Stress & Health Lab
The Stress & Health Lab conducts interdisciplinary research on stress and its consequences 
for health. Our deepest interests are in mechanisms of stress—cognitive, socioemotional, and physiological—that are causally-related to health and that offer possibilities for improving well-being.
We place strong emphasis on “use-inspired basic research."1, p. 6 We strive to translate from basic psychological science, with the goal of developing new ways of understanding stress and its consequences.
We are particularly interested in the process of stress recovery, and place special emphasis on stress that is significant for the lives of women worldwide.
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Stressful relationships have been linked to mental health problems, and to aging-related chronic diseases with an inflammatory pathophysiology. We are interested in the socioemotional qualities of relationships that contribute to stress, and in recovery from interpersonal stress and trauma. We aim to identify mechanisms that impede recovery, those that facilitate recovery, and those that promote stress-resistance. |
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We have a special interest in transdiagnostic mechanisms of stress-related disorders and stress recovery (e.g., emotion regulation, inflammatory mediators such as cytokines) that hold promise for developing integrated models of mind and body. |
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Sex and gender shape our social world and influence psychobiological responses to stress. We are interested in the implications of sex and gender for stress-related disorders and stress recovery. |
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