Applied Social Psychology Lab

Personnel

Eddie M. Clark, PhD, Director  

• Friendship and romantic relationship maintenance

• Ex-partner relationships

• Infidelity

• Health attitudes and persuasion, culturally appropriate health communication

• Mediators of the relationship between religiosity and health behaviors

• Mediators of the relationship between personality and health behaviors

• Geospatial/Neighborhood factors and health behaviors

Lijing (Lily) Ma, PhD  (University of San Francisco; SLU Alum) 

• Self-disclosure and health

• Cognitive dissonance and infidelity

• Relationships and self-change

• Attitudes toward infidelity among asexual and aromantic individuals

Dana Stiles, PhD (SLU Office of Institutional Research; SLU Alum)

• Long distance relationship maintenance

• Technology usage and relationship maintenance

Graduate Research Associates

Melanie Reyes

• Predictors of romantic relationship dissolution

• Relational stability and satisfaction

• Relationship maintenance strategies

Lauren Borato

• Health promotion and chronic illness

• Cognitive function in chronic illness

• Maladaptive coping strategies

Maggie Paul

• Substance use disorder

• Comorbid substance use disorder  and gambling disorder

Brianna Scandell 

• Close Relationships and chronic illness

• Effects of discrimination on health, especially minority group members with chronic conditions

Megan Galinsky (SLU Alum)

• Adverse childhood experiences and future romantic relationships 

Other Collaborators

Dr. Debarchana Ghosh - Department of Geography, University of 

Connecticut

Dr. Xi He - School of Public Health, University of Maryland

Dr. Cheryl (Holt) Knott - School of Public Health, University of Maryland

Dr. Crystal L. Park - Department of Psychological Sciences, University of 

Connecticut

Dr. Mario Schootman - Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas

Dr. Beverly Rosa Williams - Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical 

Center

Dr. Nathaniel Woodard - Gillings School of Global Public Health, University 

of North Carolina

Dr. Emily Schulz - Department of Occupational Therapy, Northern Arizona 

University  (In Memoriam)

Community Health Awareness, Messages, and Prevention (CHAMP) Center

 - University of Maryland  School of Public Health --

 https://sph.umd.edu/department/bch/lab/43501

                                                            Overview of Lab Research 

Close Relationships

•     Relationship maintenance    

•     Romantic infidelity

•     Influence of relationships on self-concept

•     Friendships with ex-romantic partners

•     Relationship maintenance and technology use

•     Predictors of relationship dissolution

•     Close relationships and health

Health Attitudes

• Health attitudes, persuasion, and behavior

• Mediators of the religiosity-health relationship

•        Mediators of the personality-health relationship

•        Geospatial/Neighborhood factors and health

Below:  

Lily Ma and Melanie Reyes at Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Conference in San Diego (February, 2024)

Tommy DeRossett (Queens University of Charlotte; SLU Alum) and Lily Ma at Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Conference in San Diego (February, 2024)

Virtual Lab Meeting-- Eddie Clark, Dana Stiles, Megan Galinsky, Lily Ma, Melanie Reyes, Brianna Scandell (Fall, 2022)