Graduate Student
Research interests:
My research focuses on the interplay between stress, emotions, and mental and physical health across the lifespan. My dissertation and other papers in development examine the term “stress” from several different perspectives: exposure (did an event occur), appraisal (the severity of threat of a particular event), and outcome (both participants’ reports of “feeling stressed” and theorized physical outcomes of chronic stress exposure). At Georgia Tech, I look forward to studying emotional and biological responses to everyday problems through the time-sampling study of young, middle, and older adults. These studies use a variety of designs, ranging from cross-sectional examinations of age differences to longitudinal investigations of trends over years to daily diary studies of day-to-day relationships between stress and affect to time-sampling analyses of events and responses as they occur across a day, to better understand these phenomena.
Education:
Ph.D., Psychology: Developmental, University of Notre Dame, 2009
M. A., Psychology: Developmental, University of Notre Dame, 2006
B. S., Psychology, Viterbo University, 2003
Affiliations:
Gerontological Society of America
American Psychological Association
