolescents' STEM outcomes across high school. Developmental Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001929

Tulagan, N. B., Soto-Lara, S., Ramos Carranza, P., Puente, K., Pantano, A., & Simpkins, S. D. (2025). “If I can’t help, I find someone who can”: Latinx parents’ responses to math challenges. Social Psychology of Education, 28(30). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09986-0 

2024

Gülseven, Z., Puente, K., Tulagan, N., Zarrett, N., Vandell, D. L., & Simpkins, S. D. (2024). Developmental trajectories of children’s self-control: Insights from mothers and teachers. Applied Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2022.2158827 

2023

Tulagan, N. B. & Eccles, J. S. (2023). Patterns of African American parents' educational involvement: Associations with adolescents' academic performance and motivational beliefs. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 00, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12887

Tulagan, N. B., Puente, K., & Simpkins S. D. (2023). Latinx adolescents’ school-related science conversations with family members: Associations with adolescents’ science self-concept and task value in high school. Applied Developmental Science, 27(2), 156-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2022.2045201

Reich, S., Dahlin, M., Tulagan, N., Kerlow, M., Cabrera, N., Piroutek, M. J., & Heyming, T. (2023). Caregivers’   experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and their children’s behavior. Journal of Family Issues, 44(4), 1093-1112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211055511 

Reich, S. M., Liu, Y., Tulagan, N., Martin, E., Dahlin, M., & Cabrera, N. (2023). Applying a family stress model to understand patterns of stress, media use, and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Children and Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2187853 

2022

Starr, C. R., Tulagan, N., & Simpkins, S. D. (2022). Underrepresented students’ STEM motivational beliefs: A systematic review of the literature on parent and family support. Educational Psychology Review. 1-41 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09700-6 

Reich, S. M., Tulagan, N., Dahlin, M., Labbaf, S., Dutt, N., Rahmani, A. (2022). Pregnant in a pandemic: Connecting perceptions of uplifts and hassles to mental health. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053221120115 

2021

Tulagan, N. & Eccles, J. S. (2021). African-American mothers’ socialization strategies to address adolescent-related academic expectations and risk concerns. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 855–869. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-01922-6 

2020

Simpkins, S. D., Tulagan, N., Lee, G., Ma, T.-L., Zarrett, N., & Vandell, D. L. (2020). Children’s developing work habits from middle childhood to early adolescence: Cascading effects for academic outcomes in adolescence and adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 56(12), 2281–2292. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001113 

2018

Tillman, K. A., Tulagan, N., Fukuda, E., & Barner, D. (2018). The mental timeline is constructed gradually in childhood. Developmental Science, 21, 1 – 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12679 https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12679

Conference Presentations since FAM&I Lab's Inception

He, J., Yuan, J., Zhou, Y., Li, Z., & Tulagan, N. B. (2025, August). Integrating social identities and science motivation among minoritized college students. [Poster Presentation]. Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood 2025 Conference, Charleston, SC, USA.

Zhou, Y., Li, Z., He, J., Yuan, J., & Tulagan, N. B. (2025, August). How minoritized emerging adults experience racial-ethnic and gender socialization from multiple socializers [Poster Presentation]. Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood 2025 Conference, Charleston, SC, USA.

Tulagan, N. B. (2025, April). Patterns of socializers’ science support: Retrospective relations to motivational beliefs among ethno-racially minoritized college students [Symposium Presentation]. In Y. Song (Chair), The What and How of Parents’ Socialization: Exploring the Bridging Role of Children’s Psychological Processes. American Educational Research Association 2025 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA.

Tulagan, N. B., Starr, C., Simpkins, S., & Eccles, J. (2024, April). Educational differences in parents’ math support self-efficacy and relations to adolescents’ math motivation: Conceptual replications [Poster Presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA