Our research program is guided by one overarching question: How does our everyday experience contribute to the regulation of executive functions? Executive functions (EF)—which are also known as cognitive control or executive control—refer to a set of general-purpose control processes that are responsible for planning, problem solving, monitoring, interference control, emotion regulation and purposeful action. Overall, our research program has been devoted to theoretical and empirical investigations of a wide range of linguistic, emotional, sociocultural, and media-related (e.g., video gaming) factors that affect EF, which is a malleable and multifaceted construct consisting of inhibitory control, updating, and shifting functions.