Margot Bastin is an Associate Scientist at ORI. After obtaining her Ph.D. at KU Leuven, Belgium, she moved to Oregon in 2021. Her main research interests include 1) adolescent depression; 2) friendship processes; 3) online and offline communication; and 4) intrapersonal response styles, which she studies using both short-and long-term longitudinal designs. More recently, her research domain expanded to include the study of maternal depression and interventions to promote mental well–being. 

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