Graduate

Research Projects

Adult Division

• Stress Management Intervention with Breast Cancer Patients - Michael Antoni, Ph.D. and Charles Carver, Ph.D.
• Genes, Personality, Cognition, and Psychopathology - Charles Carver, Ph.D. and Kiara Timpano, Ph.D.
• The Role of Cognitive Factors in the Onset, Maintenance, and Recurrence of Depressive Episodes - Jutta Joormann, Ph.D.
• Emotion Regulation and Stress Reactivity in Depression and Anxiety Disorders - Jutta Joormann, Ph.D.
• Vulnerability to Depression: Integrating Research on Neural Correlates, Biological Markers, and Psychosocial Factors - Jutta Joormann, Ph.D.
• The Computational Structure of Disgust - Debra Lieberman, Ph.D.
• Cues Mediating Kin Detection of Parents and Offspring - Debra Lieberman, Ph.D.
• How Attitudes Regarding Sexual Behavior Affect Moral Decision Making in a Social Network - Debra Lieberman, Ph.D.
• Gratitude and Friendship Formation - Debra Lieberman, Ph.D. and Michael McCullough, Ph.D.
• How Religious Belief Constrains Behavior and Promotes Cooperation - Michael McCullough, Ph.D.
• Why Do People Punish - Michael McCullough, Ph.D.
• Individual Differences and Mechanisms of Affect Regulation - Matthias Siemer, Ph.D.
• Self-Regulation and Hoarding: A Focus on Executive Functions - Kiara Timpano, Ph.D. and Charles Carver, Ph.D.
• Decision Making in Hoarding - Kiara Timpano, Ph.D.
• A Familial Approach to Understanding Vulnerability to Hoarding Disorder - Kiara Timpano, Ph.D.
• Postpartum OCD: Development of a Prevention Program - Kiara Timpano, Ph.D.
• A Culturally-Informed Treatment for Schizophrenic Patients and Their Families - Amy Weisman, Ph.D.

Child Division

• Studies on Autism and Related Disabilities - Michael Alessandri Ph.D and Jennifer Durocher, Ph.D.
• Head Start and School Transition - Daryl Greenfield, Ph.D. and Rebecca Shearer, Ph.D.
• Preschool Science - Daryl Greenfield, Ph.D.
• Temperament and Early Social and Emotional Development - Heather Henderson, Ph.D., Daniel Messinger, Ph.D. and Rebecca Shearer, Ph.D.
• Social and Emotional Development in Higher Functioning Children with Autism - Heather Henderson, Ph.D.
• Developmental Epidemiology - Christine Delgado, Ph.D. and Daryl Greenfield, Ph.D.
• Children's Registry and Information System (CHRIS) - Christine Delgado, Ph.D.
• The Coming Out Project - Kristin Lindahl, Ph.D.
• Effectiveness studies of parenting skills interventions with court-referred families - Lynne Katz, Ed.D.
• Child-Parent psychotherapy interventions with maltreated infants and toddlers - Lynne Katz, Ed.D.
• Translating Child-Parent Psychotherapy into the Juvenile and Family Court System - Lynne Katz, Ed.D.
• A Comparison of Interventions for High-Risk and Drug Exposed Infants with Developmental Delays - Lynne Katz, Ed.D.
• PEERS Project: Understanding Peer Victimization and Developing a Preventive School-Based Invervention - Annette La Greca, Ph.D.
• Children's Reactions to Traumatic Stress - Annette La Greca, Ph.D.
• Childhood Chronic Disease - Annette La Greca, Ph.D. and Alan Delamater, Ph.D.
• Effects of Early Anesthesia Exposure on the Brain Development of Infants and Toddlers - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• Clinic-Based Adherence Interventions for Children with Cystic Fibrosis - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• International Study of Depression and Anxiety in Patients with CF and Parent Caregivers - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• Development of Health-Related Quality of Life Measures for Children and Adolescents with Primary Ciliary Dyskenesia - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• Development of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Non-CF Bronchiectasis - Alexandra L. Quittner, Ph.D.
• Spanish translation and validation of culturally and linguistically valid measure of social-emotional adjustment: Adjustment Scales for Preschool Intervention - Rebecca Shearer, Ph.D.
• LOOK Project: Using observations of child behavior in context to guide early educators' response toward children who display challenging behaviors - Rebecca Shearer, Ph.D.
• Web-based Interventions for Distressed Couples - Brian D. Doss, Ph.D.

Health Division

Cardiovascular Disorders

• Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Meal-Related Glycemia - Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D. and Maria Llabre, Ph.D.
• Epidemiologic Determinants of Cardiac Structure and Function Among Hispanics - Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D., and Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D.
• Environment, CNS and Atherosclerosis - Philip McCabe, Ph.D.
• Heart Smart - Patrice Saab, Ph.D.
• Get In The Groove! - Patrice Saab, Ph.D.
• Biobehavioral Bases of CHD Risk and Management - Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., Marc Gellman, Ph.D., Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D., Maria Llabre, Ph.D., and Philip McCabe, Ph.D.
• Behavioral Medicine Research in Cardiovascular Disease - Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., Marc Gellman, Ph.D., Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D., Maria Llabre, Ph.D., and Philip McCabe, Ph.D., Patrice Saab, Ph.D..
• Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos - Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., Marc Gellman, Ph.D., Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D., and Maria Llabre, Ph.D.

Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV/AIDS

• Videophone-Delivered Patient-Partner Stress Management Effects on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms and Neuroimmune Processes - Michael Antoni, Ph.D. and Sara Czaja, Ph.D.
• Biobehavioral Factors Influencing Immune and Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Spectrum Disease - Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D.
• HIV Prevention and Trauma Treatment for MSM with Childhood Sexual Abuse Histories - Gail Ironson, Ph.D., M.D.
• Spiritual Coping with Trauma: Implications for Disease Progression, Health Behaviors and Ten-Year Mortality - Gail Ironson, Ph.D., M.D. and Heidemarie Kremer, Ph.D.
• Compassionate Love and its Relationship to Health Behavior, Disease Progression, and Ten- Year Mortality in people with HIV - Gail Ironson, Ph.D., M.D. and Heidemarie Kremer, Ph.D.
• Biopsychosocial Research Training in Immunology and AIDS - Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., Michael Antoni, Ph.D., Barry Hurwitz, Ph.D., Gail Ironson, Ph.D., M.D., and Maria Llabre, Ph.D.

Psycho-Oncology

• Comparing Brief Forms of Stress Management Intervention with Breast Cancer Patients - Michael Antoni, Ph.D. and Charles Carver, Ph.D.
• The Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Intervention on Clinical Disease Endpoints at 8 - 13 yr follow-up in Women with Breast Cancer - Michael Antoni, Ph.D.
• Stress Management for Facilitating Adjustment in Low-Income Black Women with Breast Cancer - Suzanne Lechner, Ph.D. and Michael Antoni, Ph.D.
• DVD-delivered Stress Management for Latinas Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer - Paul Jacobsen, Ph.D., Suzanne Lechner, Ph.D. and Michael Antoni, Ph.D.
• Ethnicity & Determinants of Quality of Life Following Prostate Cancer Treatment - Michael Antoni, Ph.D. and Frank Penedo, Ph.D.
• NewU Clinic - Monica Hooper, Ph.D.
• Pathways to Freedom DVD Development Study - Monica Hooper, Ph.D.
• Tobacco Health Disparities Study - Monica Hooper, Ph.D.
• Smoke Break Study - Monica Hooper, Ph.D.
• Serotonin, Personality, and Smoking Cessation Study - Monica Hooper, Ph.D.
• Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of Cancer on Health Risk of CRC Patients and Their Caregivers - Youngmee Kim, Ph.D.
• Elevated Health Risk Among Patients with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Their Caregivers - Youngmee Kim, Ph.D.
• Feasibility of Home-based Cancer Preventive Behaviors Intervention for CRC - Youngmee Kim, Ph.D.

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience

• Neuroimaging of Extinction Recall in Development and Anxiety - Jennifer Britton, Ph.D.
• Novel Treatment Strategy in Adolescent Anxiety - Jennifer Britton, Ph.D.
• Neurobehavioral Effects of Resilience Training Over the Deployment Cycle - Amishi P. Jha, Ph,D.
• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Resilience: Examining the Neural Correlates of Attentional Salience - Amishi P Jha, Ph.D., Jutta Joorman, Ph.D., Matthias Siemer, Ph.D.
• Titrating Optimal Delivery of Mindfulness-based Training Interventions - Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.
• Promoting Well-being in Military Families with Mindfulness Training: The SMART-Spouses Project - Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.
• Investigating Train-the-Trainer Delivery of Mindfulness-based Training - Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.
• Neurobehavioral Effects of Battlemind vs. MMFT[n1] - Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.
• Optimizing MMFT in Army Infantry Cohorts - Amishi P. Jha, Ph.D.
• Environment, CNS and Atherosclerosis - Philip McCabe, Ph.D.