Lab News

December 2025

Dania Amarneh, a third-year graduate student in the CARES Lab, has submitted a manuscript for publication! The manuscript, titled "Parental Threats and Anxiety Severity in Trauma-Exposed Adolescents: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity", examines how anxiety sensitivity is implicated in the relation between parental threats and anxiety symptoms among adolescents who have been exposed to trauma.

November 2025

Dania Amarneh, a third-year graduate student in the CARES Lab and the 2024 winner of the University of Houston's 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, was invited to serve as an honorary judge for the 2025 3MT competition at UH.

Emily Mallin, a first-year graduate student in the CARES Lab, presented her research at the Texas Psychological Association (TPA) annual Student Research Competition! The presentation, titled "Acculturative Stress and Internalizing Problems among Latino Hazardous Drinkers: What Role do Distress Tolerance and Emotion Dysregulation Play?", presents work from a paper she has recently submitted for publication.

Emily Mallin, a first-year graduate student in the CARES Lab, has submitted a manuscript for publication! The manuscript, titled "Acculturative Stress and Internalizing Problems Among Latinos Who Drink Hazardously: The Roles of Distress Tolerance and Emotion Dysregulation", examines how cognitive-affective mechanisms (i.e., distress tolerance and emotion regulation) affect the relation between acculturative stress and internalizing symptoms (i.e., anxious arousal, traumatic intrusions, and social anxiety) among Latinos who endorse hazardous drinking.

August 2025

Mallory Cotton, a fourth-year graduate student in the CARES Lab, has submitted a manuscript for publication! The manuscript, titled "Preparing for Racial Bias: The Influence of Racial Regard on Emotion Socialization among Black Caregivers", employs a social-cognitive framework to examine direct and indirect associations between negative public regard beliefs, racial barrier socialization, and suppressive emotion socialization practices among Black caregivers.