This specialization focuses on understanding the psychosocial and behavioral factors that influence the onset or progression of illness and disease and the effectiveness of health promotion programs and medical treatments. Training will allow students to develop a strong foundation in the theoretical perspectives, research methods, intervention strategies, ethical issues, and current controversies in the field of health psychology.
Faculty
Borelli, Jessica, Ph.D., Yale University
Attachment, parent-child relationships, developmental psychopathology, relational interventions, emotion, mental health
Campos, Belinda, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Culture, relationships, positive emotion, health
Charles, Susan T., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion
Ditto, Peter H., Ph.D., Princeton University
Social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology
Heckhausen, Jutta, Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Life-span developmental psychology, motivation and developmental regulation in children, adolescents, and adults, control and health, cultural universals and differences in achievement behavior
Jamner, Larry D., Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth
Nation, Daniel, Ph.D., University of Miami
Clinical neuropsychology
Pressman, Sarah, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health
Riis, Jenna, Ph.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Early life adversity; stress; salivary bioscience; neuroendocrine-immune relations; program implementation and evaluation
Rinehart, Jenny, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sexual Victimization Prevention, Risk Perception
Silver, Roxane Cohen, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism)
Thayer, Julian, Ph.D., New York University
Health psychology, Psychopathology, Health disparities, Heart rate variability, Emotions, Stress
Yim, Ilona S., Ph.D., University of Trier, Germany
Psychobiology of stress, stress in pregnancy, women's health, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics, assessment of stress
Zinger, Joanne, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology