Under Dr. Doane Sampey's mentorship, undergraduate and doctoral students explore the psychophysiological underpinnings of adolescent and young adult every-day stress experiences from a developmental psychopathology theoretical framework.
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The Arizona Health and Aging Lab (AHAL) is a collaborative lab conducting on-going studies examining factors that contribute to resilience in aging, including the relation between stress and biological risk factors for disease.
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We study basic processes that are critical to understand human and non-human behavior: How do we perceive significant events in our environment? How do we remember them? How do we respond to them? How do they modulate motivation for certain activities? How do we learn to avert those activities when they are harmful in the long run?
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The Behavioral Alcohol Research for Clinical Advancement [BARCA] lab conducts laboratory and survey research on processes involved in the development of alcohol-related problems including alcohol use disorders.
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The purpose of our research is to understand the consequences of chronic stress on the brain and behavior. Chronic stress has far reaching effects, from exacerbating conditions that include AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, obesity, and autoimmune disorders, to triggering drug relapse.
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The CARMA lab seeks to understand culture, religion, and evolution.
Here are some examples of the kinds of questions the CARMA lab is interested in:
What constitutes personhood? Do people from different cultures and religions see personhood differently? Is God a person?
Do people become fundamentalist because of the threats they perceive?
Do people become religious as a way to find mates?
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Dr. Pina is interested in the study of intra-individual level risk factors in the development of anxiety disorders in youths and the evaluation of preventive and treatment interventions for use with this population. Dr. Pina's work integrates cultural and child-adolescent anxiety research and is aimed at developing empirically informed, culturally robust assessment and intervention strategies for youth.
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The Child Emotion Center researchers explore early biological and environmental risk and protective factors for later mental and physical health of children. Under the direction of the center's founder Dr. Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, graduate and undergraduate students use twin studies to separate out the effects of genes and the environment on development.
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This research aims to understand the learning processes that produce conditioned food preferences. The research concerns how flavors come to be preferred by being associated with already preferred flavors (i.e., sweet) or with nutrients (i.e., calories). We are also concerned with whether merely being exposed to foods increases preference for them and whether subjects learn about taste (i.e., salty, sour, bitter, sweet) and odor stimuli (i.e., flavor extracts) by the same learning processes.
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The mission of the Culture and Decision Science Network is to understand how people think, feel, and behave like they do and the underlying influences of dynamic interactions between culture and individual psychology.
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The Dynamics of Perception, Action, & Cognition (DPAC) lab is a multidisciplinary research team whose focus is the application of dynamics, complexity, and self-organization to the fields of perception, action, and cognition. Our research aims to understand the coordination among multiple systems and processes such as: vision, touch, limb movements, breathing, heart rate, handedness, learning, and attention.
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How do words, objects, and events become meaningful to us? Glenberg and his students are attacking these problems by developing an embodied theory of cognition: All cognitive processes are based on neural processes of perception, action, and emotion.
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Our Evolutionary Social Cognition Lab explores how motivations influence psychological processes from attention and memory to decision-making and behavior. In particular, we focus on fundamental social motivations, such as self-protection, mating, social affiliation, kin care, status-striving, and disease avoidance, that have been important to humans for tens of thousands of years.
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Research conducted in The Health and Coping Lab examines social, developmental, and cognitive influences on stress, coping, and physical health. Our primary areas of focus include women's and infants' health, cognitive mediators of physiological stress responses, and the influence of childhood experiences on psychological and physical health in adulthood.
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Our research includes identifying different types of overt engagement activities that are particularly helpful to learners and easily adopted by learners, exploring how to promote students’ understanding of emergent processes and concepts of collective summing, analyzing how students learn from monologue versus dialogue presentation of learning materials, and examining what allows students to learn vicariously.
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The MLL conducts research into many aspects of human memory, such as memory for faces and voices. We also study interactions of memory and language, as in reading.
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The research goals of our laboratory are to characterize the cognitive and brain changes that occur during aging, as well as to develop behavioral, pharmacological, and dietary strategies to attenuate mnemonic and neurobiological age-related alterations using animal models.
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We conduct research investigating the basic memory and attention mechanisms that support a wide range of human behavior. Our approach borrows designs from three traditions in psychology including experimental, individual differences, and neuroscience.
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We explore a wide range of questions related to stigma, prejudice, and intergroup relations. Why do we stigmatize some people and some groups, but not others? How do important social goals (e.g., to protect oneself) influence how we come to understand the individuals around us? In what ways does religion influence intergroup conflict?
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Dr. Morris Okun's research interests involve applications of social psychological theories and concepts to several domains including commitment to education, health and well-being, dyadic relationships, and volunteering by older adults.
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In the Parent-Child Relations Lab, we focus on parenting processes and children’s emotional and behavioral attributes that contribute to the emergence of early mental health problems in children. We study these processes in the context of a variety of risk conditions that potentially increase the experience of stress in the family, which in turn may act as a change agent to deflect positive trajectories.
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Michael McBeath’s research focuses on computational modeling of perception-action in dynamic, natural environments. Specialty areas span sports, robotics, music, navigation, and multisensory object perception. The most widely known work is on navigational strategies used by baseball players, animals, and robots.
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The PRC is part of the Psychology Department at Arizona State University, and was established in 1984 as an NIMH funded Center to develop, evaluate and disseminate prevention programs for children and families in high stress situations. Research at the Center focuses on children and families experiencing four different stressors, parental divorce, poverty, bereavement, and parental job loss.
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The PAL is devoted to the exploration of fundamental issues in human categorization, ranging from the variables known to shape concepts to the investigation of higher-order issues in categorization theory.
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RIPL is a research group at Arizona State University. Our projects are headed by Dr. David MacKinnon and focus on prevention research and methodology.
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RSG is dedicated to advancing knowledge of resilience within the scientific community and using current knowledge to help people become more resilient. We are also dedicated to teaching communities how to provide their people with resilient solutions to the problems they face in everyday life.
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The overall aim of the research carried out in the SMoRG lab is to both understand the intricacies of neural control of real arm movement, and to address crucial bioengineering issues in the design of neuro-electronic hybrid systems.
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Dr. Michelle Shiota's research interests include a Multimethod approach to positive emotion differentiation, positive emotion and social bonding, and the role of positive emotion in emotion regulation; psychophysiological and long-term cardiovascular health aspects of emotion regulation; psychophysiological and long-term cardiovascular health aspects of emotion regulation
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Current STAR GATE projects deal both with physical health and psychological implications of dysfunctions in goal systems and self-regulation.
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We're a graduate-level research lab within the Behavioral Neuroscience Program of the Department of Psychology. Our principal investigator is Dr. Foster Olive, an Assistant Professor with decades of experience in Drug Abuse research.
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One of Dr. William Fabricius' areas of research focuses on children’s social cognitive development, in particular the development of children’s “theory of mind”. Another area of his research is father-child relationships, especially in divorced families.
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The goal of UCP-SARnet is to build a global community of students, university faculties, community activists and members of local governments engaged in the search for solutions to the most pressing global issues of our time articulated in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
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