Lorraine Blatt

Graduate Student, Dr. Votruba-Drzal

Department of Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Recent Publications

Blatt, L.R., Delale-O’Connor, L. A., Binning, K. R., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2024). School segregation and social processes that shape early and middle childhood development. Educational Psychologist.

Miller, P., Blatt, L., Hunter-Rue, D., Barry, K. R., Jamal-Orozco, N., Hanson, J. L., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2024). Economic hardship and adolescent behavioral outcomes: Within- and between-family associations. Development and Psychopathology.

Call, C. C., Eckstrand, K. L., Kasparek, S. W., Boness, C. L., Blatt, L., Jamal-Orozco, N., Novacek, D. M., & Foti, D. (2022). An ethics and social-justice approach to collecting and using demographic data for psychological researchers.   Perspectives on Psychological Science. 

Binning, K. R., Blatt, L., Chen, S., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2021). Going to college with a posse: How having high school peers on campus supports college achievement. AERA Open, 7. 1-18.

Blatt, L. & Votruba-Drzal, E.(2021). District-level school choice and racial/ethnic test score gaps. American Educational Research Journal.

News and Awards

LRDC Graduate students Lorraine Blatt and Nabila Jamal-Orozco, along with their colleagues were featured in the Pitt Research Report "Convergence."

December 4, 2023

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Kudos to LRDC Graduate Student Lorraine Blatt, Developmental Psychology (Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, advisor), who has been awarded a 2023 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow.

June 5, 2023

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Kudos to the recipients of the Spring 2023 Council Award: Alex Silver, Rebecca McGregor, (Caroline) Xueying Ren, Shirley Duong, Lorraine Blatt, and Isabella Kahhale.

April 3, 2023

Lorraine Blatt, Developmental Psychology and LRDC graduate student in Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal's lab has received the 2021 Jeremy Johnson Landen Award, established to honor the memory of Jeremy Johnson Landon, the son of Carl Johnson and Deborah Landon.

April 22, 2021

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Contact

634I MURDC

lrb66@pitt.edu

(412) 624-7058