Emotion and Coping Lab
We study social influences on emotion, ranging from basic processes such as facial mimicry of emotion to cultural influences such as religion's role in coping and adjustment. Methods used include laboratory, psychophysiology, survey, and interview. We examine these processes in typical populations, and evaluate the functional consequences of deficits in such processes by studying atypical populations as well (autism, conduct disorder, sensory processing disorder).
Current studies include investigations of bases of rapid facial reactions to faces, mimicry in people with autism and Williams syndrome, anxiety and autism, functional differences in channels of non-verbal communication of emotion, and the role of religion in coping with having a child with a disability.
Our research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, The National Alliance for Autism Research, the Natural Hazards Research Center, Wallace Research Foundation, the Foundation for Knowledge in Development, the Polish Committee for Scientific Research, and intramural grants from the University of Denver.
Graduate students and post-docs
Some Lab Alumni
- Laura Barton, Ph.D., Lt. Commander, Head,
Force Human Systems Integration, Commander Naval Aid Forces
- David Cimbora, Ph.D., Rosemead School of Psychology
- Susan Fojas, M.A., Director of Quality Improvement, Jewish Child Care Association, New York
- Kevin Ladd, Ph.D., Indiana University South Bend
- Todd Ognibene, Ph.D., Psychologist, Eiber Elementary School
- Mary Pritchard, Ph.D., Boise State University
- Melissa Rutherford, Ph.D., McMaster University
- Candace Sorensen, Ph.D., Psychologist at Hillside Children's Center's Residential Treatment Center, Rochester, New York
- Julia Wilbarger Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
- Aimee Riechmann-Decker, Ph.D., University of Denver
- Tedra Clark (Fazendiero), Ph.D., Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
- Jennifer Raad, University of Kansas
- Jessica Pae, Wheaton College
- Adrienne Mainock MA, University of Kansas
- Adi Curiel, Technion
- Kimbersly Weisser, University of Denver School of Social Work
Collaborators & Associated Labs
- Anne P. DePrince, University of Denver
- Susan Hepburn, University of Colorado Denver, Health Science Center
- Catherine Reed, University of Denver
- Grzegorz Sedek, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
- Roxane Cohen Silver, University of California, Irvine
- Martha Wadsworth, University of Denver
- Kevin Ladd, Ph.D., Indiana University South Bend
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