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I am a social, personality, and health psychologist who is interested in the psychological implications of our daily lives. I study individual differences in social life and the role that our social lives play for coping with upheavals and health. Methodologically, I adopt an ecological “out-of-the-lab-and-into-the-real-world” approach and develop behavioral assessment methods for studying everyday life. My work focuses on the naturalistic observation of social interactions and quantitative text analysis of natural language use.

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    Personality

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    Tracking Autobiographical Thoughts: A Smartphone-Based Approach to Identifying Cognitive Correlates of Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers and Risk Factors in Clinically Normal Older Adults

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $1.7M
    Active
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    Genetically Informed Studies of Social Connectedness and Health

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $918.3K
    Active
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    Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $24.2M
    Active
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    Connected Lives - Overcoming the Self through Empathy (CLOSE): A Dyadic, Multi-Method Study

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $1.9M
    Active
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    Ethnicity and Lung Cancer Survival: A Test of the Hispanic Sociocultural Hypothesis

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $1.4M
    Active
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    Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $1.0M
    Active
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    Large-Scale, Long-Term Data Collection and Analysis to Predict Performance and Social/Physical Activity - ARL and UA Collaboration Plan

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $342.0K
    Active
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    SocialBit: Establishing the Accuracy of a Wearable Sensor to Detect Social Interactions After Stroke

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $114.7K
    Active
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    Social Media, Violence, and Social Isolation Among At-Risk Adolescents: Exploring Ground Truth

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $106.1K
    Active
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    Tracking Autobiographical Thoughts: A Smartphone-Based Approach to the Detection of Cognitive and Neural Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $642.2K
Technologies / Patents
      News
      • Explorando el impacto de las relaciones sociales en la salud Hispana

        2021

      • What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health

        2021

      • UArizona Psychologists Receive $2.9M to Study Neural Mechanisms of Emotions in Couples

        2021

      • Exploring the Role of Social Relationships in Hispanic Health

        2021

      • Older Adults Share Fewer Memories as They Age

        2020

      • Do Introverts Have the Edge in Social Distancing? Maybe Not, Psychologist Says

        2020

      • Researchers Call for Personalized Approach to Aging Brain Health

        2019

      • Frequent 'I-Talk' May Signal Proneness to Emotional Distress

        2018

      • Study: Small Talk Not as Bad as Previously Thought

        2018

      • Narrative Journaling May Help Heart's Health Post-Divorce

        2017

      • Four Questions: How Dads Are Different With Daughters, Sons

        2017

      • UA-Led Research Debunks Belief About Narcissism

        2015

      • UA Experts Collaborate to Reduce Disease-Triggering Inflammation

        2013

      • Is Your Immune System Making You Cranky? UA Studies Inflammation, Behavior

        2012

      • Swearing May Help With Pain, But at a Social Cost

        2011

      • UA Study Analyzes Personality Traits of Bullies, Victims

        2011

      • UA Psychologist 'Eavesdrops' on Happiness

        2010

      • Research Forum Acknowledges Undergraduate Scholarship

        2008

      • The Nearest Thing to Mind Reading

        2008

      • Graduates Leave Devoted to Research

        2008

      • Which is the Chattier Gender?

        2007

      Publications (145)
      Recent
      • The Sounds of Memory: Extending the Age-Prospective Memory Paradox to Everyday Behavior and Conversations

        2022

      • ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BMI AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS WHILE EATING: A NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION STUDY

        2021

      • (Not) lost in translation: Psychological adaptation occurs during speech translation

        2021

      • Emotional recovery following divorce: Will the real self-compassion please stand up?

        2021

      • Deep multiple instance learning for foreground speech localization in ambient audio from wearable devices

        2021

      • Generativity in Life Review: Discovering Life Lessons and Wisdom in Naturalistic Intergenerational Conversations

        2021

      • Effect of workstation type on the relationship between fatigue, physical activity, stress, and sleep

        2021

      • Investigating the Relationship between Resident Physician Implicit Bias and Language Use during a Clinical Encounter with Hispanic Patients

        2021

      • Children’s daily life after potentially traumatic injury: A naturalistic observation study.

        2021

      • The think aloud paradigm reveals differences in the content, dynamics and conceptual scope of resting state thought in trait brooding

        2021

      • I blame you, I hear you: Couples’ pronoun use in conflict and dyadic coping

        2021

      • Ecological sampling methods for studying personality in daily life.

        2021

      • The story of “I” tracking: Psychological implications of self-referential language use

        2021

      • Is frequent sighing an indicator of dispositional negative emotionality? A multi-sample, multi-measure naturalistic-observation study

        2021

      • Predicting Working Memory in Healthy Older Adults Using Real-Life Language and Social Context Information: A Machine Learning Approach (Preprint)

        2021

      • Personality and Workstation Type Predict Task Focus and Happiness in the Workplace

        2020

      • El sonido de la personalidad

        2020

      • Listening to family life after serious pediatric injury: A study of four cases

        2020

      • Understanding Personality through Patterns of Daily Socializing: Applying Recurrence Quantification Analysis to Naturalistically Observed Intensive Longitudinal Social Interaction Data

        2020

      • Best practices for Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) research: A practical guide to coding and processing EAR data

        2020

      • Estimating the Prevalence of Gender-Biased Language in Undergraduates’ Everyday Speech

        2020

      • Epigenetic Age Acceleration Following Marital Separation and Divorce: A Critical Role for Daily Social Behaviors?

        2020

      • Contact with an Ex-partner is Associated with Psychological Distress after Marital Separation

        2020

      • Natural, Everyday Language Use Provides a Window into the Integrity of Older Adults’ Cognitive Functioning

        2020

      • Eavesdropping on Autobiographical Memory: A Naturalistic Observation Study of Older Adults' Memory Sharing in Daily Conversations

        2020

      • Naturalistic observation of social interactions

        2020

      • Interpersonal focus in the emotional autobiographical memories of older and younger adults

        2020

      • ‘Personality in Its Natural Habitat’ Revisited: A Pooled, Multi‐sample Examination of the Relationships Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Daily Behaviour and Language Use

        2020

      • Natural, Everyday Language Use Provides a Window into the Integrity of Older Adults’ Executive Functioning

        2020

      • Short-term mindfulness or compassion training has no reliable effect on the psychological experience, biological stress reactivity and observed daily behavior of healthy adults: Implications from a “failed” randomized controlled effectiveness trial

        2020

      • ¿ Hablan las mujeres más que los hombres?

        2020

      • ?` Hablan las mujeres m\'as que los hombres?

        2020

      • Wellbuilt for wellbeing: Controlling relative humidity in the workplace matters for our health

        2020

      • Equilibria in personality states: A conceptual primer for dynamics in personality states

        2020

      • Can children predict psychological recovery after injury?

        2020

      • 20 Ecological Sampling Methods for Studying Everyday Situations

        2020

      • Precision Aging: Applying Precision Medicine to the Field of Cognitive Aging

        2019

      • Convergence of naïve coders and participant report ratings of attachment to a former partner: When we should be me

        2019

      • Linguistic markers of grandiose narcissism: A LIWC analysis of 15 samples

        2019

      • How do mothers and fathers interact with their children after an injury? Exploring the role of parental acute stress, optimism, and self-efficacy

        2019

      • Depression, negative emotionality, and self-referential language: A multi-lab, multi-measure, and multi-language-task research synthesis

        2019

      • Clinicians’ perspectives on innovative naturalistic observations of families in therapy

        2019

      • DNA Methylation Across the Serotonin Transporter Gene Following Marital Separation: A Pilot Study

        2019

      • Psychological overinvolvement, emotional distress, and daily affect following marital dissolution

        2019

      • ATTACHMENT ANXIETY MODERATES THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TIME SPENT WITH EX-PARTNER AND SLEEP EFFICIENCY FOLLOWING DIVORCE

        2019

      • Automatic detection of everyday social behaviours and environments from verbatim transcripts of daily conversations

        2019

      • Measurement considerations for the assessment of communal coping in a therapy context

        2018

      • With or without you? Loss of self following marital separation

        2018

      • Dispositional mindfulness in daily life: A naturalistic observation study

        2018

      • Objectively measured social integration is associated with an immune risk phenotype following marital separation

        2018

      • Effects of office workstation type on physical activity and stress

        2018

      • Building a Cognitive Profile with a Non-Intrusive Sensor: How Speech and Sounds Map onto our Cognitive Worlds

        2018

      • Sensor-Based Sleep Quality Index (SB-SQI): A new metric to examine the association of office workstation type on stress and sleep

        2018

      • Ethnic differences in Arizona Hospital Utilization Trends: Population-level Evidence for a broader Hispanic Health Paradox

        2018

      • Eavesdropping on Happiness Revisited: A Pooled, Multisample Replication of the Association Between Life Satisfaction and Observed Daily Conversation Quantity and Quality

        2018

      • Preliminary evidence that androgen signaling is correlated with men's everyday language

        2018

      • “Eavesdropping on happiness” revisited: A pooled, multisample replication of the association between life satisfaction and observed daily conversation quantity and quality

        2018

      • INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN RELIGIOSITY INFLUENCE THE ACCEPTABILITY OF AND RESPONSE TO MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTIONS

        2018

      • Conversational Time Travel: Evidence of a Retrospective Bias in Real Life Conversations

        2018

      • Early linguistic markers of trauma-specific processing predict post-trauma adjustment

        2018

      • Learning occupants’ workplace interactions from wearable and stationary ambient sensing systems

        2018

      • Natural language indicators of differential gene regulation in the human immune system

        2017

      • The EAR as a Naturalistic Observation Measure of Patients' Social Behavior

        2017

      • Tell Me a Story: The Creation of Narrative as a Mechanism of Psychological Recovery Following Marital Separation

        2017

      • Impact of Narrative Expressive Writing on Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Blood Pressure After Marital Separation

        2017

      • MOTIVATIONS FOR MEDITATING: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MOTIVATIONAL, PERSONALITY AND PRACTICE CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDITATION PRACTITIONERS

        2017

      • Injury talk: spontaneous parent-child conversations in the aftermath of a potentially traumatic event

        2017

      • PARTNER COMMUNAL COPING IN THE CONTEXT OF COUPLE-FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS

        2017

      • Child gender influences paternal behavior, language, and brain function.

        2017

      • A Regularization Approach for Identifying Cumulative Lagged Effects in Smart Health Applications

        2017

      • A Semantic Corpus Comparison Analysis of Couple-Focused Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use

        2017

      • The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) A Method for the Naturalistic Observation of Daily Social Behavior

        2017

      • Manifestations of Mindfulness in Daily Life

        2017

      • Ecological sampling methods for studying everyday situations

        2017

      • Cognitive benefits of online social networking for healthy older adults

        2017

      • The Hispanic health paradox: From epidemiological phenomenon to contribution opportunities for psychological science

        2016

      • Topical review: Families coping with child trauma: A naturalistic observation methodology

        2016

      • Social responses to Facebook status updates: The role of extraversion and social anxiety

        2016

      • The Hispanic Health Paradox: From Epidemiological Phenomenon to Contribution Opportunities for Psychological Science.

        2016

      • BigEAR: Inferring the Ambient and Emotional Correlates from Smartphone-based Acoustic Big Data

        2016

      • Whole-Body Hyperthermia for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder A Randomized Clinical Trial

        2016

      • A Comparison of Parent and Child Narratives of Children's Recovery From Trauma

        2016

      • Feature importance and predictive modeling for multi-source healthcare data with missing values

        2016

      • A longitudinal exploration of the relations between electronic word-of-mouth indicators and firms' profitability: Findings from the banking industry

        2016

      • Experiential Over-involvement and Sleep Problems Following Marital Separation

        2016

      • Partner Pronoun Use, Communal Coping, and Abstinence during Couple-Focused Intervention for Problematic Alcohol Use

        2015

      • Ear for recovery: protocol for a prospective study on parent-child communication and psychological recovery after paediatric injury

        2015

      • Eavesdropping on character: Assessing everyday moral behaviors

        2015

      • Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns Revisited (vol 109, pg e1, 2015)

        2015

      • A Comparison of Parent and Child Narratives of Children’s Recovery From Trauma

        2015

      • Lab and/or field? Measuring personality processes and their social consequences

        2015

      • Social context of anger in Borderline Personality Disorder and Depressive Disorders: Findings from a naturalistic observation study

        2014

      • The sounds of social life: Observing the psychology in our daily lives

        2014

      • Recall of Expressed Affect During Naturalistically Observed Interpersonal Events in Those With Borderline Personality Disorder or Depressive Disorder

        2014

      • “We” overeat, but “I” can stay thin: Pronoun use and body weight in couples who eat to regulate emotion.

        2014

      • Social engagement and user immersion in a socially based virtual world

        2014

      • Cancer conversations in context: Naturalistic observation of couples coping with breast cancer

        2014

      • Narcissistic power poster? On the relationship between narcissism and status updating activity on Facebook

        2014

      • This Examined Life: The Upside of Self-Knowledge for Interpersonal Relationships

        2013

      • Expressive writing can impede emotional recovery following marital separation

        2013

      • Asymmetric partner pronoun use and demand-withdraw interaction in couples coping with health problems

        2013

      • Time since separation predicts changes in TST in recently separated men

        2013

      • Language use in the Adult Attachment Interview: Evidence for attachment-specific emotion regulation

        2013

      • Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment

        2013

      • Linguistic indicators of patient, couple, and family adjustment following breast cancer

        2013

      • How taking a word for a word can be problematic: Context-dependent linguistic markers of extraversion and neuroticism

        2012

      • We-Talk, Communal Coping, and Cessation Success in a Couple-Focused Intervention for Health-Compromised Smokers

        2012

      • When leaving your ex, love yourself: Observational ratings of self-compassion predict the course of emotional recovery following marital separation

        2012

      • Naturalistic observation of health-relevant social processes: The electronically activated recorder methodology in psychosomatics

        2012

      • The sounds of social life: Naturalistic (acoustic) observation sampling

        2011

      • Naturalistically Observed Sighing and Depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Preliminary Study

        2011

      • Naturalistically Observed Swearing, Emotional Support, and Depressive Symptoms in Women Coping With Illness

        2011

      • A positivity bias in written and spoken English and its moderation by personality and gender

        2011

      • Talking shop and shooting the breeze: A study of workplace conversation and job disengagement among STEM faculty

        2011

      • Experiential connectedness in children's attachment interviews: An examination of natural word use

        2011

      • Depression and self-focused language in structured interviews with older men

        2011

      • Thin-Slicing Divorce: Thirty Seconds of Information Predict Changes in Psychological Adjustment Over 90 Days

        2010

      • Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life

        2010

      • Reading Between the Lines: The Lay Assessment of Subclinical Depression From Written Self-Descriptions

        2010

      • Are Mexicans more or less sociable than Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study

        2009

      • Eavesdropping on social life: The accuracy of stranger ratings of daily behavior from thin slices of natural conversations

        2009

      • Computer-aided quantitative textanalysis: Equivalence and reliability of the German adaptation of the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count

        2008

      • Knowing Me, Knowing You: The Accuracy and Unique Predictive Validity of Self-Ratings and Other-Ratings of Daily Behavior

        2008

      • Prognostic Significance of Spouse We Talk in Couples Coping With Heart Failure

        2008

      • Hormones and personality: Testosterone as a marker of individual differences

        2007

      • Are women really more talkative than men?

        2007

      • Eavesdropping on health: A naturalistic observation approach for social-health research.

        2007

      • An empirical analysis of the obtrusiveness of and participants' compliance with the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)

        2007

      • Let me read your mind: Personality judgments based on a person's natural stream of thought

        2007

      • Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of personality in conversation and text

        2007

      • Personality in its natural habitat: Manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily life

        2006

      • Pro-anorexics and recovering anorexics differ in their linguistic Internet self-presentation

        2006

      • The lay assessment of subclinical depression in daily life

        2006

      • Linguistic markers of psychological change surrounding September 11, 2001

        2004

      • Expressive writing as a coping-tool. A state of the art review

        2004

      • Connecting with others in the midst of stressful upheaval on September 11, 2001

        2004

      • Psychological Aspects of Natural Language Use: Our Words, Our Selves

        2003

      • The Social Dynamics of a Cultural Upheaval: Social Interactions Surrounding September 11, 2001

        2003

      • The Sounds of Social Life: A Psychometric Analysis of Students' Daily Social Environments and Natural Conversations

        2003

      • The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR): A device for sampling naturalistic daily activities and conversations

        2001

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