Welcome to the University of Louisville Stress & Health Lab
Stress is a central, unifying concept in psychological science. It draws on, and bridges, research concerning emotion, cognition, development, neuroscience, and clinical science. It is also a part of our everyday lives.
The UofL Stress & Health lab focuses on social stress and its consequences, broadly speaking. Social stress occurs, in part, because the body’s major physiological systems—cardiovascular, endocrine, immune—are sensitive to qualities of the social environment. You might say that our biological selves are partially regulated by the social world we inhabit, and the one we percieve.
In our lab, strong emphasis is placed on “use-inspired basic research" (Stokes, 1997, p. 6). Our deepest interests are in basic mechanisms of social stress—cognitive, socioemotional, and physiological—that are causally-related to mental and physical health and that offer possibilities for improving people’s well-being. We place special emphasis on stress that is significant for the lives of women worldwide.
Thanks for visiting. We hope you'll take some time to explore our work.
Stokes, D. E. (1997). Pasteur's Quadrant. Brookings Institution Press. Washington, D.C.
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