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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.Show Less
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Courses
- PPersonality
Grants
- 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 - Genetically Informed Studies of Social Connectedness and Health
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$918.3K
Active - Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$24.2M
Active - Connected Lives - Overcoming the Self through Empathy (CLOSE): A Dyadic, Multi-Method Study
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.9M
Active - Ethnicity and Lung Cancer Survival: A Test of the Hispanic Sociocultural Hypothesis
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.4M
Active - Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.0M
Active - 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 - SocialBit: Establishing the Accuracy of a Wearable Sensor to Detect Social Interactions After Stroke
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$114.7K
Active - Social Media, Violence, and Social Isolation Among At-Risk Adolescents: Exploring Ground Truth
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$106.1K
Active - 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
- 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 Undergraduatesâ 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 Adultsâ 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
- âPersonality in Its Natural Habitatâ Revisited: A Pooled, Multiâsample 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 âfailedâ randomized controlled effectiveness trial
2020
- Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is ingenious , female language is beautiful - and popular
2020
- ¿ Hablan las mujeres más que los hombres?
2020
- ?` Hablan las mujeres m\'as que los hombres?
2020
- Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is âingeniousâ, female language is âbeautifulââand popular
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
- Cliniciansâ 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
- School-Aged Children's Cognitive Interdependence as a Prospective Link Between Their Depressive Symptoms and Physiological Stress Reactivity
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
- âEavesdropping on happinessâ 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 occupantsâ 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