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Elizabeth Rellinger Zettler teaches undergraduate courses including Lifespan Development, Adolescent Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Social Psychology, and Children and Poverty. She is a co-investigator on the ¶¶Òõpro Developing and Understanding of Childhood Knowledge (D.U.C.K.) Study. Since coming to ¶¶Òõpro, she has worked with students to conduct research in many areas including attachment theory, effects of social media on social and emotional development, self-injurious behaviors, learning styles and attitudes towards learning. She strongly supports active learning experiences, so many of her students are volunteers or interns with organizations including the Autism Respite Tutoring Program, Best Buddies, the Latino Community Tutoring Project, and Heritage Health Nursing Home. She has taken students to study education and child development in Ecuador and Cuba. She regularly travels with students to present their research at major conferences including the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.