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5233 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-647-6785
 The overarching goal of my research is to understand the factors
that enable people to adaptively regulate triggered impulses and
emotions that undermine their goals and compromise their health.
In this vein, my research to date has focused on attempting to
resolve a key paradox in the coping literature. On the one hand,
substantial evidence suggests that in order to adaptively "work
through" negative experiences it is helpful to analyze and understand
one’s feelings. On the other hand, people’s attempts to do this are
often counterproductive leading to rumination and/or avoidance. My
research addresses this paradox by taking an integrative approach,
using measures and methods at multiple levels of analysis (e.g.,
behavioral, physiological, neuroscience-fMRI) to shed light on the
mechanisms that distinguish adaptive and maladaptive forms of emotional
processing, and examine how knowledge of such basic mechanisms can be
used to facilitate coping in everyday life.
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