About Me
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. I'm primarily affiliated with the social-health psychology graduate program and I'm also one of the faculty in the Quantitative Concentration program in the department (I teach Structural Equation Modeling). Prior to my position at Kent State, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Healthy Aging at The Pennsylvania State University. I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto in social-personality psychology where my doctoral research was supported by a doctoral fellowship awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the main granting agency for social science research in Canada.
Research Approach
In
my research, I use multiple methods to test my hypotheses and, as a
result, have developed an expertise in research design and analysis. I
have conducted dyadic studies, longitudinal studies, studies using
intensive measurement designs such as experience sampling and daily
diaries, and some experimental studies. The vast majority of my studies are
dyadic and include a daily diary component. To analyze my data, I use
advanced
statistical techniques, such as structural equation modeling,
multilevel modeling, and the combination of both, such as multilevel
path models.