Selected Research Areas

Emotion Regulation

Culture and Emotion

Health and Well-Being

Social Mobility and Achievement

Positive Emotions and Relationships

Selected Research Projects

Project STRIVE: Understanding emotion regulation and well-being among high-achieving youth in immigrant families

College Transition Study: Examining emotional experiences and well-being during the transition to college

Sharing Academic Achievements: Exploring how first-generation college students navigate academic success, emotions, and social sharing

My Social Life Study: Investigating how interpersonal experiences shape emotions, well-being, and relationship processes across daily life

Selected Publications

First-Author Publications:

Show your pride? First-generation college student experiences with academic achievement. Affective Science (2025).

Displaying pride: Variation by social context, ethnic heritage, and gender? PLoS ONE (2023)

The influence of mindfulness and social support on stress reactivity during pregnancy. Stress and Health (2019)

Co-Authored Publicatons:

Associations of emotion regulation difficulties with cardiac autonomic balance and regulation. Affective Science (2026)

Más que palabras: Understanding the mental health and behavioral consequences of sociodemographic risk and deportation fears in Latinx families. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2024)

Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners. Personal Relationships (2023)

Well-being: Strengthening and broadening a key psychological construct. Affective Science (2022)

Validation of an electrochemical sensor to detect cortisol responses to the Trier Social Stress Test. Neurobiology of stress (2020)