Rate My Professor Nicole Martin

Dr. Martin's current research projects include financial decision-making in adoption, examining families’ total expenses by adoption type and sources of financial support; children's perception and rationalization of lies told by authority figures; and decision-making processes for adoption among parents facing infertility, considering treatment challenges like low success rates, high costs, and health risks alongside adoption barriers. She teaches undergraduate courses such as PSYC 2103 Human Development, PSYC 3205 Child Development, PSYC 3315 Infant Development, PSYC 3365 Human Sexuality, PSYC 4460 Child Psychopathology, and PSYC 4499 Senior Capstone in Psychology. Her peer-reviewed publications include "Maternal marital satisfaction during the first six months following international adoption" (2016), "Natural versus Trained Maternal Expression in a Social Referencing Paradigm" (2016), "Psychological Functioning Through the First Six Months in Mothers Adopting from China: Special Needs Versus Non-Special Needs" (2015), "An Examination of Referential and Affect Specificity with Five Emotions in Infancy" (2014), and "The Development of Affect Specificity in Infants' Use of Emotion Cues" (2008).