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