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Shrout, Ph.D. Lab Director Professor Patrick Shrout leads the NYU Couples Lab. Please see his Department Webpage for more information. |
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Sean Lane Ph.D. Student |
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Joy Xu Ph.D. Student Joy graduated with a B.A. degree in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Prof. Brooke Feeney. She is currently a third year doctoral student working with Pat Shrout. Her interests are in the processes involved in forming and maintaining close relationships, including how romantic relationships play out over time and the support processes that are involved in relationship maintenance. Her previous and current work uses attachment theory as a framework for studying individual differences in relationship experience. Her current projects include studying fluctuations and change in attachment anxiety over time, as well as investigating how attachment and relationship support relate to an individual's engagement in exploration. Joy also works with Professor Susan Andersen, investigating transference in ongoing romantic relationships. |
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Fred Clavél, M.A.
Candidate Lab Manager, Study Coordinator Fred graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Fordham University. He is currently in his final year of the M.A. Psychology program at NYU. He coordinates the current NIAAA research conducted between the NYU and Columbia University Couples Labs, and collaborates with researchers at New York State Psychiatric Institute on evaluating the predictive utility of assessments of suicide risk in the near-term. His research interests concern support processes in romantic couples, exploring emotional expressions (particularly negativity) as indicators of relational closeness, security, & commitment, as well as processes of interpersonal merger and relationship dissolution. His current research explores the effects of alcohol consumption by our close others on our own attitudes about the use of alcohol. He moves to Iowa State University in the Fall of 2012 to pursue a Ph.D. in Social Psychology. |
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Heather Barry Kappes Ph.D.
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. |
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Erin Hennes Ph.D. Student Erin works primarily in political psychology in Professor John Jost's lab, but she is interested in advanced quantitative methods in the study of longitudinal psychological processes. Her research focuses on a) political attitude change and b) self-disclosure and intimacy. Prior to attending NYU, Erin completed majors in Psychology, Music, and Liberal Arts and Management at Indiana University. |
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Liz Przybylinski Ph.D. Candidate Liz is a fifth 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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2012 The NYU Couples Lab Group. tel: 212.998.7879
| email: NYUcouples@gmail.com