Welcome to the FEELINGS Lab
Purpose of Our Research
The purpose of our research is to contribute to a better understanding of the risk and protective factors for depression and anxiety.
Our Studies
-
Investigate how risk for depression and anxiety is transmitted within families.
-
Study young children’s physiological and behavioral responses to their parents’ emotions as risk and protective factors.
-
Study low cardiac vagal tone in early childhood as a risk marker for depressogenic cognitive biases and emerging symptoms of depression.
-
Determine if excessively high levels of compassion, self-blame for others’ distress, and empathic fatigue are associated with elevated depression and anxiety.
-
Examine associations between internalizing psychopathology and inflexible responding to emotional cues in the environment.
-
Investigate associations between optimistic, positively-biased perceptions of others' emotions and the development compassionate behavior and good mental health outcomes.
Volunteer Research Assistants![PURC 14 2](http://www.feelingslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PURC-14-2-e1420311583850-300x220.jpg)
Research assistants are critical to the success of this research program. Research assistants have the opportunity to learn diverse skills, such as rating behaviors during parent-child interactions, scoring psychophysiological data, administering psychological measures and interviews, and learning statistical analyses for testing research questions.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer research assistant, please complete an online application.