As an adult developmental psychologist, however, my ultimate goal is helping students develop the tools they need to lead a successful adult life, however they choose to define success. As a scientist, I take great pride in helping students translate their research ideas into empirically testable predictions, leading to quality research products. I am always looking for bright and motivated graduate and undergraduate students to join my lab. Additional research is examining how different online emotion regulation strategies influence immediate and delayed recall of emotional material. My lab's latest research projects examine how adult lifespan differences in emotion regulation and working memory capacity influence the construction and elaboration of autobiographical memories and episodic future thought. My research examines interrelationships between basic cognitive function and emotional/motivational factors, with a particular emphasis on how these factors influence episodic memory and/or higher-order reasoning abilities.
My Adult Cognitive & Emotional Development lab is part of the AGELabs (Aging, Growth, & Experience) research group, a partnership among the core faculty in the Experimental Psychology program whose research focuses on developmental questions. I am a developmental psychologist with specific interests in cognitive and emotional self-regulation in adulthood.