Title: Theory-Driven Approaches to Understanding and Changing Health Behaviours
Title: Family Stress & Child Development: A Focus on Mechanisms Abstract: Grounded in an ecological family systems approach to the study of developmental psychopathology, my program of research explores the mechanisms through which families transmit adaptive and maladaptive child behaviors with the goal of optimizing intervention outcomes. I have developed two interconnected lines of research focused on […]
Title: The Role of Cultural Fit in Addressing Health Disparities
Title: Why do we remember? Abstract: Memory is typically associated with remembering our past experiences. Yet humans spend only a minority of time reminiscing; the majority of our thoughts involve imagining and fantasizing about experiences we have never had. These thoughts tend to be episodic in nature—those that concern imagining a specific event unfolding in time […]
Title: Daily positive experiences and health: Biobehavioral pathways and resilience to stress
Title: The causes and consequences of analytic thinking Abstract: The ability to reason is the cornerstone of what makes us human, and is essential for scientific, technological, and cultural progress. Despite our species’ remarkable reasoning abilities, however, we also have a propensity to act without thinking carefully – often leading to bias and poor decision-making. […]
Title: How low can you go? A transdiagnostic perspective on early neurodevelopmental risk Abstract: Much progress has been made in the last decade with regard to identifying early markers of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in infancy, but relatively less research has focused on this in ADHD. Additionally, very little work has been done on the […]
Title: Contributions to language from implicit and explicit memory
This job talk for the Instructor I position will consist of a teaching philosophy talk followed by a Q&A round.
This job talk for the Instructor I position will consist of a teaching philosophy talk followed by a Q&A round.