Self, Health & Emotion Lab
john updegraff, ph.d.
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Dr. John Updegraff is an Assistant Professor of Social/Health Psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed an NIMH-funded postdoctoral position at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Updegraff's published his work in top-tier journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Psychological Review, and has received funding from the National Cancer Institute for his work. Dr. Updegraff also serves on the Editorial Board for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Curriculum Vita He can often be found pursuing his unhealthy obsession with making graphs. |
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Graduate Students
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Amber Emanuel is a 3rd year experimental graduate student in the social-health program. Amber comes to KSU from the masters program at American University in Washington DC, and completed her undergraduate work at Elizabethtown College. Amber is interested in understanding the role of mindfulness in affective forecasting. She also enjoys dressing up her Barack Obama action figure in various holiday-themed costumes. |
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Kristel Gallagher is a 3rd year experimental graduate student in the social-health program. Originally from Toronto, Kristel comes to KSU after earning her bachelors at Waynesburg College, where she played 4yrs of varsity softball. She is interested in message framing, health-related persuasion and health behavior change. She's an avid runner whose basketball skills were recently documented in the Akron Beacon Journal. Despite this athleticism, she remains a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. |
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Christina Hill is a 5th year clinical graduate student who did her undergraduate work at the University of Georgia. Christina is interested in understanding the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation and emotional variability in clinical disorders such as borderline personality disorder. She will be starting her clinical internship in July '09 at Eastern Virginia Medical School. |
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Jennifer Park is a 1st year experimental graduate student. She earned her BS in Human Development from SUNY Binghamton and worked in the Motivation & Cognition lab at Stony Brook University prior to joining the lab. She is interested in examining the factors that make people more likely to change their behavior and how environmental and social factors affect people's health choices.
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Undergraduate Assistants (AY 2008-2009) |
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Chelsea Kociuba, Rachel Noles, Kylan Ward, Kristen Butcher, Susan Hannan, Jillian Jarosz, Joe Ranallo, Aron Sahle, Heather Seedhouse |
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Lab Alumni |
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Danielle Graham, B.A. - Graduate student in I/O Psychology, University of Akron |
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