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Current Projects
Time Perception and Emotion Regulation
Project Leader: Skye Napolitano
In this project, we aim to examine the associations between time perception and affective processing, namely via emotion regulation strategies that are less helpful. This work builds on extant models of emotion feedback loops and incorporates novel insights from cognitive and neuropsychology in order to better understand how we process aversive emotion. Included in this project are planned experiments that incorporate the study of time perception across a host of outcomes (e.g., AUD, personality disorder, and ADHD) as well as several manuscripts already underway.
Mental Health Outcomes of Organizational Practices
Project Leader: Mairéad Willis
How do the policies of organizations like schools and businesses affect the mental health outcomes of their members? We are currently undertaking a review of research on the impact of organizational policies on outcomes like employee mental health, emotion regulation, and trauma exposure. Our goal is to summarize what the field has learned so far in order to inform future research on organizational best practices.
Emotion Co-Regulation & Social Learning of Emotion
Project Leader: Mairéad Willis
How do our partners, parents, and friends help us to regulate our emotions, and how do we help them? This line of research aims to characterize co-regulation of emotion in various relationships in order to lay the groundwork for interventions that make the most of the social support in our lives.
Combinations of Depression Symptoms
Project Leader: Katelyn Wasson
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) uses a hierarchical sum score approach to diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD). While the DSM requires either depressed mood or anhedonia to be present for diagnosis of MDD, all symptoms are ultimately weighted equally in diagnostic decisions. In this project we seek to examine whether there is meaningful variance in depression severity that can be explained by MDD symptom combinations, rather than symptom count alone.
Personality and Psychedelics
Project Leader: Alec Pedersen
Psychedelic assisted therapy and psychedelic use are growing in interest with more studies showing suggestive evidence for these substances improving well being. Many participants report this experience as being impactful and highly meaningful. However, even when people report following the guidelines to help them have positive experiences, a few participants still report having challenging experiences. How do people change after these interventions and experiences? What contributes to having challenging experiences? This research aims to answer these questions by investigating the link between personality and psychedelics.
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