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Psychology Faculty                                        RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Chris Dunkel Schetter (Director)
dunkel@psych.ucla.edu
http://health.psych.ucla.edu/CDS
Stress processes in pregnancy and effects on maternal physical and mental health and infant health and development; biopsychsocial pathways to preterm delivery and low birthweight; cultural and socioeconomic influences on health and health disparities; social support.
Annette Stanton (Co-Director)
astanton@ucla.edu
Stress and coping processes, with a focus on emotion regulation; determinants of psychological and physical health outcomes in individuals and couples living with chronic disease, particularly cancer and infertility; women's health
Julienne Bower
jbower@ucla.edu
Stress, coping, and health; benefit finding/post-traumatic growth; psychoneuroimmunology; mind-body interactions in cancer.
Hector Myers
myers@psych.ucla.edu
Biopsychosocial processes in stress and disease, racial/ethnic health disparities, health risk reduction interventions.
Rena Repetti
repetti@psych.ucla.edu
http://repettilab.psych.ucla.edu
Family social interaction; stress and coping processes; the interface between work and the family; child/adolescent social and emotional development within the family and peer contexts; naturalistic, daily report, and longitudinal research designs
Theodore Robles
robles@psych.ucla.edu
http://rhl.psych.ucla.edu
Stress, social relationships and health, allostatic and restorative processes, psychoneuroimmunology, marriage and health.
Shelley Taylor
taylors@psych.ucla.edu
http://taylorlab.psych.ucla.edu/
Social support; social cognition; self-regulation, stress, and coping; positive illusions; social neuroscience


Affiliated Faculty

Patricia Ganz
pganz@ucla.edu
cancer control from studies of individuals at risk for cancer to biopsychosocial studies of the late effects of cancer treatment; cognitive effects of endocrine treatments for breast cancer; biobehavioral interventions focused on reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence
Tara Gruenewald
TGruenewald@mednet.ucla.edu
Social relationships and health; impact of social-evaluative threat on mental and physical well-being; social status and health; allostatic processes; psychoneuroimmunology; frailty; aging and health; biopsychosocial processes involved in maintaining health across the life course
Michael Irwin
mirwin1@ucla.edu
http://www.cousinspni.org
interactions between behavior and immunity; consequences of major depression and insomnia on immune processes; reciprocal links between inflammatory cytokines, depression and disordered sleep; capacity of behavioral interventions to improve insomnia and depressive symptoms in older adults
Bob Kaplan
rmkaplan@ucla.edu
methods for quantifying the benefits of a health care interventions
Perry Nicassio
PNicassio@mednet.ucla.edu
development and implementation of behavioral interventions for patients with chronic illnesses; role of illness cognition and coping processes in patients with arthritic conditions
Lonnie Zeltzer
LZeltzer@mednet.ucla.edu
www.healthnet.ucla.edu/pedspain
pediatric chronic pain, end of life care in children, complementary and alternative therapies, and quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer; relationship between anxiety and pain; genetic contributors to pain vulnerability; parent/child communication at end of life in children