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New York University Research Program People Current Studies Join the Lab Contact/Directions
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New York University Research Program People Current Studies Join the Lab Contact/Directions
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PATRICK
SHROUT, PH.D. Professor Patrick Shrout leads the NYU Couples Lab. Please see his Department Webpage for more information. |
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HEATHER
BARRY, Ph.D Candidate Heather is interested in influences on the goals that people pursue, how they do so, and whether they achieve them. In the Couples Lab context she has focused on how one member of a relationship can have goals for their partner's achievement (e.g., for their partner to become a lawyer, get a promotion, or resolve a partner), and how this goal shapes support provision, support effects, and goal achievement for both partners |
| JEN
BROOKE, Ph.D. Candidate |
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ZACHARY
CATANZARITE, M.A. Candidate Zach graduated Highest Honors with a B.S. in Psychology and minor in Sociology from UF. He later earned a Master's in Sociology from UF focusing on the role of social identity in social class and political affiliation. His current research interests include the links between reciprocal exchange processes in close relationships and mental health, the interface between psychology and social structure and evolutionary theory. He is also interested in the use of non-linear dynamics, evolution programming and boolean networks analysis in the social sciences. He plans to enter a Ph.D. program in social or quantitative psychology. |
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ERIN
HENNES, Ph.D. Candidate Erin's interests center on employing advanced quantitative methods to explore longitudinal and dyadic questions. One line of research seeks to understand how political orientation changes over the lifespan and in response to discrete environmental stressors. A second line of inquiry explores the development of intimacy in new relationships, and especially, the effects of self-disclosure to one’s partner. A third area of interest is the study and measurement of goal pursuit over time. |
| SYLVIANNE
HOUSSIAS, Ph.D. Candidate |
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GRACE
JACKSON, M.A. Candidate Grace graduated with dual Bachelor degrees in Communication and Psychology from the University of Southern California. She is now at New York University studying for her Master’s degree in Psychology. She coordinates the research efforts between the New York University and Columbia University Couples Labs for the College Life Study, assistant teaches statistics at NYU and collaborates with Mt Sinai Medical Center on her own research. Her research focuses on how perceptions of dyadic social support influence relationship satisfaction in imbalanced relationships (i.e. those involving chronic illness/disease). She plans to enter a Ph.D. program in the upcoming years in social psychology, quantitative psychology or a combination of the two. |
| SEAN
LANE, Ph.D. Candidate |
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LIZ
PRZYBYLINSKI, Ph.D. Candidate Liz is a third year graduate student working in collaboration with Prof. Susan Andersen and Prof. Pat Shrout. She is interested in how we mentally represent significant others in our lives, and how they may come to influence new relationship endeavors. Currently, she is working on several projects exploring the role of meaning-systems that are created with significant others, and how to regulate the influence that a particular significant other may have when forming new relationships. Future collaborations will involve applying advanced statistical analysis techniques to inform her research. |
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DE LOS ANGELES RAMOS, Ph.D. Candidate |
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LANCE
RAPPAPORT, B.A. Candidate Lance's interests and current research focuses on the clinical and non-clinical factors that determine the costs and benefits of various social support behaviors. Specifically, he is examining the moderating effects of the social situation and of recipient competency. In the near future, he hopes to modulate this into examining the paucity of stable perceived support that is characteristic of and detrimental to, people with various psychiatric disorders, particularly involving suicidal ideation and attempts. This research is currently being conducted with participants in a public speaking stress-induction task by manipulating elements of the support provided to them and examining changes in mood as well as task performance through the NYU Couples Research Lab in the Social Psychology Area of the Department of Psychology through the “Who Are You to You” studies. His more clinically-oriented work is associated also within the NYU Child Study Center and Beth Israel Department of Psychiatry in psychotherapy and assisting with research. |
Former NYU Lab members include:
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