Senior lab member, Isabelle Teasel, gave a presentation on the progress she has made with her Honor’s College Thesis titled, “The Paradoxical Nature of Resilience, Optimism, and Anxiety in Relation to COVID-19.” The project focuses on the paradoxical relationships between resilience, optimism, and anxiety in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study’s major concepts… Read more

The Big 50! Today, I joined the half century club!! And I got the best present ever from “all these people”! Thank you for all 68 people who joined, graduated, and are working in the lab! P.S., Also, happy birthday to our former lab member, Alex! We share the same birthday! So, it’s extra special. Read more

Kayla Benson, second year PhD student, recently gave a presentation in preparation for her thesis defense. The purposes of Benson’s study, “Growing Toward the Common Good: Collective Action Engagement as Evidence for Posttraumatic Growth”, include understanding the collective action behaviors as an indication of action focused growth and constructive posttraumatic growth [PTG] and the relationships… Read more