Stacey Doan
Dr. Doan's work focuses on examining the biological, social and individual correlates of physical health and psychological well-being, with a particular interest on emotions and stress. Moreover, her work is focused on understanding the role of social relationships, environmental and contextual factors that may support healthy adaptation and development. She approaches her studies through the lens of the cultural-fit hypothesis, which emphasizes the person-situation interaction and highlights how psychological processes may vary across cultures and contexts. This understanding would lead to different solutions to the same problems of healthy adaptation and development, as well as acknowledging different strengths.
Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the National Institute for Child Health and Development, the National Science Foundation as well as multiple private foundations. She has been published in the top developmental and health journals.
Dr. Doan regularly speaks on resilience in the context of stress, raising healthy and happy children, and the application of psychology to interviewing and negotiation.
Her book the Social Foundations of Emotions: Developmental, Cultural and Clinical Dimensions is published by the American Psychological Association.
Marcus Rodriguez
Marcus Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Pitzer College and a clinical psychologist specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy as director of the Youth and Family Institute - Los Angeles (https://youthandfamilyinstitute.com/marcus-rodriguez/). He has collaborated on several projects with the lab, including the Mindfulness for College Students project and the Freshmen Well-Being During COVID-19 project. We are currently planning out additional future research projects for Summer 2023 and beyond.
Research Interests
Global mental health, technology and task-shifting
Innovative approaches to increase access to empirically supported interventions in an economic, feasible and scalable manner
Optimizing treatment attrition and adherence in mobile/online interventions
Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Writing children’s books about emotions, mental health and diversity/inclusion