教师研究活动
All SPFC faculty members engage in research, present scholarly papers at national and international conferences, and author scientific publications (articles, 章, 或书). Manuscripts often include undergraduate and graduate students as co-authors.
Faculty research interests vary widely and include topics such as psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness, psychology of volunteerism and service-learning, 妇女的健康, stress, 和正念, parenting effects on children’s 情感 control, theology, stigma, 心理健康, 家庭咨询中的戏剧疗法, 族群认同与族群冲突, 青春期女孩的抑郁症, development of children on the autism spectrum, spirituality in collaborative health care, substance abuse in high-risk adolescents, 创伤心理学, effective mentoring in organizations, 领导力发展, and more. 网易彩票app邀请您来探索网易彩票app的 SPFC教师简介页面 to learn more about their research interests and achievements.
Behavioral and clinical laboratory programs
面包师实验室
Dr. 菲利普·米. Baker leads this collaborative and motivated group of researchers interested in understanding how the brain reduces complex information into 行为 choices. 要做到这一点, we manipulate the circuitry of the brain in animal models to understand the contributions of brain areas to reducing external stimuli into internal representations of choices that ultimately guide decision-making. Much of our work is hands on with our animals models in addition to wet lab work which requires a consistent commitment to the lab for a minimum of two quarters.
指导:博士. 珍妮Vaydich, the 儿童及青少年实验室 within the 心理学院，家庭, and 社区 at 网易彩票下载 explores the influence of parent-child relationships and interactions on child and adolescent emotion regulation development. We are particularly interested in parent-child relationships and parental emotion socialization during childhood and adolescence. Previous projects have focused on aggression; however, more recent projects have examined the influence of parent-child relationships on symptoms of depression and anxiety. In particular, current projects explore:
• The influence of parent-adolescent conflict on adolescent mental and physical health
• The relationship between parental criticism and adolescent depressive symptoms
• Parental attachment relationships and disordered eating during late adolescence
• The impact of early parenting experiences on adolescent 情感 functioning
文化与社会发展实验室
Social development refers to the way children and youth become adult members of families, 社区, 和文化. 在文化中 & 社会发展实验室博士. Oscar Baldelomar leads a research team in studying how various aspects of social development (identity, 文化适应, social cognition and inter-group relationships) occur in diverse populations and across different cultural settings. To understand the role of culture in social development, research assistants participate in the design, execution and communication of various research projects conducted in the U.S. 和哥斯达黎加. The following are our current projects:
- SPU体验项目: Examines longitudinally the intersection of cognitive development and spiritual formation in SPU students, with special attention to minorities.
- A Cultural Model of COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in an international sample of emerging adults.
- Effects of Social Change on the Social Development of indigenous Bribri and Cabecar Youth in Costa Rica: This is a summer project that studies how family relationships, 身份的形成, 心理健康 are impacted by the technological change experienced by indigenous youth in Bribri and Cabecar 社区 in the Caribbean section of Costa Rica (Latino and bilingual research assistants needed).
Clinical Research in Self Injury and Suicide (CRISIS) Lab
Dr. Keyne Law is an assistant professor of psychology. As the principle investigator of the Clinical Research in Self Injury and Suicide (CRISIS) lab at SPU, she is interested in understanding the dynamic changes and interplay between ecological, 情感, 行为, and biological systems that lead to the development of suicidal thoughts and progression into lethal suicidal behavior. Dr. Law’s existing body of research integrates a diverse range of measurements such as self-report questionnaires, 半结构化访谈, 疼痛耐受性任务, 行为的任务, 和心理生理学.
Research assistants will be able to gain experience with running research participants through laboratory procedures, 使用心理生理学数据, and participating in the preparation and presentation of suicide research. Research assistants should expect to commit 8 hours to laboratory work including attendance at weekly lab meetings. Given the amount of training needed to fully participate in the research being conducted in Dr. Law’s lab, a commitment of 3 quarters is required.
金氏实验室
Dr. Paul Youngbin Kim is interested in 心理 processes impacting Asian and Asian American 社区. 具体来说,博士. 金审视了文化, 心理, and structural influences on the help-seeking attitudes of Asians and Asian Americans, with the goal of making mental health service more accessible to those 社区. Dr. Kim has written about contemporary forms of racism (e.g., racial microaggressions) and their link to well-being. He is also committed to highlighting the 心理 experiences of sojourning individuals, such as international students or third culture kids (TCKs).
Dr. Baine Craft is an Experimental Psychologist with expertise in Animal Behavior, Learning, 和认知. In the Learning 和认知 Lab, students work with Dr. Craft to study questions related to choice and decision making. 例如, the lab has recently studied how changes in reward quality (sweet, calorically dense foods) impact risky behavior. 作为实验室的研究助理, students will 进行文献综述, discuss models of choice and decision making, 收集数据, 分析数据, and may have the opportunity present data at regional and national conference. Undergraduate research assistants are required to take a minimum of 3 credits per quarter of 2361 or 4970, 参加每周的实验室会议, and to commit to a minimum of 2 quarters participation on the research team.
道德情绪与内隐偏见实验室
The 道德情绪与内隐偏见实验室, led by Dr. 汤姆的木匠, examines the psychology of moral emotions (guilt, shame, self-forgiveness) and implicit bias (e.g.种族偏见). Dr. Carpenter’s lab operates from the perspective that all people mess up, occasionally hurt others or act immorally, and harbor inner biases that we have learned from society. We are currently focusing on related questions, such as:
• How do people feel about their wrongs? Specifically, how do guilt and shame feelings
work, how are they different, and how do they vary across cultures?
• Why do people sometimes follow their beliefs and values and sometimes not? 这是如何受情绪影响的呢?
• What biases do people internalize from society (e.g., around social categories such as race)? 网易彩票app如何才能最好地研究这些偏见?
Research assistants are required to register for 3 credits of 2361 or 4970 each quarter, 参加每周的实验室会议, and commit to at least 3 quarters on the research team, although some accommodations may be made.
指导:博士. 布列塔尼Tausen, the 社会认知实验室 is dedicated to investigating how people think about themselves and other people as well as the downstream consequences of these mental processes. 目前,博士. Tausen and her students are investigating the causes and consequences of dehumanization – the tendency to deny other people complex emotions and mental processes. Ongoing projects in the lab cover topics such as: 1) What negative behaviors are reliably associated with perceiving others as less human than oneself? 2) How can intergroup contact be leveraged to reduce the dehumanization of marginalized group members (e.g.(无家可归的人)?
Research assistants in the 社会认知实验室 will collect and 分析数据, 进行文献综述, and participate in the preparation and presentation of research. Students who wish to participate in the 社会认知实验室 are required to register for 3 credits of 2361 or 4970 each quarter, 参加每周的实验室会议, and to commit to at least 3 quarters of participation on the research team.
韦伯实验室
Dr. Marcia Webb’s research interests over the years have focused upon the potential interplay between Christian religiosity and psychopathology. She has examined associations between trauma and religiosity, as well as the variables of 心理 maltreatment, guilt, and shame in relation both to religiosity and to forgiveness. More recently, she conducted empirical research focused on stigma about mental illness in the church.
Dr. 韦伯是这本书的作者， Toward a Theology of Psychological Disorder. 在这篇文章中, she describes research focused on current church attitudes toward mental illness, and biblical approaches that might serve to correct religious stigma. Her present scholarship is devoted to the theoretical integration of psychology and Christian faith, particularly with regard to mental disorder. 与博士一起工作的学生. Webb will be expected to have an interest and aptitude for study focused on this integration.